Ivan the Terrible |

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Favorite of Stalin |
Marian's Lectures at the GRR auditorium at the Met
- Mar 1. Ivan IV's victory over the Tatars at Kazan in 1552 celebrated in his great Cathedral on Red Square (St Basil's)
- Mar 8. Picturesque and defensive monasteries around Moscow and the rise of a New School on ikon painting.
- Mar 15. Boris Godunov's failed plans to transform Moscow into a new Jerusalem. The rise of the Romanovs and Moscow baroque
architecture.
- Mar 22. Ivan the Terrible, Boris Godunov, and the early Romanovs in 19th century painting, plays, and operas.
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