The socionic analysis of psychological portraits allows considering informational metabolism types of two famous historical persons, ET (EIE) for Ivan the Terrible and FL (SLE) for Peter the Great. Generic quadral presets and particularities are shown. Substantial differences in their ways of self-manifestation and realization in life peculiar to ET (EIE) and FL (SLE) are reviewed.

Keywords: socionics, type of informational metabolism, Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, ethical-intuitive extrovert, sensory-logical extrovert, quadra.