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Russians who they are statements about Russians. Quotes about Russia and Russians

13.02.2019

We remember the brightest and famous quotes, thoughts, aphorisms prominent people about Russia and its people.

Alexander III 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.

No creative historical path is possible without a primordial and spontaneous love for Russia. 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.

An infinitely difficult task faced the Russian people - the task of organizing 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 on the part of the 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 Imperial Academy 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.

Beauty, majesty, strength and wealth Russian language are quite clear from books written in past centuries, when our ancestors did not yet know any rules for compositions, but they hardly thought that they existed or could exist.

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.

It seems to me that we have begun to forget how to talk about Russia. For the past 25 years, we have been used to listening to Alfred Koch, who called Russia an unnecessary, bankrupt country, and Tatyana Tolstaya, who called Russia nothing more than a "stony fat-ass fool."

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

Russian statements

Alexander III

Russia has no friends, they are afraid of our hugeness... Russia has only two reliable allies - its army and its navy. (link)

Nikolai Berdyaev

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

Nikolay Gogol

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 now leading us to this love. (link)

You do not yet love Russia: you only know how to be sad and irritated by rumors about everything bad that is done in it, all this produces in you only one callous annoyance and despondency. No, this is not love yet, you are far from love, this is only one too distant foreshadowing of it. ()
No, if you really fall in love with Russia, then that short-sighted thought that has now arisen among many honest and even very smart people, that is, as if at the present time they can no longer do anything for Russia and as if she no longer needs them at all; on the contrary, only then will you feel in full force that love is omnipotent and that everything can be done with it. (link)
Eh, trio! bird troika, who invented you? To know that you could only be born among a lively people, in that land that does not like to joke, but spread out half the world as evenly as possible, and go and count the miles until it fills your eyes. (link)
If there is only one Russian farmstead left, then Russia will be reborn. (link)
Is there really such fires in the world, such torments and such a force that would overcome the Russian force! (link)

Anton Denikin

The Russian is not the one who bears the Russian surname, but the one who loves Russia and considers it his fatherland. (link)

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 ugliness to which they can temporarily and even at least for the most part be humiliated, but one must take into consideration only that height of spirit to which he can climb when his time comes. For ugliness is a temporary misfortune, always almost dependent on circumstances that preceded and transient, from slavery, from age-old oppression, from callousness, and the gift of generosity 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 will still survive intact, in the heart of this people. (link)

The purpose of the Russian man is undeniably pan-European and worldwide. To become a real Russian, to become completely Russian, perhaps, and it only means - to become a brother of all people, an all-man, if you like. (link)

Catherine II

The Russian people are a special people in the world, which is distinguished by conjecture, intelligence, strength. (link)

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

Mikhail Lomonosov

The greatness, power and wealth of the entire state lies in the preservation and reproduction of the Russian people. (link)

Christopher Minich

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

Konstantin Paustovsky

Many Russian words themselves radiate poetry, just as gems radiate a mysterious brilliance. (link)

Vladimir Putin

Alexander Pushkin

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. (link)

Konstantin Simonov

Russians are a stubborn people, and if it once occurred to them good idea, sooner or later they will carry it out on a truly Russian scale! (link)

Pyotr Stolypin

You, gentlemen, need great upheavals; we need great Russia. (link)

Alexander Suvorov

Whoever loves his Fatherland sets the best example of love for humanity. (link)

Nature produced only one Russia. She has no rivals. We are Russians, we will overcome everything. (link)

The fortress is strong, the garrison is a whole army. But nothing can stand against Russian weapons - we are strong and self-confident. (link)

The Russian is distinguished by faith, fidelity and reason. In vain, all of Europe will move on Russia: it will find Thermopylae, Leonidas and its coffin there. (link)

We are Russians! What a delight!

Wherever a deer passes, a Russian soldier will also pass. Where the deer does not pass, it's all the same Russian soldier. (link)

Ivan Turgenev

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

Take care of the purity of the language as a shrine! 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. (link)

Aliens sayings

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 either playing honestly with Russians, or not playing at all. (link)

Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the decomposition of the main force of Russia, which is based on millions of Russians ... These latter, even if they are dissected by international treatises, just as quickly reconnect with each other, like particles of a cut piece of mercury ... (link)

Charles de Gaulle

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

Dalai Lama

Alexandr Duma

Russian people work tirelessly to transform themselves and those around them from humanity to humanity! (link)

Carl Clausewitz

Russia is not a country that can really be 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. (link)

Friedrich Nietzsche

The strongest and most surprising of all willpower is manifested in the vast middle kingdom, where Europe, as it were, returns to Asia - Russia. There, the power to want has long been laid aside and accumulated, there the will is waiting - it is not known whether the will of denial or the will of affirmation - is waiting in a menacing way in order to, according to the favorite expression of today's physicists, be freed. (link)

For any institutions to arise, there must necessarily be a will that stimulates instinct, illiberal to the point of brilliance - the will to tradition, to authority, to responsibility for entire centuries, to the solidarity of past and future generations ... (link)
If this will is present, then something like the Roman Empire will arise, or like Russia - the only country that currently has a future ... (link)
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. (link)

Theodore Roosevelt

I foresee a tremendous future for Russia. Of course, she will also have to go through certain upheavals and, perhaps, severe upheavals, but all this will pass, and after that Russia will rise and become the stronghold of all of Europe, perhaps the most powerful power in the whole world. (link)

Adam Smith

For the sake of a righteous idea, Russian people work with joy, even when they are imprisoned, and then they do not feel like prisoners, they gain freedom. (link)

Albert Schweitzer

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

PS. Quotes from our liberals - about Russia, about Russians, about patriots and about the opposition, are right here.

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 have not a hint of Creative skills". - 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 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 or 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, an 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 by the huge amount of incredible abuse with 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 ...”
"The severity of Russian laws is mitigated by the optionality of their implementation."

“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.

- Nikolai 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 his nose. Their lies come from their slavish essence. 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.”

“Nature has invested in the Russian man an extraordinary ability to believe, a probing 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

A Russian man's 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" - the eternal words of Russian history! - and fires, fires ... And how tired the whole world with its vileness and misfortunes is this vile, greedy, ridiculous bastard Russia! - 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 all its people, is private property king, 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

Let's remember the brightest and most famous quotes, thoughts, aphorisms of prominent people about Russia and its people.

Alexander III the Peacemaker - Emperor of All Russia, Tsar of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland (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.

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When the Russian Tsar is fishing, Europe can wait.

Nikolai Berdyaev - Great Russian philosopher (1874-1948)

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

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No creative historical path is possible without a primordial and spontaneous love for Russia. 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, a 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.

An infinitely difficult task confronted 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.

Nikolai Gogol - Great Russian writer and playwright (1809-1852)

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 on the part of the 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.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky - Great Russian writer (1821-1881).

The highest and most characteristic feature 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.

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: It has a special become - In Russia, you can only believe.

Try to write something like this about Russians on your own behalf and you may even be beaten, but at the same time, these same people honor as classics those who are the author of these characteristics of the Russian people.

Occurs double standard and doublethink, there are those who can tell the truth about Russians and those who cannot.

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"Heavy Russian spirit, nothing to breathe and you can't fly." - A. Blok

"Muscovy - 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.) - Mikhail 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.) - Maxim 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.) - Ivan Turgenev

"Oh, how hard, how unbearably hard it is sometimes to live in Russia, in this stinking environment of dirt, 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.

“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 indifferent to the least obligation, to the least justice, to the least truth, a people that does not recognize human dignity, that does not fully recognize either a free person or 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

"Not the people, but the infernal freak." – V. Rozanov - Russian philosopher, publicist and critic.

"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 the most absurd assumptions on them... It seems to him that all the neighbors offend him, do not bow enough to his greatness and in every possible way are plotting against him .... - Philosopher Vladimir Solovyov

“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. About the Russian peasantry (1922)

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, humiliate and kill. And for the preservation of this status of Russey, an ordinary katsap is ready to sacrifice his own life, the lives of his parents and children, the quality of life of his own people. Truly: katsaps are animals. Fierce, bloodthirsty, but ... mortal." - A. Solzhenitsyn

In Russia there are no average talents, 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

One can revere people who believed in Russia, but not before the object of their belief. - Vasily Klyuchevsky

The Russian government, like reverse providence, arranges for the better not the future, but the past. - Alexander HerzenHerzen

(He said about Putin through the centuries)

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

“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.
“A Russian person strives to crack ham just when trichinas are sitting in it, and to pass through the river when ice cracks on it.”
“Nature has invested in a Russian person an extraordinary ability to believe, a probing 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 whole of Russia is a country of some kind of greedy and lazy people: they eat an awful lot, 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 like a dog: they beat them - they squeal softly and hide in their kennels, caress them - they lie on their backs, paws up and wag their tails ... ”- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov in a conversation with Maxim Gorky.

“Our national character is dominated by servility and servility, obscenity and bloodthirstiness, savagery and drunkenness.” - 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

"A Russian man knows how to be a saint, but he cannot be honest." - Konstantin Leontiev, Russian philosopher (1831 - 1891)

“We, the Muscovites, have drunk the Kirghiz, Chemeris, Buryats and others. They robbed Armenia and Georgia, even banned worship in Georgian language, robbed the richest Ukraine. We gave Europe the anarchists P. Kropotkin, M. Bunin, the apostles of ruin and butchery Shigalev, Nechaev, Lenin, etc. Moral dirt, Muscovy is a monster that even hell would disdain and vomit on the ground. - V. Rozanov, Russian philosopher (1856-1919)

There are few smart people among Russians. If you find any suitable person, then by all means either a Jew, or with an admixture of Jewish blood ... ”- V. I. Lenin, the most revered in Russia political figure(1870 - 1924)

A miserable nation, a nation of slaves, from top to bottom - all slaves. - N. Chernyshevsky

“And I don’t want to know the bestial parody of people, and I consider it a great misfortune for myself that I was born in Russia. After all, the whole of Europe looks at Russia, almost like a cannibal. More than once, I felt ashamed that I belonged to a wild nation.” - V. M. Botkin
during a dispute with Nekrasov. Avdotya Panaeva. "Memories"

The outstanding composer M. Glinka, finally leaving Russia on April 27, 1856, got out of the trough at the border, spat on the ground and said: “God forbid I never see this vile country and its people again!”

The Russian people live too much in national-spontaneous collectivism, and the consciousness of the individual, his dignity and his rights has not yet been strengthened in him. This explains the fact that Russian statehood was so saturated with Germanism and often presented as a foreign dominion. - Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev.

Russia does not contain any healthy and valuable grain. Russia actually-no, it-only seems. This is a terrible phantom, a terrible nightmare that crushes the soul of all enlightened people. From this nightmare we run abroad, we emigrate; and if we agree to leave ourselves in Russia, it is for the sole reason that we are fully convinced that soon this phantom will not exist; and we will scatter it, and for this scattering we remain in this accursed place of Eastern Europe. Our people is only an "environment", "material", "substance" for the acceptance into itself of a single and universal and final truth, which is generally referred to as " European civilization". No "Russian civilization", no "Russian culture". - V.V. Rozanov.

There was nothing good, nothing worthy of respect or imitation in Russia. Everywhere and always there was illiteracy, injustice, robbery, sedition, personal oppression, poverty, disorder, lack of education and depravity. The gaze does not stop at a single bright minute in the life of a people, not at a single era of consolation. – A. Khomyakov

“We are a cruel beast, dark and evil slave blood still flows in our veins - the poisonous legacy of the Tatar and serf yoke. There are no words that could not be used to scold a Russian person ... In Russian cruelty one can feel the devilish sophistication, there is something subtle, refined in it ... It can be assumed that the development of cruelty was influenced by reading the lives of the holy great martyrs ... Who is more cruel: white or red ? Probably the same, because both of them are Russians. - M. Gorky, "proletarian" writer (1868 - 1936)

Russia had no special mission and no! No need to look for any national idea for Russia is a mirage. Life with national idea will lead first to restrictions, and then there will be intolerance towards another race, another people and another religion. Intolerance will inevitably lead to terror. It is impossible to achieve the return of Russia to any single ideology, because a single ideology will sooner or later lead Russia to fascism. - Academician D.S. Likhachev

(Again about Putin)