In order to not mislead the reader, it may be well to call attention to what was stated in the previous chapter upon one point. That is that "Ivan the Terrible," who came to the throne in 1533, was not the first Muscovite prince who called himself Czar, but that simply to give him the conspicuous place which he deserves in the history of the sixteenth century, we have placed him in a chapter thus headed.
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From General Nelson A. Miles
Thrilling Stories of The Russian-Japanese War, 1904
