Duke Alexander Mikhailovich

Famous quotes containing the words duke, alexander and/or mikhailovich:

    “I hate the whole race.... There is no believing a word they say—your professional poets, I mean—there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.”
    —Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke Wellington (1769–1852)

    “An Austrian army, awfully array’d,
    Boldly by battery besiege Belgrade;
    Cossack commanders cannonading come,
    Deal devastation’s dire destructive doom;”
    —Alaric Alexander Watts (1797–1864)

    “The savages set up gods to which they pray, and which they punish if one of their prayers is not answered.... That is what is happening at this moment.... Yesterday Kerensky; today Lenin and Trotsky; another tomorrow.”
    —Victor Mikhailovich Chernov (1873–1972)