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# Mikhail Pogodin's 1846 Remark on the West and Muscovite Russia
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/v-istoriko-kriticheskikh-otryvkakh-u-mikhaila-pogodina-est-takaia-zanimatelnaia-fraza-ot-1846-goda-protivopostavliaiushchaia-vozrozhdencheskii-zapad-i-moskovskuiu-rus-u-nikh-propaganda/
- Published: 2021-03-04T11:01:04.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:52:15.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Books, Observations, Humour

In his "Historical and Critical Fragments", Mikhail Pogodin has an amusing phrase dating from 1846, setting the Renaissance West against Muscovite Rus': "... with them propaganda, with us preservation, with them movement, with us tranquillity...". It makes one smile that today these words would most likely be arranged in precisely the opposite order.