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Primary Sources: Tsars of Russia: Rurikids

1547–1721; alt spelling Czars

Ivan IV (a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible)

Ruled December 1533 - March 1584

Simeon Bekbulatovich

Ruled October 1575 - July 1576

Feodor I

Ruled March 1584 - January 1598; alt spelling Fyodor

Online Sources: Ivan IV (the Terrible)

Book Sources: Ivan IV (the Terrible)

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The "Domostroi": Rules for Russian Households in the time of Ivan the Terrible by Carolyn Johnston Pouncy (editor and translator)
Call Number: PG3300 .D613 1994
ISBN: 0801424100
Publication Date: 1994-06-07
The correspondence between Prince A.M. Kurbsky and Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, 1564-1579 by John Lister Illingworth Fennell (Translator)
Call Number: Online - Borrow - Internet Archive*
*Requires Set up of a free account with the Internet Archive.
Elizabeth I: Her Life in Letters by Felix Pryor
Call Number: DA350 .A4 2003
ISBN: 9780520241060
Readings in European History (Vols. 1-2) by James Harvey Robinson
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
See volume 2 - Ivan the Terrible
The Testaments of the Grand Princes of Moscow by Robert Craig Howes
Call Number: Online - Borrow - Internet Archive*

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