History Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“In Russia, perhaps truth and tragedy were always intertwined.”

— Laura Rose

“The cities of Russia and Poland were burned, their inhabitants tortured and massacred, with the consequence that progress was retarded for centuries. Almost”

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

“What? Read more Russian history? It’s bloody and it’s tragic and best served with a lot of vodka. Trust me.”

— Heather Long

“It’s like the fates are conspiring to keep me in Moscow. It’s not enough that Russia has winters brutal enough to decimate its enemies’…

— Anna Zaires

“The revolution has decreed that the former tsar, Nicholai Romanov, is guilty of countless bloody crimes against his people and is to be shot.”

— Glenn Meade

“He had murdered his wife in a fit of jealousy, and immediately given himself up to the police. (This had considerably mitigated his sentence).…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“This is a significant event for all kinds of reasons, but primarily because it is the first and last time anyone in the Russian…

— Jennifer Eremeeva

“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

“enough vodka to kill a Russian army.”

— A.G. Riddle

“About Russia: Ironically, in the country where common people’s dislike and fear of their state takes place, we can hear much more talks about…

— Leo Pevsner

“one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.” The president smiled. “Well, they’ve had enough time to play this game.…

— Tom Clancy

“We have also an edition of The Trial, by the notorious Jew, Kafka. Berlin would appreciate it, I am thinking, if this too was…

— Stephen Fry