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Great Russian

noun

A member of the chief stock of Russian people living in European Russia; used to distinguish ethnic Russians from other peoples incorporated into Russia.

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"Great russian" Quotes from Famous Books

... Athens, and inspected the modern city also. In the afternoon we drove or rather ploughed our way from Athens to Piraeus (five miles) along the worst road I ever traversed, not excepting the streets of Constantinople. We found the harbour gay with music, flags and bunting, in honour of a great Russian Admiral who was leaving his ship to journey by ours to Constantinople. His officers bade him respectful farewells on the deck of our steamer, and he ceremoniously ...

— Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland • Joseph Tatlow

... from M. Dostoevsky's celebrated novel, The Brothers Karamazof, the last publication from the pen of the great Russian novelist, who died a few months ago, just as the concluding chapters appeared in print. Dostoevsky is beginning to be recognized as one of the ablest and profoundest among Russian writers. His characters are invariably typical portraits drawn from various classes ...

— "The Grand Inquisitor" by Feodor Dostoevsky • Feodor Dostoevsky

... abroad; and travelled all round the social circle of Saint Petersburgh. Figuratively speaking, our young hunters were transformed into animals themselves—they became "lions,"—and remained so for that season; but even at this hour in the salons of the great Russian capital, you may often hear introduced, as ...

— Bruin - The Grand Bear Hunt • Mayne Reid

... way. Except for the first effort of swallowing, the rest is entirely involuntary and even unconscious. Those readers who are interested would do well to read the work of Pavlow on the conditioned reflex, in which the great Russian physiologist builds up all action on a basis of a modification of the primitive reflex which he calls the ...

— The Foundations of Personality • Abraham Myerson