Oryol – Equestrian statues https://equestrianstatue.org by Kees van Tilburg Fri, 05 Mar 2021 10:45:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.11 Ivan the Terrible https://equestrianstatue.org/ivan-the-terrible/ Thu, 04 Mar 2021 15:03:07 +0000 https://equestrianstatue.org/?p=30642 The Russian city of Oryol inaugurated the country’s first ever monument to Ivan the Terrible, a 16th-century tyrant whose rehabilitation has been lobbied for by officials despite protests from historians and locals. Tsar Ivan IV ruled Russia from 1547 to 1584 and earned the moniker “Terrible” due to his brutal policy of oprichnina, which included the … Continue reading "Ivan the Terrible"

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