Alas for me a sinner, woe to me in my despair, Oh me, in my foulness...it behooves you, our masters to illuminate us who have lost our way in the darkness of pride, who are mired in sinful vanity, gluttony and intemperance. And I, a stinking hound, whom can I teach, what can I preach, and with what can I enlighten others?
— Ivan the Terrible Early Modern

First Tsar of Russia

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From a letter to Abbot Koz'ma of the Beloozero monastery, expressing self-abasement and despair.

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1573

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Strange & Unusual

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