Russian proverbs
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Russian proverbs give an insight an many aspects of Russian history, culture, national character. Russian language is replete with many hundreds of proverbs (пословица/poslov'itsa/) and sayings (поговоркa/pogovorka/). These were already tabulated by the seventeenth century, and collected and studied in the nineteenth and twentieth, with the folk-tales being an especially fertile source.
Russian proverbs gained popularity in the West thanks to Ronald Reagan, who supposedly was a fan of Russian folklore. Russians have possibly thousands of proverbs.
Sample proverbs
A list of Russian proverbs can be found at Wikiquote:Russian proverbs.