Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from A Russian Beauty.
Love Quotes
Yet there was a time in her life, at the end of 1916 or so, when at a summer resort near the family estate there was no schoolboy who did not plan to shoot himself because of her, there was no univ...
Society and Class Quotes
Olga, of whom we are about to speak, was born in the year 1900, in a wealthy, carefree family of nobles. (1)
Suffering Quotes
A supply of memories, such as these, comprised her sole dowry when she left Russia in the spring of 1919. Everything happened in full accord with the style of the period. Her mother died of typhus,...
Appearances Quotes
A pale little girl in a white sailor suit, with a side parting in her chestnut hair and such merry eyes that everyone kissed her there, she was deemed a beauty since childhood. The purity of her pr...