"I AM RUSSIA!"the young giant cried, and he set out to bathe the land in blood...This was Red Ivan, Russia's first Tsar, a tempestuous titan not yet out of his teens, yet spoken of in awe and fear throughout the world.- Ivan the Terrible, a savage dreamer clutched in the cruel hand of destiny, a man as wild and mysterious as the land he ruled -A devoted husband who led his court in frenzied orgies that scandalized the world -A seeker after wisdom and justice who destroyed an entire Russian town to punish a threat of defiance.Saint, madman, lover, tyrant, he smashed his enemies with the bloody fist of power to forge Russia's future in a furnace of destruction.Ivan the Terrible, who wrote the greatest chapter in Russia's history - in letters of fire!