Stories from Russian history. Peter I. Book 4. Empire. Medinsky V.R.

If our country today had to be dreamed of, what would he want to fix in it? He would have set us a chat for a lot. For wastefulness by the lands-both after 1917 and after 1991. For theft of the 90s. For our craving for comfort, for laziness, for relaxation. I would twist the nuts. Pressed on gas. He raised all the sails. And again, the icy wind would beat us in the face. And we would have remembered the forgotten: that we are an empire, that the empire of courageous has no edges, no shores, no borders. Only horizons.