Question Context I realise this is a bit of an obscure topic in terms of the primary sources I'm searching for and I have a few already to support my paper. However, I'm slowly scraping the bottom of the proverbial barrel and have hit a wall.
I am writing a research paper on the peasantry and their feelings towards Ivan IV (also known as Ivan Grozny, Ivan Vasilyevich, Ivan The Imposing, or Ivan The Terrible). Wikipedia claims that Ivan IV is actually well-liked by modern day Russians and his own peasantry with the evidence being the amount of heroic folklore. Folklore from Wikipedia isn't a great source for a paper, but it's not just Wikipedia that claims he was besmirched by Western sources. This wouldn't normally be a problem except that I can't find English versions of documents, correspondences, manuscripts, or autobiographies from someone who was actually alive between 1530 and 1584.
I'm a university student that is not able to pay for certain sources, and I cannot read Russian whatsoever. So, if you do have any information that helps to answer my question it has to be in English. If you're able to provide a primary source, I would love it to have been translated into English by an academic and have an online version I can read for free. These formalities exist because this paper will likely be reviewed in an academic setting and I can really only read German well enough to cite translations with confidence.
For a bit of a list of what I've already cataloged for mentions of the peasantry under Ivan IV:
Foreign accounts of Muscovy: 1530-1590.
Letters between Ivan IV and Prince Andrei Kurbskii (excerpts)
The Domostroi (excerpts)
Letters between Ivan IV and Queen Elizabeth I
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