2 3 statements about the richness of the Russian language. Statements by prominent writers about the Russian language
Literature 5 - 11 grade
Russian language
To handle language in a haphazard manner means to think haphazardly: imprecisely, approximately, incorrectly.
(A.N. Tolstoy).
There are no such sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which there would not be an exact expression in our language. You can do wonders with the Russian language!
(K. G. Paustovsky).
The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich, and everything is enriched with amazing speed.
(Maxim Gorky).
You marvel at the preciousness of our language: every sound is a gift; everything is grainy, large, like the pearl itself, and truly, another name is more precious than the thing itself.
(N.V. Gogol).
(I.S. Turgenev).
(K. G. Paustovsky).
Language, our magnificent language. There is expanse of river and steppe in it, In it are the screams of an eagle and the roar of a wolf, The chanting, and the ringing, and the incense of pilgrimage.
(K.D. Balmont).
Pushkin also spoke about punctuation marks. They exist to highlight a thought, bring words into the correct relationship, and give a phrase ease and proper sound. Punctuation marks are like musical notations. They hold the text firmly and do not allow it to crumble.
(K. G. Paustovsky).
(M.V. Lomonosov).
The Russian language is in capable hands and in experienced lips- beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious.
(A.I. Kuprin).
In days of doubt, in days of painful thoughts about the fate of my homeland - you alone are my support and support, oh great, powerful, truthful and free Russian language!.., it is impossible to believe that such a language was not given to a great people!
(I.S. Turgenev).
(M. Gorky).
(N.V. Gogol).
Our beautiful language, under the pen of unlearned and unskilled writers, is quickly declining. Words are distorted. Grammar fluctuates. Spelling, this heraldry of the language, changes at the will of one and all.
(A.S. Pushkin).
Statements of great people about the Russian language.
Russian language!
For millennia, this flexible, lush, inexhaustibly rich, intelligent,
poetic and labor tool of his social life, your thoughts, your feelings,
your hopes, your anger, your great future.
A. V. Tolstoy
May there be honor and glory to our language, which in its very native richness, almost without any foreign admixture, flows like a proud majestic river - it makes noise and thunders - and suddenly, if necessary, softens, gurgles like a gentle brook and sweetly pours into the soul, forming everything measures that consist only
in the fall and rise of the human voice!
Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin
True love for one's country is unthinkable without love for one's language.
Our beautiful language, from the pen of unlearned and unskilled writers,
is rapidly heading towards a fall. Words are distorted. Grammar fluctuates.
Spelling, this heraldry of the language, changes at the will of one and all.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
You marvel at the preciousness of our language: every sound is a gift: everything is grainy, large, like the pearl itself, and, truly, another name is even more precious than the thing itself.
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
In days of doubt, in days of painful thoughts about the fate of my homeland, you alone are my support and support, oh great, mighty, truthful and free Russian language! Without you, how can one not fall into despair at the sight of everything that is happening at home?
But one cannot believe that such a language was not given to a great people!
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Pushkin also spoke about punctuation marks. They exist to highlight a thought, bring words into the correct relationship, and give a phrase ease and proper sound. Punctuation marks are like musical notations.
They hold the text firmly and do not allow it to crumble.
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
Language is the history of the people. Language is the path of civilization and culture. That is why learning and preserving the Russian language is not an idle hobby
out of nothing to do, but an urgent need.
Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin
Use foreign word when there is an equivalent Russian word,
- means to insult both common sense and common taste.
The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious.
Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin
Language is a ford across the river of time, it leads us to the home of the departed;
but no one who is afraid of deep water will be able to come there.
Vladislav Markovich Illich-Svitych
Strive to enrich the mind and beautify the Russian word.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language is a treasure, this is an asset passed on to us by our predecessors! Handle this powerful tool with respect; in skillful hands it is capable of performing miracles.
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Only by mastering the original material as perfectly as possible, that is, native language, we will be able to be as perfect as possible
learn a foreign language, but not before.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Ugly, dissonant words should be avoided. I don’t like words with a lot of hissing and whistling sounds, so I avoid them.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The word of a Briton will echo with heartfelt knowledge and wise knowledge of life; The short-lived word of the Frenchman will flash and scatter like a light dandy; the German will intricately come up with his own clever and thin word, which is not accessible to everyone; but there is no word that would be so sweeping, lively, so bursting out from under the very heart, so seething and vibrantly trembling, like a well-spoken Russian word.
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
The language that the Russian state commands over a great part of the world, due to its power, has natural abundance, beauty and strength, which is not inferior to any European language. And there is no doubt that the Russian word could not be brought to such perfection as we are surprised at in others.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
Our Russian language, more than all the new ones, is perhaps capable of approaching the classical languages in its richness, strength, freedom of arrangement, and abundance of forms.
Nikolai Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov
That the Russian language is one of the richest languages in the world,
there is no doubt about it.
Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky
The beauty, greatness, strength and richness of the Russian language is abundantly clear from books written in past centuries, when our ancestors not only did not know any rules for writing, but they hardly even thought that they existed or could exist.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
Main character Our language consists in the extreme ease with which everything is expressed in it - abstract thoughts, internal lyrical feelings, “the scurrying of life,” a cry of indignation, sparkling prank and amazing passion.
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen
Nothing is so ordinary for us, nothing seems so simple as our speech, but in our very being there is nothing as surprising, as wonderful as our speech.
Alexander Nikolaevich Radishchev
Among the magnificent qualities of our language, there is one that is absolutely amazing and hardly noticeable. It lies in the fact that its sound is so diverse that it contains the sound of almost all the languages of the world.
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
The Russian language is revealed to the end in its truly magical properties and wealth only to those who deeply love and know their people “to the bone.”
and feels the hidden beauty of our land.
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
There is one significant fact: we are still on our
in an unsettled and young language we can convey
the deepest forms of spirit and thought of European languages.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
The natural wealth of the Russian language and speech is so great that without further ado, listening to time with your heart, in close communication with a simple person and with a volume of Pushkin in your pocket you can become an excellent writer.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin
The Russian language, as far as I can judge of it, is the richest of all European dialects and seems deliberately created to express the subtlest shades. Gifted with wonderful conciseness, combined with clarity, he is content with one word to convey thoughts when another language would require whole phrases for this.
Prosper Merimee
The beauty, greatness, strength and richness of the Russian language is abundantly clear from books written in past centuries, when our ancestors not only did not know any rules for writing, but they hardly even thought that they existed or could exist.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
Our speech is predominantly aphoristic,
It is distinguished by its compactness and strength.
Maxim Gorky
The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich and everything is being enriched with amazing speed.
Maxim Gorky
Perception of other people's words, and especially without necessity,
there is not enrichment, but corruption of the language.
Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov
I do not consider foreign words good and suitable if only they can be replaced by purely Russian or more Russified ones.
We must take care of our rich and beautiful language from damage.
Nikolai Semenovich Leskov
There is no doubt that the desire to replete Russian speech with foreign words unnecessarily, without sufficient reason, is contrary to common sense and common taste; but it does not harm the Russian language or Russian literature, but only those who are obsessed with it.
Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky
Our native language should be the main basis of our general education
and education of each of us.
Petr Andreevich Vyazemsky
We must love and preserve those examples of the Russian language,
which we inherited from first-class masters.
Dmitry Andreevich Furmanov
Language is important for a patriot.
Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin
By the attitude of each person to his language, one can accurately judge not only his cultural level, but also his civic value.
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
Language is the history of a people. Language is the path of civilization and culture...
That is why studying and preserving the Russian language is not an idle activity because there is nothing to do, but an urgent necessity.
Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin
Knowledge of Russian language, - language, which fully deserves study both in itself, because it is one of the strongest and richest living languages, and for the sake of the literature it reveals, is now not such a rarity.
Friedrich Engels
The heavenly beauty of our language will never be trampled upon by cattle.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
As a material for literature, the Slavic-Russian language has an undeniable superiority over all European ones.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
There are no such sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple -
for which there would be no exact expression in our language.
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
To handle the language somehow means to think somehow:
approximately, inaccurately, incorrectly.
Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Language is an image of everything that existed, exists and will exist - everything that the human mental eye can embrace and comprehend.
Alexey Fedorovich Merzlyakov
Language is the confession of the people, His soul and way of life are native.
Petr Andreevich Vyazemsky
The Slavic-Russian language, according to the testimony of the foreign aesthetes themselves, is not inferior to Latin either in courage, Greek or smoothness, it surpasses everything European languages: Italian, Spanish and French, not to mention German.
Gabriel Romanovich Derzhavin
What is language? First of all, it is not only a way to express your thoughts, but also to create your thoughts. The tongue has reverse action.
A person who turns his thoughts, his ideas, his feelings into language...
it also seems to be permeated by this way of expression.
Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy
It's not scary to lie dead under bullets,
It's not bitter to be homeless,
And we will save you, Russian speech,
The Great Russian Word.
We will carry you free and clean,
We will give it to our grandchildren and save us from captivity
Forever.
Anna Andreevna Akhmatova
But what disgusting bureaucratic language! Based on that situation... on the one hand... on the other hand - and all this without any need. “Nevertheless” and “to the extent that” the officials composed. I read and spit.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Follow the rule persistently: so that words are cramped and thoughts are spacious.
Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov
There is nothing sedimentary or crystalline in the Russian language;
everything excites, breathes, lives.
Alexey Stepanovich Khomyakov
The greatest wealth of a people is its language! For thousands of years, countless treasures of human thought and experience accumulate and live forever in the word.
Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov
The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich, and everything is being enriched with amazing speed.
Maxim Gorky
The richer the language is in expressions and turns of phrase, the better for a skilled writer.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
Beware of refined language. The language should be simple and elegant.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Tongue and gold are our dagger and poison.
Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov
The language of the people is the best, never fading and forever
the newly blossoming flower of his entire spiritual life.
Konstantin Dmitrievich Ushinsky
The Russian language is quite rich, however, it has its drawbacks, and one of them is hissing sound combinations: -vsha, -vshi, -vshu, -shcha, -shchi. On the first page of your story, “lice” crawls into large quantities: worked, spoke, arrived.
It is quite possible to do without insects.
Maxim Gorky
Charles V, the Roman Emperor, used to say that Spanish It is decent to speak with God, French - with friends, German - with the enemy, Italian - with the female sex. But if he knew Russian, then of course he would have added that it is decent for them to speak to everyone, because... I would find in it the splendor of Spanish, and the liveliness of French, and the strength of German, and the tenderness of Italian, and the richness and strong figurativeness of Latin and Greek language.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
No matter what you say, your native language will always remain native. When you want to talk to your heart's content, not a single one French word it doesn’t come to mind, but if you want to shine, then that’s a different matter.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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The heavenly beauty of our language will never be trampled upon by cattle. / The great Russian scientist Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov
As a material for literature, the Slavic-Russian language has an undeniable superiority over all European ones. / Great Russian writer A. S. Pushkin
There are two kinds of nonsense: one comes from a lack of feelings and thoughts, replaced by words; the other is from the fullness of feelings and thoughts and the lack of words to express them. / A. S. Pushkin
Our beautiful language, under the pen of unlearned and unskilled writers, is quickly declining. Words are distorted. Grammar fluctuates. Spelling, this heraldry of the language, changes at the will of one and all. / A. S. Pushkin
A person's morality is visible in his attitude to the word. / Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
In fact, for an intelligent person, speaking poorly should be considered as indecent as not being able to read and write. / Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
To handle language somehow means to think differently: approximately, imprecisely, incorrectly. / A.N. Tolstoy
A dictionary is the entire internal history of a people. / Great Ukrainian writer N. A. Kotlyarevsky
Not a single spoken word has brought as much benefit as many unspoken ones. / Ancient thinker Plutarch
Language is an image of everything that existed, exists and will exist - everything that the human mental eye can embrace and comprehend. / A. F. Merzlyakov
In literature, as in life, it is worth remembering one rule: a person will repent a thousand times for saying a lot, but never for saying little. / A.F. Pisemsky
Only literature is not subject to the laws of decay. She alone does not recognize death. / M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin
Speech must comply with the laws of logic. / Ancient thinker Aristotle
Language is the confession of the people, His soul and way of life are native. / P. A. Vyazemsky
A beautiful thought loses all its value if it is poorly expressed. / French writer and politician Voltaire
The Slavic-Russian language, according to the testimony of foreign aesthetes themselves, is not inferior to Latin either in courage, Greek or fluency, and surpasses all European languages: Italian, Spanish and French, not to mention German. / G. Derzhavin
We are spoiling the Russian language. We use foreign words unnecessarily. And we use them incorrectly. Why say “defects” when you can say gaps, shortcomings, shortcomings? Isn't it time to declare war on the unnecessary use of foreign words? / Great leader, father of the revolution of 1917-1918. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
What is language? First of all, it is not only a way to express your thoughts, but also to create your thoughts. Language has the opposite effect. A person who turns his thoughts, his ideas, his feelings into language... he is also, as it were, permeated by this way of expression. / A. N. Tolstoy
The immortality of a people is in its language. / Ch. Aitmatov
Pushkin also spoke about punctuation marks. They exist to highlight a thought, bring words into the correct relationship, and give a phrase ease and proper sound. Punctuation marks are like musical notations. They hold the text firmly and do not allow it to crumble. / K. G. Paustovsky
It’s not scary to lie under dead bullets, It’s not bitter to be left homeless, And we will save you, Russian speech, the Great Russian Word. We will carry you free and clean, And we will give you to your grandchildren, and we will save you from captivity Forever. / Outstanding poetess Anna Akhmatova
But what disgusting bureaucratic language! Based on that situation... on the one hand... on the other hand - and all this without any need. “Nevertheless” and “to the extent that” the officials composed. I read and spit. / A. P. Chekhov
Follow the rule persistently: so that words are cramped and thoughts are spacious. / N.A. Nekrasov
Everywhere literature is valued not because of its most vile examples, but because of those prominent figures who lead society forward. / M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin
There is nothing sedimentary or crystalline in the Russian language; everything excites, breathes, lives. / A. S. Khomyakov
Before you is a community - the Russian language! / Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious. / A. I. Kuprin
Language is a ford across the river of time, it leads us to the home of the departed; but no one who is afraid of deep water will be able to come there. / V. M. Illich-Svitych
The greatest wealth of a people is its language! For thousands of years, countless treasures of human thought and experience accumulate and live forever in the word. / Soviet writer M. A. Sholokhov
Words must be handled honestly. / Outstanding Slavic writer N.V. Gogol
The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich, and everything is being enriched with amazing speed. / Soviet author Maxim Gorky
The richer the language is in expressions and turns of phrase, the better for a skilled writer. / Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
Beware of refined language. The language should be simple and elegant. / Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Language, our magnificent language. There is expanse of river and steppe in it, In it are the screams of an eagle and the roar of a wolf, The chanting, and the ringing, and the incense of pilgrimage. / Konstanti Dmitrievich Balmont
Language is the history of the people. Language is the path of civilization and culture. That is why learning and preserving the Russian language is not an idle hobby with nothing to do, but an urgent necessity. / A. Kuprin
The language of a people is the best, never fading and ever-blooming flower of their entire spiritual life. / K.D. Ushinsky
The Russian language is quite rich, however, it has its drawbacks, and one of them is hissing sound combinations: -vsha, -vshi, -vshu, -shcha, -shchi. On the first page of your story, “lice” crawls in large numbers: those who worked, those who spoke, those who arrived. It is quite possible to do without insects. / Maxim Gorky wrote this, mentoring the young author
Charles V, the Roman Emperor, used to say that it is proper to speak in Spanish with God, in French with friends, in German with the enemy, and in Italian with the female sex. But if he knew Russian, then of course he would have added that it is decent for them to speak to everyone, because... I would find in it the splendor of Spanish, and the liveliness of French, and the strength of German, and the tenderness of Italian, and the richness and strong figurativeness of Latin and Greek. / Famous scientist Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
Who doesn't know foreign languages, he has no idea about his own. / German writer I. Goethe
No matter what you say, your native language will always remain native. When you want to speak to your heart’s content, not a single French word comes to mind, but if you want to shine, then it’s a different matter. / Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Russian language is the language of poetry. The Russian language is unusually rich in versatility and subtlety of shades. / French writer Prosper Merimee
Where there are few words, they have weight. / English playwright William Shakespeare
True words are not graceful, graceful words are not true. / Chinese sage Lao Tzu
The word belongs half to the one who speaks and half to the one who listens. / French writer and philosopher M. Montaigne
The word is a great thing. Great because with a word you can unite people, with a word you can separate them, with a word you can serve love, but with a word you can serve enmity and hatred. Beware of such a word that divides people. / Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
You can do wonders with the Russian language! / K.G. Paustovsky
Russian language! For millennia, the people created this flexible, lush, inexhaustibly rich, intelligent poetic... instrument of their social life, their thoughts, their feelings, their hopes, their anger, their great future... With a wondrous ligature the people wove the invisible network of the Russian language: bright as a rainbow after the spring rain , sharp as arrows, sincere as a song over a cradle, melodious... The dense world, over which he threw the magic net of words, submitted to him like a bridled horse. / A.N. Tolstoy
The trouble with other literature is that thinking people they do not write, and those who write do not think. / P. A. Vyazemsky
Dissonant and ugly words should be avoided. I don’t like words with a lot of whistling and hissing sounds, I try to avoid them. / Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The old syllable attracts me. There is charm in ancient speech. It can be more modern and sharper than our words. / Russian poetess Bella Akhmadulina
Russian literature should not stoop to the level of society in its dubious and dark manifestations. In any circumstances, by all means, literature should not deviate a single step from its main goal - to elevate society to an ideal - the ideal of goodness, light and truth. / N.A. Nekrasov
The word of a Briton will echo with heartfelt knowledge and wise knowledge of life; The short-lived word of the Frenchman will flash and scatter like a light dandy; the German will intricately come up with his own clever and thin word, which is not accessible to everyone; but there is no word that would be so sweeping, lively, so bursting out from under the very heart, so seething and vibrantly trembling, like a well-spoken Russian word. / Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language is a treasure, this is an asset passed on to us by our predecessors! Handle this powerful tool with respect; in skillful hands it is capable of performing miracles. / Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Many Russian words themselves radiate poetry, just as gems radiate a mysterious shine... / K. G. Paustovsky
Take care of the purity of your language as a sacred thing! Never use foreign words. The Russian language is so rich and flexible that we have nothing to take from those who are poorer than us. / Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Strive to enrich the mind and beautify the Russian word. / M. V. Lomonosov
Tongue and gold are our dagger and poison. / Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov
Reading is the best teaching! / Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
Compiled by Tatyana Molchanova
Sayings about the Russian language:
The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious.
A. I. Kuprin
We have been given possession of the richest, most accurate, powerful and truly magical Russian language.
K. G. Paustovsky
In days of doubt, in days of painful thoughts about the fate of my homeland - you alone are my support and support, oh great, powerful, truthful and free Russian language!.., it is impossible to believe that such a language was not given to a great people!
I. S. Turgenev
There is nothing sedimentary or crystalline in the Russian language; everything excites, breathes, lives.
A. S. Khomyakov
The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich and everything is being enriched with amazing speed.
M. Gorky
The Russian language is a language created for poetry; it is extremely rich and remarkable mainly for the subtlety of its shades.
P. Merimee
Many Russian words themselves radiate poetry, just as precious stones radiate a mysterious shine...
K. G. Paustovsky
You marvel at the preciousness of our language: every sound is a gift: everything is grainy, large, like the pearl itself, and, truly, another name is even more precious than the thing itself.
N.V. Gogol
Our beautiful language, under the pen of unlearned and unskilled writers, is quickly declining. Words are distorted. Grammar fluctuates. Spelling, this heraldry of the language, changes at the will of one and all.
A. S. Pushkin
We are spoiling the Russian language. We use foreign words unnecessarily. And we use them incorrectly. Why say “defects” when you can say gaps, shortcomings, shortcomings? Isn't it time to declare war on the unnecessary use of foreign words?
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Take care of the purity of your language as a sacred thing! Never use foreign words. The Russian language is so rich and flexible that we have nothing to take from those who are poorer than us.
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
To use a foreign word when there is an equivalent Russian word means to insult both common sense and common taste.
V. Belinsky
In fact, for an intelligent person, speaking poorly should be considered as indecent as not being able to read and write.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
To handle language somehow means to think differently: approximately, imprecisely, incorrectly.
A.N. Tolstoy
Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language - this is a treasure, this is an asset passed on to us by our predecessors! Handle this powerful tool with respect.
I. S. Turgenev
What is language? First of all, it is not only a way to express your thoughts, but also to create your thoughts. Language has the opposite effect. A person who turns his thoughts, his ideas, his feelings into language... he is also, as it were, permeated by this way of expression.
A. N. Tolstoy
In days of doubt, in days of painful thoughts about the fate of my homeland, you alone are my support and support, oh great, mighty, truthful and free Russian language! Without you, how can one not fall into despair at the sight of everything that is happening at home? But one cannot believe that such a language was not given to a great people!
I.S. Turgenev
The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious.
A.I. Kuprin
There is no word that would be so sweeping, lively, would burst out from under the very heart, would seethe and vibrate so much as a well-spoken Russian word.
N. Gogol
Language is the history of a people. Language is the path of civilization and culture. That is why studying and preserving the Russian language is not an idle activity because there is nothing to do, but an urgent necessity.
A. Kuprin
Russian language! For millennia, the people created this flexible, lush, inexhaustibly rich, intelligent poetic... instrument of their social life, their thoughts, their feelings, their hopes, their anger, their great future... With a wondrous ligature the people wove the invisible network of the Russian language: bright as a rainbow after the spring rain , sharp as arrows, sincere as a song over a cradle, melodious... The dense world, over which he threw the magic net of words, submitted to him like a bridled horse.
A.N. Tolstoy
To handle language in a haphazard manner means to think haphazardly: imprecisely, approximately, incorrectly.
A.N. Tolstoy
There are no such sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which there would not be an exact expression in our language.
... You can do wonders with the Russian language!
K.G. Paustovsky
The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich, and everything is enriched with amazing speed.
Maxim Gorky
You marvel at the preciousness of our language: every sound is a gift; everything is grainy, large, like the pearl itself, and truly, another name is more precious than the thing itself.
N.V. Gogol
Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language is a treasure, this is an asset passed on to us by our predecessors! Handle this powerful tool with respect; in skillful hands it is capable of performing miracles.
I.S. Turgenev
It's not scary to lie dead under bullets,
It's not bitter to be left homeless, -
And we will save you, Russian speech,
Great Russian word.
We will carry you free and clean,
And we’ll give you grandchildren, and we’ll save you from captivity,
Forever.
The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious.
A. I. Kuprin
We have been given possession of the richest, most accurate, powerful and truly magical Russian language.
K. G. Paustovsky
In days of doubt, in days of painful thoughts about the fate of my homeland - you alone are my support and support, oh great, powerful, truthful and free Russian language!.., it is impossible to believe that such a language was not given to a great people! I. S. Turgenev
There is nothing sedimentary or crystalline in the Russian language; everything excites, breathes, lives.
A. S. Khomyakov
The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich and everything is being enriched with amazing speed. M. Gorky
It is especially worth noting the poetry of Russian speech:
The Russian language is a language created for poetry; it is extremely rich and remarkable mainly for the subtlety of its shades.
P. Merimee
Many Russian words themselves radiate poetry, just as precious stones radiate a mysterious shine...
K. G. Paustovsky
I really like Gogol’s statement about the Russian language, since with his brightest speech he seems to illustrate his words:
You marvel at the preciousness of our language: every sound is a gift: everything is grainy, large, like the pearl itself, and, truly, another name is even more precious than the thing itself. N.V. Gogol
Many great people worried that the Russian language was becoming clogged with foreign words: Pushkin, Turgenev, Lenin, Belinsky.
Our beautiful language, under the pen of unlearned and unskilled writers, is quickly declining. Words are distorted. Grammar fluctuates. Spelling, this heraldry of the language, changes at the will of one and all.
A. S. Pushkin
We are spoiling the Russian language. We use foreign words unnecessarily. And we use them incorrectly. Why say “defects” when you can say gaps, shortcomings, shortcomings? Isn't it time to declare war on the unnecessary use of foreign words?
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Take care of the purity of your language as a sacred thing! Never use foreign words. The Russian language is so rich and flexible that we have nothing to take from those who are poorer than us.
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
To use a foreign word when there is an equivalent Russian word means to insult both common sense and common taste.
V. Belinsky
About careful and reverent handling of native speech:
In fact, for an intelligent person, speaking poorly should be considered as indecent as not being able to read and write.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
To handle language somehow means to think differently: approximately, imprecisely, incorrectly.
A.N. Tolstoy
Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language - this is a treasure, this is an asset passed on to us by our predecessors! Handle this powerful tool with respect.
I. S. Turgenev
And here is another subtle remark of A. Tolstoy:
What is language? First of all, it is not only a way to express your thoughts, but also to create your thoughts. Language has the opposite effect. A person who turns his thoughts, his ideas, his feelings into language... he is also, as it were, permeated by this way of expression.
A. N. Tolstoy
Statements by prominent writers about the Russian language
Russian language! For millennia, the people created this flexible, magnificent, inexhaustibly rich, intelligent, poetic and labor instrument of their social life, their thoughts, their feelings, their hopes, their anger, their great future. A. N. Tolstoy
The Russian language is, first of all, Pushkin - the indestructible pier of the Russian language. These are Lermontov, Leo Tolstoy, Leskov, Chekhov, Gorky.
A. Ya. Tolstoy
The language, which the Russian state rules over a great part of the world, has a natural abundance, beauty and strength in its power, which is not inferior to any European language. And for this there is no doubt that the Russian word could not be brought to such perfection as we are surprised at in others .M. V. Lomonosov
Our Russian language, more than all the new ones, is perhaps capable of approaching the classical languages in its richness, strength, freedom of arrangement, and abundance of forms. Y. A. Dobrolyubov
That the Russian language is one of the richest languages in the world, there is no doubt about it. V. G. Belinsky
In days of doubt, in days of painful thoughts about the fate of my homeland - you alone are my support and support, oh great, powerful, truthful and free Russian language!.., it is impossible to believe that such a language was not given to a great people! I. S. Turgenev
You marvel at the preciousness of our language: every sound is a gift: everything is grainy, large, like the pearl itself, and, truly, another name is even more precious than the thing itself. N.V. Gogol
The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious. .A. I. Kuprin
May there be honor and glory to our language, which in its native richness, almost without any foreign admixture, flows like a proud, majestic river - it makes noise, thunders - and suddenly, if necessary, softens, gurgles like a gentle brook and sweetly flows into soul, forming all the measures that consist only in the fall and rise of the human voice! N. M. Karamzin
We have been given possession of the richest, most accurate, powerful and truly magical Russian language. K. G. Paustovsky
The Russian language is fully revealed in its truly magical properties and wealth only to those who deeply love and know their people “to the bone” and feel the hidden charm of our land.
K. G. Paustovsky
The Russian language is a language created for poetry; it is extremely rich and remarkable mainly for the subtlety of its shades. P. Merimee
The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich and everything is being enriched with amazing speed. M. Gorky
Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language - this is a treasure, this is an asset passed on to us by our predecessors! Handle this powerful tool with respect.
I. S. Turgenev
