Book by the famous Russian historian I.Ya. Froyanova is dedicated to the first Russian Tsar and his policies. Ivan the Terrible is still one of the most controversial and mysterious figures in Russian history. Opinions about him by different historians range from the most positive to the sharply negative. A cruel tyrant who executed many people - and a wise educator who opened printing houses and schools, a libertine on the throne - and an outstanding commander who doubled the territory of Russia, the destroyer of Veliky Novgorod - and the creator of hundreds of new cities, churches, monasteries. What was he really like? The famous scientist, our contemporary, Igor Yakovlevich Froyanov talks about this.