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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2621738, member: 19463&quot;]Please, lets call him Ivan the Misunderstood.&nbsp; Compared to his peer group he was not so bad.&nbsp; OK, he was hard on the nobility but they were no class acts either.&nbsp; From Wikipedia:</p><p>&quot;Ivan was an able diplomat, a patron of arts and trade, and founder of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Print_Yard" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Print_Yard" rel="nofollow">Moscow Print Yard</a>, Russia&#039;s first publishing house. He was popular among Russia&#039;s commoners (<i>see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible_in_Russian_folklore" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible_in_Russian_folklore" rel="nofollow">Ivan the Terrible in Russian folklore</a></i>), but he is also noted for his paranoia and harsh treatment of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_nobility" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_nobility" rel="nofollow">Russian nobility</a>.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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