I believe they were great masters of word, talented in crafting texts. But their talent is more about the form of their work, not the content (context). The point is in the messages they communicated back then, and how those messages had been used by rus for 200 years (and they continue using them now, hiding their crimes under the mask of all those "great writers" communicating russian "greatness") as a weapon and an argument to continue the genocidal war against other nations.