18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 32

[cahn]

:) Still talking about Charles XII of Sweden / the Great Northern War and the Stuarts and the Jacobites, among other things!

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Ivan the Terrible

[selenak]

Not having watched Boris Bogdunov at all yet, you're still ahead of me there. :) However, let me remind you of Mildred's favourite rap battle re: Ivan the Terrible. Alas, the one trivia I know of him is that he proposed to Elizabeth I. (Tudor) via letter. Let's just say he was not a serious contender.