Знак Каина

"I always knew this: I am one of all people I really feel pain. Such a test from the Lord. Others are screaming on torture, and they scream in a woman’s voice, and all pretense. They would, as I, would be one day with a head disease ... "Tale" sign of Cain ", part of the project of Boris Akunin" History of the Russian State ", describes one day in the life of John Vasilyevich, a king nicknamed the formidable. The whole country turned out to be hostages of his madness, although he himself believed that he was only fulfilling the highest will: "and is made to me in my spiritual goodness, touching. But I often wander, ungrateful, on my people, and the Russian people of all other languages ​​are more exalted, God"s will and their sovereign more humble. The Poles or the Germans, but the same Tatars would have rebelled for a long time without enduring the tests - and thereby the gentlemen would fire, and would destroy their souls. And my pigeons endure both my rage and my stiffness. For that and will be saved. "