Ruler of Russia/Poland

Russia at the start of Unit 3 was ruled by Ivan the first. Ivan was known is "Ivan moneybags because he got extremely rich and built a fortune as the prince of Moscow. Ivan was under Mongol rule but they made him an official tax collector and he gained a large fortune. The first true "tsar" of Russia was Ivan the fourth or the more commonly known "Ivan the Terrible. Ivan waged war on a withering Mongol power and added large amounts of land to the Russian empire. Then Ivan waged a slow and exhausting war in which he took over the Poland and Lithuanian state.