Childhood Quote by Ivan Turgenev

There's the hypothesis that things just keep happening to Russians, things that keep turning them into the same kind of subjects, as opposed to…

— Masha Gessen

What about life, Ninotchka? Do Russians never think about life, of the moment in which we are living? It's the only moment we ever…

— Melvyn Douglas

Russians always need a little sh*t in our lives. If everything is good and we seem completely happy, then we become suspicious of that.

— Anna Netrebko

Russians have different far lofty ambitions; more of a spiritual kind. It's more about your relationship with God .

— Vladimir Putin

As my Russian improves, I become increasingly conscious of just what sort of a society I live in.

— Lee Harvey Oswald

I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that…

— Natalia Vodianova

My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in…

— Maria Sharapova

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

In the soul of a Russian person there is always a drive toward some kind of lofty moral ideal, lofty moral values. That definitely…

— Vladimir Putin

“The most basic, most rudimentary spiritual need of the Russian people is the need for suffering, ever-present and unquenchable, everywhere and in everything.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The one thing I learned is that the Russians are some of the most cunning people on earth. They never do anything without a…

— David Baldacci

Diminish us across the board. They [Russians] do not wish us well.

— Daniel Fried