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Portrait of Yekaterina Saltykov, lady in waiting to empress Elizabeth Alexeievna (circa 1810s)
A man comes home and sees his house engulfed with fire, the flames darting from every joint, and it gradually dawns on him that this is that end of everything of which he has sometimes vaguely dreamed and which did he but know it, he has been expecting all his life.
— M. E. Saltykov-Schedrin, The History of a Town
The Gay Squad;
Sergei Saltykov, Pyotr Fyodorovich,
and Christian August von Brockdorff
The weft and warp of intrigue are dangerous things if you once start pulling at the ends.
— M. E. Saltykov-Schedrin, The History of a Town
At that moment they recalled all that was ever dear to them, all that was sacred and cherished and loved, all that had helped them to accept life and to bear its burdens. A man becomes so accustomed to these ancient idols in his heart, he puts his best hopes in them for so long, that the possibility of losing them never really occurs to him. Then the moment comes when he sees their loss not as an abstraction, not as a figment of his fearful imagination, but as a plain fact, which there is no going against. Confronted with this reality, a man cannot at first bear the pain it brings.
— M. E. Saltykov-Schedrin, The History of a Town
« Давайте выпьем за Императора, Фридриха Великого. »
« Ваше высочество, быть может выпьем за юную даму? Мир женщин прекрасен. И скоро он откроется вам во всех своих проявлениях . Во всей своей кросоте. »
« Я боюсь. »
Vasily Saltykov in the Moscow Art Theatre, Russia
Russian vintage postcard
It cannot be denied that peoples can and should be given the opportunity to taste the fruit of the tree of knowledge, but this fruit must be held by a firm hand, and held in such a way that it can be at any time removed from lips that prove too eager.
— M. E. Saltykov-Schedrin, The History of a Town
