Gilded Youth Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“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

“He looked at people as if they were things. A nervous young man across from him...came to hate him for that look. The young…

— Leo Tolstoy

“I, Nikolai Ivanov, renounce my father, an ex-priest, because for many years he deceived the people by telling them that God exists, and that…

— Orlando Figes

“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

“But in the depths of his heart, the older he became, and the more intimately he knew his brother, the more and more frequently…

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Isaiah Berlin

“And it has always been a mystery, and I've marveled a thousand times at this ability of man (and, it seems, of the Russian…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“...Alexei Tolstoy,Leonov, and Zoshenko had demanded that Tukhachevsky be shot. Pasternak ought to be added to them.Yes,even Pasternak couldn't stand the pressure.Vadim trembled with…

— Anatoli Rybakov

“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

“I was involuntarily struck by the aptitude which the Russian displays for accommodating himself to the customs of the people in whose midst he…

— Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov

“The anecdote was funny, but as my father gazed across the river at the university of his youth, his Russian life was in his…

— Paullina Simons

“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