{"id":5657,"date":"2015-10-01T23:22:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T03:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/?p=5657"},"modified":"2015-10-01T23:23:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T03:23:31","slug":"ivans-insecurities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2015\/10\/01\/ivans-insecurities\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivan&#8217;s Insecurities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ivan &#8220;The Terrible&#8221; during his later reign, seems to be pretty catastrophic for Muscovite Russia. \u00a0The creation\u00a0of the\u00a0<em>oprichniki<\/em>\u00a0was his way of getting rid of anyone that could threaten his rule. \u00a0This group<em>\u00a0<\/em>became extremely problematic, as they had unrestricted authority wherever they went. \u00a0There required garb of black further linked them to a sort of &#8220;Unholy&#8221; group that was linked to Ivan, not the church. \u00a0The oprichniki were able to steal property and money from the zemskie people without any punishment. \u00a0Anyone who stood in the way of this group or tried to stop them were immediately killed. \u00a0One of the governors even fled to Poland once he discovered what was going on with the\u00a0<em>oprichinia <\/em>(KM, 152). \u00a0Country sides were being ravaged without orders and shows how much power they had accumulated. \u00a0 Ivan had anyone who he thought suspicious killed and it could be imagined the amount of people living in fear.<\/p>\n<p>However, we see the the Tsar having the leaders of the\u00a0<em>oprichninia<\/em> killed as well. \u00a0Perhaps it seems that he believed that they had gained too much power and were becoming a threat to himself at this point (KM, 153). \u00a0The killing of these leaders was brutal and sent a message to the people in Russia that he was not to be reckoned with.<\/p>\n<p>Was Ivan&#8217;s terrorizing rule perhaps good for guaranteeing loyalty for future Tzars?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivan &#8220;The Terrible&#8221; during his later reign, seems to be pretty catastrophic for Muscovite Russia. \u00a0The creation\u00a0of the\u00a0oprichniki\u00a0was his way of getting rid of anyone that could threaten his rule. \u00a0This group\u00a0became extremely problematic, as they had unrestricted authority wherever &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2015\/10\/01\/ivans-insecurities\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2784,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104482,51180],"tags":[94131,104578],"class_list":["post-5657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history253_earlyrussianhistory","category-miscellaneous","tag-ivan-the-terrible","tag-oprichnina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}