“They are all, high and low, rich and poor, alike servile to superiors; haughty and cruel to their dependents; ignorant, superstitious, cunning, brutal, barbarous, dirty, mean. The emperor canes the first of his grandees; princes and nobles cane their slaves; and the slaves their wives and daughters.” – wrote Dr. Edward Clarke in his famous book ‘Travels in Russia”. Read what I. Bunin wrote about the Russians a century later. As a reminder, even Russian poet Lermontov described his homeland as ‘Farewell, Unwashed Russa, the land of slaves, the land of lords’.
There is also an article about Russians’ sadistic nature >
