Aleksandr Pushkin

"Hermann went out of his mind, and is now confined in room Number 17 of the Obukhov Hospital. He never answers any questions, but he constantly mutters with unusual rapidity: "Three, seven, ace!" "Thre…"

"Pushkin's Geneology at Frontline PBS"

"The bread of the stranger is bitter," says Dante, "and his staircase hard to climb." But who can know what the bitterness of dependence is so well as the poor companion of an old lady of quality?"

"Mosalsky: Good folk! Maria Godunov and her son Feodor have poisoned themselves. We have seen their dead bodies. Why are ye silent? Cry, Long live the Tsar Dimitry Ivanovich!"

"Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world."

"God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and do not know our people, or are hard-hearted men who do not care a …"

"Ah! heavy art thou, crown of Monomakh!"

"The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths."