https://theoutlawintrepidreporter.blogspot.com/2023/02/ten-days-and-russian-mentality.html?m=1
BCE cites to Tolstoy:
“It is sad, yet joyful, on a silent summer’s night, in a voiceless wood, to hear a Russian song. Here we find unlimited sadness without hope. Here, also is unconquerable strength and the unalterable stamp of Fate; here, also is iron predestination, one of the primitive foundations of the Russian national identity, through which much can be explained which seemed inexplicable in Russian life.”