The book by Heinrich Ehrlich “Ivan the Terrible - a tyrant of many faces?” - a literary investigation written based on the materials of the “new chronology” of A.T. Fomenko. The time being described is the most mysterious, the most intriguing in Russian history, the reign of Tsar Ivan the Terrible and his heirs, which ended with the Great Troubles. Controversies around Ivan the Terrible continue to this day; the sharp turns of his fate and the unexpectedness of his actions leave a wide field for interpretation - from a saint to a great sinner, from an enlightened European monarch to a bloodthirsty Asian despot, from a hero to a crazy maniac. Was there even such a person? Or, through the efforts of Romanov historians, this mythical character was “glued together” from several kings who actually ruled in Rus'?