Сообщение №86045836

"The view of Alexis Tolstoy is extremely interesting. He is, as it were, the ancestor of later Russian writers who assert that in the spiritual plane there are two Russias. One Russia has its roots in the universal, or at least in European culture. In this Russia the ideas of goodness, honour and freedom are understood as in the West. But there is another Russia; the Russia of the Taiga, the animal Russia, the fanatic Russia, the Mongol Tartar Russia. This last Russia made despotism and fanaticism its ideal."
(THE SLAVONIC YEAR-BOOK, Volume XIX of the Slavonic and East European Review, London, 1939-1940, стр.71)