The sight of Russian destiny: to win or not to win this time I will apply from Afar Let me remind you of the continuous appeals of the most intelligent Russian people of the 19th century (the golden age of Russian culture, for a moment) to overcome the ignorance or half-knowledge of Russia. It was written, it was called Kramzin, Pushkin, Gogol, Tyutchev. They thought the state of Russian society intolerable and dangerous. They saw the terrible experiments, which grew like a snowball. National geniuses were right. About Russia's ignorance, Russian nihilism, radicalism of all stripes, and the shameful Russian religiosity in its prime. Now the paradox. On the contrary, our growing demons, who dissipated the energy of suffocation and destruction, were honored by a rare national insight. Because they knew very well the weaknesses and temptations of the Russian world. The most amazing example is Leo Tolstoy. The Grand Elders of Yasupolyansk, the "Miral of the Russian Revolution", a huge fighter against the Orthodox Church, the government and the state; Author of a new religion, new scriptures, ready to "correct" even for Christ. what now What is the result of all the shocking experiments? Has the country seen "the face of Russia" in the fire of the unprecedented Russian problems of the twentieth century? Have you finally found your business? Let's be honest, the national thing really worries some people today. A post-Soviet society with a completely late Soviet consciousness lives down its sleeves and lazily looks at the Internet. Or he doesn't watch. Where will the Solzhenitsyn monument stand in Vladivostok, who is Solzhenitsyn himself, what did he write about... Does it matter? Vykovskaya station in Moscow to specify not the name. Well, as a murderer and a villain, we're used to it. In the house of a hanged man there is no talk of a rope. right? Not so. First, this is not a Russian proverb. Second, the house with the Voikskaya station is the house of execution. Historical Russia, for all its shortcomings, was a completely different home.

The sight of Russian destiny: to win or not to win this time I will apply from Afar Let me remind you of the continuous appeals of the most intelligent Russian people of the 19th century (the golden age of Russian culture, for a moment) to overcome the ignorance or half-knowledge of Russia. It was written, it was called Kramzin, Pushkin, Gogol, Tyutchev. They thought the state of Russian society intolerable and dangerous. They saw the terrible experiments, which grew like a snowball. National geniuses were right. About Russia's ignorance, Russian nihilism, radicalism of all stripes, and the shameful Russian religiosity in its prime. Now the paradox. On the contrary, our growing demons, who dissipated the energy of suffocation and destruction, were honored by a rare national insight. Because they knew very well the weaknesses and temptations of the Russian world. The most amazing example is Leo Tolstoy. The Grand Elders of Yasupolyansk, the "Miral of the Russian Revolution", a huge fighter against the Orthodox Church, the government and the state; Author of a new religion, new scriptures, ready to "correct" even for Christ. what now What is the result of all the shocking experiments? Has the country seen "the face of Russia" in the fire of the unprecedented Russian problems of the twentieth century? Have you finally found your business? Let's be honest, the national thing really worries some people today. A post-Soviet society with a completely late Soviet consciousness lives down its sleeves and lazily looks at the Internet. Or he doesn't watch. Where will the Solzhenitsyn monument stand in Vladivostok, who is Solzhenitsyn himself, what did he write about... Does it matter? Vykovskaya station in Moscow to specify not the name. Well, as a murderer and a villain, we're used to it. In the house of a hanged man there is no talk of a rope. right? Not so. First, this is not a Russian proverb. Second, the house with the Voikskaya station is the house of execution. Historical Russia, for all its shortcomings, was a completely different home.