“I love a friendly chat and a friendly glass of wine during the evening - the time they call, for some accountable… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
Persecution mania is still around. In your writing, in your exchanges with people, meeting people who are in Russian affairs, Russian literature,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“.. and these days I've come to prefer the more steady Bordeaux. I am no longer up to champagne from Ay: it's… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
Russia is a place of great culture. If you've read Tolstoy's "War and Peace", Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov...the culture of the great Russian… — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
“Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (November 11 [O.S. October 30] 1821 – February 9 [O.S. January 28] 1881) is considered one of two greatest… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Vronsky meanwhile, in spite of the complete fulfilment of what he had so long desired, was not completely happy. He soon felt… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“And even though we may be involved with the most important affairs, achieve distinction or fall into some great misfortune- all the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I’m five minutes late to Russian literature, where Mrs. Mahone and her wig assign us a ten-page paper on The Brothers Karamazov.” — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
“at one time, a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conceptions of religion, law and morality, who… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If circumstances should make it impossible (temporarily, I hope) for me to be a Russian writer, perhaps I shall be able, like… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“People are so like their first mother Eve: what they are given doesn't take their fancy. The serpent is forever enticing them… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
“But do you realize that there is a dreadful force that only saints and crazed fanatics can defeat? This force closes all… — Teffi Copy Share Image
“As his hands fell upon the keyboard, it was still possible to believe a beautiful harmony had been formed at random, in… — Andreï Makine Copy Share Image
“It's a lucky man who leaves early from life's banquet, before he's drained to the dregs his goblet - full of wine;… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
All literature has this moral strain, but in Russian literature, it's particularly sharp. — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
It`s the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing"… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon.… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
“Briefly (Vladimir Nabokov) caught the (Superman) fever too, composing a poem, now lost, on the the Man of Steel's wedding night.” — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“HAPPINESS FOR EVERYBODY, FREE, AND NO ONE WILL GO AWAY UNSATISFIED!” — Arkady Strugatsky Copy Share Image
“I took a swing, remembering the lessons of Sharafutdinov, the heavyweight champ. I took a swing and fell on my back.I don't… — Sergei Dovolotov - Translator Antonnia W. Bouis Copy Share Image
“...Or was his destiny from the start To be but just one moment Near your heart?...” — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
