And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, March 13, 2022
Nikolai Pimonenko (1862-1912), Easter Matins in Little Russia (1891)
"Little Russia", Hmmm!, is that Ukraine, in 1891. asking for a friend.
ReplyDeleteThe Three Russias: Byelorussia, or white Russia, Russia proper, and little Russia, or Ukraine.
DeleteThanks, I knew that, just wanted to see what response by post got. Nobody pays attention to history.
DeleteThe Tsar's title used to be "Tsar of all the Russias."
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