Robert K. Massie

Quotes

• “Books were her refuge. Having set herself to learn the Russian language, she read every Russian book she could find. But...”
• “Peter, who broke his enemies on the rack and hanged them in Red Square, who had his son tortured to death, is Peter the ...”
• “This marriage had resulted from impulse: he had seen her on a high-flying swing at Tsarkoe Selo and her skirt, flared by...”
• “She (historian Barbara Tuchman) draws on skepticism, not cynicism, leaving the reader not so much outraged by human abil...”
• “She had dealt with her pregnancy by wrapping herself in dreams.”
• “In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.”
• “There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.”