Quote by Robert K. Massie Download Open image ““Petersburg to examine the uniforms, dresses, helmets,”” — Robert K. Massie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Everything can change in Petersburg except its weather. And its light. It's the northern light, pale and diffused, one in which both memory and… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Tanya, I can not tell you how Leningrad looks today. I used to say that Paris is the most beautiful in the world, and… — Miroslav Antić Copy Share Image
“He was a passionate adherent of the new ideas and of Speransky, and the busiest purveyor of news in Petersburg, one of those men… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In a city by the sea which was once called St. Petersburg, then Petrograd, then Leningrad, then, much later, St. Petersburg again, there stood… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“At the men's end of the table the talk grew more and more animated. The colonel told them that the declaration of war had… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Is it true that in Petersburg you belonged to some secret society of bestial sensualists? Is it true that you could give lessons to… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?” — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“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 believe that a husband should live with the one wife to whom he is married, that a girl should be pure, a woman modest, and a man, manly, self controlled and firm; that one should bring… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“In a city by the sea that was certainly never called anything so bourgeois as St. Petersburg, there stood a long, thin house on… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“My uniform felt like a costume. I put on a fresh coat of black nail polish. I twisted up a tube of Revlon Red… — Shirley Marr Copy Share Image
“She was carrying these revolting, disturbing yellow flowers. God knows what they're called, but for some reason they're the first to appear in Moscow.… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
“I used to say to myself that happiness and misery depend on ourselves. If you feel unhappy, rise above it and act so that… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
Four of my children are daughters, and I've watched them devote themselves to reading books about how little girls learn to become women -… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
“For twenty years, Peter had been playing with soldiers; first toys, then boys, then grown men. His games had grown from drills involving a… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
“Charles arrived around eight a.m. with a squadron of Drabants and began riding along the bank at the water’s edge to inspect the men… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
“Books were her refuge. Having set herself to learn the Russian language, she read every Russian book she could find. But French was the… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
“In January in Northern Russia, everything vanishes beneath a deep blanket of whiteness. Rivers, fields, trees, roads, and houses disappear, and the landscape becomes… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
“Why Lenin triumphed, why Nicholas failed, why Alexandra placed the fate of her son, her husband and his empire in the hands of a… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
“This marriage had resulted from impulse: he had seen her on a high-flying swing at Tsarkoe Selo and her skirt, flared by the breeze,… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
“To prove to [her friend, Swedish diplomat Count] Gyllenborg that she was not superficial, Catherine composed an essay about herself, "so that he would… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
“She was intelligent, well read, and a shrewd judge of character. During the coup, she had shown determination and courage; once on the throne,… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
“Don't worry. Don't worry. The Devil does none of these things. He neither smokes nor drinks nor engages in revelry, and yet he is… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
“Only one further prize remained on the entire North Pacific coast, the peninsula of Korea. Although Japan clearly regarded Korea as essential to her… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
![“To prove to [her friend, Swedish diplomat Count] Gyllenborg that she was not superficial, Catherine composed an essay about herself, "so that he would see whether I knew myself or not." The next day, she wrote and handed to Gyllenborg an essay titled 'Portrait of a Fifteen-Year-Old Philosopher.'…” quote by Robert K. Massie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/05e/robert-k-massie-19874_catherine-the-great_to-prove-to-her-friend-swedish-diplomat_646448.jpg)
