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There’s nothing pie-in-the-sky about the idea of the pope and his Vatican emissaries conducting peace missions which, potentially, can prevent or end bloodshed.
Ivan the Terrible, grand prince of Moscow (1533–84) and the first to be proclaimed tsar of Russia (from 1547). He oversaw the completion of the construction of a centrally administered Russian state, the creation of an empire that included non-Slav states, and a reign of terror against the hereditary nobility.