“…– Let nothing confuse you, nothing stop you, nothing frighten you - the Lord himself is with you. Such words of Teresa of Avila are carved on her statue. T...

“Perhaps it is daring to mention this. But every time I think about the sinister and mysterious forces surrounding the empress and emperor, about the mystica...

“...The old field marshal said: “An, here is my order... What is your name, Father Major?” “Prime Major Alexandra Suvorov, your Excellency!” - a lean young m...

“...Dobuzhinsky is a prisoner of St. Petersburg. It is unlikely that the master will ever move away, come out of the St. Petersburg world, and to talk about ...

“...knew not only the names, but the contents of all the books in the Rumyantsev Library. He refused promotions and distributed his salary, less than 400 rub...

“...again I remember the inarticulate speeches of the old men of the Moscow regiment, who came to my father, an equally old soldier, about how the Bronze Hor...

“...Will we not fall into self-confidence when we assert that Russian literature is “experiencing a period of decline,” as well as with the opposite statemen...

“…"Epigraphs" by Landau - a collection of short aphorisms, the thinker's responses to the impressions of being and his notes on internal spiritual experience...

“...The architect Trezzini was an amateur organist in a church on the Nevsky prospect. In the church choirs, in the bright waves of the oratorios, a tender g...

“...The commander of His Majesty's Life Guards Cuirassier Regiment, General Rauch, congratulated the sovereign on the birth of an heir the next day and inqui...

“A Russian doctor from a distant post beyond Dakar has been sending me rare letters for two years now. Sometimes these are abrupt short notes, sometimes refl...

“...The name of Dukhonin is one of the most inspired and brightest names of heroic Russia. This is the name of duty and heroism.”