Nikolai Gogol - Russia Quotes

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I am very fond of the modest manner of life of those solitary owners of remote villages, who in Little Russia are commonly called "old-fashioned," who are like tumbledown picturesque little houses, delightful in their simplicity and complete unlikeness to the new smooth buildings whose walls have not yet been discolored by the rain, whose roofs are not yet covered with green lichen, and whose porch does not display its bricks through the peeling stucco.

Nikolai Gogol

Russia, are you not speeding along like a fiery and matchless troika?

Nikolai Gogol

In the course of the reading he [Pushkin] became more and more melancholy and finally became completely gloomy. When the reading was over he uttered in a voice full of sorrow: "Goodness, how sad is our Russia!"

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Russia! Russia! I see you now, from my wondrous, beautiful past I behold you! How wretched, dispersed, and uncomfortable everything is about you...

Nikolai Gogol

[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.

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