view of historical accuracy, not only from my point of view, was more right, of course, than pyotr yakovlevich writes, as for thoughts, then you know that i do not agree with you in everything, there is no doubt that the schism of the division of churches separated us from the rest of europe, that we did not take part in any of the great events that shook it, but we. had our own special purpose, this is russia, this is its vast space, absorbed the mongol invasion, the tatars did not dare to cross our western border, leaving us in the rear. they retreated to their deserts, the tatars, i mean, and christian civilization was saved. to achieve this goal, we had to lead a completely special existence, which, leaving us christians, made us, however, completely alien to the christian world, so that our martyrdom, the energetic development catholic europe was freed from all interference. that is, pushkin here looks at the role of russia in the pan-european context, you say that the source from which we drew christianity was unclean, and they talk here about byzantium, pushkin objects, oh my friend, wa