The Importance of Separation in Russian History

Ivan the Terrible conquered Kazan in 16th century. Iconography borrows from Book of Revelation and depicts Ivan as a new king David. This kind of image sounds like something out of age of Richard the Lionheart. There's something strangely anachronistic about this, he says. The idea of state being fused with the idea of the Tsar that yes absolutely is at the heart of my argument.