All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But in reality it was not like that...The majority of the people paid no attention to the general course of events but were influenced only by their immediate personal interests.
Leo Tolstoybut that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.
Leo Tolstoy