Illustrated Edition. What is a person and what is his place in the world, what is the Russian soul and Russian spirit, what we expect from life, how we love and suffer - our famous compatriots say this. After all, rushes, rushes somewhere Russia - the great "bird-three"! Already breathtaking... Wise thoughts always make you look at things in a new way, change a person, and with him the world around him. Maybe the aphorisms of Russian writers, scientists, thinkers will be able to reveal new facets of our soul to us.