Russia

Russia is the largest country in the world, with 143 million people occupying one-eighth of the world's inhabited land. The country, located directly north of Asia and east of Europe, covers nine time zones and has a complex, turbulent political past.  
==Russia in Stevens' Poetry ==
Russia appears in two of Stevens' poems, "A Dish of Peaches in Russia" and "Mountains Covered with Cats." In the former, Russia serves as the setting while the peaches themselves are most prominent in the poem. In the latter poem, Russia is mentioned in connection with former Russian dictator Stalin: 
 The sea full of fishes in shoals, the woods that let
 
 One seed alone grow wild, the railway-stops
 
 In Russia at which the same statue of Stalin greets 
 
 The same railway passenger, the ancient tree
 
 In the centre of its cones, the resplendent flights 
 
 Of red facsimiles through related trees,
 
 White houses in villages, black communicants—
 
 The catalogue is too commodious. [1]
==References ==
1. Pages 318-319, Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose. Library of America, 1997. Print.