Anton Chekhov
Playwright, Short Story Writer
"To Moscow, to Moscow, to Moscow!"
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Moscow
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Anton Chekhov
Playwright, Short Story Writer
"Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it."
Anton Chekhov
Playwright, Short Story Writer
"In Moscow you sit in a huge room at a restaurant; you know no one and no one knows you, and at the same time you don't feel a stranger. But here you know everyone and everyone knows you, and yet you are a stranger - a stranger... A stranger, and lonely..."
Fidel Castro
Politician, Revolutionary
"I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible."
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"The messages on our banners in 1979 - freedom, opportunity, family, enterprise, ownership - are now inscribed on the banners in Leipzig, Warsaw, Budapest and even Moscow."
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"There was an American girl, Priscilla Johnson. She worked for U.P. in Moscow. She knew [John] Kennedy, and she met [Lee Harvey] Oswald around the same time I did. But I can tell you something else almost as curious."
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"I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary of State visit to Moscow)"
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"There are definitely many adventures on the road with Jessica 6. It sometimes feels like we're in a movie. I was recently kidnapped by 2 taxi drivers in Moscow. They drove me over 2 hours out of town till I started to cry then they drove me 3 more hours finally to my hotel!"
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