"I was stunned by a historian’s interpretation of the reign of Fyodor as a period of stagnation. I thought to myself: so, when people have children, grow crops and live without turbulence – that is a period of stagnation. So by contrast, the strife, blood-letting and perfidy under Ivan the Terrible and Boris Godunov constitute real life?"
Viktor Sukhorukov: We like to live in smoke, Novaya Gazeta, 08.09.2011
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