Fyodor Krasheninnikov: "Learn history"

“What is also surprising is the total ignorance of Russian history with a strong desire to refer to it. Now everyone has rushed to lament about the guardsmen.
Sorry, but the example is completely out of whack.

Ivan the Terrible created the oprichnina from scratch. There was nothing like this before in the Muscovite kingdom: it first divided the country into zemshchina and oprichnina and then formed for itself that same personal army with dog heads. He didn’t rename the Streltsy, but recruited new people under new conditions!”