Great Northern War/1702-1710 - Russia and The Baltic Provinces

Famous quotes containing the words northern, war and/or russia:

    “I have found that anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.”
    —Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

    “At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.”
    —Frederic Raphael (b. 1931)

    “To believe that Russia has got rid of the evils of capitalism takes a special kind of mind. It is the same kind of mind that believes that a Holy Roller has got rid of sin.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)