...Tiutchev is quite popular among the opponents of this viewpoint: Russia is understood not by the mind, Nor by a common rule. She has a special stature of her own: In Russia one can only believe. But the practice of developing a market economy and the first steps taken toward a civil society...

...perhaps my most important point. Tyutchev once wrote that: Russia is understood not by the mind, Nor by a common rule. She has a special stature of her own: In Russia one can only believe. My friends, Bill Clinton and I believe in Russia. So do your many American friends. We believe...

...statements with a straight face was also considered normal. As the great Russian poet Fedor Tyutchev wrote, "Not by the mind is Russia understood / Nor is she...stature of her own / In Russia one can only put his faith."5 Yeltsin, in contrast to Gorbachev, appealed to trust and national mysticism rather than to...

...burden, The Heavenly Tsar has traveled In servile guise across you. My native land, with blessing. Not by the mind is Russia understood, Nor is she measured by a standard rule: She has a special measure of her own; In Russia it is possible only to believe. —...