Publicism

“...Bloodshed, riots and disasters constitute the main and, unfortunately, most curious part of the world's chronicles; but the History of our Fatherland, li...

“The Moniteur contains the organic charter of the Legion of Honor, which, despite the intelligent, oratorical speech of Lucian Bonaparte, seems like a strang...

“...Never have the sciences been so generally useful as in our time. Their language, previously difficult and mystical, became easy and clear. Knowledge, whi...

“...Leveque says that Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich established the Secret Chancellery, and, like an easy French author, he adds: “It’s a pity!” He was, however, ...

“...Oh my God! How many changes have happened before my eyes! The beauties have turned ugly, the cheerful women have become sad; in the hands that previously...

“Every spring the mood rises and the most fantastic rumors grow. Every autumn, the mood drops and a general whining begins: “Is it worth hoping and waiting, ...

“Russian emigrant literature is primarily a literature of memoirs and human documents. The time has not yet come for historical and artistic generalizations....

“God has given me the greatest misfortune that can befall a writer—to be sincere. I will not argue whether I have talent or not, whether what I have written ...

“Somewhere, of course, in the desert, as a good legend says, there lived a stern and pious old man. Dry, black, with a gray beard down to his knees, with eye...

“I’m only thirty years old, and when I look back, it seems to me as if I were walking through some huge cemetery and saw nothing but graves and crosses. Soon...

“In vain did they attack the idea of inner feeling; just as in the physical world unhealthy food disgusts us in appearance, so we feel disgust at another act...

“The flame was boiling through my veins, fiery roses were burning my heart, my head was quietly bowing... Suddenly the strings sounded impulsively, the roses...