Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy. The road to Calvary (№ 256047)

Ivan Ilyich slammed the book closed.
- You see now... And not lost... the Great Russian was gone! But the grandchildren of most of these ragged men with stakes went to rescue the defeated Charles the Twelfth and Napoleon... And the grandson of the boy by force to Moscow on the sled dragged, Petersburg was built... the Great Russian was gone!.. The County we are, - and there goes the Russian land...