480 Quotes About Russia
- Author Leo Tolstoy
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Russia alone is to be the savior of Europe.
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- Author Alexander Pushkin
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We live without power of law, like flocks of ravensthey come and sweep over the land.
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- Author Andrey Bely
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Adam Antonovich went out of the annex which as a child he had called the 'world.' Through the glass he shouted jokingly to his servant 'You are still in the "world" but I'm not in the world, I'm in Russia.'The hunchbacked plains spread out on every side, Russian plains, eaten away by ravines, ancient, native, all — all just the same. 'With the mind, Russia cannot be embraced; she is a special case, one can only believe in Russia,' he thought...("Adam")
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- Author Amy Kuivalainen
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What are you reading?” she asked as he poured himself scotch and her a vodka. She looked over to the deserted volume. “Stories and Legends of Pagan Russia,” she read aloud. “Are you catching up on Yvan’s biography?
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- Author Борис Немцов
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Когда я вышел из зала, ко мне подошел человек с белесыми глазами и сказал, что за такие речи меня надо убить. Я спросил: «Кто вы?» Он достал и предъявил мне удостоверение то ли подполковника ФСБ, то ли полковника. Это был Рамзан Кадыров. Не могу сказать, что я сильно испугался, потому что тут же чеченцы, которые были вокруг, стали говорить, что Рамзан пошутил. Но в его глазах я никакой шутки не заметил. В его глазах я увидел ненависть.
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- Author Gavriil Troyepolsky
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В России бывают и зимы, и весны. Вот она какая, наша Россия -- и зимы, и весны обязательно.Russia has its winters and its springs. That's what our Russia is like -- it has winters and it has springs
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- Author Arthur Tomaszewicz
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When mixing several races, then lost the uniqueness of a particular race and at this stage there is a degeneration, which in any case should not be allowed because of degeneration should be degraded.
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- Author Ilya Ilf
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She was, after all, a mattress owner and understood the subtleties of life.
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- Author Masha Gessen
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Half of the population is behind bars and the other half is guarding them,' Russians have said of their country since the times of Stalin.
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