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This article examines the reception of the events of Saint Bartholomew's night in France and the use of this news by the Russian Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible, based on his diplomatic correspondence. His reaction must be interpreted in light of the assertion of the Russian state on the European political scene and, more specifically, in the context of rival claims to the Polish throne. His condemnation of the event as a "Massacre of the Innocents” did not, however, prevent the Tsar from building an epistolary relationship with Duke Henri d'Anjou and then King Henri III. |
