Good old Russia! So it really does belong to Europe. And I'd always thought that was just a mistake of the geographers. (Alexander Pushkin [quoted from Susan Layton, Russian Literature and Empire: Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy [Cambridge, 1994], p. 86)
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