“July is a bad month for revolutionaries. In France, Robespierre was executed in July; in Russia, five eminent Decembrists, who had revolted… — Edvard Radzinsky Russian history Copy Share Image
“Russians love a good plot--camarillas, Masons, whatever--where in fact there is usually just plain sloppiness. Someone mistrusted someone else; someone failed to… — Edvard Radzinsky Russian history Copy Share Image