“It is common knowledge how a war for the faith is waged on Russian soil-no earthly power is stronger than the power of faith. It is insurmountable and ferocious, like a rock rising from the depths of a stormy ocean, fashioned from a single unshatterable mass of stone, towering into the skies, seen from vast distances and glaring into the waves that roll past. And woe unto the ship that is hurled onto this rock. Its rigging will be torn to shreds, the battered wind resounding with the piteous cries of the drowning men.”
Nikolai Gogol, “Tarus Bulba”, 1835.
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