Anatoli Rybakov

“The smart tyrant flatters the people with words,while with deeds he destroys them.”

— Anatoli Rybakov

“She didn't have the strength to fight hunger and injustice,she didn't know how to fight hunger and injustice,she didn't know how to…

— Anatoli Rybakov

“And Eisenstein was doing it,too!As a young boy Sasha had seen his Battleship Potemkin in the Khudoshestvennyi Theater on the Arbat Sqaure.The…

— Anatoli Rybakov

“Throughout history people blamed their sufferings on everyone and anyone except God.You don't criticize God,you thank Him.”

— Anatoli Rybakov

“They are all blinded and stunned by him,he's a God for them -- greater than a God,because people who believe in God…

— Anatoli Rybakov

“The golden stock of the Russian Revolution.' Where is this golden stock today? These people have come to replace them. From the…

— Anatoli Rybakov

“Everyone was driven to write.It was Gorky's fault--he had announced that "literature should be written by working people",and showed with his own…

— Anatoli Rybakov

“There was something religious in grandmother's face, not in any sanctimoniously devout or ecstatic sense,but a look full of religious feeling, serenity…

— Anatoli Rybakov

“Sometimes the bigger the apartment, the harder it is to find room to put up an extra person for the night.”

— Anatoli Rybakov

“Someone said that revolutions are begun by idealists and ended by the scoundrels who destroy the idealists.”

— Anatoli Rybakov

“Friends and acquaintances in this day and age don't write at all, or if they do it's only to let you know…

— Anatoli Rybakov

“There was snow on the veranda, and on his orders the snow had not been removed. If there were no tracks in…

— Anatoli Rybakov

“...For all the profound human modesty of Comrade Stalin,he will have to tolerate our outpourings of love and loyalty to him[applause],because not…

— Anatoli Rybakov

“...Alexei Tolstoy,Leonov, and Zoshenko had demanded that Tukhachevsky be shot. Pasternak ought to be added to them.Yes,even Pasternak couldn't stand the pressure.Vadim…

— Anatoli Rybakov

“I think a man can either believe in God or not believe, he can get faith and he can lose it but…

— Anatoli Rybakov

“...They came to see me too,Varya said.It was a joke.They asked if I believed in God...Yes Mikhail Yırevich repeated,that question shouldn't be…

— Anatoli Rybakov

“Falsehood had become the morality of the society.People lied at every turn.”

— Anatoli Rybakov

“Those are gladioli,Josef Vissarionovich.The lower buds open before the tops.But it's better when they blossom at the same time.So the lower ones…

— Anatoli Rybakov

“One thing is sure:the idea that each nation is racially pure is a myth, especially a nation with a history of four…

— Anatoli Rybakov

“We wanted to serve the socialist fatherland,but it turned out we weren't needed.”

— Anatoli Rybakov

“My descendants will manage without my portrait' she smiled. Anyway they'll have plenty of photographs of me. To this our famous conductor…

— Anatoli Rybakov

“Byelorussian songs, if you've ever heard them are slightly monotonous, even mournful yet they do have a certain melancholy charm and compassion…

— Anatoli Rybakov

“A great poet can have the role of spiritual head of a nation.A great ruler is the spiritual head of a nation,…

— Anatoli Rybakov

“Art that puts itself in dependence on orthodoxy,even under the most progressive doctrine,is doomed to failure.”

— Anatoli Rybakov