257 Quotes About Russian



  • Author Marina Tsvetaeva
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    Под рокот гражданских бурь,В лихую годину,Даю тебе имя — мир,В наследье — лазурь.Отыйди, отыйди, Враг!Храни, Триединый,Наследницу вечных благМладенца Ирину!8 сентября 1918To clamour of civil strife,in times that are evil,I give you a name that's - peace,an heirloom - blue skies,Get thee hence, Satan! - So preserve, O Redeemer, from whom all blessings flow,the infant Irina!

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  • Author Anna Akhmatova
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    None of the places where I grew up and live in my youth exist any longer: Tsarskoe Selo, Sevastopol, Kiev, Slepnyovo, Gungerburg (Ust-Narova).The following have survived: Khersones (because it is eternal), Paris - by somebody's oversight, and Petersburg-Leningrad, so that there would be a place to lay my head.

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  • Author Osip Mandelstam
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    I was born in the night of the second and thirdOf January, ninety-something-or-other,An unreliable year, and the centuriesSurround me with fire.

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  • Author Jesse Ball
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    Yes, they put their babies inside an iron stove full of coals. So, if you see a Russian person doing something crazy, as you sometimes do, remember—they have been doing that shit forever. It’s nothing new.

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  • Author Marina Moskvina
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    Острейшее ощущение жизни всегда охватывало меня там, где кончаются границы известного мне мира.

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  • Author Anna Akhmatova
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    He loved three things in this life:Vespers, white peacocks,And old maps of America,Didn't love children crying,Raspberries with tea, Or feminine hysteria...And I was his wife.

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