Nicole Kidman ‘obsessed’ with the Russians🇷🇺😮 #russianculture #russianliterature

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]When I grew up reading Russian literature, I was obsessed [music] with the Russians. Really?

[00:00:05]>> Yes. With >> How did you come to be obsessed with that? Just >> Because I had one of those lists of the 100 books you're meant to read, you know.

[00:00:11]>> Oh, okay, yeah. But I started on [music] Dostoevsky, and then I went, "Oh, hold on." And then I just kept going on Dostoevsky, and then I moved over to Tolstoy, and then before you know it, I'm obsessed with the Russians. Yeah.

[00:00:24]>> And I went [music] to St. Petersburg.

[00:00:26]Uh-huh. Actually, and saw all of the places that [music] Tolstoy had built War and Peace around and pointed out where, you know, Prince Andre, [music] all of it. And I was like, "What?" Yeah.

[00:00:38]>> So, that was kind of the beginning of [music] my um artistic basis is the Russians.