Ivan the Terrible

Ivan Vasilyevich, commonly known as Ivan the Fearsome or Ivan the Terrible, was the Grand Prince of Moscow from the age of three (in 1533), when his father died. His mother died when he was eight. He was crowned Tsar of all the Russias when he was sixteen, and remained so until his death, while playing chess, in 1584. Over the course of his life he had eight wives and eight children. Two of the wives and two of the children were alive at the time of his death.