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As a child he was known to torture animals.
He gouged the eyes of the architects who built St. Basil's so that Cathedral of such beauty could never be rebuilt. He killed his son, only heir to the thrown, in a fit of rage. His father died in 1533, 3 years after Ivan was born. |