Be-my-wolff Quote by Emma Richler

“But it rained all the time, fog covered the fields, and by then he was reading Tolstoy. There were some books that reached through…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“He was the sort of man who would have tried to cheer Napoleon up by talking about the Winter Sports at Moscow.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

“It was clear to anyone who encountered the tsar and his daughters in the Alexander Park how much pride he had in his girls.…

— Helen Rappaport

“Alexander. Here he is, before he was Tatiana’s, at the age of twenty, getting his medal of valor for bringing back Yuri Stepanov during…

— Paullina Simons

“Next day at the review the Tsar asked Prince Andrey where he desired to serve; and Bolkonsky ruined his chances for ever in the…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Alexander (at the trial of Philotas): How much happier to have fallen in the fighting, felled by a foe, rather than die by a…

— Andrew Chugg

“That was his moment in Leningrad, on an empty street, when his life became possible—when Alexander became possible. There he stood as he was—a…

— Paullina Simons

“I had walked all over the fragile bloom of his heart like a Boadicea in Blahniks”

— Tyne O'Connell

“At seven o’clock Ivan got into the train and set off to Moscow. ‘Away with the past. I’ve done with the old world for…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The hero of my tale,” Tolstoy wrote when he was just twenty-seven, “whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I…

— Leo Tolstoy

“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

“To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more they tried…

— Haruki Murakami