Moscow

is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.

Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it. Anton Chekhov

I do not like Moscow at all Moscow is the seat of idleness . . . there [in Moscow] is a collection of riff-raff of every and order, who since time immemorial turn and order, who since time immemorial turn into a riotous mob at the least trifle, who even cherish the tales of those riots and feed their minds upon them . . . . In Petersburg the people are more submissive, more polite, less superstitious, more accustomed to foreigners. Notes CATHERINE the Great (1729-1796)

is no silent immensity of cold stones piled one upon the other to form symmetrical patterns. No, indeed! It has its own soul, its own life, and every stone is graven with its own inscription, carved by time and destiny.

Moscow is not an ordinary city like thousands of others; it is no silent immensity of cold stones piled one upon the other to form symmetrical patterns no, indeed! It has its own soul, its own life .. . every stone is graven with its own inscription, carved by time and destiny, an inscription beyond the comprehension of the crowd but rich and rewarding in thought, feeling, and inspiration for the scholar. A Panorama of Moscow

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