it's interesting that by his actions kurbsky was no different from ivan the terrible, in terms of his principles of action he was no different from ivan the terrible, and even the most liberal russian historians, when they described the behavior there in poland, admitted that kurbsky acts with completely self-defeating methods, this is kirill petrovich troekurov , having just moved there, all the criticism of the tsar, of course, from kurbsky, who... was from kurbsky, was later borrowed by koramzin, and from him by others, and by many other russian historians who often look at grozny through the eyes of his main opponent. and i also read about the serious historians platonov, klyuchevsky, that what kurbsky wrote, that they really liked to inflate it in the then west, because then the... propaganda leaflets, such small brochures, where the rulers of the russian state were just beginning, therefore, such people were published , including ivan the terrible, portrayed as perfect monsters, and these brochures were not written on the field, not in the field, and so to speak, not from life,