Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
In Moscow you sit in a huge room at a restaurant; you know no one and no one knows you, and at… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
"Bolshoi Babylon" is the work of filmmakers Mark Franchetti and Nicholas Read. Franchetti has been a Moscow-based journalist for 18 years. He… — Elizabeth Blair Lee Copy Share Image
When McDonald's opened up in Moscow - I happened to be there when it opened and wandered in. And the Russians were… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- and… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
In Moscow, dim and green under the summer rain, columns of armour were waiting in the side-roads off the long avenue from… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
“A dingily bilious sun was seeping through a tent of black clouds. Passersby, spitefully elbowing elbows, were rushing along the pavement. People… — Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Copy Share Image
By August 2008, we had left Voikovskaya and moved into a wooden dacha in the artists' colony of Sokol in north-west Moscow.… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
I'm open to starting restaurants anywhere as long as the produce that's readily available is high quality. For example, I'm never doing… — Joel Robuchon Copy Share Image
So...I'm larking through the Baby Gap, looking at tiny capri pants and sweaters that cost more than ... I don't know,more than… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I am always surprised when I watch the weather report on German television. First they show the map of Europe and then… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on formalism. There was a bulletin… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
The most wounding insult to an educated Russian was to be called nekulturny-uncultured-yet the same men who sat in the gilt boxes… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
We are expanding and improving the infrastructure of our relations. You must have heard about China's plans to participate in building a… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
It suits him because way back many years ago when Nikita Mikhalkov, the great Russian director, came, I said, "I want you… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
