When the Tsar speaks everyone should remain silent.
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When asked by Nicholas I why he suddenly stopped playing the piano during the final concert of his first Russian tour. Quite a suicidal move in the Russian Empire of the 1840s!Franz Liszt
Mosalsky: Good folk! Maria Godunov and her son Feodor have poisoned themselves. We have seen their dead bodies. [The People are silent with horror.] Why are ye silent? Cry, Long live the Tsar Dimitry Ivanovich! [The People are speechless.]
Aleksandr (Alexander Pushkin) Pushkin
Tsar Nicholas the Bloody, who has dispersed the First and Second Dumas, who has drowned Russia in blood, enslaved Poland and Finland, and is in alliance with out — and-out reactionaries conducting a policy of stifling the Jews and all “aliens”, the tsar whose loyal friends shot down the workers on the Lena and ruined the peasants to the point of starvation all over Russia — that tsar pretends to be the champion of Slav independence and freedom!"
Vladimir Lenin
Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
Joseph Stalin
He who is silent speaks volumes.
Anonymous
Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.
Albert Pike
Liszt, Franz
Littlewood, John Edensor
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