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Ivan the Terrible, Tsar of Russia, is popularly known for killing his son and heir to the throne, Ivan Ivanovich in a fit of rage. This strikes me as a particularly strange moment in the history of European nobility. How did the Russian aristocracy and other European nobles react to this news?

by /u/nowlan101 in /r/AskHistorians

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