Chapter XI: The Setting Up of the Oprichnina

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Maps ix
5. Foreword x
6. Acknowledgements xx
7. Chapter I: The Historical Background 1
8. Chapter II: The Reign of Vasily III 23
9. Chapter III: Ivan’s Birth, Childhood, Adolescence, Coronation and Marriage 39
10. Chapter IV: The Era of Aleksei Adashev 60
11. Chapter V: The ‘Government of Compromise’ 75
12. Chapter VI: The Conquest of Kazan’ 92
13. Chapter VII: The Dynastic Crisis of 1553: Domestic and Military Policy, and the Arrival of the English 107
14. Chapter VIII: The War in Livonia and the End of the ‘Chosen Council’ 123
15. Chapter IX: The Death of Anastasia, and Ivan’s Second Marriage 142
16. Chapter X: Tsar Ivan and Prince Andrei Kurbsky 158
17. Chapter XI: The Setting Up of the Oprichnina 174
18. Chapter XII: War in Livonia and the Zemskii Sobor of 1566 189
19. Chapter XIII: The Boyar Plot: 1) the Letters to King Sigismund 206
20. Chapter XIV: The Boyar Plot: 2) the Executions of Ivan Fedorov, Metropolitan Filipp and Vladimir of Staritsa 225
21. Chapter XV: Armageddon 242
22. Chapter XVI: Foreign Policy and the Tatar Invasions 261
23. Chapter XVII: The End of the Oprichnina, and the Succession to the Polish-Lithuanian Crown 278
24. Chapter XVIII: Grand Prince Simeon Bekbulatovich 298
25. Chapter XIX: Peace Negotiations 317
26. Chapter XX: The Truce of Yam Zapol’sky 334
27. Chapter XXI: The Death of Ivan 351
28. Chapter XXII: Ivan’s Legacy to Russia 367
29. Abbreviations 383
30. Notes 385
31. Brief Glossary 451
32. Select Bibliography 452
33. Index 469