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> [“I used to say to myself that happiness and misery depend on ourselves. If you feel unhappy, rise above it and act so that your happiness may be independent of all outside events.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-k-massie/i-used-to-say-to-myself-that-happiness-and-misery-depend-on-ourselves/)

[Robert K. Massie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-k-massie/)

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## More by Robert K. Massie

> [“Petersburg to examine the uniforms, dresses, helmets,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-k-massie/petersburg-to-examine-the-uniforms-dresses-helmets/)

[Robert K. Massie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-k-massie/)

> [“I used to say to myself that happiness and misery depend on ourselves. If you feel unhappy, rise above it and act so that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-k-massie/i-used-to-say-to-myself-that-happiness-and-misery-depend-on-ourselves/)

[Robert K. Massie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-k-massie/)

> [Four of my children are daughters, and I've watched them devote themselves to reading books about how little girls learn to become women -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-k-massie/four-of-my-children-are-daughters-and-i-ve-watched-them-devote/)

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> [“For twenty years, Peter had been playing with soldiers; first toys, then boys, then grown men. His games had grown from drills involving a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-k-massie/for-twenty-years-peter-had-been-playing-with-soldiers-first-toys-then/)

[Robert K. Massie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-k-massie/)

> [“Charles arrived around eight a.m. with a squadron of Drabants and began riding along the bank at the water’s edge to inspect the men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-k-massie/charles-arrived-around-eight-a-m-with-a-squadron-of-drabants-and/)

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> [“Books were her refuge. Having set herself to learn the Russian language, she read every Russian book she could find. But French was the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-k-massie/books-were-her-refuge-having-set-herself-to-learn-the-russian/)

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> [“In January in Northern Russia, everything vanishes beneath a deep blanket of whiteness. Rivers, fields, trees, roads, and houses disappear, and the landscape becomes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-k-massie/in-january-in-northern-russia-everything-vanishes-beneath-a-deep/)

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> [“Why Lenin triumphed, why Nicholas failed, why Alexandra placed the fate of her son, her husband and his empire in the hands of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-k-massie/why-lenin-triumphed-why-nicholas-failed-why-alexandra-placed-the-fate/)

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> [“This marriage had resulted from impulse: he had seen her on a high-flying swing at Tsarkoe Selo and her skirt, flared by the breeze,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-k-massie/this-marriage-had-resulted-from-impulse-he-had-seen-her-on-a-high/)

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> [ “To prove to \[her friend, Swedish diplomat Count\] Gyllenborg that she was not superficial, Catherine composed an essay about herself, "so that he would… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-k-massie/to-prove-to-her-friend-swedish-diplomat-count-gyllenborg-that-she-was/)

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> [“She was intelligent, well read, and a shrewd judge of character. During the coup, she had shown determination and courage; once on the throne,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-k-massie/she-was-intelligent-well-read-and-a-shrewd-judge-of-character-during/)

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> [“Don't worry. Don't worry. The Devil does none of these things. He neither smokes nor drinks nor engages in revelry, and yet he is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-k-massie/don-t-worry-don-t-worry-the-devil-does-none-of-these-things-he/)

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> [“Only one further prize remained on the entire North Pacific coast, the peninsula of Korea. Although Japan clearly regarded Korea as essential to her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-k-massie/only-one-further-prize-remained-on-the-entire-north-pacific-coast-the/)

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> [“Gregory Rasputin, his bloodstream filled with poison, his body punctured by bullets, had died by drowning.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-k-massie/gregory-rasputin-his-bloodstream-filled-with-poison-his-body/)

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> [“One sultan, Ibrahim the Mad, encased his beard in a network of diamonds and passed his days tossing gold coins to the fish in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-k-massie/one-sultan-ibrahim-the-mad-encased-his-beard-in-a-network-of-diamonds/)

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