“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by be...

“Ever since studying in Russia as a college student, I had been in a long-distance, one-sided love affair with Chechnya's remarkable his...

“It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.” - Virgil Welcome to the Travel Tuesday meme! Join me every Tuesday and showcase your...

“Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” - Winston Churchill Welcome to the Travel Tuesday meme! Join me every Tuesday an...

“Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommen...

  “... those Yalta nights, with extraordinary women who could drink vodka without swooning until six in the morning and sweaty young peop...

“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” - Frank Lloyd Wright Isaac Ilyich Levitan (Russian: Исаа́к...

“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.” - Iris Murdoch   Alexander Sigov was bor...

“A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, be the testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he...

“I love Russia because Russia gave me you.” ― John M. Simmons   Olga Suvorova is an internationally acclaimed Russian artist. She was ...

“A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.” - Pauline Phillips   Welcome to the Travel Tuesday meme! Join me every T...

“But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how...

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadne...

“If you want to make the most of travel to Russia, it is better to leave tight plans and preconceptions behind and just enjoy the journey...

“A picture is a poem without words.” – Horace     Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi (or Kuinji; Russian: Архи́п Ива́нович Куи́нджи; Ukrainian:...

“To live without hope is to cease to live.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky   Sergey Vasilyevich Ivanov (Russian: Сергей Васильевич Иванов; 1864-1...

“Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.” - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.   Ivan Ivanovich Godlevsky (Russian: Иван Ива...