“By 1937 Soviet standards, mementos of Russian history before the 1917 revolution were irrelevant. Even the suggestion that china, jewelry, or furniture created for the imperial palaces of the tsars was worth more than its weight in gold might be construed as anti-Soviet propaganda.” Soviet UnionRussian HistoryMarjorie Merriweather PostArt CollectionImperial PalacesRussian ArtSoviet RussianAnti Soviet PropagandaRussian ChinaTsars Book:American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post Source: American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post
“The great Russian literature is above all a literature of pessimism, more accurately of passive pessimism.... Russian passive pessimism educated the cadre of "superfluous people," or to put it more simply, parasites, "dreamers," people "without any given responsibilities," "whimperers," "grey little people" of the "twentieth rank.".... In contemporary Russian ethnographic romanticism such an idealization of past Razins and Pugachevs fuses with a sense of Russian "imperial" patriotism and obscures dreams concerning the future. It is incapable of going beyond this. The great Russian literature has reached its limit and has halted at the crossroads.... And the illiterate advice to found our orientation upon Muscovite art sounds like a malicious irony directed at the same Russian literature. By the will of history entirely the opposite will come to pass: Russian literature can only find the magical balm for its revival beneath the luxuriant, vital tree of the renaissance of young national republics, in the atmosphere of the springtime of once oppressed nations.” RussianRussian LiteratureRussian ArtMuscovite Book:The Cultural Renaissance in Ukraine: Polemical Pamphlets 1925-26 Source: The Cultural Renaissance in Ukraine: Polemical Pamphlets 1925-26