In front of me 327 pages of the manuscript [Master and Margarita] (about 22 chapters). The most important remains - editing, and it's going to be hard. I will have to pay close attention to details. Maybe even re-write some things... 'What's its future?' you ask? I don't know. Possibly, you will store the manuscript in one of the drawers, next to my 'killed' plays, and occasionally it will be in your thoughts. Then again, you don't know the future. My own judgement of the book is already made and I think it truly deserves being hidden away in the darkness of some chest.
[Bulgakov from Moscow to his wife on June 15 1938]
Tag: writing censorship letter russia writing-process master-and-margarita samizdat
One does not go to Moscow to get fat.
John UpdikeTag: humor poverty russia oil russian moscow john-updike quotes-about-moscow quotes-about-russia
In Russia, drunks are our kindest people. Our kindest people are also the most drunk.
Fyodor DostoevskyTag: satire russia alchoholism
You have amazing gifts. Don't squander them. Don't give them out meaninglessly, don't abuse them, don't take them for granted. You are the weapon you carry with you till the day you die.
-Tatiana and Alexander
Tag: wwii russia truelove tatianaandalexander
But in the 17th century Russian Orthodoxy was gravely weakened by an internal schism. In the 18th, the country was shaken by Peter's forcibly imposed transformations, which favored the economy, the state, and the military at the expense of the religious spirit and national life. And along with this lopsided Petrine enlightenment, Russia felt the first whiff of secularism; its subtle poisons permeated the educated classes in the course of the 19th century and opened the path to Marxism. By the time of the Revolution, faith had virtually disappeared in Russian educated circles; and amongst the uneducated, its health was threatened.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTag: russia secularism marxism
I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.
Leo TolstoyTag: literature russia leo-tolstoy family-happiness
In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival.
Chaim PotokTag: america russia carnival yeshiva
We drank our coffee the Russian way. That is to say we had vodka before it and vodka afterwards.
Philip SingtonI was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.
Mikhail BaryshnikovTag: humor communism russia kgb
Every morning I called Aeroflot to ask about my suitcase. "Oh, it's you," sighed the clerk. "Yes, I have your request right here. Address: Yasnaya Polyana, Tolstoy's house. When we find the suitcase we will send it to you. In the meantime, are you familiar with our Russian phrase *resignation of the soul*?
Elif BatumanTag: plans russia resignation traveling russian dusha elif-batuman russian-soul
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