The Russian empire was rather like Charlemagne's empire in 800 in the coronation at Aachen or Aix-la-Chapelle and all of that.
沙皇俄国倒是非常像查理曼帝国,即公元800年在亚琛加冕称王的查理曼帝国
He once said that if he wasn't the czar of all the Russians, what he would want to be would be an English admiral.
他曾经说过,如果他不是俄国人的沙皇,他会做个英国的海军上将
His father was a democrat in czarist Russia, and he was quite a reformer. At the time that the Bolsheviks took over in 1919, there was a brief window of time prior to the family's flight.
他的父亲在沙皇俄国是一个民主党人,他是一个改革家,当时布尔什维克党在1919年统治者俄国,他们家在那之后很快就离开俄国。
Yet there's an enhanced sense of obligation to the czar of all the Russian people.
但每个俄国人对沙皇效忠的意愿,却被加强了
As I said, in some context last time, how many Russian peasants died in the 1890s thinking, "Oh my god, if the Czar only knew that we're starving, how angry he would be with his officials."
就像我在上一讲提到的,有多少死于1890年代的俄国农民会想,"上帝啊,要是沙皇知道我们在挨饿就好了,他该对手下的官员发多大的火啊"
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