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Despite his miserable, tormented childhood,
雖然他的童年悲慘痛苦
there were positive achievements early in Ivan's reign including Russia's first Zemsky Sobor, or Council of the People.
他仍然在統(tǒng)治期間取得了積極的成就，包括俄羅斯第一個縉紳會議——人民委員會
Early on, Ivan won two wars over the Kazan and Astrakhan Khanates making Russia a multinational empire with religious tolerance.
伊凡在兩場戰(zhàn)爭中打敗了喀山和阿斯特拉罕汗國，使俄羅斯成為一個橫跨多個國家的帝國具有宗教寬容性
But then he descended into madness.
但是那時他卻瘋了
The most outstanding product of his madness was the creation of a police state called the Oprichnina
最突出的結(jié)果就是創(chuàng)建了一個警衛(wèi)州——叫做沙皇禁苑
ruled by Ivan's bloody henchmen called the Oprichniks.
由伊凡的親信管理稱為沙皇騎士
His attempts to win Russia a window on the Baltic Sea were a bloody and costly failure.
他為國家打開波羅的海貿(mào)易窗口的做法很殘忍且付出了巨大的代價
Ivan created the Russian Empire and he almost destroyed it.
伊凡創(chuàng)造了俄羅斯帝國，他又幾乎也毀了它
In Segment 17d: Time of Troubles,
17節(jié)D：混亂時期
Russia wallows in the aftermath of Ivan the Terrible's highly mixed reign.
在伊凡雷帝高度復(fù)雜的統(tǒng)治之后的一段時期俄羅斯一路跌跌撞撞
This time is often known as the Time of Troubles.
這個時期被稱作混亂時期
Exhausted psychically and physically from Ivan's internal and external works,
因伊凡的對內(nèi)對外政策
the Russian people survives three false Dmitries,
而身心俱疲的俄國人民經(jīng)歷了三任偽德米特里的統(tǒng)治，
two foreign invasions which happened at the same time no less, and the famous Boris Godunov.
兩次外國入侵都發(fā)生在這一時期，還有著名的鮑里斯戈都諾夫
One might think of the Time of Troubles as a Russian national gut check, not unlike the Roman Empire's Crisis of the Third Century A.D.
人們會認(rèn)為混亂時代是俄國的一次考驗，就像三世紀(jì)的羅馬帝國危機
