"THE LAND OF THOR." BY J. ROSS BROWNE, 1867 - книга о Росси и Русских нравах глазами путешественника
читаю вот, особенно рекомендую главу о русском юморе, цитата :
" The Russians have little or no humor, though they are not deficient
in a certain grotesque savagery bordering on the humorous.
...
We can not but smile at the grim humor of Peter the Great, who, upon
seeing a crowd of men with wigs and gowns at Westminster Hall, and
being informed that they were lawyers, observed that he had but two in
his whole empire, and he believed he would hang one of them as soon as
he got home."
From "THE LAND OF THOR." BY J. ROSS BROWNE, 1867
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28329/28329-h/28329-h.htm
" The Russians have little or no humor, though they are not deficient
in a certain grotesque savagery bordering on the humorous.
...
We can not but smile at the grim humor of Peter the Great, who, upon
seeing a crowd of men with wigs and gowns at Westminster Hall, and
being informed that they were lawyers, observed that he had but two in
his whole empire, and he believed he would hang one of them as soon as
he got home."
From "THE LAND OF THOR." BY J. ROSS BROWNE, 1867
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28329/28329-h/28329-h.htm