Anything and everything Quote by Hedrick Smith

Everybody is jumping up and down back in Russia. Probably lots of vodka, too.

— Alexander Ovechkin

Go along, go along quickly, and set all you have on the table for us. We don't want doughnuts, honey buns, poppy cakes, and…

— Nikolai Gogol

If I was drunk, I wouldn’t be here at all. And really, this is pretty good for four White Russians.” “White what?” I almost…

— Richelle Mead

Russian vodka is OK if you need to clean the oven. For drinking, it must henceforth be Polish.

— Hugh Laurie

Vodka has a huge history in Russia, in that it's almost like a currency. It's the one thing that keeps the country in the…

— Gary Shteyngart

You can't have a Russian household without vodka. It's just something to wash everything down with. I can't remember a time when I didn't…

— Gary Shteyngart

Cabbage soup and barley. They're Russia's national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.

— Alexander Pushkin

The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.

— Richard Owen

I would rather live in Russia on black bread and vodka than in the United States at the best hotels. America knows nothing of…

— Isadora Duncan

“One day a greasy landowner will drag the peasants before the Zembro Court for trespass, and the next, if it's a holiday, he will…

— Anton Checkov

“From black-rimmed plates they ate turtle soup and eaten Russian rye bread, ripe Turkish olives, caviar, salted mullet-roe, smoked Frankfurt black puddings, game in…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

We drank our coffee the Russian way. That is to say we had vodka before it and vodka afterwards.

— Philip Sington