A Boyar of the Terrible

Excerpt from A Boyar of the Terrible: A Romance of the Court of Ivan the Cruel, First Tsar of Russia I, like David, have been young, though now I am Old; and before I go down to the grave I have a mind to set down some of my recollections of the curious rela tions that subsisted between myself and my master Ivan, the first Russian Caesar, and I suppose the greatest Russian who has up to this time tasted God's air and walked this earth Of His. My dear master and friend has gone to the grave before me; but I thank the Almighty that before it pleased Him to take my sovereign to Himself, it seemed good to Him to reconcile us two, one to the other; for, alas we had been, largely through my own action, as I freely acknowledge and admit, estranged for many years, and though I have many and many a time endeavoured to reinstate myself in my master's favour, yet until the last few years Of his eventful life I never fully did so. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.