The Eight Wives of Ivan the Terrible and Their Horrific Fate

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Considering that he has gone down in history as Ivan the Terrible, the first tsar of Russia could hardly have been a Boy Scout. As his name suggests, Ivan had an utterly terrifying presence during his thirty-seven-year-long reign.
Ivan's story is not only one of brutality, but it is also a tale of great suffering. It's the story of a little boy whose father died when he was just a toddler; a story of a child whose mother was poisoned when he was only seven years old. This was a boy who had to struggle to survive as the warring nobility threatened, molested, and harassed him endlessly while he tried to protect his only friend-his deaf and mute little brother.
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@puppetguy8726 4 ай бұрын

If only they'd make a tv show about Ivan. Henry VIII and the Tudors have been done to death

@garryferrington811 6 ай бұрын

He isn't called "Ivan the Sweetheart" or "Ivan the Swell Guy" for a reason.

@rosalynn5642 4 ай бұрын

he's similar to Henry viii

@ronaldmessina4229 4 ай бұрын

Mr Garry I do believe that u are completely correct, and I do certainly think that he was a very horrible Tzar, even though he had some 6 or 7 wives, something akin to henry the 8🎉

@michellecrocker2485 6 ай бұрын

Strange enough, I often wonder what Henry VIII with his 6 wives would have thought about Ivan having 2 on him

@washguy9577 6 ай бұрын

😂😂 I wonder if he knew that fact 🤔 from what I know about Henry, he was not to be 2nd place

@michellecrocker2485 6 ай бұрын

@@washguy9577 had be lived longer. He might have married 3 more times just to one up the guy lol 😂

@libiusperseus 5 ай бұрын

@@washguy9577 Henry VIII couldn't know simply because he died when Ivan the Terrible was only sixteen.

@suran396 5 ай бұрын

As horrible as Henry VIII was, I doubt he was worried about this.

@michellecrocker2485 5 ай бұрын

@@suran396 his issue might have been more on how many sons Ivan had compared to him

@mingiinimene3335 5 ай бұрын

But how is it believable that someone who has a seizure cuts his own throat unwillingly? I think this theory doesn't hold up.

@cplmpcocptcl6306 6 ай бұрын

It’s not paranoia if his wives are really being poisoned. Yeah, everyone knows that people slit their throats all the time during an epileptic seizure.🙄😳

@ucky9675 6 ай бұрын

When modern forensics studies Anastasia’s remains they found proof that she was in fact poisoned. I don’t think Ivan was paranoid, he saw people poisoned before his wife died. His mother was poisoned and died from it when he was young. He probably saw the same symptoms.

@SophiaElizabeth. 6 ай бұрын

Anastasia Romanovna - Catherine of Aragon Maria Temryukovna - Anne Boleyn Marfa Sobakina - Jane Seymour Anna Koltovskaya/Anna Vasilchikova - Anne of Cleves Maria Dolgorukaya - Catherine Howard Maria Nagaya - Catherine Parr. 🎼🎶🎵 Two Anne’s, Three Mary’s, one Marfa, one Vasilisa, and one precious Anastasia! 🎵🎶 🎼🎵🎶 Ivan Ivan Ivan Had so many Wives that had to die Ivan Ivan Ivan Had so many Only three survived! Eight WIIIIVES in AAAAAALL All those thing they would do! If they hadn’t marry Ivan It was their downfall! 🎼🎶🎵

@VsevolodSidorenko 4 ай бұрын

lol

@SophiaElizabeth. 4 ай бұрын

@@VsevolodSidorenko 😁😄 Did you get the reference?

@VsevolodSidorenko 4 ай бұрын

@@SophiaElizabeth. I know there is song about king Henry sang on abba's money money tune

@SophiaElizabeth. 4 ай бұрын

@@VsevolodSidorenko Yeah, exactly! It’s a parody song on ABBA’s “Money, Money, Money.” I remember our World History teacher playing it for us. His class sucked, though.

@SophiaElizabeth. 4 ай бұрын

@@VsevolodSidorenko Anyways, yes. A parody on ABBA’s tune and is about King Henry VIII’s six wives.

@briankleinschmidt3664 5 ай бұрын

You'd think by the time a man is a widower 4 or 5 times over, the ladies would decline his proposal. What is the reasoning of poor wife number 8? "It couldn't possibly happen again. . ."

@mi0324 Ай бұрын

The reason was simply that he was a king. The mentalities of people were insane

@MCorpReview 6 ай бұрын

His marriage to a Romanov prob led to the dynasty’s rise 😂

@dearbrad1996 5 ай бұрын

Joseph Stalin was the same as Ivan. When his beloved first wife died it changed him somewhat. He said all the love has been drained from him. Maybe it's a quite common phenomenon, I don't know as I'm incapable of love except for a fast car or motorcycle and maybe chocolate. LoL

@murrismiller2312 4 ай бұрын

@pricklypear7516 4 ай бұрын

Why "incapable," as if it's some sort of deficit? I don't believe in love as it's popularly described (like some big bird of prey ready to swoop down upon its hapless victim and make him or her -- or whatever -- besotted). I might CHOOSE to be loyal, devoted, dutiful, and committed. . . but "fall in love"? Save that schlock for the fairy tales.

@dearbrad1996 4 ай бұрын

@@pricklypear7516 Hey, prick and a pair, I was only joking around. Did you get your handle by looking into the mirror?

@annap9112 6 ай бұрын

Diak doesnʼt mean prince. The word means clerk or secretary

@aadamtx 6 ай бұрын

"Horrible fate" is stretching it a bit. Two of the wives probably didn't exist, and some ended up in monasteries and lived apparently ok lives. Even the poisonings are alleged, as it's quite possible some died of natural causes.

@Dave11000 5 ай бұрын

Maybe "horrific fate" referred to being married to Ivan.

@Elly3981 4 ай бұрын

Did Ivan the Terrible behead any of his wives?

@aadamtx 4 ай бұрын

@@Elly3981 Apparently not.

@FURYWORLDx 4 ай бұрын

Great video

@Anonymous-dq3ok 5 ай бұрын

Judging by his disposition he likely would have grown tired of his first wife at some point and sent her away or killed her. From a young age he had extreme mental issues and trauma.

@wengercleopatra2150 3 ай бұрын

Fascinating!

@chateaupig826 6 ай бұрын

knowing what happened to the others , you'd hope to be passed up 😬

@michellecrocker2485 6 ай бұрын

Would you say that Maria was the Anne Boleyn of the wives here?

@SophiaElizabeth. 6 ай бұрын

Yes

@aprildunn3146 4 ай бұрын

Didn't he try to bag Elizabeth I at one point by sending her his painting when he was single?

@LindaLinda80Linda 4 ай бұрын

OR…go to the library!

@yarini-1 6 ай бұрын

Great and unusual topic. Thank-you. Subscribed. ivan suffered from a mental collapse of an undetermined cause. We can assume that the death of Anastasia was the major contributing factor in his rapid decline into an amoral and violent madness. Not surprising if we study his genetic line, the era, the environment and the violent lifestyle of his times. As to his wires' death, let's not forget the standard of medicine and the standard of diet in the Russia of the 1500s. It had to be a dangerous time in particular if you were a Boyar. 🙄

@alisonbrowning9620 6 ай бұрын

Henry 8th eat your heart out mate

@wendymortimer6862 5 ай бұрын

Is it a competition?

@crazymelomanka 5 ай бұрын

Marfa SobAkina. A lot of names were butchered. Other than that thanks for the narration and video.

@CBass-mn5dy 6 ай бұрын

I do believe that at least 2 of his wives were poisoned...likely 3 though.

@strfltcmnd.9925 5 ай бұрын

Russian version of Brigham Young

@ribkan4759 4 ай бұрын

3:00 Oprichnina (secret police)

@SophiaElizabeth. 6 ай бұрын

2:10 Oooh! I like her!

@snowmiaow 5 ай бұрын

Those royal children sure seem to have poor health. I wonder what they were eating.

@sariyasaleem3838 6 ай бұрын

Ivan was not bad person he was made bad after the death of his parents he was treated badly by boyers ... and according to the history after his 1st marriage he got love from his 1st wive he changed and fully devoted to his country ... if Anastasia survived there is possiblity we remembered him as ivan of Russia instead of ivan the terrible ... bad luck ivan 😢

@oldbrownshoe4886 5 ай бұрын

Some believe that the medications he was given contributed to his degeneracy. The medicines contained mercury which caused paranoia and fits of rage. After dinner he would descend to the dungeon and personally torture victims before going to bed.

@Donathon-qx8kq 5 ай бұрын

Would you compare him to Vlad Tepes ?

@dubuyajay9964 5 ай бұрын

Imagine if he REALLY married Elizabeth I. X_x

@Elly3981 4 ай бұрын

Did Ivan the Terrible behead any of his wives?

@christinec7892 4 ай бұрын

“Dimitri slit his own throat”, mmm…seems like the Russian odd suicide problem started long before Putin. At least Dimitri didn’t fall out a window 😳🙄

@murrismiller2312 4 ай бұрын

the rule on marraige is in regard to DIVORCE...not death of a mate!!

@fpostolache 6 ай бұрын

Good footage, monstrous individual. An old man married a child (Anastasia). Horrible yet history is beautiful !

@alisonbrowning9620 6 ай бұрын

like henry 8th and teen bride Catherine

@ucky9675 6 ай бұрын

? Ivan and Anastasia were the same age when they married

@madwhitehare3635 5 ай бұрын

Reminds me of prophet Mo!

@fpostolache 5 ай бұрын

@@ucky9675was this love ?! 🤣

@KantoCafe715 4 ай бұрын

Interesting that both these tyrants , him and Henry 8th, who disposed of women like garbage, couldn’t have many children. It just goes to show, that making babies is often more spiritual than you think.

@LovePrettyNailsLady-Jay80 4 ай бұрын

Not really terrible in my books. Pretty normal but bad luck with love.

@marisamartin3664 4 ай бұрын

Why isn't Henry "the Horrible" VIII?

@FinnishLapphund 4 ай бұрын

The word Terrible have changed meaning through the ages, it used to mean Fearsome, Formidable. And I think that Ivan the IV's actual Russian moniker is Groznyi = Strong, Menacing, Impressive. Besides, his total number of wives is not the reason to why he's called Ivan the Terrible. The real reasons behind his moniker basically comes from that he defended Russia against the Muslim Khans, that he himself was unusually tall and strong for a man during that time period, that he eventually became somewhat of an intellectual who supported various sciences, and added to that mix, also came his fierce/unpredictable temper. Most kings/rulers with monikers that I've heard about, have in general received their moniker for something they did for/against a country which affected a lot of that country's citizens, a special physical appearance they had, or having a disposition which either positively or negatively affected their ability to rule. So maybe if Henry VIII besides having had 6 wives, had also done things like at 15 years old ordering one of his friends to be executed only due to a petty argument, and later in life killed his only both legitimate, and viable male heir in a fit of rage, together with doing some other negative stuff, then who knows, maybe he would've been known as Henry the Horrible in our history books.

@christinec7892 4 ай бұрын

Well my Irish family would be happy to call him that, and more

@georgesouthwick7000 4 ай бұрын

He wasn’t called Ivan the Terrible because he was a nice guy.

@jansrensen7582 4 ай бұрын

Paranoia is very bad. Its like the Universe and all People are paranoid fight now ❤😂

@katarina3711 5 ай бұрын

Henry VIII still beats him.

@carmencollor1224 6 ай бұрын

Can you stop saying " however" every single minute? It is distracting from the story!

@garryferrington811 6 ай бұрын

However,...

@carmencollor1224 6 ай бұрын

@@garryferrington811 if you insist in the lack of imagination.

@museoflove8255 5 ай бұрын

Psyco…

@mikeyerke3920 5 ай бұрын

The voice ruined the video.

@carmencollor1224 5 ай бұрын

Right?

@mikeyerke3920 5 ай бұрын

@@carmencollor1224 Unfortunate.

@ilianakaneva66 5 ай бұрын

The names and the titles are so butchered. His name was Ivan, the Grozni=Ugli The Terrible is not accurate at all. There was nothing mentioned about his political activity. The video is very broad, only covering his personal life.

@serena3673 4 ай бұрын

Well that was what the title implied, his wife and their 'terrible fate'

@ilianakaneva66 4 ай бұрын

May be you should study Russian history before you listen to videos, which are not accurate.

@janeyrevanescence12 4 ай бұрын

It’s about Ivan’s wives and what happened to them. There’s tons of videos here about Ivan the Terrible’s politics.