Edward Gibbon Quotes:
Ocupation: Historian
Life: April 27, 1737 - January 16, 1794
Birthday: April 27
Death: January 16
Both Moscow and [Kiev], the modern and the ancient capitals, were reduced to ashes [by the Tartars]; a temporary ruin, less fatal than the deep, and perhaps indelible, mark, which a servitude of two hundred years has imprinted on the character of the Russians.
source: Edward Gibbon (2008). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.
topic: Character, Years, Two, Kiev, Indelible
