Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.

Cabbage soup and barley. They're Russia's national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.

I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.

I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.

Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.

I was not born to amuse the Tsars.

With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.