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1 Text| creation of the world 7072 (1564), the fifth day of July.~ ~
2 Text| the creation of the world 7072 (1564), the fifth day of
3 Text| treachery and magic and other abuses, and endeavouring with zeal
4 Text| Christian race, yea, and abusing and trampling on the Angelic
5 Text| deeds in turn which I have accomplished for your glory by the strength
6 Text| persecutions and death, falsely accusing the Orthodox of treachery
7 Text| the foe. But far more, I achieved most glorious conquests
8 Text| judgment? Even if you should acquire the whole world, death will
9 Text| master, but were bent on acquiring wealth and glory, and were
10 Text| together with their children, act more [viciously] than the
11 Text| eighth year, our subjects acted according to their will,
12 Text| with foreigners, and you add, in your foolishness, that
13 Text| resplendent with all kinds of adornments, and through the gifts which
14 Text| to all, who was born in adultery and who today whispers falsehoods
15 Text| from them, to their own advantage, and had not paid them off
16 Text| influential friends and advisers? . . . ~Are you not ashamed
17 Text| barbarian - but that is not our affair. How much more ours, that
18 Text| and all my body is already afflicted with sores. But to you,
19 Text| Is it because you were afraid of death at the false instigation
20 | after
21 | again
22 Text| inhabitants. ~When we reached the age of fifteen, we, inspired
23 Text| preserved throughout the ages, and emits from the grave
24 Text| noble in Israel, as one in agreement with the Antichrist in deed.
25 Text| Have Broken the Pledge of Allegiance, Against Prince Andrei Kurbskii
26 | am
27 Text| of my God, Jesus Christ. Amen. ~Written in Wolmar, the
28 Text| written. "A Moabite and an Ammonite and a bastard to the tenth
29 | among
30 | amongst
31 Text| the avenger of wrongs, our ancestor, the great the gatherer
32 Text| Russian lands from among the ancestral possessions, and to our
33 Text| victories, with the help of the angel of the Lord, have I won
34 Text| abusing and trampling on the Angelic Form, O with the approbation
35 Text| champions of Christianity, anger you? Have they not destroyed
36 Text| on account of a single angry word of mine, have you lost
37 Text| and to utter sobs and have anguish of my soul... ~You say you
38 | another
39 Text| kingdoms - our humble Christian answer to him who was an orthodox,
40 Text| pavements, but even the antechambers shine with ornaments, so
41 Text| of the Jews, came to the apostolic cathedral of the holy martyr
42 Text| Angelic Form, O with the approbation of your flatterers and comrades
43 Text| treasure of our uncles: they appropriated it all to themselves! Then
44 Text| hearts - in my mind have I ardently reflected and my conscience
45 Text| others in various places, and armed themselves against the realm;
46 Text| Constantine Kopronymos and Leo of Armenia - to Prince Andrei Mikhailovich
47 Text| distant towns have I stood in arms against your foes and I
48 Text| before you. In front of your army have I marched - and marched
49 Text| sweet odours, sweeter than aromatics, and, by the grave of the
50 Text| advisers? . . . ~Are you not ashamed before your slave who preserved
51 Text| into the Cathedral of the Assumption, and killed this innocent
52 Text| preserved his piety and, having attached himself to you with a kiss
53 Text| to themselves! Then they attacked towns and villages, tortured
54 Text| to bestow their voluntary attention upon us, their master, but
55 Text| ever found - my guilt in aught before you. In front of
56 Text| town of my master, King Augustus Sigismund, from whom I hope
57 Text| upon the Russian realm. The autocracy, by God's will, had its
58 Text| orthodox, truly Christian autocrat, the possessor of many kingdoms -
59 Text| Don, then it passed to the avenger of wrongs, our ancestor,
60 Text| Russia through the holy baptism, and the great Tsar who
61 Text| Moabite and an Ammonite and a bastard to the tenth generation
62 Text| barbarian hands in various battles and all my body is already
63 Text| as a master ... who could bear such presumption? How can
64 | became
65 Text| elbow against our father's bed, and even putting his foot
66 Text| improved their opportunity, and began to rule themselves. ~My
67 | beginning
68 Text| impartial judge, Jesus, begotten of God, who will judge according
69 Text| everlasting Trinity, in which I believe; and I call to my aid the
70 Text| ancestors and parents, what belonged to us, and not seizing that
71 Text| Shuiskii was sitting on a bench, leaning with his elbow
72 Text| their master, but were bent on acquiring wealth and
73 Text| ask with words, nor did I beseech you with tearful plaint;
74 Text| at your hands which have beset me owing to their multitude
75 Text| ruler, and did not deign to bestow their voluntary attention
76 Text| this reason, that God knows better than man. For he is the
77 | between
78 | beyond
79 Text| darkness and to call sweet bitter? What guilt did they commit
80 Text| much in your pride you may boast in this temporal, fleeting
81 Text| destroyed and by their heroic bravery made subject to you in all
82 Text| brought upon you; but only brilliant victories, with the help
83 Text| Tsardom Against Those Who Have Broken the Pledge of Allegiance,
84 Text| and toiling have I been burdened by you unnecessarily and
85 Text| hatred, and, furthermore, burning stoves. ~And I wanted to
86 Text| the manner of the Jews, came to the apostolic cathedral
87 Text| orphans and, as we received no care from anyone, we laid our
88 Text| me by my father? They had carried everything away, under the
89 Text| meannesses and persecutions have caused me, instead of blood, to
90 Text| of God during sacerdotal ceremonies, and stained the thresholds
91 Text| in what way did they, the champions of Christianity, anger you?
92 Text| and those who had been the chief traitors of our father and
93 Text| just one thing: once in my childhood we were playing, Prince
94 Text| the Lord, a destroyer of Christians, a servant of the enemies
95 Text| them, but also for a cup of cold water; and I know that you
96 Text| my grave with me, when I come with you before the judgment
97 Text| receive much reward and comfort for all my sorrow, by his
98 Text| world until the glorious coming of my Christ. Think not
99 Text| not ours. Here follows the command of the orthodox, truly Christian
100 Text| trodden underfoot all sacred commands, destroyed the holy edifices,
101 Text| bitter? What guilt did they commit before you, O tsar and in
102 Text| Sigismund: by this you only complete the treachery of a vicious
103 Text| that shows that you have completely renounced your Christianity!
104 Text| grief of my soul. But, to conclude, I can summarize them all
105 Text| crowd, fell upon our father confessor Fedor Mishurin, and insulted
106 Text| shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord." ~Ivan IV:
107 Text| I achieved most glorious conquests to increase your renown
108 Text| faith, but who has now, in consequence of our sins, been found
109 Text| of Christianity, and, not considering your wrath, you utter stupid
110 Text| person Leo the Isaurian, Constantine Kopronymos and Leo of Armenia -
111 Text| royal city of Moscow was consumed. Our boyars, the traitors
112 Text| sins, been found to be the contrary of this. If you have understanding,
113 Text| Fedor Rostislavich, whose corpse remains imperishable, preserved
114 | could
115 Text| a boyar of our realm, a councillor and a general, but now is
116 Text| God; and now I have seen a counsellor, known to all, who was born
117 Text| friends with them. In the court belonging to our uncle Prince
118 Text| threshold, in the year from the creation of the world 7072 (1564),
119 Text| viciously] than the priests of Cronus. So much for this. And this
120 Text| tortured the people most cruelly, brought much misery upon
121 Text| mass of insensate people, crying in the manner of the Jews,
122 Text| everything away, under the cunning pretext that they had to
123 Text| for them, but also for a cup of cold water; and I know
124 Text| they ousted metropolitan Daniil from the metropolitan see
125 Text| zeal to turn light into darkness and to call sweet bitter?
126 Text| Tortures and persecutions and deaths in many forms we have devised
127 Text| agreement with the Antichrist in deed. It is not fitting, O tsar,
128 Text| you, O tsar, know well.. ~Deem not, O tsar, and think not
129 Text| without a ruler, and did not deign to bestow their voluntary
130 Text| false instigation of your demons and influential friends
131 Text| of Christianity, who has departed from the divine worship
132 Text| of everything have I been deprived; I have been driven from
133 Text| them off according to their deserts; and they had also held
134 Text| quarrelsome boyars, the destroyers of your soul and body, who
135 Text| your] poor [servants], destroying us by whole families? Think
136 Text| destroyer will be sent by the devil against the human race,
137 Text| deaths in many forms we have devised against no one. As to treasons
138 Text| temporal, fleeting life, devising vessels of torture against
139 Text| you did not emulate his devotion: on account of a single
140 Text| and was all too ready to die for you? But you did not
141 Text| in my youth? Often did I dine late, against my will. What
142 Text| and marched again; and no dishonour have I brought upon you;
143 Text| known; but always in far distant towns have I stood in arms
144 Text| who has departed from the divine worship of the images and
145 Text| cathedral of the holy martyr Dmitrii of Saloniki, dragged out
146 Text| magic, it is true, such dogs everywhere suffer capital
147 Text| and that we knew of her doings. By the instigation of these
148 Text| offered since your satanic domination, not only the thresholds
149 Text| sons of Hagar beyond the Don, then it passed to the avenger
150 Text| his body through the front door, and exposed him on the
151 | down
152 Text| you! Not with wounds, nor drops of blood, , but with much
153 | during
154 Text| then you have done your duty to your country; if you
155 | each
156 Text| permit and our subjects are eager to serve us, the churches
157 Text| been fulfilled, they, in eagle's flight, have reached all
158 Text| Tsarina Elena, from the earthly kingdom to the kingdom of
159 Text| commands, destroyed the holy edifices, vilified and trampled the
160 Text| parents. When I was in my eighth year, our subjects acted
161 Text| bench, leaning with his elbow against our father's bed,
162 Text| and all the Saints, the elect of God, and my master and
163 Text| mother, the pious Tsarina Elena, from the earthly kingdom
164 Text| throughout the ages, and emits from the grave sweet odours,
165 Text| for you? But you did not emulate his devotion: on account
166 Text| magic and other abuses, and endeavouring with zeal to turn light
167 Text| had its origin in who had enlightened all Russia through the holy
168 Text| tenth generation shall not enter into the congregation of
169 Text| were brought up there and enthroned, taking, by the will of
170 Text| O tsar? Or have you been enticed into unheard-of heresy,
171 Text| body, who urge you on to erotic deeds and, together with
172 Text| justice the universe and especially the vainglorious tormentors,
173 Text| possessions of our uncles, and established themselves therein. The
174 Text| Trinity, who has existed since eternity but now as Father, Son and
175 | ever
176 Text| tears against you to the everlasting Trinity, in which I believe;
177 Text| market-place as a criminal - everybody knows about this murder
178 | everywhere
179 Text| it our boyar Iurii Vasil'evich Glinskii, pulled him inhumanly
180 Text| To the tsar, exalted above all by God, who appeared (
181 Text| within my thoughts, and, examining myself, I know not now -
182 Text| God, the Trinity, who has existed since eternity but now as
183 Text| through the front door, and exposed him on the market-place
184 Text| household, was in the habit of extracting men's hearts, and that by
185 Text| and as did not become my extreme youth. I shall mention just
186 Text| think , no longer see my face in this world until the
187 Text| until a spark of piety has fallen upon the Russian realm.
188 Text| were afraid of death at the false instigation of your demons
189 Text| adultery and who today whispers falsehoods in the ears of the tsar
190 Text| persecutions and death, falsely accusing the Orthodox of
191 Text| destroying us by whole families? Think you yourself immortal,
192 Text| our great Russia, in the famous, imperial, capital city
193 Text| killed! And they seized the farms and villages and possessions
194 Text| I been separated from my fatherland, and little have I seen
195 Text| praise God for the great favour he has shown me in not permitting
196 Text| silence, made use of the favourable opportunity for their mean
197 Text| they imprisoned Prince Ivan Fedorovich and many others in various
198 Text| Shuiskii, with a Judas crowd, fell upon our father confessor
199 Text| When we reached the age of fifteen, we, inspired by God, undertook
200 Text| the world 7072 (1564), the fifth day of July.~ ~
201 Text| multitude and since I am still filled with the grief of my soul.
202 Text| evil, but you renounce the final pardon which is granted
203 Text| Antichrist in deed. It is not fitting, O tsar, to show indulgence
204 Text| the approbation of your flatterers and comrades of the table,
205 Text| boast in this temporal, fleeting life, devising vessels of
206 Text| fulfilled, they, in eagle's flight, have reached all the godly
207 Text| palace they stained the floor of the church with his blood,
208 Text| of your regiments to the foe. But far more, I achieved
209 Text| stood in arms against your foes and I suffered many wants
210 Text| which was not ours. Here follows the command of the orthodox,
211 Text| for want of garments and food! And all that against my
212 Text| foreigners, and you add, in your foolishness, that it cries to God against
213 Text| bed, and even putting his foot upon it; he treated us not
214 Text| of God, and my master and forefather, Prince Fedor Rostislavich,
215 Text| those in whose servitude our forefathers formerly were? Was it not
216 Text| been spilled in wars with foreigners, and you add, in your foolishness,
217 Text| grandfather. But you have forgotten everything and traitorously,
218 Text| trampling on the Angelic Form, O with the approbation
219 Text| a destroyer conceived in fornication, the Antichrist, hostile
220 Text| of the Holy Ghost, pours forth miraculous healing streams,
221 Text| the Word of God has been fulfilled, they, in eagle's flight,
222 Text| have I suffered for want of garments and food! And all that against
223 Text| though standing at the gate of death, but praised you
224 Text| ancestor, the great the gatherer of the Russian lands from
225 Text| the great tsar, and they gave their souls to him and served
226 Text| realm, a councillor and a general, but now is a criminal before
227 Text| friends of our father and generals they have killed! And they
228 Text| and a bastard to the tenth generation shall not enter into the
229 Text| victory over the godless Germans, and the praiseworthy great
230 Text| adornments, and through the gifts which we have offered since
231 Text| your soul? What will you give in its place on the day
232 Text| boyar Iurii Vasil'evich Glinskii, pulled him inhumanly into
233 Text| justice; rejoice not in this, glorying, as it were, in a vain victory;
234 Text| flight, have reached all the godly servants of God's Word,
235 Text| their sins," as the saying goes? He is my Christ who sitteth
236 Text| father, and made it into gold and silver vessels scribing
237 Text| transgressed the oath and have gone over to the enemies of Christianity,
238 Text| recompensed me with evil for good and for my love with implacable
239 Text| treasure, but some of it they grabbed themselves; and that was
240 Text| sorrow, by his sovereign grace, and still more with God'
241 Text| an immense treasure of my grand-father and father, and made it
242 Text| to serve the children and grandchildren of our grandfather. But
243 Text| the final pardon which is granted to the ignorant; therefore
244 Text| memorable honours from the Greeks, and the valiant great Tsar
245 Text| am still filled with the grief of my soul. But, to conclude,
246 Text| and household, was in the habit of extracting men's hearts,
247 Text| victory over the sons of Hagar beyond the Don, then it
248 Text| question them "right to the hairs of their sins," as the saying
249 Text| according to our will. But it happened then that, on account of
250 Text| inheritance. . . . It is hardly necessary to mention what
251 Text| sorrow in my heart will I hasten to inform you of a little. ~
252 Text| pours forth miraculous healing streams, as you, O tsar,
253 Text| with God's help. I have heard from sacred writings that
254 Text| with much sorrow in my heart will I hasten to inform
255 Text| deserts; and they had also held back an immense treasure
256 | Here
257 Text| enticed into unheard-of heresy, as one no longer wishing
258 Text| not destroyed and by their heroic bravery made subject to
259 Text| the intercession of the hierarchy. You have recompensed me
260 Text| power of the Almighty in the highest - the judge between you
261 | himself
262 Text| who had received memorable honours from the Greeks, and the
263 Text| fornication, the Antichrist, hostile to God; and now I have seen
264 Text| land of God without guilt, hounded by you. I did not ask with
265 Text| with all her children and household, was in the habit of extracting
266 | however
267 Text| by the devil against the human race, a destroyer conceived
268 Text| you utter stupid words, hurling, as it were, stones at the
269 Text| wanted to become a ruler of Iaroslavl. ~Wherefore, O Prince, if
270 Text| which is granted to the ignorant; therefore it is not even
271 Text| suffered many wants and natural illnesses, of which my Lord Jesus
272 Text| suffered from you! What ills and misfortunes have you
273 Text| appeared (formerly) most illustrious, particularly in the Orthodox
274 Text| they had also held back an immense treasure of my grand-father
275 Text| families? Think you yourself immortal, O tsar? Or have you been
276 Text| wishing to stand before the impartial judge, Jesus, begotten of
277 Text| Rostislavich, whose corpse remains imperishable, preserved throughout the
278 Text| good and for my love with implacable hatred. My blood, spilled
279 Text| and killed him; and they imprisoned Prince Ivan Fedorovich and
280 Text| banished him: and thus they improved their opportunity, and began
281 Text| stupidity? Why should we be incendiaries in our own empire? ... ~
282 Text| before you; to my end will I incessantly cry out with tears against
283 Text| most glorious conquests to increase your renown and this, not
284 Text| fitting, O tsar, to show indulgence to such men! In the first
285 Text| was visited with wounds inflicted by barbarian hands in various
286 Text| instigation of your demons and influential friends and advisers? . . . ~
287 Text| my heart will I hasten to inform you of a little. ~Wherefore,
288 Text| pillaged the possessions of the inhabitants. ~When we reached the age
289 Text| parents, as if they been their inheritance. . . . It is hardly necessary
290 Text| evich Glinskii, pulled him inhumanly into the Cathedral of the
291 Text| brought upon me! And what iniquitous tissues of lies have you
292 Text| massacred by you in our innocence and banished and driven
293 Text| Assumption, and killed this innocent man in the church. Opposite
294 Text| our traitors, a mass of insensate people, crying in the manner
295 Text| protectors of orthodoxy and, insofar as the Word of God has been
296 Text| the age of fifteen, we, inspired by God, undertook to rule
297 | instead
298 Text| Vorobievo; the same traitors instigated the populace to kill us
299 Text| confessor Fedor Mishurin, and insulted him, and killed him; and
300 Text| as far as our means and intelligence permit and our subjects
301 Text| you any mercy through the intercession of the hierarchy. You have
302 Text| rather do you show us your intolerable wrath and bitterest hatred,
303 Text| unites in one person Leo the Isaurian, Constantine Kopronymos
304 Text| congregation of the Lord." ~Ivan IV: Epistle of the Tsar and
305 Text| crying in the manner of the Jews, came to the apostolic cathedral
306 Text| Vasilii Shuiskii, with a Judas crowd, fell upon our father
307 Text| 1564), the fifth day of July.~ ~
308 Text| extreme youth. I shall mention just one thing: once in my childhood
309 Text| Was it not through the keenness of their understanding that
310 Text| but, in reality, they had kept it back from them, to their
311 Text| instigated the populace to kill us under this pretext and
312 Text| are resplendent with all kinds of adornments, and through
313 Text| autocrat, the possessor of many kingdoms - our humble Christian answer
314 Text| move about, through him kings rule and the mighty write
315 Text| attached himself to you with a kiss of the cross, did not reject
316 Text| Moscow on fire, and that we knew of her doings. By the instigation
317 Text| the Isaurian, Constantine Kopronymos and Leo of Armenia - to
318 Text| hope and protectress, Our Lady, the Mother of God, and
319 Text| no care from anyone, we laid our trust in the Holy Virgin,
320 Text| gatherer of the Russian lands from among the ancestral
321 Text| youth? Often did I dine late, against my will. What had
322 Text| Mikhail. How is one not to laugh at such stupidity? Why should
323 Text| to such men! In the first law of the Lord it is written. "
324 Text| rule and the mighty write laws. By our Lord Jesus Christ
325 Text| well-wishers and against those who lay down their lives for you
326 Text| was sitting on a bench, leaning with his elbow against our
327 Text| understand this with your leprous conscience - such a conscience
328 Text| say you want to put your letter in your grave: that shows
329 Text| and you, dog, repeat the lie that we were keeping from
330 Text| what iniquitous tissues of lies have you not woven against
331 Text| this temporal, fleeting life, devising vessels of torture
332 Text| endeavouring with zeal to turn light into darkness and to call
333 Text| nor end; through him we live and move about, through
334 Text| those who lay down their lives for you unheard-of torments
335 Text| the church. We were then living in the village of Vorobievo;
336 Text| evil for good and for my love with implacable hatred.
337 Text| insensate people, crying in the manner of the Jews, came to the
338 Text| and exposed him on the market-place as a criminal - everybody
339 Text| apostolic cathedral of the holy martyr Dmitrii of Saloniki, dragged
340 Text| more than this on all these matters in turn; but because of
341 Text| favourable opportunity for their mean treachery, whispered into
342 Text| above my strength! Your many meannesses and persecutions have caused
343 Text| churches: as far as our means and intelligence permit
344 Text| great Tsar who had received memorable honours from the Greeks,
345 Text| much misery upon them and mercilessly pillaged the possessions
346 Text| yet did I win from you any mercy through the intercession
347 Text| through him kings rule and the mighty write laws. By our Lord
348 Text| and his brother Prince Mikhail. How is one not to laugh
349 Text| Armenia - to Prince Andrei Mikhailovich Kurbskii, who through treachery
350 Text| done by your grandfather Mikhaylo Tuchkov. The Princes Vasilii
351 Text| wanted to relate all my military deeds in turn which I have
352 Text| sees into hearts - in my mind have I ardently reflected
353 Text| of a single angry word of mine, have you lost not only
354 Text| Holy Ghost, pours forth miraculous healing streams, as you,
355 Text| presumption? How can I recount all miseries which I have suffered in
356 Text| most cruelly, brought much misery upon them and mercilessly
357 Text| our father confessor Fedor Mishurin, and insulted him, and killed
358 Text| the Lord it is written. "A Moabite and an Ammonite and a bastard
359 Text| through him we live and move about, through him kings
360 Text| beset me owing to their multitude and since I am still filled
361 Text| everybody knows about this murder in the church. We were then
362 | myself
363 Text| patrimony, in the country of you name the city of Wolmar as belonging
364 Text| suffered many wants and natural illnesses, of which my Lord
365 Text| inheritance. . . . It is hardly necessary to mention what became of
366 | neither
367 Text| the land cry out day and night to God, however much in
368 Text| destroyed the strong and noble in Israel, as one in agreement
369 | none
370 Text| O tsar, was all this as nought; rather do you show us your
371 Text| martyrs of faith with us nowadays. . . . Tortures and persecutions
372 Text| have you transgressed the oath and have gone over to the
373 Text| emits from the grave sweet odours, sweeter than aromatics,
374 | off
375 Text| the gifts which we have offered since your satanic domination,
376 | Often
377 | once
378 Text| innocent man in the church. Opposite the metropolitan's palace
379 | Or
380 Text| soaked in my tears, will I order to be put into my grave
381 Text| by God's will, had its origin in who had enlightened all
382 Text| antechambers shine with ornaments, so that all strangers may
383 Text| heaven, and I were left orphans and, as we received no care
384 Text| tsars and protectors of orthodoxy and, insofar as the Word
385 | others
386 Text| against the realm; they ousted metropolitan Daniil from
387 Text| hands which have beset me owing to their multitude and since
388 Text| own advantage, and had not paid them off according to their
389 Text| Opposite the metropolitan's palace they stained the floor of
390 Text| but you renounce the final pardon which is granted to the
391 Text| he treated us not as a parent, but as a master ... who
392 Text| formerly) most illustrious, particularly in the Orthodox faith, but
393 Text| names I shall purposely pass over in silence, made use
394 Text| beyond the Don, then it passed to the avenger of wrongs,
395 Text| toiled with much sweat and patience; and always have I been
396 Text| be sung after you. In our patrimony, in the country of you name
397 Text| only the thresholds and pavements, but even the antechambers
398 Text| pretext that they had to pay the boyar children from
399 Text| God, we ruled our realm in peace and undisturbed, according
400 Text| even amongst the godless peoples. And I have not let my tongue
401 Text| as though we had already perished, massacred by you in our
402 Text| our means and intelligence permit and our subjects are eager
403 Text| favour he has shown me in not permitting my right hand to become
404 Text| images, who unites in one person Leo the Isaurian, Constantine
405 Text| they trod underfoot and pierced with sharp sticks, and transferred
406 Text| upon them and mercilessly pillaged the possessions of the inhabitants. ~
407 Text| take away our mother, the pious Tsarina Elena, from the
408 Text| What will you give in its place on the day of the terrible
409 Text| and my conscience have I placed as a witness, and I have
410 Text| and many others in various places, and armed themselves against
411 Text| beseech you with tearful plaint; nor yet did I win from
412 Text| in my childhood we were playing, Prince Ivan Vasilievich
413 Text| punishment. . . . ~It had pleased God to take away our mother,
414 Text| Those Who Have Broken the Pledge of Allegiance, Against Prince
415 Text| have you remunerated [your] poor [servants], destroying us
416 Text| vagrants and children of the poorest. What have I suffered for
417 Text| traitors instigated the populace to kill us under this pretext
418 Text| Christian autocrat, the possessor of many kingdoms - our humble
419 Text| grave of the Holy Ghost, pours forth miraculous healing
420 Text| Russian empire. ~But we praise God for the great favour
421 Text| at the gate of death, but praised you and was all too ready
422 Text| godless Germans, and the praiseworthy great Tsar who had obtained
423 Text| Holy Virgin, and in the prayers of all the saints, and in
424 Text| who could bear such presumption? How can I recount all miseries
425 Text| God, however much in your pride you may boast in this temporal,
426 Text| witness, and I have sought and pried within my thoughts, and,
427 Text| more [viciously] than the priests of Cronus. So much for this.
428 Text| grandfather Mikhaylo Tuchkov. The Princes Vasilii and Ivan took it
429 Text| and mother they let out of prison, and they made friends with
430 Text| therefore it is not even proper that any Mass shall be sung
431 Text| all the orthodox tsars and protectors of orthodoxy and, insofar
432 Text| the Cherubims, my hope and protectress, Our Lady, the Mother of
433 Text| Iurii Vasil'evich Glinskii, pulled him inhumanly into the Cathedral
434 Text| everywhere suffer capital punishment. . . . ~It had pleased God
435 Text| martyrs, whose names I shall purposely pass over in silence, made
436 Text| our father's bed, and even putting his foot upon it; he treated
437 Text| wealth and glory, and were quarrelling with each other. And what
438 Text| comrades of the table, your quarrelsome boyars, the destroyers of
439 Text| who unhesitatingly will question them "right to the hairs
440 | rather
441 Text| whole world, death will reach you in the end! Why have
442 Text| praised you and was all too ready to die for you? But you
443 Text| children from it, but, in reality, they had kept it back from
444 Text| recounted them for this reason, that God knows better than
445 Text| Sigismund, from whom I hope to receive much reward and comfort
446 Text| the hierarchy. You have recompensed me with evil for good and
447 Text| than man. For he is the recompenser for all these things, and
448 Text| my Christ, but I have not recounted them for this reason, that
449 Text| my mind have I ardently reflected and my conscience have I
450 Text| Wherefore, O Prince, if you regard yourself to have piety,
451 Text| turned the back of your regiments to the foe. But far more,
452 Text| kiss of the cross, did not reject you before the tsar and
453 Text| by you without justice; rejoice not in this, glorying, as
454 Text| stoves. ~And I wanted to relate all my military deeds in
455 Text| concerning these things I will remain silent before you; to my
456 Text| Rostislavich, whose corpse remains imperishable, preserved
457 Text| you by God? Thus have you remunerated [your] poor [servants],
458 Text| to resist evil, but you renounce the final pardon which is
459 Text| that you have completely renounced your Christianity! For God
460 Text| conquests to increase your renown and this, not in one year,
461 Text| this pretext and you, dog, repeat the lie that we were keeping
462 Text| For God has ordered not to resist evil, but you renounce the
463 Text| churches of the Lord are resplendent with all kinds of adornments,
464 Text| My brother Iurii, who now rests in heaven, and I were left
465 Text| whom I hope to receive much reward and comfort for all my sorrow,
466 Text| God against us. That is ridiculous. It has been spilled by
467 Text| forefather, Prince Fedor Rostislavich, whose corpse remains imperishable,
468 Text| spread, by God's will, the royal city of Moscow was consumed.
469 Text| aid of almighty God, we ruled our realm in peace and undisturbed,
470 Text| the churches of God during sacerdotal ceremonies, and stained
471 Text| As for the victorious, saintly blood - there has none appeared
472 Text| your soul for your body's sake? Is it because you were
473 Text| the holy martyr Dmitrii of Saloniki, dragged out of it our boyar
474 | same
475 Text| have offered since your satanic domination, not only the
476 Text| hairs of their sins," as the saying goes? He is my Christ who
477 Text| it reached us, the humble sceptre-bearer of the Russian empire. ~
478 Text| gold and silver vessels scribing thereupon the names of their
479 Text| against you to my Lord. God sees into hearts - in my mind
480 Text| they have killed! And they seized the farms and villages and
481 Text| belonged to us, and not seizing that which was not ours.
482 Text| that a destroyer will be sent by the devil against the
483 Text| and always have I been separated from my fatherland, and
484 Text| destroyer of Christians, a servant of the enemies of Christianity,
485 Text| gave their souls to him and served him up to their death, and
486 Text| all things those in whose servitude our forefathers formerly
487 Text| underfoot and pierced with sharp sticks, and transferred
488 | she
489 Text| me, instead of blood, to shed many tears, and to utter
490 Text| the ears of the tsar and sheds Christian blood like water
491 Text| but even the antechambers shine with ornaments, so that
492 Text| the great favour he has shown me in not permitting my
493 Text| letter in your grave: that shows that you have completely
494 Text| shall purposely pass over in silence, made use of the favourable
495 Text| these things I will remain silent before you; to my end will
496 Text| and made it into gold and silver vessels scribing thereupon
497 Text| s hearts, and that by a similar sorcery she had put Moscow
498 Text| devotion: on account of a single angry word of mine, have
499 Text| goes? He is my Christ who sitteth on the throne of the Cherubims
500 Text| Vasilievich Shuiskii was sitting on a bench, leaning with
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