The oprichnina (опри́чнина, IPA) is the period of Russian history between 1565 and 1572 during which Tsar Ivan the Terrible instituted a domestic policy of secret police, mass repressions, public executions, and confiscation of land from Russian aristocrats. The six thousand political police enforcing the policy were called oprichniki, a...
Found on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprichnina
private court or household created by Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible (1565) that administered those Russian lands (also known as oprichnina) that had ... [2 related articles]
Found on
http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/o/24
originally, the personal possessions of a prince or the dower of his widow; under Ivan the Terrible, those persons (oprichniki) and sections of the country under the tsar's personal command, and outside the normal administrative structure of the state.
Found on
http://www.uleth.ca/lib/digitized_collections/ourheritage/Great_Adventures/
The era in the 1550s during which Ivan IV (the Terrible) brutally punished and decimated the boyar (q.v.) class.
Found on
https://irp.fas.org/world/russia/su_glos.html
No exact match found.
