Author: Simon Montefiore

Cites

• Alexander Pushkin (1)
  • IN: Sashenka (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: There where the waves spray The feet of solitary reefs... A loving enchantress Gave me her talisman. She told me with tenderness: You must not lose it, Its power is infallible, Love gave it to you.
    FROM: The Talisman, (1828), Poem, Russia
• Nikolai Leskov (1)
  • IN: Sashenka (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Now and again in these parts, you come across people so remarkable that, no matter how much time has passed since you met them, it is impossible to recall them without your heart trembling.
    FROM: Lady Macbeth of Mtensk, (1865), Novella, Russia
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Sashenka (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Here I am abandoned, an orphan, with no one to look after me, And I will die before long and there'll be no one to pray at my grave, Only the nightingale will sing sometimes on the nearest tree...
    FROM: Song of Petrograd street children, (1917), NULL, NULL