What was Ivan the Terrible’s ethnic background? I don’t think he was Russian (none of the Tsars were Russian by ethnicity if I’m not mistaken). He has kind of an evil mongoloid look to him and that would explain his savage fits of anger. Anyone?
Ivan the Terrible
Easton Miller
Connor Cooper
you know that’s not an actual portrait right
Henry Torres
Can you just answer my question smart ass?
Nicholas Hernandez
It is an actual portrait faggot
Justin Jones
Screenshot from Wikipedia
Brody Garcia
it was painted 300 years after his reign you colossal retard.
The romanovs were less Russian because they intermarried with other European royalty but Ivan was a Rurik and was entirely Russian
Juan Carter
He was a Rurik so originally Varangian but mixed with a few other royal bloodlines. His mother was a Tatar and descended from a Mongolian ruler named Mamai and his grandmother on his father's side was Byzantine Greek of the house of Palaiologos.
Evan Ward
The Tatar family his mother was from, was already mixed. They were Lithuanian and christianized, and his maternal grandmother was a full-blooded Serb. So yeah if you look at Ivan's grandparents: Varangian, Tatar, Serb, Greek. Pretty cool.
Lincoln Bailey
remember when that nigga beat his kids kid while he was in the womb, Classic Ivan
Daniel Hughes
He was black
Zachary Nguyen
The Virgin Kazan Tatar and the Chad Ivan
Hudson Smith
Wasn't his mom a Serb?
Jaxson Watson
No, she was a Tatar-Mongol, with a Serb Mother herself.
Josiah Brooks
>mutt
>pretty cool
Pick one
Asher Harris
>1897
Jayden Parker
I just meant it's interesting. And yes, many nobles back then were 'mixed' Get your modern identity/race politics the fuck out of history.
William Thomas
>Muh pure heritage!
Fuck off Charles.
Lincoln Hughes
>mutt
>Poltard not realizing what the universal laws of noble blood were before muh late 19th century nationalism.
Nicholas Hill
based Vasnetsov
Jacob James
>russian
>scandinavian/varangian
>greek(byzantine)
>serb
>tataro-mogol
Ian Hall
You do realise most of noble/monarchy families were "mutts"?
Even the fucking bong Windsors have some moor/arab blood from spain if you look further into their family tree.
"Foreign blood" didn't matter much because in the end, they have blue blood unlike the common pleb like you.