Brother Quote by Simon Sebag Montefiore

“During the same time, it was faced with the first series of wars with Russia, as the new Tsar, Peter the Great implemented a…

— Charles River Editors

The Russians will always find a pretext for their aggression. It was Putin who said in 2005 that the biggest geopolitical disaster of the…

— Arseniy Yatsenyuk

“Faced with Russian menace and Ottoman collapse, Britain and France threatened war. Nicholas stubbornly called their bluff because, he explained, he was “waging war…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

The Russians as a people had no point of conflict with the Germans; the conflict came from their respective imperialistic policies. When the Russian…

— Sun Yat-sen

“On the twelfth of June, the forces of Western Europe crossed the borders of Russia, and war began--that is, an event took place contrary…

— Leo Tolstoy

“wired Sofia to find out what to do about him. Though the country was ruled by Czar Boris and his army officers and the…

— Alan Furst

Tens of millions of Russian people died, fighting all sorts of Western expansionism. They defeated Nazism. They helped to liberate much of our world…

— Andre Vltchek

“Turkey, fearing attack by Russia, took Germany’s side and declared war against the czar by bombarding the port of Odessa.”

— Joseph E. Persico

My grandfather had come over as a member of the czarist army, to make an arms deal with the British government. Being a blinkered…

— Helen Mirren

“The basic lesson of 1805–7 was that not only must the three eastern monarchies unite but the Russian army must already be positioned in…

— Dominic Lieven

Nobody wants to intervene in Russian affairs. Russia is a very large country, a very old country, a very disagreeable country inhabited by immense…

— Winston Churchill

On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia...

— Franklin D. Roosevelt