by Gordon M. Hahn Introduction Among the key players of Ivan Gorznyi’s epoch, the figures of Adashev, Sylvester, and most of all Prince Andrei Kurbskii have been brought back to the Russian mind over the centuries, embedded in Russia’s historiography, arts and overall culture. Kurbskii and his legacy as Russia’s ‘first’ political dissident and defector … Continue reading Prince Andrei Kurbskii: First Anti-Hero of Internal Dissent and External Collusion in Russian Thought and Culture