Russia is a huge cart, dragged along a wretched road by scrawny nags: the officialdom

Russia is a huge cart, dragged along a wretched road by scrawny nags: the officialdom. On the cart sit the common folk and public figures, cursing the authorities for all they are worth and blaming them for the bad road. It is these gentlemen who ought to be taken off the cart and put into the traces; let them try pulling it themselves.

And do you know, Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Plehve, we would not be against trying, so do not fret

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

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Russia is a huge cart, dragged along a wretched road by scrawny nags: the officialdom

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s