As a government official and diplomat, Kuritsyn exerted great influence on the Russian foreign policy during the reign of Ivan III of Russia.
He was against monasteries and monasticism, expressed ideas about freedom of human will ("autocracy of the soul"), which he would interpret in a much broader sense than it was allowed by the Orthodox theology.
The tsar's leniency gave way to persecution, which would put an end to activities of Kuritsyn's club.
Ivan III, however, spared Kuritsyn due to Volotsky's obvious exaggerations in his accusations.
Kuritsyn authored numerous literary works, of which two survive to this day—a philosophical poem titled The Laodicean Missive, as well as the poetic novel The Legend of the Voijevoda Dracula.