Ivan le Terrible

Quality:

Ivan the Terrible - Tsar and Grand Duke of all Rus' from 1547 to 1584. This person is the 779^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Ivan le Terrible” in French Wikipedia has 41.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 32 references and 23 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.19 points.

This article has the best quality in Russian Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

French Wikipedia:

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The 8024^th most editable in French Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2466^th most popular in all topics.

The 2006^th most popular in AI.

The 779^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

French Wikipedia:

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The 8752^nd most editable in French Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3689^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 6554^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Ivan le Terrible” was edited by 3 authors in French Wikipedia (8752^nd place) and written by 26 authors in all languages (6554^th place).

Since the creation of article “Ivan le Terrible”, its content was written by 236 registered users of French Wikipedia (8024^th place) and edited by 5022 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2006^th place).

Ivan the Terrible is on the 779^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 750 times in French Wikipedia and cited 16321 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #258 in July 2008
• Global: #315 in December 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #346 in July 2008
• Global: #365 in November 2020

There are 53 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Russian (ru) Иван Грозный		98.6486
2	Portuguese (pt) Ivã IV da Rússia		91.0428
3	Ukrainian (uk) Іван Грозний		86.9972
4	English (en) Ivan the Terrible		84.9954
5	German (de) Iwan IV. (Russland)		70.7395
6	Hungarian (hu) IV. Iván orosz cár		61.8163
7	Japanese (ja) イヴァン4世		60.9182
8	Estonian (et) Ivan Julm		53.1834
9	Italian (it) Ivan IV di Russia		52.4393
10	Slovenian (sl) Ivan IV. Vasiljevič Grozni		44.8125

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Иван Грозный		22 212 625
2	English (en) Ivan the Terrible		17 597 912
3	Spanish (es) Iván IV de Rusia		3 096 713
4	German (de) Iwan IV. (Russland)		2 331 161
5	Japanese (ja) イヴァン4世		1 877 446
6	French (fr) Ivan le Terrible		1 590 121
7	Polish (pl) Iwan IV Groźny		1 494 775
8	Italian (it) Ivan IV di Russia		1 214 651
9	Portuguese (pt) Ivã IV da Rússia		791 663
10	Chinese (zh) 伊凡四世		658 176

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ivan the Terrible		76 206
2	Russian (ru) Иван Грозный		67 047
3	Spanish (es) Iván IV de Rusia		9 674
4	Japanese (ja) イヴァン4世		7 439
5	German (de) Iwan IV. (Russland)		6 517
6	French (fr) Ivan le Terrible		5 610
7	Italian (it) Ivan IV di Russia		3 901
8	Polish (pl) Iwan IV Groźny		3 592
9	Chinese (zh) 伊凡四世		3 362
10	Portuguese (pt) Ivã IV da Rússia		2 707

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ivan the Terrible		1 263
2	Russian (ru) Иван Грозный		776
3	German (de) Iwan IV. (Russland)		298
4	French (fr) Ivan le Terrible		236
5	Italian (it) Ivan IV di Russia		207
6	Spanish (es) Iván IV de Rusia		186
7	Ukrainian (uk) Іван Грозний		134
8	Polish (pl) Iwan IV Groźny		127
9	Dutch (nl) Ivan IV van Rusland		106
10	Hebrew (he) איוואן הרביעי		102

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ivan the Terrible		5
2	Russian (ru) Иван Грозный		5
3	Hebrew (he) איוואן הרביעי		4
4	French (fr) Ivan le Terrible		3
5	Ukrainian (uk) Іван Грозний		3
6	Norwegian (no) Ivan IV av Russland		2
7	Finnish (fi) Iivana Julma		1
8	Polish (pl) Iwan IV Groźny		1
9	Portuguese (pt) Ivã IV da Rússia		1
10	Turkish (tr) IV. İvan		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

On 28 February 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: Ali Khamenei, Iran, Ruhollah Khomeini, Jeffrey Epstein, Supreme Leader of Iran, Mohammad Reza I of Iran, 2026 Israeli–United States strikes on Iran, Neil Sedaka, Masoud Pezeshkian, Resident Evil Requiem.

In French Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Ali Khamenei, Jim Carrey, Iran, Tayc, Benjamin Lavernhe, Rouhollah Khomeini, Jeffrey Epstein, Rebecca Marder, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Affaire Flactif.

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