Ivan the Terrible:

Myself always wallowing in drunkenness, fornication, adultery, filth, murders, rapine, despoliation, hatred and all sorts of evil-doing.

— Ivan the Terrible Early Modern

First Tsar of Russia

From a letter to Abbot Koz'ma of the Beloozero monastery, confessing his sins.

1573

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