In a passage of The Idiot Dostoyevsky says through the Prince Myshkin, “He who rejects his native land has also rejected his own god.” In this case the expression “native land [rodnaya zemlya]” should also be understood existentially. Heidegger regarded earth [zemlya] as one of the poles of the fourfold (Geviert), and it is significant that he brought together metaphysically earth (Erde) precisely with the Russian narod and Russ (Russland) as such.