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# You yourselves robbed and plundered, you yourselves set up unrighteous judges, you yourselves sold and bought yourselves in the courts
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/vy-sami-grabili-i-razboinichali-sami-sudei-nepravednykh-stavili-sami-v-sudakh-prodavalis-i-pokupalis/
- Published: 2026-02-27T11:01:53.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:26:49.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Books, Monarchies, Society, Humour

> Our men of ill repute... judge themselves and pardon themselves

Ivan the Terrible, in his letter to Prince Kurbsky and in his epistle to Archbishop Pimen of Novgorod, 1570s