History is nothing other than a collection of fables and useless trifles messed up with a mass of unnecessary dates and proper names....Why should any one have to know that the second marriage of Ivan the Terrible to the daughter of Temryuk took place on August 21, 1562, or that the fourth to Ann Alekseyevna Koltovski happened in 1572? Yet they demand that I learn all this by heart, and if I do not know it, they give me a 'one.'

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

History would be a wonderful thing - if it were only true.

And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people.

A people's memory is history. A people without a history can grow neither wiser nor better.

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb i…

I hope now we will start to work with the young generation. Let them know what was the real exact history at that time. But now everybody is forgetting what we…