For quite a long time, many foreign experts have been trying to distort the history of Russia. Obviously, this is due to their desire to deprive the Russian people of its historical roots and make them more suggestible, as well as try to instill in the minds of Russians a sense of guilt for the actions of the former rulers of the country.
Such a blatant lie was used by would-be historians when describing the image of the most famous Russian tsar - Ivan Vasilyevich, who received the nickname Grozny. Their goal was to leave to the descendants the image of the king, as the most despised, evil, unbalanced monarch.
The first myth: brutality. According to the available records, during the entire period of his reign, the Russian tsar executed about five thousand people for various crimes. Is this a lot? Let's give the data for comparison: let us turn to similar statistics from European rulers. During his reign, the English monarch executed more than seventy thousand homeless people. In Germany, one hundred thousand peasants who participated in the uprising were killed. In the Netherlands, the Duke of Alba killed one hundred thousand of his citizens. In France, in a few days, they brutally dealt with thirty thousand infidels. And at the same time, European rulers are known in history as revered people, and the Russian tsar is a monster and a villain.
Europeans prefer not to remember the bloody pages of their history, for example, the destruction by the Catholic League of all residents of the city of Magdeburg and the city itself.
And the Russian tsar, during his military campaigns, demanded that the commanders release residents with their belongings from the surrounded cities, forbidding robbery and violence.
And after that, European monarchs are considered almost saints, and the Russian tsar - a criminal.
It should be reminded to false historians that the Russian prince Vladimir refused to execute the robbers after being baptized. And only when the advisers reminded the prince of his duty to protect the population from "evil people", he agreed to punish the guilty.
And the current scribes of history are trying to prove that Ivan the Terrible committed crimes, fulfilling his functions to protect the population from thieves, robbers, bribery, etc ….
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Let's turn to the information of ancient manuscripts. If in the time of Ivan IV, only people who committed murder, treason, kidnapping, arson of someone else's home were sentenced to death, then during the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich, more than eighty types of atrocities were punished by death, and his son Peter I was already destroyed for 120 types of crimes!
Myth two: killing your own child. Many historians were outraged when they saw the painting by I. Repin, which depicts the murder of his son by the tsar. The plot invented by the artist was presented to society as a fact. Metropolitan John in his writings pointed out that Tsarevich John died after a long illness. In none of the manuscripts of those days that have come down to us, there is not a single mention of the murder of the prince. Information about the murder of his son by Ivan the Terrible came to Europe from a Jesuit who visited Russia. Perhaps it was a kind of revenge from the West for the fact that the Russian Church refused to submit to Rome. In 1963, studies were conducted on the remains of the king himself and his son. An increased content of mercury was found in the bones of royalty, which did not exclude the possibility that both the son and the father were poisoned.
The active promotion of myths about the Terrible Russian Tsar is a deliberate and directed activity aimed at discrediting our common history and introducing false information into the minds of generations.
The third myth:unreasonable terror. The reforms carried out by Ivan the Terrible to strengthen the Russian statehood provoked resistance from the boyars. No one, even today, denies the existence during the reign of Ivan the Terrible, numerous conspiracies, riots and multi-stage intrigues, the purpose of which was to overthrow the tsar. But not only the boyars distinguished themselves in the fight against their own ruler, the Polish king Sigismund, with the help of the close boyars, organized a conspiracy to remove the king and appoint his puppet, Vladimir Staritsky, to his place. As a result of the disclosure of the anti-royal conspiracy, many conspirators were punished: some of them were executed, the rest were spared. However, false historians present information in such a way that those who really stayed to live were executed and became “bloody victims” of the tyrant king. They weren't even stopped by the factthat many of the allegedly "executed" survived many more historical events described in the manuscripts of those times.
The fourth myth: the defeat of Novgorod. After Ivan the Terrible resolved the crisis that arose after the Polish conspiracy, he had to confront the turmoil raised by Vladimir Staritsky, King Sigismund and Archbishop Pimen. The tsar's cook was supposed to poison the tsar. In case of success, Staritsky received the Russian throne, Sigismund - Novgorod and Pskov, and the Novgorod nobility hoped to get freedom from submission to the Russian autocrat. Having dealt with the Moscow conspirators, Ivan the Terrible marched with an army against the rebellious Novgorod. After the capture of all the ringleaders, 1,500 people were executed, whose names the tsar entered into the memorial list and sent them to the Kirillo-Belozersky monastery. But here, too, false historians have adjusted the number of those executed, increasing them to 20 thousand people.
The fifth myth: the king is a polygamist. Well, how unfortunate historians love to savor this topic! The versions are the most incredible: the number of wives, starting from seven, and even the mass of concubines. But in handwritten sources it is only confirmed that the king was married no more than four times.
Myth six:defeat of the German settlement. This bloody page in the life of the tsar was invented by Pastor Auderbon, who had never been to Russia, and invented this lie while living in Germany. But an eyewitness to those events, a French citizen, told this. The captured Livonians were taken by the tsar to Moscow, where they were given the right to practice their faith, and were allowed to trade in vodka, honey and other intoxicated drinks. The Germans received colossal profits from trade. But the Russians were strictly forbidden to trade in vodka. The main visitors to Livonian drinking establishments were foreigners who were allowed a lot in Moscow. But the Germans began to lure Russians into their establishments, teaching them to drink vodka. Ivan the Terrible sent the German oprichniki settlement to restore order. There were no murders or tortures, the guardsmen used only whips against the guilty,and the property of too impudent Livonians was confiscated. The Germans violated the agreement with the tsar and paid for it.
Every person who loves his country must know well the history of his homeland and protect it from slander and dirt. Only true knowledge, backed up by historical documents, can help resist misinformation from various false historians.