早在公元前数世纪，古老的“丝绸之路”就连接起长安和罗马，开启了中欧文明对话的先河。

As far back as centuries B.C., the Silk Road linked Chang'an and Rome, making possible the dialogue between Chinese and European civilizations.

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因此他还是一个很正宗的俄国人，但鼓励引进更西欧文明式的思考方式，这对于落后的俄国来说还是非常重要的。

So, he remained very Russian, but it was the importation of more western ways of looking at things that were very important.

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