Point of view Quote by Mikhail Bulgakov

“. . . what I know is unofficial, what [the inspector] knows is official. I have the right to private judgment, but he has none.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“- How dare you, I repeat, In disregard of all decency, call me a goose? - I spit on your head, Ivan Ivanovich! What…

— Nikolai Gogol

“The general will be joining us, shortly.” [..] A Revision officer dropping the brother in front of a rank was the most threatening thing…

— Aleksandr Voinov

“with a singlemindedness common only to former Soviet interior-ministry troops and first-year law students”

— Gary Shteyngart

“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

“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

Since that time I have had continuous contact with the persons who were completely unknown to me, except that I knew they would hand…

— Klaus Fuchs

“When a minister impertinently threatened to resign, he seized him by the collar and shouted, ‘Shut up! When I choose to kick you out,…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“Please search among your staffs and find me an expert on Russia. Find me someone who speaks the language, who is up-to-date on his…

— Lee Mandel

There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by…

— Klaus Fuchs

“I was in the air not twenty minutes,” Ivanov’s eyes tightened. “From that shithole in Ashgabat. The phone rings. I expected great things. But…

— Matt Fulton

“We've assembled a small team to assist you, starting with Mr. Kobayashi. He will be your personal security. His family has worked for the…

— Emiko Jean