Russian Empress

Famous quotes containing the words russian and/or empress:

“From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)

“The Empress is Legitimist, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873)