God is high above, and the tsar is far away
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1891 G. KENNAN Siberia and Exile System (preface) The lot of the ‘unfortunates’ to whom ‘God is high above and the Tsar is far away.’
1915 A. C. LAUT Pioneers of Pacific Coast 34 ‘God is high in the heavens, and the Czar is far away,’ they said. The object was quick profit, and plundering was the easiest way to attain it.
1970 M. LIEBMAN Russian Revolution 24 A vast and miserable mass of peasants for whom, as an old Russian saw had it, God was too high and the Tsar too far away.
1995 B. GRANT In Soviet House of Culture 5 Russian peasants across Siberia knew their relative independence in the maxim, ‘God is high in the sky and the tsar is far away.’
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