WANDERLIST: Ten great travel quotes about Russia

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  • “Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” – Winston Churchill (1939)
  • “The real Russia is always in the future.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky (1864)
  • “Russia is an endless source of inspiration, contradictions, and utter vastness.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1974)
  • “Russia is a country that imagines itself as Europe, yet finds itself in Asia.” – Vasily Aksyonov (1990)
  • “Russia can be a cruel and splendid country, like no other on earth.” – Andrei Bely (1910)
  • “Russia is a land where fairy tales are true.” – Anton Chekhov (1889)
  • “Russia is not a country, it is a state of mind.” – Ivan Turgenev (1862)
  • “Russia has always been a country of extremes, both expansive and repressive.” – Joseph Brodsky (1987)
  • “In Russia, poetry is respected above all.” – Anna Akhmatova (1965)
  • “Russia’s soul is deep, dark, and complex, like its literature.” – Mikhail Bulgakov (1925)
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