What great people said about Russia

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

It seems to me that we began to forget how to talk about Russia.

For the last 25 years, we have got used to listening to Alfred Koch, who called Russia a bankrupt country that no one needs, and Tatyana Tolstaya, who called Russia nothing more than a “stagnant fat-ass fool”.

However - here's a paradox - people who left a significant mark in the history of Russia spoke completely different words about our country. I present to your attention a new article on Rukspert, "quotes about Russia":

Russian statements

Alexander III

Russia has no friends, they are afraid of our vastness … Russia has only two reliable allies - its army and its navy.

Nikolay Berdyaev

The Russian people created the most powerful state in the world, the greatest empire. Russia has consistently and stubbornly gathered from Ivan Kalita and has reached dimensions that stagger the imagination of all the peoples of the world.

Nikolay Gogol

First of all, thank God for being Russian. This path is now open to the Russian, and this path is Russia itself. If only he loves Russian Russia, he will also love everything that is in Russia. God himself is now leading us to this love.

You do not yet love Russia: you only know how to be sad and irritated by rumors about everything bad, whatever is happening in it, in you all this produces only one callous annoyance and despondency. No, this is not love yet, you are far from love, this is perhaps just one too distant portent of it.

No, if you really fall in love with Russia, then by itself that short-sighted thought that has arisen now in many honest and even very intelligent people, that is, as if in the present time they can no longer do anything for Russia and as if they already not needed at all; on the contrary, then only in all your strength will you feel that love is omnipotent and that everything can be done with it.

Eh, three! bird three, who invented you? To know, you could only be born with a lively people, in that land that does not like to joke, and evenly scattered about half the world, and go count miles until it hits you in your eyes.

If there is only one farm for the Russians, then Russia will be reborn as well.

But are there such lights in the world, such torments and such a force that would overpower the Russian force!

Anton Denikin

A Russian is not one who bears a Russian surname, but one who loves Russia and considers it his fatherland.

Fedor Dostoevsky

In order to judge the moral strength of the people and what they are capable of in the future, one must take into account not the degree of disgrace to which they temporarily and even at least for the most part can humiliate themselves, but one must take into consideration only that height of spirit, which he can climb when the time comes. For ugliness is a temporary misfortune, always almost dependent on the circumstances that preceded and transient, from slavery, from age-old oppression, from rudeness, and the gift of magnanimity is an eternal gift, an elemental gift, born together with the people and all the more honored, if in the course of centuries slavery, hardship and poverty, he still will survive intact, in the heart of this people.

The purpose of the Russian person is indisputably all-European and universal. To become a real Russian, to become completely Russian, perhaps, and that only means - to become a brother of all people, an all-man, if you like.

Catherine II

The Russian people are a special people in the world, which is distinguished by guesswork, intelligence, strength.

Strength alone strengthens independence. Only if you are ready to fight can you instill respect for yourself and find allies instead of patrons.

Mikhail Lomonosov

The greatness, power and wealth of the entire state consists in the preservation and reproduction of the Russian people.

Christopher Minich

The Russian state has the advantage over others that it is controlled directly by God himself, otherwise it is impossible to understand how it exists.

Konstantin Paustovsky

Many Russian words radiate poetry by themselves, just as precious stones radiate a mysterious brilliance.

Vladimir Putin

It is not Russia that lies between East and West. This East and West are to the left and right of Russia.

Alexander Pushkin

To be proud of the glory of one's ancestors is not only possible, but also must; not respecting it is shameful cowardice.

Konstantin Simonov

Russians are a stubborn people, and if they once came up with a good idea, sooner or later they will implement it on a truly Russian scale!

Pyotr Stolypin

You gentlemen need great shocks; we need a great Russia.

Alexander Suvorov

He who loves his Fatherland sets the best example of love for humanity.

Nature has 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 in ourselves.

Show in practice that you are Russian!

The Russian is distinguished by faith, loyalty and reason. All Europe will march against Russia in vain: she will find Thermopylae, Leonidas and her own coffin there.

We are Russians! What a delight!

We are Russians and therefore we will win.

Where a deer will pass, a Russian soldier will also pass there. Where a deer does not pass, a Russian soldier will still pass.

Ivan Turgenev

Russia can do without each of us, but none of us can do without it.

Take care of the purity of the language as a sacred thing! Never use foreign words. The Russian language is so rich and flexible that we have nothing to take from those who are poorer than us.

Foreign statements

Otto von Bismarck

Do not expect that once you take advantage of Russia's weakness, you will receive dividends forever. Russians always come for their money. And when they come - do not rely on the Jesuit agreements you signed, supposedly justifying you. They are not worth the paper they are written on. Therefore, it is worth playing with the Russians either honestly, or not playing at all. (Link)

Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the disintegration of the main force of Russia, which is based on millions of Russians … These latter, even if they are dismembered by international treatises, rejoin each other as quickly as particles of a cut piece of mercury …

Charles de Gaulle

Russian people will never be happy knowing that injustice is happening somewhere.

Dalai lama

The Russian soul is generosity that knows no boundaries.

Alexandr Duma

Russian people work tirelessly to transform themselves and those around them from humanity to Humanity!

Karl Clausewitz

Russia is not a country that can be really conquered, that is, occupied; at least this cannot be done … by the forces of modern European states … Such a country can only be defeated by internal weakness and the action of internal strife.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Strongest and most amazing of all willpower is manifested in the huge middle kingdom, where Europe seems to be returning to Asia - Russia. There, the power to want has long been postponed and accumulated, there the will awaits - it is not known whether the will of denial or the will of affirmation - waits in a threatening way, so that, according to the favorite expression of today's physicists, it will be free.

For the emergence of any kind of institution, there must be a will that impels an instinct, anti-liberal to the point of brilliance - the will to tradition, to authority, to responsibility for whole centuries, to the solidarity of past and future generations …

If this will is there, then something akin to the Roman Empire, or like Russia, arises - the only country that currently has a future …

Russia is the opposite of the miserable nervousness of the small European states, for which, with the founding of the "German Empire", a critical time has come.

Theodore Roosevelt

I foresee an immense future for Russia. Of course, she too will have to go through certain shake-ups and, perhaps, severe shocks, but all this will pass, and after that Russia will rise and become a bulwark of all of Europe, perhaps the most powerful power in the whole world.

Adam Smith

For the sake of a righteous idea, Russian people happily work, even while in prison, and then they do not feel like prisoners - they gain freedom.

Albert Schweitzer

Russian people do not need the materialistic "values" of the West, do not need the dubious achievements of the East in the sphere of abstract spirituality, which has nothing to do with reality.