In fonder times, the tsar scalded and stabbed to death a prince
James Meek: Ivan the Terrible, 1 December 2005
Ivan the Terrible: First Tsar of Russia
by Isabel deMadariaga.
Yale, 484 pp., £25, July 2005,0 300 09757 3 Show More
by Isabel deMadariaga.
Yale, 484 pp., £25, July 2005,
“... Like a single-column photograph in a newspaper, the portrait of Tsar Ivan IV on the dust jacket of Isabel deMadariaga’s book has been cropped down to the essential features: the mournful brown eyes, the long, slightly beaked nose, the plump little mouth nestling in the silver-black whorls of a beard which bleeds out to the edge of the paper ... ”
