[Is it not that] you too, Russia, are speeding along like a spirited troika that nothing can overtake? … Everything on earth is flying past, and looking askance, other nations and states draw aside and make way.


Dead Souls (1842) pt. 1, ch. 11 (translated by David Magarshak)


[Is it not that] you too, Russia, are speeding along like a spirited troika that nothing can overtake? … Everything on earth is flying past, and...

[Is it not that] you too, Russia, are speeding along like a spirited troika that nothing can overtake? … Everything on earth is flying past, and...

[Is it not that] you too, Russia, are speeding along like a spirited troika that nothing can overtake? … Everything on earth is flying past, and...

[Is it not that] you too, Russia, are speeding along like a spirited troika that nothing can overtake? … Everything on earth is flying past, and...