Vedic Horoscope for Ivan The Terrible

Russian Czar who ruled from 1547 to 1584. He was the grandson of Ivan the Great and the son of Vasili III and a princess of royal Mongolian descent. During his 40-year reign, he was responsible for centralizing the administration of Russia and expanding the boundaries of the Russian empire. A contemporary of Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth I, King Philip of Spain and the Borgias in Italy, he followed the cultural pattern of his time by curbing violence with greater violence, gradually becoming the very personification of tyranny and brutality. Boundless suspicion, insatiable cruelty, and extreme depravity were perhaps his outstanding characteristics. During his reign hardly a family of noble birth was not touched by his murders, and some were completely eliminated. Countless acres of cultivated land were abandoned by farmers during the terror of the Oprichniki (his military guard), falling back into forested wilderness.LMR quotes Robert Payne and Nikita Romanoff, "Ivan the Terrible," 1975, p.9, "August 25, 1530 in the Kremlin at 6 o'clock in the evening." A footnote on p.466 states, "For the birth of Ivan, see "Nikonovskaya Letopis," (Nikon chronicle) and "Polynoye Sobaniye Russkikh Letopisey" (As the dates are taken from Russian literature, they are accepted as being Old Style. In AQ, Summer/1968, Carter gave a chart with Sun 11 Virgo, Moon 18 Libra, MC 23 Aquarius and ASC 3 Cancer).