Tsarist Russia Quotes

… in the quality and range of women’s higher education, retrograde Tsarist Russia had no peer in Europe, and was second only to the U. S. A. Russian wives could own property, while in ‘advanced’ Victorian Britain, they were entirely propertyless…. The University of Calcutta gave degrees to women in 1883, decades before Oxford and Cambridge.

I love the flamboyance, the melodrama, the bloody theatre of Russian history.

It was probably only the Tsarist Government's chronic dislike of popular education that saved the Rumanian peasantry from compulsory Russification.

I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every turn. It's a city of enormous contradictions. Within a few yards of Lenin's Tomb is some of the most expensive shopping in the world.

Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.

Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy, or they will end their years in exile like the Russian aristocrats of a century earlier.

The Russian empire under czars and commissars has been hard to deal with for other countries.

'Make America great again,' is not that different from Putin's nostalgia for the Soviet Union or tsarist Russia.

My favourite city is Moscow, because of its history, which I find fascinating. As I learned to speak Russian, it made it even more interesting.