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Although Vasily the Third ruled for 28 years, he left behind only one heir,
盡管瓦西里三世統治長達28年之久，他只留有一位繼承人，
a three year old son Ivan Vasilyevich who became famous as Ivan the Terrible.
三歲的兒子伊凡·瓦西里耶維奇——也就是后來著名的伊凡雷帝。
Segment 17c: Ivan the Terrible.
17節C 伊凡雷帝。
Grand Prince Vasily the Third, son of Ivan the Great, died in 1533.
大公瓦西里三世伊凡大帝的兒子死于1533年，
Vasily's widow, Yelena Glinskaya, served as Regent for their three year old son, Grand Prince Ivan the Fourth.
瓦西里的遺孀葉蓮娜·格林斯卡婭給他們三歲的兒子，大公伊凡四世，擔任攝政王
A strong personality by all accounts, Yelena was an active Regent,
據各種流傳的說法，性格強悍的葉蓮娜是一個活躍的攝政王
but he gender and her Serbian-Lithuanian descent offended the Boyar families.
但是她的性別和西伯利亞-立陶宛的血統觸犯了波雅爾家族。
The Boyars had suffered under the autocratic rule of Ivan the Third and Vasily the Third.
波雅爾人飽受伊凡三世和瓦西里三世的專制統治之苦。
So, the powerful Shuisky family led the Boyars in making life miserable for Yelena and her little family,
因此，強大的舒伊斯基家族帶領波雅爾人使葉蓮娜和她的小家庭生活悲慘，
including apparently poisoning Yelena in 1538.
甚至1538年毒死葉蓮娜。
The Shuisky would likely have killed young Ivan the Fourth also,
叔伊斯基本來要殺死年幼的伊凡四世，
but they couldn't bring themselves to harm the descendant, supposedly, of Rurik.
但是他們不能傷害留里克的這支血脈。
So instead they started killing off young Ivan's family friends, including one poor soul who was skinned alive in a Moscow square.
于是他們開始殺戮伊凡的家人和朋友，其中一個可憐的人在莫斯科廣場上被活剝了皮。
