Russia: Vladimir the merciless

Also: the Caucasus, the US, Argentina, Britain, Ethiopia, and Somalia.

Tsar Ivan The Terrible, Viktor Vasnetsov, 1897, oil on canvas, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

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RUSSIA. Vladimir the merciless

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