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Precious example of insulting and racist statement of a grand-daughter of #Tolstoy.
Perfect proof of necessity of #russianCulture #cancelling
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1. "Approximately in 1704, my great-great-great-(...) grandfather Pyotr Andreevich Tolstoy, who served as the Russian ambassador in Constantinople, got an order from Peter I to deliver to him a couple of smart little Africans.
2. It seems that the tzar wanted something worthy to come out of them, in comparison to the relaxed and lazy white boyar youths.
P. A. Tolstoy didn't know where to get smart ones, but he assumed that noble origin of the Africans could serve as at least some guarantee of quick wit
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