Tag Archives: Ivan The Terrible

too much is not enough

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Dave

Fatalism as part of the Rusian DNA, an absurd romanticism stretched to the extreme, grounded in a byzantine hierarchy of social order that defined the nobility, fenced them off from the world at large, and which ultimately this insulation contributed … Continue reading →

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too much is never enough

Posted on March 4, 2012 by Dave

Larger than life. Way larger than life. In Russia, it can be said there is no middle ground, only extremes. There is a “scarlet thread” of extravagance runnig through the Czarist past, the collectivized period and back to the present. … Continue reading →