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“To survive and be happy, Russians have so much to bury, to willfully ignore. Small wonder that the intensity of their pleasures and indulgences…

— Owen Matthews

“Russians are among the nicest people that I have met in life.”

— Steven Magee

“A Russian imbues his polite things with a heartiness, both of phrase and expression, that compels belief in their sincerity.”

— Mark Twain

They say that the Soviet delegates smile. That smile is genuine. It is not artificial. We wish to live in peace, tranquility. But if…

— Nikita Khrushchev

Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.

— Yakov Smirnoff

“Russia’s biggest downside, for me at least, is its lack of color. Being in Russia is like breathing different oxygen, and I can feel…

— Martin Lindstrom

But Russians, in their very nature, it seems, pass quickly from the highest enthusiam to complete dejection and distrust. They yield to their moods…

— Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia

“Russians consider themselves civilized Europeans, but have to endure the humiliation of daily encounters with officials that belong in a squalid dictatorship.”

— Oliver Bullough

“Why do all these Russian men have to be so devastatingly, frustratingly handsome?”

— Sherry D. Ficklin

“The anecdote was funny, but as my father gazed across the river at the university of his youth, his Russian life was in his…

— Paullina Simons

“I wish I were a Russian. It's so exciting.”

— J.P. Donleavy

“Experience often repeated, truly bitter experience, had taught him long ago that with decent people, especially Moscow people -- always slow to move and…

— Anton Chekhov