What makes one person torture others and tear them to pieces?What leads a person to this cruelty and to be courageous in the face of his own atrocities while having fun with them?This is the story of Ivan the Terrible.
A person’s childhood can mark them for life. Our first experiences, our relationship with those around us, and the examples and learnings we receive accompany us for the rest of our lives, for better or worse.
- That’s why love is so important.
- Not in vain is it said that “love moves the world”.
- And it is true that love is the engine of humanity’s best achievements.
- Just as hatred is responsible for the greatest atrocities committed throughout history.
We want to present an illustrative case of how childhood can terribly mark a person using Ivan the Terrible as an example.
Ivan lives in the collective imagination more precisely by his nickname “El Terrible”, something that was first the result of a mis translation of the Russian “El Estricto”, but not in vain stayed as “El Terrible”. the title served perfectly to illustrate the atrocities committed by this man.
It all started in his childhood. Even when he was 3 years old, he lost his father and became the “Grand Prince of Moscow”. Even if her mother boasted of power, she would die five years later, probably poisoned by clans of boys fighting for power among themselves.
From then on, the boyars took care of their education. They used all sorts of humiliations against him, throughout his childhood he was mistreated, humiliated, hurt by fun and kept isolated, living almost like a beggar inside the Kremlin.
Everything Ivan suffered as a child was reflected in his first act of cruelty at the age of 13. He ordered one of his enemies to be tore apart by throwing a pack of dogs at him. His helplessness turned into anger and he reflected on the mistreatment of those around him. Ivan then begins to be respected by Russian society.
Gradually his dark character is taking shape; Childhood lived through the sadness of having a brother with a mental illness, for whom he held great esteem, and the death of his beloved wife Anastacia, continue to leave deep scars on Ivan.
Although Ivan was married seven times, he loved only his first wife, Anastacia, who became ill and died a short time later, at that time no one gave Ivan a reason, but in time and a deeper investigation into the cause of his wife’s death, the truth arose. Analysis of Anastacia’s body confirmed mercury dose poisoning until his death.
With the death of his wife, Ivan transforms, further changes his behavior and bears the title of “terrible”. He was always afraid of everything and everyone. Her wife was the only person she trusted and was killed.
As we all know, our heads direct our actions and, despite Ivan’s aspirations to conquer the Baltic, his dreams never became possible, Ivan lacked everything his rival had and envied Novgorov, he was known for the education and good manners of all its inhabitants. , qualities that had made him famous throughout the region.
They had a good business and their merchants built churches to lovingly ask for God’s help, so that their trade would prosper. Ivan attacks and devastates the city, torturing, beheading and impaling many of its inhabitants; modern investigations estimate the deaths of 2000 to 3000 people.
Few things can really be achieved by force. The truth is, in the face of such helplessness. Ivan has done nothing different from what he has experienced and experienced throughout his life, using cruelty.
Ivan is getting crazier and his last act of terror is the murder of his son. Ivan sees his daughter-in-law dressed inappropriately one day. His angry son confronts him and Ivan, overwhelmed by the anger that characterizes him, attacks. only the fury, aggression, and hatred that surrounds a person at any given time can cause them to commit atrocities like this, killing their own son, according to experts.
200 years later, Peter the Great realizes all that Ivan could not do by force and madness: modernize and build St. Petersburg.
The moral of the whole story is as follows: it is built only with love.