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Peter the Great
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- Upphovsrättsinnehavare
- Head of Zeus
- Utgivningsår
- 2012
- Förlag
- Head of Zeus
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- Anna Chasovikovahar citeratför 4 timmar sedan
It was true that the old Russian clothing was bulky and made walking difficult; limbs were certainly freer once the long robes and coats were cast off. But in the rigorous cold of Russian winter, the freer limbs were also more likely to be frostbitten. When the temperature sank to twenty or thirty below zero, the old Russian in his warm boots, his greatcoat rising above his ears and reaching down to the ground, with his bushy beard protecting his mouth and cheeks, could look with satisfaction at that poor Westernized fellow whose face was purple in the cold and whose knees, showing beneath his shortened coat, knocked together in a futile effort to keep warm. - Anna Chasovikovahar citeratför 3 dagar sedanIvan the Terrible expressed the traditional Muscovite feeling when he declared, “To shave the beard is a sin that the blood of all the martyrs cannot cleanse. It is to deface the image of man created by God.”
- Anna Chasovikovahar citeratför 3 dagar sedanhoping, says an observer, “to prove by the promptitude of their obsequiousness, the constancy of their loyalty.”
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