Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Vasily Klyuchevsky
Born: January 28, 1841
Died: May 25, 1911 (aged 70)
Bio: Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky was a leading Russian historian of the late imperial period.