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Scholars would later say that he was the only viable heir to the throne after Ivan
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After his death, an era began in Russia of constant troubling in tsar power. This era would later be known as the "Time of Troubles"
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Ivan went to war because he had wanted to establish trading relations with Europe and in doing so tried to establish rule in Livonia. His intentions for this 24 year war was for economic efforts for the betterment in Russia.
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Ivan would later marry five other wives.
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