Fashion Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“In his Petersburg world people were divided into two quite opposite sorts. One--the inferior sort: the paltry, stupid, and, above all, ridiculous people who…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Petersburg to examine the uniforms, dresses, helmets,”

— Robert K. Massie

“...it turned out to be only our former chauffeur, Tsiganov, who had thought nothing of riding all the way from St. Petersburg, on buffers…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“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

“Speransky, either because he appreciated Prince Andrey's abilities or because he thought it as well to secure his adherence, showed off his calm, impartial…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He disliked nearly all women and especially the young and pretty ones who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party the swallowers of…

— Orwell, George

“In August 1914, the name of St Petersburg itself is changed to the more Slavonic Petrograd: in semiotic rebellion against this idiocy, the local…

— China Miéville

“Kerensky, yes, Kerensky – I think we have to say one of the great wets of history.”

— Isaiah Berlin

“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

“He [Vronsky] himself felt that, except that crazy fellow married to Kitty Shcherbatsky, who, quite irrelevantly had with rabid virulence told him a lot…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Ivanov had been a party member since 1902. Back then he had tried to write stories in the manner of Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky, or…

— Roberto Bolaño

“Russians love a good plot--camarillas, Masons, whatever--where in fact there is usually just plain sloppiness. Someone mistrusted someone else; someone failed to warn someone…

— Edvard Radzinsky