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[Dmitry Bilozerchev] is a genius of gymnastics.
You really don't get how amazing you are, do you? Well let me make it really clear for you - so amazing that I would risk everything, just to let you know. Just to tell you I love you, Sergei. I love you. I love you more than my life
Koturovic's a surname," said Tim. "A patronymic. Not a middle name.
[On Rachmaninoff:] He was the most Russian of them all, like a cathedral in the snow. Holy, wintry, infinite, he was all the Russias.
I'm one-fourth Tatar and three-fourths Bashkirian.
Peter. Peter Kavinsky. Even saying his name is a remembered pleasure, something to savor, like a piece of chocolate dissolving on my tongue.
He is the man who has been brought on to replace Pavel Nedved. The irreplaceable Pavel Nedved.
No one remembered Vladimir Semyonitch. He was utterly forgotten.
Hello, Tatiana. I'm Alexander. Have we met before?
Following his doctor's orders, Nikita (Khrushchev) has cut his drinking in half. He's leaving out the water.
I'm just a Bolshevik with a laptop.
Ivashkov," she repeated, her face the picture of serenity. "My name is Sydney Ivashkov.
psychologist Timothy
Samovar is the most essential thing in Russia, especially at times of particularly awful, sudden, and eccentric catastrophes and misfortunes
The depreciation of the rouble keeps me awake at night, Dmitri Fyodorovitch; people don't know that side of me
Sergeant Stephan Schneider
In this life or the next, I hold you to your promise Mikhail Ivelitsch.
I have a Russian heart.
Oh, Karamazov, I am deeply unhappy.
Which brings me to you, Prince Boris. And I'm sorry, but here's the thing ... I think you're one of the nicest Russian aristocrats I've ever met and not been forced into an arranged marriage with,' [said the Doctor]
A man like Dmitry was never irate. His coldness was only reflected in the manner in which he destroyed.
I speak a little bit of Russian.
To the voters in 1960, the name Nikita Khrushchev carried great emotional significance. To these students, he sounded like just another hockey player.
I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.
Known as a negative player, Karpov sets up deep traps and creates moves that seem to allow his opponent possibilities - but that really don't. He takes no chances, and he gives his opponents nothing. He's a trench-warfare fighter who keeps the game moving just an inch at a time.
What were you going to do tonight?" "I was going to listen to the songs of Rachmaninoff." "Who's that?" "A dead Russian.
Would Boris like a naughty Natasha in his bed?
Whatever. Boris, must you constantly breathe on me?
[Khrushchev] should get a one-ton medal.
Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.
Her name was Dominika Egorova. She was a ballerina, an officer in the SVR, a Sparrow trained to bend others' minds. She loved and was loved in return.
Any man can fuck me. But Alexei fucks my mind. My heart. My soul. He lights me up and burns me down. Every single time.
Nice one, Catpiss,' he says. That's not my real name. My name is actually Kantkiss. Kantkiss Neverclean.
Brothers Karamazov
I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning.
sent you to him, Alexei, because I thought your brotherly countenance would help him. But everything is from the Lord, and all our fates as well. 'Except
Being around Nikolai was always like this, watching him shift and change, revealing secrets as he went. He reminded me of the wooden nesting dolls I'd played with as a child. Except instead of getting smaller, he just kept getting grander and more mysterious.
He has. A fucking. Rothko. Over the fireplace
She is ugly, thought Konstantin, and then wondered at himself. What was it to him if a girl was ugly?
We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.
VLADIMIR: Moron!
ESTRAGON: Vermin!
VLADIMIR: Abortion!
ESTRAGON: Morpion!
VLADIMIR: Sewer-rat!
ESTRAGON: Curate!
VLADIMIR: Cretin!
ESTRAGON: (with finality). Crritic!
VLADIMIR: Oh!
He wilts, vanquished, and turns away.
Grow strong, my comrade ... that you may stand
Unshaken when I fall; that I may know
The shattered fragments of my song will come
At last to finer melody in you;
That I may tell my heart that you begin
Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.
Karl was no glamour boy. But even during this first meeting I discovered he had something better. The kind of intelligence that's more attractive than physical beauty.
Everything seemed pleasant and easy to Nikolai during the first part of his stay in Voronezh and, as generally happens when a man is in a pleasant state of mind, everything went well and easily. p 1128
Milord, Knight in Shining Armor, methinks thou hast a present in thy chamber.
Even in name, he seems like a Victorian oddity. "Igor, fetch 'the Crouch' from the catacombs, we're going to the graveyard".
I know him by another name. His real one is Slem, not uncommon for men of his generation. It stands for Stalin Lenin Engels Marx. He's always making up new names for himself
wouldn't you?
Dmitri clearly gives good . . . blood.
ESTRAGON: I can't go on like this.
VLADIMIR: That's what you think.
ROMANOFF: Every Russian family line ends in a czar. That's the only way the genealogist gets paid, sir.
There, weeping, a tsarevna lies locked in a cell.
And Master Grey Wolf serves her very well.
There, in her mortar, sweeping beneath the skies,
the demon Baba Yaga flies.
There Tsar Koschei,
he wastes away,
poring over his pale gold.
I've been writing a lot about a new form of Russian imperialism. Actually, Russian Orthodox imperialism. It's very little remarked that the cement, the political, ideological cement of the Russian regime now, communism having collapsed and imploded, is increasingly a confessional one.
Dimitri shook his head and walked off, muttering something in Russian that didn't sound complimentary.
Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
Hrabosky looks fierce in that Fu Manchu haircut.
Vasily chortled. "What a diplomat you've become! You've a most refreshing way about you. Given time, I have no doubt that, despite your humble antecedents, you will learn to conduct yourself with the restraint and elegance of a noblewoman."
"You mean I'll learn to shut up?
"Who Remembers the Armenians?"
I remember them
and I ride the nightmare bus with them
each night
and my coffee, this morning
I'm drinking it with them
You, murderer -
Who remembers you?
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I tell you, sir, it's very easy for Pyotr Stepanovich to live in the world, because he imagines a man and then lives with him the way he imagined him.
I just want some time, Mikhail, to think things through. It's frightening, the way I am about you. I think about you every minute; I want to touch you, just to know I can, to feel you beneath my fingers. It's as if you crawled into my head and my heart, even my body, and I can't get you out.
He must have some Tartar in him, don't you think?" "I have no idea," Kate said. "Or is it 'Tatar.
Estragon: we lost our rights?
vladimir: we got rid of them.
Your slave and enemy,
D.Karamazov
...we take care not to touch each other in public, nor do we look into each other's eyes except furtively, because Ivan must first wash my eyes with his own, removing the images which landed on my retina before his arrival.
If you love Russia, you have to love Godunov.
Botvinnik was a killer in chess.
I cannot think of a greater symbol of human resistance and courage than our Nobel laureate colleague Andrei Sakharov.
As a good actor reflects in himself the movements and voice of others, so Vassilyev could reflect in his soul the sufferings of others. When he saw tears, he wept; beside a sick
Everyone is from Russia. Sometimes I think I'm from Russia, too. All these new Ovas. I don't know anyone. I don't really recognise anyone. That's just how it is. I think my name must be Williamsova.
What the devil possessed me to reply 1 ... e5?? I compltely forgot that Spassky, like Spielmann in the past, very much likes to play the King's Gambit.
The flower of the present rosily blossomed.
Everyone in Russia must awaken the citizen within himself.
And so my child and I came to this place to meet him eye to eye and face to face. He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced. We never knew what friends we had, until we came to Leningrad.
I remember that he was always trying to expound to me in his broken Russian some special system of astronomy he had invented. I was told that he had once published it, but the learned world had only laughed at him. I think his wits were a little deranged.
everyone is a russian communist
Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
To Moscow, to Moscow, to Moscow!
Alexei was a dream of something more ... He was a reminder that I could be so much more ...
Minsk! How pissed-off that sounded! It was great. You could scare the bejayzus out of someone if you said it right.
Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia.
If I was going to shoot you, we wouldn't be having this conversation. What's your name?" The Italian lifted his head enough to meet Sergei's gaze. "Who wants to know?" Sergei rolled his eyes. "The guy who's going to decide whether you wake up tomorrow in a hospital, a jail cell, or a morgue." He
YURIT - discover it!
Now, dearest comrade, lift me to your face,
We must separate awhileHere! take from my lips this kiss.
Whoever you are, I give it especially to you;
So long!And I hope we shall meet again.
Do you know what 'Sputnik' means in Russian? 'Travelling companion'. I looked it up in a dictionary not long ago. Kind of a strange coincidence if you think about it. I wonder why the Russians gave their satellite that strange name. It's just a poor little lump of metal, spinning around the Earth.
Dmitri was in my arms.
In short, we can see Karpov as an exploiter of other people's ideas. His ability to use these ideas is not at issue, but he himself is about as fertile as a woman who has been sterilized is.
I ALWAYS LIKED MR STALIN
Zhukov was the most successful commander of World War II, who fell from grace under Khrushchev, but never lost his place in the pantheon of Soviet heroes.
Besyn larveth'is!
The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness.
Read the vladimir tod series
Cherk: a charming jerk.
And it has always been a mystery, and I've marveled a thousand times at this ability of man (and, it seems, of the Russian man above all) to cherish the highest ideal in his soul alongside the greatest baseness, and all that in perfect sincerity.
The Adolescent (or, The Raw Youth)
I was sure seeing pictures of Dimitri as a little boy would rip my heart out.
Shit! Those sons a bitches Russians!
I know him. He's a hot chilli pepper, just like me!
(on Valeri Bojinov)
We need to develop respect for our history, despite all of its flaws, and love for the Fatherland. We need to pay the utmost attention to our common moral values and consolidate Russian society on this basis. I think that this is an absolute priority.
Horton, the kangaroo has sent Vlad!' Vlad? I know two Vlads. One is a cute little bunny that brings me cookies. The other is bad Vlad. Which Vlad?' Which one do you think?' Bad Vlad?' Good call.
In Soviet writing the demonization of all forms of Ukrainian nationalism has a long tradition, and would make an interesting study in itself. Soviet writers considered almost any criticism of their state - and, from the 1930s, of the Russian Empire - as "fascist" or "counterrevolutionary,