The story of Ivan the Terrible.

Well, about "no one executed without trial and investigation" and about "3-4 thousand victims" - this is, of course, unnecessary decoration of the activities of the ruler, practically cut off, for example, Novgorod. By the end of his reign, the Terrible was a real paranoid. Although in his youth, he was sometimes very progressive. About the Bartholomew Night, by the way, the Terrible wrote with a considerable condemnation: "And what, brother of the dragiest, the mourning for the bloodshed that happened to the King of France in his kingdom, several thousand and even infants were beaten; and about that peasant ruler the mourning that such inhumanity of France the King of France has done on so many people and blood so foolish shed." But two years after the Novgorod pogrom, whose cow would fly.

The problem is not terrible. The problem of today. Each nation had its own Henry the Fucking and Karl the Wicked. But someone has their place - in a museum, where schoolchildren are shown "this is what fist was made in our country only a few centuries ago". And somebody puts them monuments and "save it out, but can"save it out.