Author of quotes: Lev Nikolayevich Gumilev

Muscovites, Serpukhov, Rostovites, Belozersk, Smolensk, Murom and so on came to the Kulikovo field, and the Russians left it.

Somehow Lev Gumilyov in conversation unflattering said about the intelligentsia, and the journalist said:
- Leo, how can You say that, You're an intelligent person!
And he answered:
Well, I'm intelligent - I have a profession, and I love the Motherland!

I know one thing and I'll tell you in secret that if Russia will be saved only as a Eurasian power, and only through Eurasianism.

Discussion the same - it's a long, expensive and futile: all not argue. In addition, it is always preferable not to argue, but to act.

To learn the different experience can and should, but remember that this is the experience of others.

The inclusion of Muscovy huge territories were carried out not by destruction of the joining peoples or violence against the traditions and faith of the natives, and due to the complementary contacts of Russians with the natives or the voluntary transfer of people under the hand of the Moscow Tsar. Thus, colonization of Siberia, the Russian was not similar to the extermination of North American Indians by Anglo-Saxons or the slave trade carried out by French and Portuguese adventurers, nor for the exploitation of the Javanese by Dutch traders. But at the time of these "acts" and the Anglo-Saxons, the French, the Portuguese and the Dutch have already experienced the age of Enlightenment and was proud of his "civility".

Right was our great compatriot Fyodor Dostoyevsky, arguing that if the French have the pride, love for elegance, the Spanish jealousy of the English - honesty and thoroughness, the Germans - orderly, the Russians have the ability to understand and accept other people. And do Russians see, for example, Europeans are much better than they understand the Russians. Our ancestors perfectly aware of the uniqueness of the lifestyle of the peoples encountered, and because the ethnic diversity of Russia continued to increase.

Suzdal, the Vladimir, the Rostov, Pskov went to fight on the Kulikovo field as representatives of their principalities but returned from there by the Russians, although living in different cities. And because in the ethnic history of our country the battle of Kulikovo is considered to be the event after which a new ethnic group - Moscow Russia - has become a reality, a fact of world-historical importance.

All the vaunted present - only a moment, immediately becoming the past, and to return this morning no better than the Punic era, or the Napoleonic wars. And paradoxically, it is a modernity that is alleged, and the story is real.

- Leo, you're an intellectual?
- God preserve me! The current intelligentsia is a spiritual sect. Tellingly: do not know, do not know how, but everything is judged and absolutely do not accept dissent.