"Tolstoy, Chekhov, Tchaikovsky, Dostoevsky, and many others, like Chagall", would be ashamed of the rabble that floods LOS today. It's just the way that a few bad guys shape the image of an entire people.
In Germany they also say: "Wie der Herr, so das Geschirr." : 'Like the master, so are the dishes".
Putin is the master in Russia...