Russian language Nicholas Roerich. In days of doubt, in days of painful thoughts about the fate of my homeland
In days of doubt, in days 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!
Analysis of the prose poem “Russian Language” by Turgenev
I. Turgenev was a truly Russian writer, deeply concerned about the fate of his Motherland. In his works, he boldly and truthfully expressed his sincere views and convictions. Turgenev did not embellish Russian reality and did not hide its pressing problems. For making too harsh statements, he was punished by exile, and was subsequently forced to go abroad. But even far from his homeland, he constantly turned to her in his work, shared her pain and despair. A striking example of Turgenev’s patriotism is the prose poem “Russian Language” (1882).
It is no coincidence that Turgenev chooses the Russian language as the theme of his work. Only being in a foreign land does he understand the importance and significance of this powerful element of national identity. The writer was cut off from the Russian environment, but thanks to language he continued to feel his inextricable connection with it. After all, with the help of language a person not only pronounces words. Much more important is that people think in their own language, that is, they put thoughts into specific lexical units. For example, an important condition Complete mastery of a foreign language is considered the moment when a person is able not only to speak, but also to think in it.
Turgenev claims that only the Russian language remained his only support and support abroad. The writer took everything very seriously significant events in Russia. Some brought him to despair, but he believed that the Russian language remained the main means of saving the long-suffering people.
“Great and mighty” is a phrase that is often used to mock the fate of Russia. But behind her patheticness lies true pride in her language. Russian language is one of the richest and most complex on the planet. Residents of Russia and bordering states, having learned it from childhood, do not understand the significance of such an easy and accessible study. The Russian language has evolved over centuries. It has amazing flexibility and variety of word formation. The amazing ability of our language is to borrow and quickly process foreign words without harming itself. Russian high society for a long time spoke exclusively in French. Foreign languages were studied by children first, to the detriment of their native ones. But this did not affect the Russian language in any way. The ability for self-preservation and self-purification helped the Russian language remain pure and not undergo significant changes.
Turgenev was absolutely sure that, despite poverty and squalor, a great future awaited Russia. Language is a direct expression of the national spirit. The Russian language is a well-deserved highest gift to a great people.
Language, our magnificent language
River and steppe expanse in it,
It contains the screams of an eagle and the roar of a wolf,
The chanting, and the ringing, and the incense of pilgrimage.
Konstantin Dmitrievich Balmont
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 - rustles and thunders - and suddenly, if necessary, softens, gurgles like a gentle brook and sweetly flows into the soul, forming everything measures that consist only of falling and rising human voice!
Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin - Russian historian, writer and poet
True love for one's country is unthinkable without love for one's language.
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky - writer
Our beautiful language, under the pen of uneducated and inexperienced writers, is rapidly declining. Words are distorted. Grammar fluctuates.
Spelling, this heraldry of the language, changes at the will of one and all.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin - poet, playwright, prose writer
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.
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 - poet, translator; Corresponding Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences by category Russian language
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and literature Pushkin also spoke about punctuation marks. They exist to highlight thought, to bring words into correct ratio
and give the phrase ease and correct sound. Punctuation marks are like musical notations.
They hold the text firmly and do not allow it to crumble. Language is the history of a 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.,
Use a foreign word when there is an equivalent one
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 - writer
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 - comparative linguist
Strive to enrich the mind and beautify the Russian word.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov - scientist, writer, historian, artist
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 - poet, translator; Corresponding Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in the category of Russian language and literature
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol - prose writer, playwright, poet, critic, publicist
The language that Russian power It commands a great part of the world, due to its power it 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 Vasilyevich Lomonosov - writer, historian, scientist, artist
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 Aleksandrovich Dobrolyubov - literary critic, publicist
That the Russian language is one of the richest languages in the world, there is no doubt about it.
Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky - literary critic, publicist.
The main character of our language lies 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 - writer, publicist, philosopher, revolutionary
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 - writer, philosopher, poet, revolutionary
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 - writer
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.
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky - writer
There is one significant fact: in our still unsettled and young language we can convey deepest forms spirit and thought of European languages.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky - writer, thinker
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 - writer
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 Mérimée - French novelist and short story writer
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 - writer, historian, scientist, artist
Our speech is predominantly aphoristic, distinguished by its conciseness and strength.
The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich and everything is being enriched with amazing speed.
Maxim Gorky - writer, prose writer, playwright
The perception of other people's words, especially without necessity, is not enrichment, but damage to the language.
Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov - poet, writer, playwright
I do not consider foreign words good and suitable unless they can be replaced by purely Russian or more Russified ones.
We must protect our rich and beautiful language from damage.
Nikolai Semenovich Leskov – writer
There is no doubt that the desire to replete Russian speech with foreign words without need, without sufficient reason, is disgusting common sense and sound taste; but it does not harm the Russian language or Russian literature, but only those who are obsessed with it.
Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky - literary critic, publicist
Our native language should be the main basis of our general education and the education of each of us.
Pyotr Andreevich Vyazemsky - poet, literary critic
We must love and preserve those examples of the Russian language that we inherited from first-class masters.
Dmitry Andreevich Furmanov – writer
Language is important for a patriot.
Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin - writer, publicist and historian
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 - writer
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.
- means to insult both common sense and common taste.
Knowledge of Russian language, - language, which fully deserves to be studied 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 - German philosopher, one of the founders of Marxism
The heavenly beauty of our language will never be trampled upon by cattle.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov - writer, historian, scientist, artist
As a material for literature, the Slavic-Russian language has an undeniable superiority over all European ones.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin - poet, playwright, prose writer
There are no sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which there would not be an exact expression in our language.
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky - writer
To handle the language somehow means to think somehow: approximately, imprecisely, incorrectly.
Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy - writer, poet, playwright, publicist
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 - poet, literary critic
Language is the confession of the people, His soul and way of life are native.
Pyotr Andreevich Vyazemsky - poet, critic
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.
Gabriel Romanovich Derzhavin - poet
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...
it also seems to be permeated by this way of expression.
Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy - prose writer, playwright, publicist
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 - poetess, writer, literary critic,
literary critic, translator
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 - writer, playwright
Follow the rule persistently: so that words are cramped and thoughts are spacious.
Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov - poet, writer, publicist
There is nothing sedimentary or crystalline in the Russian language;
everything excites, breathes, lives.
Alexey Stepanovich Khomyakov - poet, artist, publicist, theologian, philosopher
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 - writer,
The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich, and everything is being enriched with amazing speed.
Maxim Gorky - writer, prose writer, playwright
The richer the language is in expressions and turns of phrase, the better for a skilled writer.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin - writer, poet, playwright
Beware of refined language. The language should be simple and elegant.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - writer, playwright
Tongue and gold are our dagger and poison.
Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov - writer, poet, playwright
The language of a people is the best, never fading and ever-blooming flower of their entire spiritual life.
Konstantin Dmitrievich Ushinsky - teacher, writer
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 - writer, playwright 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.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov - scientist, writer, historian, artist
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 - writer, thinker
Russian language is the language of poetry.
The Russian language is unusually rich in versatility and subtlety of shades.
Prosper Merimee - French writer
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky - writer
You can do wonders with the Russian language!
The old syllable attracts me. There is charm in ancient speech.
It can be more modern and sharper than our words.
Bella Akhatovna Akhmadulina - poetess, writer, translator
Take care of the purity of your language as if it were 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 - poet, translator; Corresponding Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in the category of Russian language and literature
Theme-praise (hymn) of the Russian language
The author’s position is expressed very clearly and unambiguously. Language is salvation for him and Turgenev believes, “That such a language is given to a great people.”
Turgenev has a whole cycle of Poems in prose. They are easy to read and melodious. They have a certain rhyme organization. If the poem is written line by line, then each line will have 8 or 9 (alternating) stressed syllables. This creates the effect of recitative (melodic pronunciation) In addition, the work contains stylistic figures and artistic media
A free language is a language without shackles and prohibitions, in which there are words for all phenomena and concepts, and not even just one word. This is an excellent metaphor.
Epithets: painful (thoughts) -We know that Turgenev wrote prose poems while in France in the family of P. Viardot (as he himself said, “basking on the edge of someone else’s nest”). He wrote shortly before his death. Of course, he remembered his homeland. friends. And his thoughts were PAINFUL.
GREAT, POWERFUL, TRUTHFUL AND FREE Russian language - the epithets speak for themselves. These are words that have become popular. This is a hymn to the native language..
TO THE GREAT people - Turgenev believed in the great destiny of the Russian people.
I think that this is a HYMN. The prayer presupposes some kind of humiliation. I don’t see it here. On the contrary, there are bravura notes (great, believe, great, powerful, truthful and free!) There are exclamations. optimistic faith.. Think for yourself. There will be no mistakes You just have to justify another point of view.
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev - poet, translator; Corresponding Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in the category of Russian language and literature
Theme-praise (hymn) of the Russian language
The author’s position is expressed very clearly and unambiguously. Language is salvation for him and Turgenev believes, “That such a language is given to a great people.”
Turgenev has a whole cycle of Poems in prose. They are easy to read and melodious. They have a certain rhyme organization. If the poem is written line by line, then each line will have 8 or 9 (alternating) stressed syllables. This creates the effect of recitative (melodic pronunciation) In addition, the work contains stylistic figures and artistic means
A free language is a language without shackles and prohibitions, in which there are words for all phenomena and concepts, and not even just one word. This is an excellent metaphor.
Epithets: painful (thoughts) -We know that Turgenev wrote prose poems while in France in the family of P. Viardot (as he himself said, “basking on the edge of someone else’s nest”). He wrote shortly before his death. Of course, he remembered his homeland. friends. And his thoughts were PAINFUL.
GREAT, POWERFUL, TRUTHFUL AND FREE Russian language - the epithets speak for themselves. These are words that have become popular. This is a hymn to the native language..
TO THE GREAT people - Turgenev believed in the great destiny of the Russian people.
I think that this is a HYMN. The prayer presupposes some kind of humiliation. I don’t see it here. On the contrary, there are bravura notes (great, believe, great, powerful, truthful and free!) There are exclamations. optimistic faith.. Think for yourself. There will be no mistakes You just have to justify another point of view.