About Quote by Tom Stoppard

When I am teaching, I first give out Tolstoy's 'Childhood,' his first published book. It is so transparent. It gives you exactly what it…

— Claire Messud

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

How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?

— Robert Frost

“A nineteenth-century Russian novel and vodka accompanied each other perfectly.”

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were…

— Gary Shteyngart

The clash between the aspirations of the people for a better life and the insistence of their rulers on building a powerful state, regardless…

— Harrison Salisbury

What's happening in Russia is devoid of autobiographical interest for me. Maybe it's egocentric. Whatever it is, feel free to use it.

— Joseph Brodsky

“A nineteenth-century Russian novel and vodka accompanied each other perfectly. Reading a novel while one sipped vodka legitimized the drink, while the drink made…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian…

— Vladimir Putin

“At the time of the October Revolution, the Russian intellectual elite had been both a part and a partner to the European conversation about…

— Masha Gessen

My impressions of the Russian Revolution can be divided into two periods. The first period was when I showed deep sympathy. My second period…

— Chiang Kai-shek

“To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more they tried…

— Haruki Murakami