Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev. (№ 294864)

Between Russia and the West can not be the Union nor the interests, nor for the sake of principles we, Russian, should always be remembered that the principles, which are Russia and Europe, so opposite, so mutually negate each other, that the life of one is only possible at the cost of death of another. Therefore, the only natural policy of Russia in relation to Western powers, it is not a Union with one or another of these powers, and separation, the separation of them. Because only when they are disconnected between themselves, cease to be hostile to us - in the impotence.