Through reason Russia can't be known,
No common yardstick can avail you:
She has a nature all her own —
Have faith in her, all else will fail you.


'Through reason Russia can't be known' (1866)


Through reason Russia can't be known, No common yardstick can avail you: She has a nature all her own — Have faith in her, all else will fail you.

Through reason Russia can't be known, No common yardstick can avail you: She has a nature all her own — Have faith in her, all else will fail you.

Through reason Russia can't be known, No common yardstick can avail you: She has a nature all her own — Have faith in her, all else will fail you.

Through reason Russia can't be known, No common yardstick can avail you: She has a nature all her own — Have faith in her, all else will fail you.