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The whole life of Ivan the Terrible was spent in a relentless struggle with his own boyars. But in this battle he had devoted and zealous assistants - Malyuta Skuratov, Nikitka the executioner ... Therefore, the sovereign had time for personal affairs. Ivan the Terrible was not without reason considered the first lover in Russia. In bed comforts, he knew no equal. The number of his mistresses is measured by a four-digit number (a special clerk, by decree of the autocrat, kept a list of the girls he knew). In addition, the sovereign was officially married eight times. Tsar Ivan had a very dramatic relationship with his spouses.