“When I was young, I always wanted to go to Russia.” — Simon Sebag Montefiore Quote

“When I was young, I always wanted to go to Russia.”

“Lenin had just reflected that the revolution would never happen in his lifetime when in February 1917, hungry crowds in Petrograd overthrew Nicholas II while the revolutionaries were abroad, exiled, or infiltrated by the secret police.”

“One of the strange things about doing publicity is that a mistake in a newspaper profile long ago is repeated and amplified over time.”