Nikolai Cherkasov, the Russian actor who has played such heroic roles as Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible, performs the lanky Don Quixote, and does so with a simple dignity that bridges the inner nobility and the surface absurdity of this poignant man.

* 1530 – Ivan the Terrible, Russian Tsar ( d. 1584 )

Ivan the Terrible shows his treasures to Elizabeth's ambassador.

* Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future, a scientist's time travel machine ends up teleporting his tenement administrator into 16th century Russia and bringing Ivan the Terrible into the present.

* 1987 – The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazi guard dubbed " Ivan the Terrible " in Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.

The development of the Tsar's autocratic powers reached a peak during the reign ( 1547 – 1584 ) of Ivan IV (" Ivan the Terrible ").

* 1547 – Ivan IV of Russia aka Ivan the Terrible becomes Czar of Russia.

That is why Magnus, who represented Denmark and later struck a deal with Ivan the Terrible, proved a suitable figurehead for this faction.

During the reign of Ivan the Terrible ( 1547-1584 A. D .), Matvei Simyonich Dalmatov, the first martyr of the Russian Molokan faith, split with the Nestorian Church and began to evangelize his family, his master, and local village members in and around the city of Tambov.

* 1552 – Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible.

Tsar Ivan the Terrible by Victor Vasnetsov

During his long reign, Ivan the Terrible nearly doubled the already large Russian territory by annexing the three Tatar khanates ( parts of disintegrated Golden Horde ): Kazan and Astrakhan along the Volga River, and Sibirean Khanate in South Western Siberia.

During the reign of Ivan the Terrible, the former family became known as Yakovlev ( Alexander Herzen being the most illustrious of them ), whereas grandchildren of Roman Zakharin-Yuriev changed their name to Romanov.

The early Romanovs were generally loved by the population as in-laws of Ivan the Terrible and innocent martyrs of Godunov's wrath.

In 1943 Prokofiev joined Eisenstein in Alma-Ata, the largest city in Kazakhstan, to compose more film music ( Ivan the Terrible ), and the ballet Cinderella ( Op.

He is noted in particular for his silent films Strike ( 1924 ), Battleship Potemkin ( 1925 ) and October ( 1927 ), as well as the historical epics Alexander Nevsky ( 1938 ) and Ivan the Terrible ( 1944, 1958 ).

Eisenstein's film, Ivan The Terrible, Part I, presenting Ivan IV of Russia as a national hero, won Joseph Stalin's approval ( and a Stalin Prize ), but the sequel, Ivan The Terrible, Part II was criticized by various authorities and would go unreleased until 1958.

He was accused by survivors of being the notorious guard at the Treblinka extermination camp known as " Ivan the Terrible ".

In 1986 he was deported to Israel to stand trial for war crimes, after being mistakenly identified by Israeli Holocaust survivors as " Ivan the Terrible ", a notorious guard at Treblinka.

On December 19, 2006, Allen Iverson, along with Ivan McFarlin, were sent to the Denver Nuggets in exchange for guard Andre Miller, forward Joe Smith, and two first-round draft picks.

The Hungarian advance was rapid, Ottoman fortresses were bypassed, while local Bulgarians from Vidin, Oryahovo, and Nicopolis joined the army ( Fruzhin, son of Ivan Shishman, also participated in the campaign with his own guard ).

John Demjanjuk ( born Ivan Mykolaiovych Demianiuk ; ; 3 April 1920 – 17 March 2012 ) was a Ukrainian-American convicted for war crimes as an accessory to the murder of 27, 900 Jews while acting as a guard at the Sobibor Nazi German extermination camp.

The player and Ivan must use a phonograph to trick a grouchy cotton factory guard into giving Edison a spool of cotton thread.

Traficant championed the unpopular cause of John Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian-born autoworker from Seven Hills, who had been convicted in Israel and sentenced to hang for having been the brutal concentration camp guard Ivan the Terrible For almost a decade, Traficant ( along with Pat Buchanan ) insisted that Demjanjuk had been denied a fair trial, and been the victim of mistaken identity ; in 1993 the Supreme Court of Israel overturned the conviction, on the basis of doubt.

Ivan also stipulated the creation of a personal guard known as the oprichniki.

Nobles and townsmen free of relations to the zemshchina or its administration were eligible for Ivan ’ s new guard.

Ivan Chelyadnin, confident that the Lithuanian-Polish forces would have to cross one of the two bridges on the Dnieper River, split his own forces to guard those crossings.

The Bulgarian ruler sent a detachment of 3, 000 cavalry, commanded by Ivan the Russian, from Yambol to guard the Imperial Palace in Constantinople and Andronikos II but his intentions were to capture the old emperor and the city.

Hetman Ivan Mazepa in 1695 forbade the Vydubytskyi Monastery's neighbors to " do injustice to the monastery " and placed it under the guard of Starodub Regiment Col. Mykhailo Myklashevskyi, who established the Baroque-style Church of St. George and new Transfiguration Refectory.

Ivan Simon Cary Elwes (; born 26 October 1962 ), known professionally as Cary Elwes, is an English actor and voice actor.

* May 27 – Ivan Akimov, Russian painter ( born 1754 )

* Ivan Joseph Iannoli ( born December 22, 1975 ) with Barbara Iannoli

Ivan Vidav ( born January 17, 1918 ) is a Slovenian mathematician.

Ivan Vidav was born in Opčine near Trieste ( Slovenian Trst ), Italy.

Ivan Pavlov was born in Ryazan, now in the Central Federal District of Russia, where his father, Peter Dmitrievich Pavlov ( 1823 – 1899 ), was a village priest.

* Ivan Trojan ( born 1964 ), Czech actor

* Ivan Basso ( born 1977 ), professional cyclist and winner of the 2006 and 2010 Giro d ' Italia.

* Ivan Lafayette ( born 1930 ), longtime member of the New York State Assembly ( 1977-2008 )

* Ivan Urbančič, philosopher ( born in Ročinj )

* Ivan Basso ( born 1977 ), Italian bicycle racer a. k. a. Ivan il Terribile

* Ivan Boesky ( born 1937 ), American businessman notable for his role in an insider trading scandal

His two brothers Franc Melik ( born 1885 ), and Ivan Melik ( born 1894 ) were killed in a grove known as Kozler's Thicket (, named after its former owner, Peter Kozler ) on November 25, 1943 together with 12 other victims by a unit of the collaborationist Slovenian Home Guard militia under the command of Franc Frakelj.

Ivan Edward Sutherland ( born May 16, 1938 ) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer.

Van Morrison, OBE ( born George Ivan Morrison ; 31 August 1945 ) is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician.

George Ivan ( Van ) Morrison was born on 31 August 1945, at 125 Hynford Street, Bloomfield, East Belfast, Northern Ireland as the only child of George Morrison, a shipyard electrician, and Violet Stitt Morrison, a singer and tap dancer in her youth.

Atanasoff's father, Ivan Atanasov was born in 1876 in the village of Boyadzhik, close to Yambol.

* Ivan Doig, novelist, was born in White Sulphur Springs.

* Ivan Wilzig ( born 1956 ), Techno musician.

* Ivan Sergei ( born 1972 ), television actor.

* Ivan Dmitri ( 1900 – 1968 ), famous artist and photographer, was born in Centerville and lived there before moving with his family to North Dakota.

Harris ' siblings include Patrick Ivan ( born 1929 ), Noel William Michael ( born 1932 ), Diarmid ( Dermot, born 1939 ), and William George Harris ( born 1942 ).