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  • A. M. Kleimola
  • Journal:
    Slavic Review / Volume 44 / Issue 1 / Spring 1985
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    27 January 2017, p. 192
    Print publication:
    Spring 1985
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  • The Duty to Denounce in Muscovite Russia

  • A. M. Kleimola
  • Journal:
    Slavic Review / Volume 31 / Issue 4 / December 1972
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    27 January 2017, pp. 759-779
    Print publication:
    December 1972

  • Sometime between 1533 and 1536, a certain Ivan laganov, writing from prison, addressed a petition to the child ruler Ivan IV in which he suggested that his release would be in the interests of state security. laganov apparently had enjoyed a successful career as a political informer under Ivan’s father, and after the death of Vasilii III had continued to serve his new sovereign in the same manner. On his last mission, he explained, he had reported to Ivan’s boyars as ordered, informing them of the “dangerous talk” he had overheard: “At that time, Sire, I could not plug my ears with pitch; what I heard, Sire, I reported, in the way in which I served and reported to thy father.” As a result, laganov now found himself in fetters, tortured “in the manner of evil traitors and brigands,” and deprived of food and drink.