In vain, no, you do not understand them.
The more liberal, the more they send.
Civilization is a fetish for them.
But her idea is unavailable.
No matter how you grieve before her, gentlemen,
You won’t get recognition from Europe:
You will always be in her eyes.
Not servants of education, but holops.
(May of 1867)
Fyodor Ivanovich Tutchev