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he is just 3 years old, leaving Ivan to run the kingdom
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She was poisoned when he was 8 years old.
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He is married to Anastasia Romanovna
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Ivan is appointed a council of advisers, who helped institute his reforms
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Ivan's armies crushed the Tartar Khanates of Kazan
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Ivan's armies beat Astrakhan, extending Muscovy control to the Urals and the Caspian Sea
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Anastasia dies, Ivan suspects that she was murdered. This send him into paranoia and depression
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Ivan creates a police force to enforce his new, erratic behavior and laws
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Ivan beats his own daughter-in-law, so severely that it causes her to have a miscarriage
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Ivan kills his son in a fit of rage, leaving his less competent son to rule and sending Russia to its lowest period yet.
