Architect Quote by Nikolai Gogol

“four grim five-storey houses which looked just like the ones built in the Moscow suburbs in Khrushchev’s time.”

— Victor Pelevin

“The USSR, which they'd begun to renovate and improve at about the time when Tatarsky decided to change his profession, improved so much that…

— Victor Pelevin

“Don’t call these the “wonders of Soviet heroism" when you write about it. Those wonders really did exist. But first there had to be…

— Svetlana Alexievich

“He who does not regret the breakup of the Soviet Union has no heart. He who wants to revive it in its previous form…

— Michael Rank

“He who does not regret the break-up of the Soviet Union has no heart; he who wants to revive it in its previous form…

— Vladimir Putin

He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory . . . it…

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“...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

The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art of Chekhov.

— George Steiner

“Alexei Alexandrovich stood face to face with life, confronting the possibility of his wife loving someone else besides him, and it was this that…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Every morning I called Aeroflot to ask about my suitcase. "Oh, it's you," sighed the clerk. "Yes, I have your request right here. Address:…

— Elif Batuman

“But in Old Rimrock, NJ, in 1995, when the Ivan Ilyches come trooping back to lunch at the clubhouse after their morning round of…

— Philip Roth

When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into the Russian…

— Pat Conroy