Writing Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“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

“God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and do not…

— Alexander Pushkin

“He was a mostly mild man with a weakness for passion, a suburban father burdened with the heart of a Russian hero without any…

— Suzanne Berne

“At the time of the October Revolution, the Russian intellectual elite had been both a part and a partner to the European conversation about…

— Masha Gessen

“in courting a nihilist,2 Mr. Karmazinov most certainly had in mind his relations with the progressive young men of both capitals. The great writer…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“A few weeks later, in the middle of a cold December night, the pair, along with 247 other radicals, were herded onto a freighter…

— James McGrath Morris

“Russia used to be great, a nation of philosophers, brilliant thinkers, artists, and scientists. Not anymore. It hasn’t been great for a long time,…

— Penny Reid

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“In Russia, meanwhile, dedicated young people kept trying to kill the tsar.”

— Ian Frazier

“...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 only we,who…

— Anatoli Rybakov

“It all fit. The love of power, the focus on Russia to the exclusion of the rest of the world—with an exception made perhaps…

— Masha Gessen

“He acknowledged that in the muckraking days, he would have shared their anger and quit, but his thinking had changed since the Russian Revolution.…

— Peter Hartshorn