Quotes About Muscovites

was curious, Andrei thought, how these Russians seemed to take pride in the cruelty of their rulers, even when it was directed against themselves. He had several times heard Muscovites speak admiringly of the terrors of Ivan: they seemed almost to long for his return. How different from the Cossack way. The Cossack warrior gave his hetman power of life and death over everyone during a campaign; but woe betide him if he tried to exercise any authority in time of peace!

He squatted on his haunches, and I joined him. Muscovites, with the insistent air of urbane sophisticates, like to note that the pose is not native to Russia. Balancing yourself on your heels, often for hours, to wait or talk is a custom of the Caucasus and Central Asia, but one that Russians at some point ages ago seem to have taken as their own.

My parents were Muscovites. They worked at the Kaliber factory.