"Not quite people without moral sense." That wrote about the Russians two centuries ago the father of French history Jules Mishle

"Without evil intent, they lie and steal everywhere and always," - in 1852, historian Jules Mishle, who is considered French Herodotus, described the national character of Russians, whose main features have been preserved to this day. “Looking at the Russians, you clearly understand that this tribe has not yet developed. The Russians are not quite people, ”the famous French historian Jules Mishle wrote in 1852.

- They lack the main quality of man - moral sense, the ability to distinguish good from evil. […] They are completely devoid of straightforwardness and moral principles. They lie without evil intention, they steal without evil intention, lie and steal everywhere and always. " The video of Mishle was amazed: “A strange thing! They have the most developed ability to admire, and this gives them the susceptibility to everything poetic, great, perhaps even sublime.

However, truth and justice for them are empty sound. Talk with them on these topics, they will listen to a smile, but they will not give a word in response and will not understand what you want from them. " At home, Jules Mishle is called the French Herodotus and the father of national history. He spent 30 years on the creation of a 19-volume history of France, which many generations of the French have learned. In the portrait of Tom Kutur, a scientist for 70 years.

He was deprived of the opportunity to teach through sharp republican beliefs, when France was proclaimed for the second time an empire led by Napoleon III. "Age is pressing on me," Michel said constantly, explaining the slowness of his publications. Although he died at the desk, without writing several fundamental works. It may seem that the historian's attention to Russia has arisen.

After all, he never visited and knew about this country from books, which gave confidence Mishle: “I read all more or less significant works about Russia published in Europe. They enriched me little. I anticipated that these works, externally serious, but internally light -hearted, describe the outfits, but not a person. " It was then that the educated event was read by the bestseller of the French traveler Astolph de Kustin about Russia. He did not miss the book, of course, and Mishle.

As an academic historian, he abandoned the author of "female senses", hinting at the scandalous well -known homosexual preferences of Kustin. However, his main thesis about Russia as a country of signboards or facades moved to a series of articles of Michess of Martyrs of Russia. The historian faced his book knowledge about the distant empire with the live stories of Adam Mickiewicz.

The Polish poet at that time left the Motherland, a large part of which was invaded by Russia, and in 1840 received the Department of Slavic Studies in the Paris Collège de France. It was there that for many years he taught Mishle. And that he demonstrably expressed almost innate immediately to the monarchical power, the Vynova Mickiewicz caused the historian since the sincere compassion. And this, in turn, spilled on the pages of newspapers, which asked Michel to share their observations.

"In Michel of the passage is not only quite clear, but unfortunately, it is relevant today," - said the editorial board of the Russian magazine of the 2007 notes of 2007.