What great people said about Russia. Sayings of great people about Russia
I cannot predict Russia's actions. She is a riddle wrapped in mystery and immersed in mystery. But perhaps the key still exists. This key is national interest Russia...
Winston Churchill
"If I fall asleep and wake up in a hundred years and they ask me what is happening in Russia now, I will answer - they drink and steal."
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
For us, Russians with a soul, one Russia is original, one Russia truly exists; everything else is only a relation to it, thought, Providence. We can think and dream in Germany, France, Italy, but we can only do business in Russia.
Nikolai Karamzin
Not the random distribution of land, not the calming of the rebellion with handouts - the rebellion is extinguished by force, but the recognition of the inviolability of private property and, as a consequence, the creation of small personal land ownership ... - these are the tasks that the government considered and still considers the question of the existence of the Russian state.
Pyotr Stolypin
The Russian is not the one who bears the Russian surname, but the one who loves Russia and considers it his fatherland.
Anton Denikin
Above all Russias there is one unforgettable Russia. Above all love there is one universal human love. Above all beauties there is one beauty, leading to the knowledge of the Cosmos.
Nicholas Roerich
Give the state twenty years of peace, internal and external, and you will not recognize today's Russia.
Pyotr Stolypin
The Russian breaks out abroad in some kind of intoxication - his heart is wide open, his tongue is untied - the Prussian gendarme in Lautzagen seems to us a man, Konigsberg - a free city.
Alexander Herzen
The essence of a Russian person is determined, on the one hand, by the expectation of a miracle, and on the other hand, by the conviction that everything is decided not by strength, but by compassion, kindness, contemplation, and responsiveness.
Nikita Mikhalkov
Russia abruptly moved from slavery to imaginary freedoms. We shit where we live. In the entrances - dirt, in the elevators - urine. Probably, this attitude forms our serf thinking.
Oleg Yankovsky
Russia - great country with an unpredictable past!
Mikhail Zadornov
The system in which we live has no name at all.
Mikhail Zadornov
Why do we all call Eurasia? Eurasia is when more Europe than Asia. And we have more Asia than Europe. Therefore, we are not Eurasia, we are Aziopa.
Mikhail Zadornov
All Russia is drinking Hamlet.
Fazil Iskander
They say that there is such a amazing country, which used to be a nurse, and now has become a feeder.
Russian life is both dirty and weak, but somehow sweet. This is the last thing you are afraid to lose, otherwise it would be “for nothing”. You are afraid of losing something unique and something that will not happen again. The best will be repeated, but not this. And I want "such" ...
The beauty of speech lies not only in the beauty of its construction, but also in the exceptional charm of sound. For example, I think highest achievement avoid hissing and whistling sounds.
The Russian language is so rich that there are no such colors, sounds and images that it would not be able to describe and express.
The scale in which the Russian language rises up in front of an unprepared person can be truly shocking.
It is not worth belittling the role of literature in human life, referring to its vile examples created by amateurs. That's not what she's valued for.
Words borrowed from foreign languages, should be used only in cases where it is impossible to use the native language instead. This is the only way to save our beautiful language from damage.
The use, both in place and out of place, of words borrowed from foreign languages, not only demonstrates the tastelessness of a person, but also makes it possible to doubt his sanity.
The Russian language is the richest on Earth, so why borrow from those who are already poorer than us? Wouldn't it be better to generously endow foreigners with the traditions of Russian speech?
Continuation famous aphorisms and quotes read on the pages:
Russian language in skillful hands and in experienced lips - beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and roomy. – A. Kuprin
You marvel at the preciousness of our language: every sound is a gift: everything is grainy, large, like pearls themselves, and, really, there is another name for the most precious thing itself. – N. Gogol
The more we are national, the more we will be Europeans (all people). – F. Dostoevsky
Of necessity, many foreign words entered the Russian language, because many foreign concepts and ideas entered Russian life. Such a phenomenon is not new ... It is very difficult to invent your own terms to express other people's concepts, and in general this work is rarely successful. Therefore, with a new concept, which one takes from another, he also takes the very word that expresses this concept. […] poorly conceived Russian word for expressing a concept, it is not only no better, but decidedly worse than a foreign word. Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky
The Russian language in skillful hands and in experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and roomy. / Writer A. I. Kuprin
There is no doubt that the desire to dazzle Russian speech with foreign words without need, without sufficient reason, is contrary to common sense and common taste; but it harms not the Russian language and not Russian literature, but only those who are obsessed with it. – V. Belinsky
You marvel at the preciousness of our language: every sound is a gift: everything is grainy, large, like pearls themselves, and, really, there is another name for the most precious thing itself. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol
There is no word that would be so bold, brisk, so bursting out from under the very heart, so seething and vibrant, as aptly said Russian word. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol
There is no word that would be so bold, brisk, so bursting out from under the very heart, so seething and vibrant, as aptly said Russian word. – N. Gogol
There are two kinds of nonsense: one comes from a lack of feelings and thoughts, replaced by words; the other - from the fullness of feelings and thoughts and the lack of words to express them. A. S. Pushkin
New words of foreign origin are introduced into the Russian press incessantly and often quite unnecessarily, and—what is most offensive—these harmful exercises practiced in those very bodies where the most ardent support for the Russian nationality and its peculiarities. Nikolay Semyonovich Leskov
To deal with the language somehow means to think somehow: approximately, inaccurately, incorrectly. / Writer A.N. Tolstoy
In literature, as in life, it is worth remembering one rule that a person will repent a thousand times for saying a lot, but never for saying little. / A.F. Pisemsky
Language is a ford across the river of time, it leads us to the home of the departed; but no one who is afraid of deep water can come there. / V. M. Illich-Svitych
Language is an image of everything that existed, exists and will exist - everything that can only be embraced and comprehended by the mental eye of man. / A. F. Merzlyakov
Not a single spoken word has brought as much benefit as many unspoken ones. / Ancient thinker Plutarch
To use a foreign word when there is a Russian word equivalent to it means to offend both common sense and common taste. – V. Belinsky
The perception of other people's words, and especially without necessity, is not an enrichment, but a deterioration of the language. – A. Sumarokov
Language is the history of a people. Language is the way of civilization and culture. Therefore, the study and preservation of the Russian language is not an idle occupation with nothing to do, but an urgent need. Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin
The more we are national, the more we will be Europeans (all people). Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
There are no such sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which there would not be an exact expression in our language. – K. Paustovsky
Only one literature is not subject to the laws of decay. She alone does not recognize death. / M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin
How beautiful is the Russian language! All the advantages of German without its terrible rudeness. – F. Engels
The Russian language is rich enough, but it has its drawbacks, and one of them is hissing sound combinations: -lice, -lice, -lice, -schcha, -schey. On the first page of your story, lice crawl into in large numbers: arrived, worked, spoke. It is quite possible to do without insects. Maksim Gorky
Essentially for intelligent person speaking badly should be considered as indecent as not being able to read and write. / Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Only by assimilating the original material to the maximum possible perfection, that is, native language, we will be able to master a foreign language as well as possible, but not before. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
The Russian language in skillful hands and in experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and roomy. Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin
We spoil the Russian language. We use foreign words unnecessarily. We use them incorrectly. Why say "defects" when you can say shortcomings, or shortcomings, or gaps? .. Isn't it time for us to declare war on the use of foreign words without need? – Lenin (“On the Purification of the Russian Language”)
The Slavic-Russian language, according to the testimony of foreign estheticians themselves, is not inferior either in courage to Latin or in fluidity to Greek, surpassing all European ones: Italian, French and Spanish, and even more so German. Gavriil Romanovich Derzhavin
To use a foreign word when there is a Russian word equivalent to it means to insult both common sense and common taste. Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky
As a material of literature, the Slavic-Russian language has an undeniable superiority over all European ones. A. S. Pushkin
Only by assimilating the original material, that is, the native language, to the best possible perfection, will we be able to master the foreign language to the highest possible perfection, but not before. – F. Dostoevsky
There is nothing sedimentary or crystalline in Russian; everything excites, breathes, lives. / A. S. Khomyakov
The greatest wealth of a people is its language! For thousands of years countless treasures of human thought and experience have accumulated and live forever in the word. / Soviet writer M. A. Sholokhov
We spoil the Russian language. We use foreign words unnecessarily. We use them incorrectly. Why say "defects" when you can say shortcomings, or shortcomings, or gaps? .. Isn't it time for us to declare war on the use of foreign words without need? Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
In the days of doubt, in the days painful thoughts about the fate of my homeland - you are my only support and support, oh great, powerful, truthful and free Russian language! Without you, how not to fall into despair at the sight of everything that happens at home? But one cannot believe that such a language was not given to a great people! Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Follow the rule stubbornly: so that words are cramped, and thoughts are spacious. / ON THE. Nekrasov
There are no such sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which there would not be an exact expression in our language. Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
In the attitude of each person to his language, one can absolutely accurately judge not only his cultural level but also about its civic value. – K. Paustovsky
In days of doubt, in days of painful reflections on the fate of my homeland, you are my only support and support, O great, powerful, truthful and free Russian language! Without you, how not to fall into despair at the sight of everything that happens at home? But one cannot believe that such a language was not given to a great people! – I. Turgenev
True love for one's country is unthinkable without love for one's language. – K. Paustovsky
Our heavenly beauty will never be trampled on by cattle.
How beautiful is the Russian language! All the advantages of German without its terrible rudeness. Friedrich Engels
There is no doubt that the Russian language is one of the richest languages in the world. – V. Belinsky
The morality of a person is visible in his attitude to the word. / The great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy
Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language - this is a treasure, this is a property handed down to us by our predecessors! Treat this mighty weapon with respect. I. Turgenev
The Russian language is a language created for poetry, it is unusually rich and remarkable mainly for its subtlety of shades. Prosper Merimee
Speech must comply with the laws of logic. / great ancient thinker Aristotle
The Russian language is a language created for poetry, it is unusually rich and remarkable mainly for its subtlety of shades. – P. Merimee
The dictionary is everything inner history people. / great Ukrainian writer N. A. Kotlyarevsky
Language is the history of a people. Language is the way of civilization and culture. Therefore, the study and preservation of the Russian language is not an idle occupation with nothing to do, but an urgent need. – A. Kuprin
Preamble:about the bridge named after Kadyrov in St. Petersburg, I hope you already know?
and now the plot:
Before you continue reading, I will say that I am not escalating, I am not a Russophobe, I am not an agent of the State Department, the post is not paid. This is history. You can't get away from her.
“She [Russia] is a terrible sight of a country where people traffic in people, without even having the justification that the American planters slyly use, claiming that the Negro is not a person; countries where people call themselves not by names, but by nicknames: Vanki, Steshki, Vaska, Palashki; a country where, finally, there are not only no guarantees for the person, honor and property, but there is not even a police order, but there are only huge corporations of various official thieves and robbers. . -
- V. G. Belinsky, literary critic(1811 - 1848)
"Heavy Russian spirit, nothing to breathe and you can't fly." - A. Blok
"Muscovy is Rus' of the taiga, Mongolian, wild, bestial." (Muscovy - the Russia of taiga, Mongolic, wild, bestial.) - Alexey Tolstoy
"Not a people, but cattle, a boor, a wild horde, murderers and villains." (They are not people, they are boors, villains, wild hordes of murderers and miscreants.) - Michael Bulgakov
"The most important sign of the success of the Russian people is their sadistic cruelty." (The most important trait of the success of the Russian people is their sadistic brutality.) - Maksim Gorky
"The Russian is the greatest and most insolent liar in the whole world." (A Russian is the greatest and the cheekiest of all liars in the world.) - IvanTurgenev
"A people that wanders around Europe looking for something to destroy, to destroy just for fun." (People who roam across Europe in search of what to destroy and obliterate, only for the sake of gratification.)- Fedor Dostoevsky
"The Russian people are boorish." -
Mikhail Bulgakov, 1923
"The Russian people do not have a hint of creativity." - G. Uspensky.
“Russians are a people that hates freedom, deifies slavery, loves fetters on their hands and feet, loves their bloody despots, does not feel any beauty, is dirty physically and morally, lives for centuries in darkness, obscurantism, and has not lifted a finger to something human, but always ready to captivate, to oppress everyone and everything, the whole world. This is not a people, but a historical curse of mankind" - I.S. Shmelev.
"Oh, how hard, how unbearably hard it is sometimes to live in Russia, in this stinking environment of filth, vulgarity, lies, deceptions, abuses, good little scoundrels, hospitable bribe-takers, hospitable rogues - fathers and benefactors of bribe-takers!" - Ivan Aksakov, from a letter to relatives.
"In the soul of every Russian, unlike the European, lives a cunning, vicious animal." - Carl Gustav Jung in an interview.
“I must express my sad view of the Russian person - he has such a weak brain system that he is not able to perceive reality as such. For him, there are only words. His conditioned reflexes are coordinated not with actions, but with words. - Academician Pavlov. About the Russian mind. 1932
"A people that hates freedom, loves slavery, loves chains on their hands and feet, dirty physically and morally ... ready at any moment to oppress everything and everyone." (The people who hate freedom, adore enslavement, love handcuffs and who are filthy morally and physically, ready to oppress everyone and everything.) - Ivan Shmelev
“A people indifferent to the least duty, to the least justice, to the least truth, a people that does not recognize human dignity, which does not fully recognize either free man nor free thought. (The people who are indifferent to the least of obligations, to the least of fairness, to the least of truth... the people who do not recognize human dignity, who entirely defy a free man and a free thought.) - Alexander Pushkin
We have five thousand miles from thought to thought. - Peter Vyazemsky
“Russia is the most vile, bloody disgusting country in the entire history of the world. By the method of selection, monstrous moral freaks were brought out there, in which the very concept of Good and Evil is turned inside out. Throughout its history, this nation has been wallowing in shit and at the same time wants to drown the whole world in it ... " - I.A. Ilyin (1882-1954), Russian philosopher
"... The measure of devotion to the Motherland is in informing the special services."
"... A measure of groveling before the authorities is like a measure of devotion to the country."
- I.A. Ilyin, Russian philosopher, from an article « Soviet Union- not Russia", 1947
“I am not proud that I am Russian, I submit to this position. And when I think ... about the beauty of our history before the damned Mongols and before the damned Moscow, even more shameful than the Mongols themselves, I want to throw myself on the ground and roll in despair from what we have done ... ". - Tolstoy A.K. From a letter to a friend B. M. Markevich on April 26, 1869. Collected works in 4 vols. T. 4. - M., 1964
"The Russian people are in an extremely sad state: they are sick, ruined, demoralized." "And now we learn that he, in the person of a significant part of his intelligentsia, although he cannot formally be considered insane, is nevertheless obsessed with false ideas bordering on megalomania and the mania of enmity towards him of everyone and everyone. Indifferent to his real benefit and real harm, he imagines non-existent dangers and bases on them the most absurd assumptions. It seems to him that all his neighbors offend him, do not bow enough to his greatness and in every way slander him. He accuses each of his household of striving to harm him, separate from him and go over to enemies , and he considers all his neighbors to be his enemies ... " - Philosopher Vladimir Solovyov
God of the hungry, God of the cold
Beggars far and wide,
God of unprofitable estates
Here he is, here he is, the Russian god.
God of breasts and f... saggy
God of bast shoes and plump legs,
Bitter faces and sour cream,
Here he is, here he is, the Russian god.
P.A. Vyazemsky
The Russian character is an incessant ebb and flow, and a purely Russian word "Nothing!" well expresses the fatalism of these endless fluctuations. - D. Galsworthy
The Russian man has an enemy, irreconcilable, dangerous enemy, without which he would be a giant. This enemy is laziness. - N. Gogol
"Not the people, but the infernal freak."- V. Rozanov is a Russian philosopher, publicist and critic.
"A treaty signed with Russia is not worth the paper it's written on." -- Otto von Bismarck
“The main feature of the Russian national character is cruelty, and that cruelty is sadistic. I'm not talking about individual explosions of cruelty, but about the psyche, about the soul of the people. I looked through the archive of one court for 1901-1910. and I was horrified at the sheer amount of unbelievable mistreatment of people. In general, in Russia, everyone beats someone with pleasure. And the people consider beats to be useful, since they made up the saying "for the beaten they give two unbeaten." For 1917-1919 the peasants buried the captured Red Guards upside down so deep that their legs stuck out of the ground. Then they laughed at how those legs twitched. Or high on a tree they nailed one arm and one leg and enjoyed the torment of the victim. The Red Guards, on the other hand, ripped off the skin of the living captured Denikin-counter-revolutionaries, hammered nails into the head, cut out the skin on the shoulders, like officer epaulettes. Gorky Maxim. On the Russian peasantry (1922)
“A Russian person has selfless love to meanness. He will not have anything from this, but he will do disgust to his neighbor. - N. V. Gogol
Alas, this beast was ... His Majesty the Russian people ... - Shulgin V. V. Days; 1920. - M., 1989, p. 182(1878-1976), publicist, one of the leaders of the right in the State Duma
If Russia had failed, there would have been no loss, no unrest in humanity. -- Ivan Turgenev
"There is no smaller, bastard and boorish individual in this world than a katsap. Born in a Nazi country, fed by Nazi propaganda, this bastard will never become a Man. His country has no friends - either lackeys or enemies. His country can only threaten, to humiliate and kill. own life, the lives of their parents and children, the quality of life of their own people. Truly: katsaps are animals. Fierce, bloodthirsty, but... mortal." - A. Solzhenitsyn
"It seems that Poletika said: In Russia, there is salvation from bad measures taken by the government: bad execution." - Peter Vyazemsky
A Russian person cannot be happy alone, he needs the participation of others, and without this he will not be happy. - Vladimir Dal
In all countries railways they serve for transportation, and in our country, moreover, for theft. - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
"The Russian mind shows itself most clearly in stupidity." -- Vasily Klyuchevsky
There are no average talents in Russia, simple craftsmen, but there are lonely geniuses and millions of worthless people. Geniuses can do nothing because they have no apprentices, and nothing can be done with millions because they have no masters. The former are useless because there are too few of them; the latter are helpless because there are too many of them. - Vasily Klyuchevsky
The Russian commoner - Orthodox - is serving his faith as a church duty imposed on him to save someone's soul, but not his own, which he has not learned to save, and does not want to. No matter how you pray, everything will go to hell. This is all his theology. - Vasily Klyuchevsky
One can revere people who believed in Russia, but not before the object of their belief. - Vasily Klyuchevsky
The Russian clergy always taught their flock not to know and love God, but only to be afraid of the devils, whom they also bred with their priests. - Vasily Klyuchevsky
The Russian government, like reverse providence, arranges for the better not the future, but the past. - Alexander Herzen
There are no roads in Russia, only directions. - Napoleon I
Nothing is impossible in Russia except reforms. - Oscar Wilde
“A Russian woman, by the very nature of her upbringing and life, puts up with the fate of a hanger-on too easily ...”
“If I fall asleep and wake up in a hundred years and they ask me what is happening in Russia now, I will answer: they drink and steal ...”
"Severity Russian laws mitigated by the optionality of their execution.
“The worst laws are in Russia, but this shortcoming is compensated by the fact that no one enforces them.”
"The Russian government must keep its people in a state of constant amazement."
“We don’t have a middle ground: either in the snout or the pen, please!”
Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin
"Scattering! Exhausted spiritual wilderness!”
“Too many famous thieves. Too few well-known heroes.
- Nikolay Kolychev
“Never fight the Russians. To your every stratagem they will respond with unpredictable stupidity.” - OTTO von BISMARCK
Russia is easy to manage, but completely useless. - Emperor Alexander II
"You can't understand Russia with your mind..." — Fyodor Tyutchev, Russian poet.
Russian History before Peter the Great is one memorial service, and after Peter the Great - one criminal case. - F. Tyutchev
"To lie to a Russian is to blow your nose. Their lies come from their slavish nature. The people who never knew and never spoke the truth are the people of spiritual and physical slaves. Poor people." - N.M. Karamzin
"Drunken people are easier to rule." - CATHERINE II, who opened many taverns, - to the question of Princess Dashkova: “Your Majesty, why are you drinking the Russian people?”
Russians are a terrible nation. They are the best in the world to do three things: drink, fight and attribute beautiful phrases about yourself to foreign politicians. - Benito Mussolini
“A Russian person is distinguished by a tendency to spend the last funds on all sorts of tricks when the most pressing needs are not satisfied.”
“The Russian man is a big pig. If you ask why he does not eat meat and fish, then he justifies himself by the lack of imports, means of communication, etc., and meanwhile, there is vodka even in the most remote villages and in whatever quantity you like.
“The Russian man strives to crack the ham just when the trichinas are sitting in it, and to pass through the river when the ice cracks on it.”
“Nature has invested in Russian man extraordinary ability to believe, testing the mind and the gift of thinking, but all this is shattered into dust by carelessness, laziness and dreamy frivolity ... "
"Russian man loves to remember, but does not like to live."
"The Russian man lacks the desire to desire."
- A.P. Chekhov
The Russian person the only hope is to win two hundred thousand . - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. Notebooks. diaries
“The whole of Russia is a country of some kind of greedy and lazy people: they eat terribly much, drink, love to sleep during the day and snore in their sleep. They marry for order in the house, and they have mistresses for prestige in society. Their psychology is dog-like: they beat them - they squeal softly and hide in their kennels, caress - they lie on their backs, paws up and wag their tails ... " - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov in conversation with Maxim Gorky
“And the Russian peasant, holding an ax, defended his slavery with desperate frenzy” - F.Engels
“Love for the fatherland has turned into sugary boasting. Proof of this, our so-called leavened patriots: after their inappropriate praise - just want to spit on Russia.
“Are we better than other nations? Is life closer to Christ than they? We are no better than anyone, and life is even more unsettled and disordered than all of them. "We are worse than everyone else" - that's what we should always say about ourselves.
"In our national character servility and servility, obscenity and bloodthirstiness, savagery and drunkenness predominate.” - Metropolitan Hilarion
"National self-consciousness - national complacency - national self-adoration - national self-destruction."
"Russians are not even capable of having a mind and a conscience, but they have always had one meanness." - V. Soloviev
“I am reading Solovyov. Continuous sedition, claims to the power of the boyars and still unfinished appanage princes, deceitful "kissing the cross", insatiable ambition, feigned repentance ("they hit you with a forehead, your serf" and again deceit, mutual reproaches, campaigns against each other, continuous burning of cities, ruin them, "devastation to the ground" - eternal words Russian history! - and fires, fires ... And how tired the whole world with its vileness and misfortunes is this vile, greedy, ridiculous bastard Rus'! - Ivan Bunin,from diaries
"A Russian man knows how to be a saint, but he cannot be honest." - Konstantin Leontiev, Russian philosopher (1831 - 1891)
"They are the most filthy of the creations of Allah - they are not cleansed of either excrement or urine, they are not washed from sexual impurity and they do not wash their hands after eating, but they are like wandering donkeys."-- Ibn Fadlan
“This people is by nature prone to deceit, only a strong beating curbs it. I heard one Russian say that it is much more fun to live in prison than in freedom, if only there was not a strong beating. In prison they receive food and drink without work, as well as alms from the people who favor them. In freedom, they get nothing. The number of the poor here is very great, and they live in the most miserable way: I have seen them eat salted herring and other stinking fish. It is impossible to find a more stinking and rotten fish, and they eat it with pleasure, praising that it is healthier than any other fish and fresh food. — Richard Chancellor, English traveler, 1553
“This people has more inclinations towards slavery than towards freedom. I have heard servants complain that the masters do not beat them enough. Muscovites are considered more cunning and deceitful than everyone else... If they begin to swear and swear, know that deceit is hidden here, for they swear in order to deceive...” - Councilor Chamberlain and Head of the Austrian State Treasury Sigismund Baron Herberstein-Neiperg-Güttentag, Notes on Muscovite Affairs, 1549
“The whole Muscovite nation is in the worst slavery. Everyone and everyone, without distinction of class, together with the ministers, are slaves. High nobles sign their letters to the tsar “your serf and slave Ivashka or Petrushka”, etc. If someone signed Ivan or Peter, he would lose his life. The Muscovites are convinced that their entire country, with all its wealth and with all its people, is the private property of the tsar, and he has the divine right to do what he wants with estates and people. Muscovites do not have simple moral principles. They don’t want to learn decent behavior from strangers, considering their own best. This nation, born and raised in slavery, rages when the despotism of the king is even slightly weakened. Muscovites are obedient only if they are bridled and in a yoke ... The upper classes, although they themselves are slaves, treat the lower ones as if they were slaves. Lacking the simplest culture, Muscovites consider deceit to be the greatest wisdom. In lies they know no bounds, no shame. Ordinary human virtues are so alien, incomprehensible to Muscovites, that they consider meanness to be high virtue... This people hates freedom, protests if it is thrown at them. If any king reigned as kings in Europe, that is, he would lead state affairs without interfering with the privacy and public life of their citizens, then the Muscovites would not obey such a thing and would certainly have killed ... Moscow soldiers of their own free will, without an order, like to cruelly mock, torture prisoners. In Muscovy, you can always and everywhere for little money find false witnesses who will swear on the cross and the Gospel in the church. Even the Turks do not have such nasty servility to the higher ones and such cruel mockery of the lower, defenseless ones ”- Sigismund Baron Herberstein-Neiperg-Güttentag, ibid.
"... They are very inclined towards evil, they easily lie and steal" — Raphael Barberini, Journey to Muscovy, 1565
"Merchants and all business people Muscovy is being lied to all the time, and very easily deceived, they cannot be trusted with any money - they can be embezzled. It is impossible to believe in a debt to the Russians, any goods left unattended will certainly be plundered. - Heinrich Staden, “On the Moscow of Ivan the Terrible. Notes of a German oprichnik "(1578)
“Moreover, they are cunning, crafty, stubborn, intemperate, resisting and vile, depraved, not to mention shameless, prone to every evil, using violence instead of reasoning ...” - Ulfeld J. Journey to Russia of the Danish envoy Jacob Ulfeld in the 16th century. M., 1889
“Russians are cunning, cunning, stubborn, intemperate, resistive and vile, prone to every evil, using violence instead of reasoning ...” - "Journey to Muscovy of the Danish envoy Jacob Ulfeld in the 16th century."
“In Rus' before Rurik there were, of course, people, but people without a state; they lived like forest animals, did not stand out in any way, without any communication with the world, and therefore were not noted or described by any of the cultured Europeans ... Wild, rude, scattered Slavs began to become public people only through the intermediary of the Germans, who were destined to scatter the first seeds of civilization in the northwestern and northeastern worlds. - August Ludwig Schlözer, German historian (1735 - 1809)
“But seeing that this people is completely barbaric and uneducated, and therefore unable to learn 24 Greek letters, Cyril and Methodius invented and drew 35 letters for him.” - Banduri don Anselm, historian (1671 - 1743)
“A people who have not declared themselves in any way, irreverent, considered on a par with slaves, unnamed, but who have gained fame for themselves since the time of the campaign against us, insignificant, but now they have gained importance, humble and poor, barbaric, nomadic, proud of their weapons, having no guards, unrepentant people." - Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople (820 - 896)
“The Eastern Slavs lived in tribal communities, their economy was dominated by a primitive method that fully corresponded to the conditions of their existence. At Eastern Slavs there was nothing that would even resemble the most rudimentary form of statehood ... The Mongol-Tatars were culturally superior to the Russians in almost all respects. - Richard Pipes, American historian
We remember the brightest and famous quotes, thoughts, aphorisms prominent people about Russia and its people.
Alexander III the Peacemaker - Emperor of All Russia, Tsar of Poland and Grand Duke Finnish (1845-1894).
In the whole world we have only two faithful allies - our army and navy. All the rest, at the first opportunity, will take up arms against us.
When the Russian Tsar is fishing, Europe can wait.
Russia - for Russians and in Russian.
Nikolai Berdyaev - Great Russian philosopher (1874-1948)
The Russian people created the most powerful state in the world, greatest empire. From Ivan Kalita, Russia consistently and stubbornly gathered and reached dimensions that stagger the imagination of all the peoples of the world.
Without a primordial and spontaneous love for Russia, no creative historical path. Our love for Russia, like any love, is arbitrary, it is not love for the qualities and virtues, but this love should be a source of creative creation of the qualities and virtues of Russia. Love for one's people must be creative love, creative instinct. And least of all it signifies enmity and hatred towards other peoples. The path to pan-humanity for each of us lies through Russia.
Endlessly difficult task stood before the Russian people - the task of formalizing and organizing their vast land. The immensity of the Russian land, the absence of borders and limits, were expressed in the structure of the Russian soul. The landscape of the Russian soul corresponds to the landscape of the Russian land: the same infinity, formlessness, aspiration to infinity, breadth.
Nikolay Gogol - Great Russian writer and playwright (1809-1852).
Thank God first of all for the fact that you are Russian. This path is now open for the Russian, and this path is Russia itself. If only he loves Russian Russia, he will love everything that is in Russia. God Himself is leading us to this love.
You don’t yet love Russia: you only know how to grieve and get irritated by rumors about everything bad that happens in it, all this produces in you only one callous annoyance and despondency. No, this is not yet love, you are far from love, it is only one too distant foreshadowing of it.
If there is only one Russian farmstead left, then Russia will be reborn.
Anton Denikin - Front Commander, General Staff Lieutenant General; later Acting Supreme Ruler of Russia from the side white movement (1872-1947).
The Russian is not the one who bears the Russian surname, but the one who loves Russia and considers it his fatherland.
When peace rests over our poor country, and the all-healing time turns the bloody reality into the distant past, the Russian people will remember those who were the first to rise to defend Russia from the red scourge.
This is Russian, for Russians. When Russia is free, I will give everything to her.
Fedor Dostoevsky - Great Russian writer (1821-1881).
Is it possible that even here they will not allow and will not allow the Russian organism to develop nationally, by its organic strength, but certainly impersonally, servilely imitating Europe? But what to do with the Russian organism then? Do these gentlemen understand what an organism is? Separation, "split" from their country leads to hatred, these people hate Russia, so to speak, naturally, physically: for the climate, for the fields, for the forests, for the order, for the liberation of the peasant, for Russian history, in a word, for everything, hate for everything.
The purpose of the Russian man is, no doubt, pan-European and worldwide. To become a real Russian, to become completely Russian, perhaps, and means only - to become a brother of all people, an all-man, if you like. Our inheritance is universality, and not acquired by the sword, but by the power of brotherhood and our fraternal striving for the reunification of people.
The highest and most characteristic of our people is a sense of justice and a thirst for it.
Mikhail Lomonosov - World-famous encyclopedic scientist, rector of the Academic University, academician of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and Arts in St. Petersburg (1711-1765).
The greatness, power and wealth of the entire state lies in the preservation and reproduction of the Russian people.
The beauty, grandeur, strength and richness of the Russian language are quite clear from books written in past centuries, when our ancestors did not know any rules for writing yet, but they hardly thought that there were or could be.
For the common good, and especially for the establishment of sciences in the fatherland, and against my own father, I don’t set myself up for sin ... I dedicated myself to this, so that until my grave I fight against the enemies of Russian sciences, as I have been fighting for twenty years, stood for them from a young age, I will not leave in my old age.
Fyodor Tyutchev - Great Russian poet and diplomat (1803-1873).
You can't understand Russia with the mind, You can't measure it with a common yardstick: She has a special become - In Russia, you can only believe.
If you meet a veteran of the Napoleonic army, remind him of his glorious past and ask who, among all the opponents who fought with him on the battlefields of Europe, was the most worthy of respect, who, after individual defeats, maintained a proud look: you can bet ten against one, what he will call you a Russian soldier. Go through the departments of France where the foreign invasion left its mark in 1814, and ask the inhabitants of these provinces which soldier in the detachments of the enemy troops constantly showed the greatest humanity, the highest discipline, the least hostility to civilians, unarmed citizens - you can put a hundred against one that they will call you a Russian soldier. And if you want to know who was the most unbridled and the most predatory - oh, this is no longer a Russian soldier.
Peter I the Great - The last tsar of all Rus' and the first Emperor of All Russia (1672-1725).
I have a presentiment that the Russians someday, and perhaps in our lifetime, will shame the most enlightened peoples with their successes in the sciences, their tireless work and the majesty of firm and loud glory.
Russian one who loves Russia and serves it!
Alexander Pushkin - Great Russian poet (1799-1837)
Disrespect for ancestors is the first sign of savagery and immorality. It is not only possible, but also necessary, to be proud of the glory of one's ancestors; not to respect it is shameful cowardice.
I am far from delighted with everything that I see around me; ... but I swear on my honor that for nothing in the world I would not want to change my fatherland or have a different history than the history of our ancestors, such as God gave it to us.
Alexander Suvorov - Great Russian commander (1730-1800).
Who loves his Fatherland, he gives best example love for humanity.
Nature produced only one Russia. She has no rivals. We are Russians, we will overcome everything.
The fortress is strong, the garrison is a whole army. But nothing can stand against Russian weapons - we are strong and confident.
The Russian is distinguished by faith, fidelity and reason. In vain will all Europe move on Russia: it will find Thermopylae, Leonidas and its coffin there.
