Houses Looked Quote by Victor Pelevin

“Wherever you look, everything is in a row: a seven-story pile abutting a three-windowed log hut hard by a fantastical L-shaped mansion; ten paces…

— Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

“As this drama played out in Moscow, over two thousand miles to the east in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk; six men gathered on…

— Pete Buckley

“Nothing like that warm and fuzzy Soviet architecture ... Pretty much as close to the Klingon home world as you're gonna get.”

— Josh Gates

One of the things that's amazing about reading the private writing of these folks is that they enthusiastically describe things which we have now…

— Christine Jennings

“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

“There is no happiness like this: quiet mornings, light from the river, the weekend ahead. They lived a Russian life, a rich life, interwoven,…

— james salter

“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

“Just as the roads at Moscow's heart flow out in concentric ripples from the Kremlin, so this tension too seems to radiate from those…

— Colin Thubron

“He studied the people of Moscow at the theaters, in the clubs, in the streets, looking for the types he needed. A great many…

— Leo Tolstoy

“That all these buildings strike me and most Berliners as quite hideous cannot alter the fact that only by these vertical means could the…

— Ian Fleming

“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

“After asking Humphrey to name his native city, Khrushchev bounced to his feet and drew a bold blue circle around Minneapolis on a map…

— Frederick Kempe