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When in 1550 the Polish King Sigismund August desired to permit Jews free entry into Russia, this was denied by Ivan with these words:
“We absolutely do not permit the entry of the Jew into my lands, because we do not wish to see evil in our lands, but rather may God grant that the people in my land may have rest from that irritation. And you, our brother, should not write us on account of the Jews again,” for they had “alienated the Russians from Christianity, brought poisonous plants into our lands and done much evil to our lands."
From Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "Two Hundred Years Together"
“We absolutely do not permit the entry of the Jew into my lands, because we do not wish to see evil in our lands, but rather may God grant that the people in my land may have rest from that irritation. And you, our brother, should not write us on account of the Jews again,” for they had “alienated the Russians from Christianity, brought poisonous plants into our lands and done much evil to our lands."
From Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "Two Hundred Years Together"