Famous sayings about language and speech. Statements of prominent writers about the Russian language

Sayings of poets and writers about the Russian language

I.S. Turgenev (1818-1883)

In days of doubt, in days of painful reflections on the fate of my homeland - you are my only support and support, O great, powerful, truthful and free Russian language!
... it is impossible to believe that such a language was not given to a great people!

Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language is a treasure, it is a property handed down to us by our predecessors!
Treat this mighty weapon with respect; in the hands of the skilful, it is able to perform miracles.

N.V. Gogol (1809-1852)

You marvel at the preciousness of our language: every sound is a gift: everything is grainy, large, like pearls themselves, and, really, there is another name for the most precious thing itself.

There is no word that would be so bold, brisk, so bursting out from under the very heart, so seething and vibrant, as aptly said Russian word.

Our extraordinary language itself is a mystery. It has all the tones and shades, all the transitions of sounds from the hardest to the most tender and soft; it is boundless and can, living like life, be enriched every minute...

K.G. Paustovsky (1892-1968)

We have been given possession of the richest, most accurate, powerful and truly magical Russian language.

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 feel the hidden charm of our land.

True love for one's country is unthinkable without love for one's language.

Among the splendid qualities of our language there is one absolutely amazing and hardly noticeable.
It consists in the fact that in its sound it is so diverse that it includes the sound of almost all languages ​​of the world.

There are no such sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which there would not be an exact expression in our language.

(1754-1841)

Our language is excellent, rich, loud, strong, thoughtful. It is only necessary to know the value of it, to delve into the composition and power of words, and then we will make sure that it is not his other languages, but he can enlighten them. This ancient, original language always remains an educator, a mentor of that poor one, to whom he told his roots for breeding a new garden.

It is unbearable when gentlemen writers tear our ears with non-Russian phrases.

May the zeal for the Russian word be multiplied, and zeal for the Russian word increase both in workers and in listeners!

Where a foreign language is used rather than one's own, where other people's books are read more than one's own, there, in the silence of literature, everything withers and does not flourish.

Do and say what you like, gentlemen lovers of foreign literature. But as long as we do not love our language, our customs, our upbringing, until then in many of our sciences and arts we will be far behind others. You have to live with your mind, not someone else's.

The natural language is the soul of the people, the mirror of morals, the true indicator of enlightenment, the unceasing preacher of deeds. The people rise, the language rises; good people, good language.

M.V. Lomonosov. A short guide to eloquence. 1748.

The language, which the Russian power of a great part of the world commands, in its power has a natural abundance, beauty and strength, which is not inferior to any European language.

A. P. Sumarokov (1717-1777)

1759. To senseless rhymers. Works, vol. IX, pp. 309, 310 - 311.

I love our beautiful language, and would rejoice if, having recognized its beauty in it, the Russian people practiced more and received success more than they do now, and not to blame the language, but their negligence: but loving the Russian language, can I praise such works that is he ugly? it is better not to have any writers than to have bad ones. Our clerks have already completely spoiled the spelling. And as for the language, the Germans poured German words into it, French petimeters, our Tatar ancestors, Latin pedants, translators of the Holy Scriptures of Greek: it is dangerous that the Kireyks do not multiply Polish words in it. The Germans established our warehouse according to German Grammar. But what spoils our language even more? thin translators, thin writers; and above all, poor poets.

Fyodor Glinka (1786-1880)

I confess to you that much as I dislike the former French, and especially the dramatic writers, I would however like their language to be less common among us. He does the same harm to ours, like an insignificant worm to a beautiful majestic tree, which undermines the roots.

Vissarion Belinsky (1811-1848).

The Russian language is extremely rich, flexible and picturesque for expressing simple, natural concepts ... In the Russian language, sometimes there are up to ten or more verbs of the same root, but of different types, to express various shades of the same action ...
There is no doubt that the Russian language is one of the richest languages ​​in the world.

A.S. Pushkin (1799-1837)

True taste does not consist in an unconscious rejection of such and such a word, such and such a turn, but in a sense of proportion and conformity.

Read folk tales, young writers, to see the properties of the Russian language.
"An objection to the article of the Athenaeus". 1828

There are two kinds of nonsense: one comes from a lack of feelings and thoughts, replaced by words; the other - from the fullness of feelings and thoughts and the lack of words to express them.

The magazines condemned the words: clap, talk and top as an unsuccessful innovation. These words are native Russian. “Bova came out of the tent to cool off and heard people’s talk and a horse top in an open field” ( The Tale of Bova Korolevich).
Clap is used colloquially instead of clapping, like a spike instead of hissing:
He launched a spike like a snake.
(Ancient Russian poems)
It must not interfere with the freedom of our rich and beautiful language.
From the notes to the novel "Eugene Onegin". 1830

... Not only the influence of foreign ideologists is detrimental to our fatherland; Education, or, to put it better, lack of education, is the root of all evil.
About public education. November 15, 1826

Vladimir Dal (1801-1872)

Is it possible to renounce one's homeland and soil, from the basic principles and elements, intensifying to transfer the language from its natural root to someone else's. to distort its nature and turn it into a parasite living on other people's juices? for the development of educated Russian speech.

One cannot joke with language, with the human word, with speech; the verbal speech of a person is ... a tangible connection ... between the body and the spirit; without words there is no conscious thought... without these material means the spirit cannot do anything in the material world, it cannot even manifest itself...

We must study the simple and direct Russian speech of the people and assimilate it for ourselves, just as all living things assimilate good food and turn it into their own blood and flesh...

How truly was K. Aksakov, when considering verbs, the vital, living force of our language! Our verbs in no way succumb to the dead spirit of such a grammar, which wants to subjugate them by force to mere external signs; they demand recognition in them of an independent spiritual power... of their significance and meaning...

Language is the age-old work of an entire generation.

The language of the people is undoubtedly our most important and inexhaustible spring or mine, the treasury of our language...

If we begin to introduce Russian words gradually, at the place where they are clear in their very meaning, then they will not only understand us, but they will even begin to adopt from us.

We do not banish all foreign words from the Russian language with a general anathema, we stand more for the Russian warehouse and turn of speech.

It seems as if such a revolution is now in store for our native language. We begin to suspect that we have been led into a slum, that we need to get out of it in a healthy way and carve out a different path for ourselves. Everything that has been done so far, since the time of Peter the Great, in the spirit of distorting the language, all this, like an unsuccessful inoculation, like a clothespin of a heterogeneous seed, should dry up and fall off, giving space to the wild, which needs to grow up on its own root, on its own juices, to be flavored with a holey and care, and not a nozzle on top. If we say that the head of the tail does not wait, then our head rushed off so far somewhere to the side that it almost broke away from the body; and if it is bad for the shoulders without a head, then it is disinterestedly for the head without a body. Applying this to our language, it seems as if this head has to either come off completely and fall off, or come to its senses and return. Russian speech has one of two things to do: either send it to the extreme, or, sensibly, turn onto a different path, taking with it all the stocks abandoned in a hurry.

Brothers Volkonsky

The "Russian part" of the modern written language of people who write quite competently almost does not differ from the language in which they wrote a hundred years ago. In "A Hero of Our Time" there are only two now obsolete expressions. The wall grew precisely from a heap of borrowings. If the influx of other people's words does not stop, then in 50 years Pushkin will be read with a dictionary. How, then, will the future Russia feed on the healthy juices of its past? And people who cannot read Pushkin, will they be Russians?

K.D. Ushinsky (1824-1871)

... The nature of the country and the history of the people, reflected in the Soul of man, were expressed in the word. Man disappeared, but the word he created remained an immortal and inexhaustible treasury of the national language; so that every word of a language, every form of it, is the result of a person's thoughts and feelings, through which the nature of the country and the history of the people are reflected in the word.

A.N. Tolstoy (1883-1945)

To deal with the language somehow means to think somehow: inaccurately, approximately, incorrectly.

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.I. Kuprin (1870-1938)

The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and roomy.

Language is the history of a people. Language is the path of civilization and culture.
Therefore, the study and preservation of the Russian language is not an idle occupation with nothing to do, but an urgent need.

A.M. Gorky (1868-1936)

The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich, and everything is enriched with astonishing speed.

M.A. Sholokhov (1905-1984)

The greatest wealth of a people is its language! For thousands of years countless treasures of human thought and experience have accumulated and live forever in the word.

D.S. Likhachev (1906-1999)

The greatest value of the people is the language - the language in which they write, speak, think.

V. Bazylev

Indigenous Russian words remember the whole world history, testify to this history, reveal its riddles...

Poets about the Russian language

In the age of the father's tongue do not shun,
And don't put it in
Alien, nothing;
But adorn yourself with your own beauty.

A.P. Sumarokov
Damage to the language. Works, vol. VII, p. 163

Metallic, sonorous, self-humming,
Rampant, well-aimed our language!

N.M. languages

Language is the confession of the people:

He hears his nature
His soul and life are dear...

P.A. Vyazemsky

Word(1915)

Silent tombs, mummies and bones, -
Only the word is given life:
From the ancient darkness, on the world churchyard,
Only letters are heard.

And we have no other property!
Know how to save
Though to the best of my ability, in the days of anger and suffering,
Our immortal gift is speech.

I.A. Bunin

Words (1956)

Many words on earth. There are daily words -
The blue of the spring sky shines through them.

There are night words that we talk about during the day
We remember with a smile and sweet shame.

There are words - like wounds, words - like a court, -
They do not surrender with them and do not take prisoners.

Words can kill, words can save
In a word, you can lead the shelves behind you.

In a word, you can sell, and betray, and buy,
The word can be poured into smashing lead.
But there are words for all words in our language:
Glory, Motherland, Loyalty, Freedom and Honor.

I dare not repeat them at every step, -
Like banners in a case, I keep them in my soul.
Who often repeats them - I do not believe that
He will forget about them in fire and smoke.

He will not remember them on the burning bridge,
They will be forgotten by another in a high position.
Anyone who wants to cash in on proud words
Countless dust offends the heroes,
Those in dark forests and damp trenches,
Without repeating these words, they died for them.

Let them not serve as a bargaining chip, -
Keep them in your heart as a golden standard!
And do not make them servants in petty life -
Take care of their original purity.

When joy is like a storm, or sorrow is like night,
Only these words can help you!

V.S. Shefner

Russian language (1959)

I love my mother tongue!
It is clear to everyone
He is melodious
He, like the Russian people, is many-sided,
As our power, mighty.
If you want - write songs, hymns,
If you want - express the pain of the soul.
Like rye bread, it smells,
As if the flesh of the earth is tenacious.
For big and small countries
He is for friendship
Given to the brotherhood.
He is the language of the moon and planets,
Our satellites and rockets.
On the board
round table
Speak it:
unambiguous and direct,
It is like the truth itself.
He, like our dreams, is great,
Life-giving Russian language!

AND I. Yashin

Russian language (1966)

At your poor cradle
Still barely audible at first
Ryazan women sang
Dropping words like pearls.

Under the dim tavern lamp
On the table wooden wilted
At a full untouched cup,
Like a wounded falcon, coachman.

You walked on broken hooves
Burned in the fires of the Old Believers,
Washed in tubs and troughs,
Cricket on the stove whistled.

You, sitting on the late porch,
Sunset turning face
I took a ring from Koltsov,
Borrowed the ring from Kurbsky.

You, our great-grandfathers, are in captivity,
Having powdered the face with flour,
At the Russian mill they ground
Visiting Tatar language.

You took a little German
Even though they could do more
So that they don't get it alone
The scientific importance of the earth.

You, smelling of rotten sheepskin
And grandfather's sharp kvass,
Written with a black torch
And a white swan feather.

You are above prices and rates -
In the year forty-one,
Then he wrote in a German dungeon
On weak lime with a nail.

Lords and those disappeared
Instantly and surely
When accidentally encroached
On the Russian essence of the language.

Ya. V. Smelyakov

Courage

We know what's on the scales now
And what is happening now.
The hour of courage has struck on our clocks,
And courage will not leave us.
It's not scary to lie dead under the bullets,
It is not bitter to be homeless, -
And we will save you, Russian speech,
Great Russian word.
We will carry you free and clean,
And we will give to our grandchildren, and we will save from captivity
Forever!

A.A. Akhmatova

Our language has enough words in itself,
But there is not a sufficient number of scribes on it.
One, following an unusual warehouse,
Attracts the Russian Pallas to Germany
And, thinking that he gives her pleasure,
Takes natural beauty from her face.
Another, not learning to read and write as it should,
In Russian, he thinks, everything can not be said,
And, taking a handful of other people's words, weaves speech
With my own tongue, I only deserve to be burned.
Or word for word he translates Russian into a syllable,
Which does not look like itself in the update.
That stingy prose aspires to heaven
And he does not understand his own tricks.
He creeps in prose and verse, and letters ona,
Scolding himself, gives the scribes to the laws.

Whoever writes must clear his mind in advance
And first give yourself light in that;
But many scribes do not talk about him,
Satisfied only with the fact that the speeches are composed.
Readers are stupid, although they will not be understood,
They marvel at him and think that there is a secret here,
And, having covered your mind, reading with darkness,
The indistinct warehouse of the scribe is accepted by beauty.
There is no secret, no crazy writing,
Art - to properly offer your style,
So that the opinion of the creator is imagined clearly
And the speeches would flow freely and according.
A letter that ordinary people call with a letter,
With those who are absent, he usually speaks,
It should be without fuss and briefly composed,
How simply we speak, so simply clearly.
But who is not taught to speak properly,
That is why it is not easy to lay down a letter.
Words that are before society,
Even though they are offered with a pen, although they are offered with a tongue,
Should be much more magnificently folded,
And rhetorically b beauty was included in them,
Which in simple words, though unusual,
But the importance of speeches is necessary and decent
To clarify the mind and passions,
To enter into the hearts and attract people.
In it, nature is happy to show us the way,
And reading opens doors to art.

Our language is sweet, pure, and magnificent, and rich,
But sparingly we bring a good warehouse into it.
So that we do not disgrace him with ignorance,
We have to fix our entire warehouse at least a little.
No need for everyone to sweat over rhymes,
And everyone needs to know how to write correctly.
But is it right to demand from us a correct style?
Closed to him in the teachings of the road.
As soon as you teach warehouses a little,
If you please write "Bova", "Peter the Golden Keys."
The clerk says: “The Scripture is gentle here,
You will be a man, study only diligently!”
And I think that you will be a man
However, you will not know how to read and write forever.
Even in the best handwriting, from the clerk's council,
Weave four letters into the word "summer"
And pretentiously you will learn to write "the end",
Believe that you will never be a scribe.
Adopt from those, at least a lot of them, at least a little,
Whose care for art was jealous
And showed them how wild this thought is,
That we do not have the wealth of language.
Be angry that we have few books, and do penalties:
“When there are no Russian books, who to follow in the degree?”
However, you are more angry with yourself
Or at your father that he did not teach you.
And if you had not lived your youth willfully,
You could be quite skilled in writing.
The industrious bee takes
From everywhere what she needs in sweet honey,
And visiting the fragrant rose,
It takes particles from manure into its cells.
In addition, we have many spiritual books;
Who is to blame for the fact that you did not comprehend the psalms,
And, running along it, like a ship in a fast sea,
From end to end, he raced recklessly a hundred times.
Kohl "asche", "tochiyu" custom exterminated,
Who forces you to introduce them into the language again?
And what from antiquity is still indispensable,
That may be what you are supposed to do everywhere.
Do not imagine that our language is not the same as we read in books,
Which we call non-Russians.
He is the same, but when he was different, as you think
Just because you don't understand it
So what would be left with the Russian language?
Your thoughts are far from the truth.
Do not know the sciences when you do not love them, even forever,
And thoughts need to be known, of course.

A.P. Sumarokov
1747. Epistle about the Russian language. 4 Works, vol. I, pp. 329 - 333.

The Russian language is rightfully considered one of the richest languages ​​in the world. In our selection of quotes - statements, reflections of the great Russian classics of literature about the originality and greatness of the Russian language.

A.I. Kuprin

Russian language! For thousands of years the people have been creating this flexible, magnificent, inexhaustibly rich, intelligent poetic ... an instrument of their social life, their thoughts, their feelings, their hopes, their anger, their great future ... With wondrous ligature, the people weaved an invisible web of the Russian language: bright, like a rainbow after spring rain, well-aimed as arrows, sincere, like a song over a cradle, melodious ... The dense world, on which he threw the magic net of the word, submitted to him like a brimmed horse.

A.N. Tolstoy

Language is the history of the people. Language is the way of civilization and culture. Therefore, the study and preservation of the Russian language is not an idle occupation with nothing to do, but an urgent need.

A.I. Kuprin

In days of doubt, in days of painful reflections on the fate of my homeland, you alone are my support and support, O great, powerful, truthful and free Russian language! Without you - how not to fall into despair at the sight of everything that happens 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 roomy.
A.I. Kuprin

Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language is a treasure, it is a property handed down to us by our predecessors! Treat this mighty weapon with respect; in the hands of the skilful, it is able to perform miracles.

I.S. Turgenev

There are no such sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which there would be no exact expression in our language.

K.G. Paustovsky

The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich, and everything is enriched with astonishing speed.

Maksim Gorky

You marvel at the treasures of our language: every sound is a gift; everything is granular, large, like pearls themselves, and really, another name is more precious than the thing itself.

N.V. Gogol

There is no word that would be so bold, brisk, so bursting out from under the very heart, so seething and trembling vividly, as aptly said Russian word.

N.V. Gogol

Let 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 rustles and thunders - and suddenly, if necessary, softens, murmurs in a gentle stream and sweetly flows into the soul, forming everything measures that consist only in the fall and rise of the human voice!

N.M. Karamzin

Our beautiful language, under the pen of unlearned and unskilful writers, is rapidly declining. Words are distorted. Grammar fluctuates. Spelling, this heraldry of the language, changes according to the arbitrariness of everyone and everyone.

A.S. Pushkin

Pushkin also spoke about punctuation marks. They exist to highlight the thought, to bring the words into the correct ratio and to give the phrase lightness and the right sound. Punctuation marks are like musical notation. They firmly hold the text and do not allow it to crumble.

K.G. Paustovsky

To use a foreign word when there is a Russian word equivalent to it is to insult both common sense and common taste.

V.G. Belinsky

Only having mastered the initial material, that is, the native language, in the possible perfection, we will be able to be in the same perfection.

learn a foreign language, but not before.

F.M. Dostoevsky

Ugly, dissonant words should be avoided. I do not like words with an abundance of hissing and whistling sounds, I avoid them.

A.P. Chekhov

Our Russian language, more than all the new ones, is perhaps capable of approaching the classical languages ​​in its richness, strength, freedom of location, abundance of forms.

N.A. Dobrolyubov

The main character of our language lies in the extreme ease with which everything is expressed in it - abstract thoughts, inner lyrical feelings, “mouse running around life”, a cry of indignation, sparkling prank and amazing passion.

A.I. Herzen

Among the splendid qualities of our language there is one absolutely amazing and hardly noticeable. It consists in the fact that in its sound it is so diverse that it includes the sound of almost all languages ​​of the world.

K.G. Paustovsky

The natural richness of the Russian language and speech is so great that without further ado, listening to the time with your heart, in close contact with a simple person and with a volume of Pushkin in your pocket, you can become an excellent writer.

MM. Prishvin

By the attitude of each person to his language, one can absolutely accurately judge not only his cultural level, but also his civic value.

K.G. Paustovsky

To deal with the language somehow means to think somehow: approximately, inaccurately, incorrectly.

A.N. Tolstoy

But what disgusting bureaucratic language! Proceeding from that position… on the one hand… on the other hand, all this without any need. “Nevertheless” and “to the extent that” the officials composed. I read and spit.

A.P. Chekhov

The greatest wealth of a people is its language! For thousands of years countless treasures of human thought and experience have accumulated and live forever in the word.

M.A. Sholokhov

The Russian language is quite rich, however, it has its drawbacks, and one of them is hissing sound combinations: -vosh, -vosh, -vosh, -shcha, -shch. On the first page of your story, “lice” crawl in large numbers: those who worked, those who spoke, those who arrived. It is quite possible to do without insects.

Maksim Gorky

You can do wonders with the Russian language!

It is difficult to overestimate the importance of the Russian language, since it is not just a means of communication between people in Russia, but a real asset of the nation with a rich history and extensive roots. Many famous writers praised the Russian syllable both in their works and in simple statements, which later became winged or turned into quotes about the Russian language. They are relevant to this day: not a single one of the judgments about the speech of compatriot thinkers has lost its significance. Statements about the Russian language of great people should be remembered when analyzing literary works.

In almost all the work of Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, the central position is occupied by the Russian people - their character, way of life, cultural and moral principles. In his novels, the writer paid special attention to describing the mentality of the Russian, his customs, and also often turned to descriptions of the nature of Rus'.

Turgenev became the first writer who received recognition not only within his homeland, but also abroad, as he traveled: Ivan Sergeevich spent especially much time in French lands. The most popular works of Turgenev include "Notes of a Hunter", "Asya", "Fathers and Sons".
The prose writer spoke a lot about the greatness of the language, its special significance in public culture. The author notes:

The writer often urged to protect the Russian language as a great value, the dignity of the Russians, speaking of it almost like a living being:

Turgenev speaks of Russian with respectful reverence. In his opinion, the language is one of the greatest wealth in Russia, which must be treated with caution.

What Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin wrote about language

Kuprin, the master of landscape description, also spoke about the speech. Literature lovers especially remember the writer on the works "Garnet Bracelet", "Duel", "Moloch". In his work, Kuprin pays great attention to detail, developing each character, each natural description, each animal in such a way that any little thing acquires depth and meaning.

Kuprin is one of the writers with the most ambitious style of narration. The writer in his works often refers to the problems of love-hate, strength-weakness, despair and the will to live, combining opposite qualities at the same time in a single hero.

About language Kuprin says:

The writer respectfully speaks about the language culture, noting that the Russian language does not tolerate disparaging use:

Sayings of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

According to some critics of Gogol's contemporaries, Nikolai Vasilyevich became the discoverer of a new direction in the history of literature - the "natural school". The writer influenced the work of many other authors who worked in satirical directions - Chernyshevsky, Nekrasov, Saltykov-Shchadrin. The most famous include Gogol's works "Dead Souls", "The Overcoat", "The Government Inspector", "Notes of a Madman".

Gogol turned to the topic of language following Pushkin. This idea was not the last value in all his work. The writer fought to preserve the purity of the style, its originality, considering the Russian language harmonious, valuable:

Gogol compared Russian with other common foreign dialects, emphasizing its greatness and complexity:

Words by Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky

Belinsky is not so much a writer as a literary critic, recognized as one of the most demanding in terms of the quality of the analyzed works. His activity was distinguished by a certain revolutionary orientation, since he considered their nationality to be the leading principle for the analysis of novels.

The critic for the first time divided all literature into ideal and real - the latter, in his opinion, reflected life as it is, while the ideal gave an incorrect reflection of reality. Belinsky openly admired the works of Gogol, as well as Pushkin. One of the most ambitious essays by Belinsky can be considered a cycle of 11 articles on the writings of A.S. Pushkin.

The critic loved speech, considered the language self-sufficient, not tolerating substitutions:

The writer assessed the Russian language as rich:

Quotes by Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov

Lomonosov plays a key role in the development of linguistics and rhetoric in Rus', since it was he who created the Russian Grammar, where he introduced the concept of word transcription, parts of speech, spelling. Mikhail Vasilyevich was the first person who spoke about the style and methods of artistic expressiveness of speech.

Lomonosov was the first person to establish a clear distinction between secular and ecclesiastical dialects. The thinker dealt with the problems of Russian linguistics and stylistics almost all his life. In addition, Lomonosov paid much attention to the study of Russian dialects, characteristic of representatives of different localities and regions of Rus'.

What Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin said about the Russian language

Pushkin, “the sun of Russian poetry,” spoke in a similar way about the significance of speech in Rus'. The poet made an invaluable contribution to the development of literature. The poet was able to see the essence, the mentality of different eras and nations, which made it possible to find for them the most accurate psychological prototypes in the works.

Among the iconic works of the writer, one can note the cycle of Belkin's stories, the stories "The Stationmaster", "The Young Lady-Peasant Woman". To this day, the works “The Queen of Spades”, “The Miserly Knight”, “Dubrovsky”, “Gypsies”, “Eugene Onegin” are widespread and loved.

Pushkin could not help but appreciate the importance of the Russian language, as well as its richness with grandeur. The poet knew many other dialects at the level of understanding, was fluent in French, while describing Russian as the most extensive language of all he knew:

"As the material of literature, the Slavic-Russian language has an undeniable superiority over all European ones."

The writer also noted the versatility of speech in Rus', using short but capacious phrases:

"The richer the language in expressions and turns, the better for a skilled writer."

Pushkin became not only a world-famous writer, but also the founder of absolutely new trends in literature. The poet had a strong influence on the work of Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov. The writer's work is known both in Russia and abroad.

Words by Maxim Gorky

Maxim Gorky significantly influenced the development of Russian literature during the revolutionary years. The writer through his novels managed to create a special mood of the working class associated with social transformations. Aleksey Peshkov (the real name and surname of the writer) was able to accurately reflect the mentality of the proletariat during the years of radical social changes.

The writer also became the founder of new children's literature, the main purpose of which was to educate people with:

• an extensive knowledge base about the structure and functioning of the world;
• developed will;
• great abilities.

Among the popular fairy tales of Gorky are Samovar and Sparrow.

Maxim Gorky could not but appreciate the power of the Russian style, its importance for the formation of a person's worldview, a view of reality. The writer noted that Russian is concise, but well-aimed:

"Our speech is predominantly aphoristic, distinguished by its conciseness, strength."

Peshkov also spoke about the dynamics of the language - according to the writer, the Russian language has many prerequisites for expansion, development, its structure is being transformed and improved constantly, very quickly:

"The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich and everything is enriched with astonishing speed."

Quotes by Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky

Paustovsky received worldwide fame as an author who is able to look at the world from a lyrical point of view. The writer paid special attention to the description of high human ideals in his works, such as love, friendship, fidelity.

Paustovsky is noted by critics as a prose writer who loves and appreciates the nature of Rus'. Through landscape motifs, the author creates a special unique atmosphere of his works, bringing moral ideas through abstract concepts.

Paustovsky is a children's author. The most famous works of the writer for kids include the tales "Hare paws", "Cat-thief", "Badger nose".
The prose writer could not but admire the Russian style. Paustovsky noted its organicity, diversity:

The writer drew attention to Russian punctuation, highlighting its special significance in the formation of written thought:

Quotes by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's talent for writing was discovered in his first year at the Medical University. Studying had a decisive role in all his literary activity - many heroes of Chekhov's stories were doctors.

In stories and plays, the author raises the problems of universal values ​​- love, honor and freedom. At the same time, there is no idealization of reality in his work - all events are reflected as they really appear. Chekhov excelled both in prose and in drama, which could not but affect his work: prose acquired the laconicism characteristic of plays, theatricality and brevity. In dramatic works, purely prose features were used, which gave the plays innovation.

A distinctive feature of Chekhov's works is their conciseness - the writer's style is short, but precise and bright. The author himself noted the importance of such a quality as simplicity of speech:

“Beware of refined language. The language should be simple and elegant."

Chekhov was also attentive to the purity of the language - the writer believed that the euphony of speech is made up of the euphony of the pronunciation of the words themselves that make up the text:

“Ugly, dissonant words should be avoided. I do not like words with an abundance of hissing and whistling sounds, I avoid them.

Among the most common works of Chekhov, in which one can trace the manner of the author's speech, one can name the plays "The Seagull", "Anniversary", "Wedding", "Ivanov", "Bear" and "Proposal". The writer published many stories in prose, for example, "Ward No. 6".

Words by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Dostoevsky adhered to the ideas of realism in the narrative. The central theme of Dostoevsky's novels was the reflection of the life of a little man, who is under the yoke of social reality. The writer's work is psychological: Dostoevsky delves into the psychology of the people he reflects, trying to identify the motives for their behavior.

The author believes that a small person should not suffer from social transformations, many of which put such people in a position of poverty. Often Dostoevsky turned to spiritual philosophy, raising the philosophical, anthropological, religious, ethical and historical problems of the era.

Among the writer's iconic novels are the works "Crime and Punishment", "Poor People", "Idiot", "Teenager", "The Brothers Karamazov", "Demons".

Dostoevsky considered the study of a language, especially his native language, to be a very important aspect of a person's life. According to the writer, the attempt to learn foreign languages ​​is meaningless until a person has completely mastered his own:

Great writers often turn to the linguistic theme in their memoirs, essays, and novels. Their work is permeated with sincere love for their native language. The authors call for preserving the Russian language as an invaluable heritage, as well as an important aspect of culture. The statements of great people about the Russian language show the significance and importance of our native language.

The collection includes wise sayings and sayings about the Russian language of great people said by Russian writers, scientists and philosophers, as well as representatives of other peoples:

• Our heavenly beauty will never be trampled on by cattle. Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
• Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language is a treasure, it is a property handed down to us by our predecessors! Treat this mighty weapon with respect; in the hands of the skilful, it is able to perform miracles. Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
• The language of the people is the best, never fading and ever again blooming color of its entire spiritual life. Konstantin Dmitrievich Ushinsky

• Take care of the purity of the language as a shrine! 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
• Language is the confession of the people, His soul and way of life. Pyotr Andreevich Vyazemsky.
• The greatest wealth of a people is its language! For thousands of years countless treasures of human thought and experience have accumulated and live forever in the word. Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
• In days of doubt, in days of painful reflections on the fate of my homeland, you alone are my support and support, O great, powerful, truthful and free Russian language! Without you, how not to fall into despair at the sight of everything that happens at home? But one cannot believe that such a language was not given to a great people! Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
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  Language is the history of the people. Language is the path of civilization and culture... That is why the study and preservation of the Russian language is not an idle occupation from nothing to do, but an urgent need. Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin
• The perception of other people's words, and especially without necessity, is not an enrichment, but a deterioration of the language. Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov
• Language is the history of the people. Language is the way of civilization and culture. That is why the study and preservation of the Russian language is not an idle hobby from nothing to do, but an urgent need. Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin
• I do not consider foreign words good and suitable, if only they can be replaced by purely Russian or more Russified ones. We must protect our rich and beautiful language from corruption. Nikolai Semenovich Leskov
• Let 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 rustles and thunders - and suddenly, if necessary, softens, murmurs in a gentle stream and sweetly flows into the soul, forming everything measures, which are only. Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin (Our collection includes 3 statements about the Russian language from Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin)
• There is no doubt that the Russian language is one of the richest languages ​​in the world. Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky
• You marvel at the preciousness of our language: every sound is a gift: everything is grainy, large, like pearls themselves, and, really, there is another name for the most precious thing itself. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol
• To use a foreign word when there is a Russian word equivalent to it is to insult both common sense and common taste. Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky
• Knowledge of the Russian language, a language that in every possible way deserves to be studied both in itself, for it is one of the most powerful and richest living languages, and for the sake of the literature it reveals, is no longer such a rarity ... Friedrich Engels.
• There is one significant fact: in our still unsettled and young language we can convey the deepest forms of the spirit and thought of European languages. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
• True love for one's country is unthinkable without love for one's language. Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
• Ugly, dissonant words should be avoided. I do not like words with an abundance of hissing and whistling sounds, I avoid them. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
• No matter how you say it, the native language will always remain native. When you want to speak to your heart’s content, not a single French word comes into your head, but if you want to shine, then it’s another matter. Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
• The word of the Briton will respond with the knowledge of the heart and the wise knowledge of life; the short-lived word of a Frenchman will flash and scatter like a light dandy; intricately invent his own, not accessible to everyone, cleverly thin word, a German; but there is no word that would be so bold, brisk, so bursting out from under the very heart, so seething and trembling vividly, as aptly said Russian word. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol.
• The beauty, grandeur, strength and richness of the Russian language is quite clear from books written in past centuries, when our ancestors did not know any rules for compositions, but they hardly thought that they exist or can be. Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
• You can do wonders with the Russian language! Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
• We must love and preserve those samples of the Russian language that we have inherited from first-class masters. Dmitry Andreevich Furmanov
• 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. (In our article, there are 2 statements about the Russian language from Prosper Merime - a French writer and translator, one of the first masters of the short story in France)
• Our Russian language, more than all new ones, is perhaps capable of approaching classical languages ​​in its richness, strength, freedom of location, and abundance of forms. Nikolai Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov
• The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich and everything is enriched with astonishing speed. Maksim Gorky
• There is nothing sedimentary or crystalline in Russian; everything excites, breathes, lives. Alexey Stepanovich Khomyakov
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  The Russian language in skillful hands and in experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and roomy. Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin (Wise sayings about Russian)
• 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.
• Our native language should be the main basis for both our general education and the education of each of us. Pyotr Andreevich Vyazemsky
• But what disgusting bureaucratic language! Proceeding from that position... on the one hand... on the other hand, all this without any need. “Nevertheless” and “to the extent that” the officials composed. I read and spit. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
• Our beautiful language, under the pen of unlearned and unskilful writers, is rapidly declining. Words are distorted. Grammar fluctuates. Spelling, this heraldry of the language, changes according to the arbitrariness of everyone and everyone. Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
• By the attitude of each person to his language, one can absolutely accurately judge not only his cultural level, but also his civic value. Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
• Follow the rule stubbornly: so that words are cramped, and thoughts are spacious. Nikolay Alekseevich Nekrasov
• To deal with the language somehow means to think somehow: approximately, inaccurately, incorrectly. Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy

• Prostrate in the enrichment of the mind and in the decoration of the Russian word. Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
• Nothing is so ordinary for us, nothing seems so simple as our speech, but in the very essence there is nothing so surprising, so wonderful, as our speech. Alexander Nikolaevich Radishchev
• Russian is the language of poetry. The Russian language is unusually rich in versatility and subtlety of shades. Prosper Merimee
• There is no doubt that the desire to dazzle Russian speech with foreign words without need, without sufficient reason, is contrary to common sense and common taste; but it harms not the Russian language and not Russian literature, but only those who are obsessed with it. Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky
• The Russian language is quite rich, however, it has its drawbacks, and one of them is hissing sound combinations: -vosh, -vosh, -vosh, -shcha, -shch. On the first page of your story, “lice” crawl in large numbers: those who have worked, those who have spoken, those who have arrived. It is quite possible to do without insects. Maksim Gorky
• Our speech is predominantly aphoristic, distinguished by its conciseness and strength. Maksim Gorky
• The Russian language opens up to the end in its truly magical properties and wealth only to those who deeply love and know their people “to the bone”

Statements about the Russian language:

The Russian language in skillful hands and in experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and roomy.

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 reflections on the fate of my homeland - you are my only support and support, oh great, powerful, truthful and free Russian language!., you can’t believe that such a language was not given to a great people!

I. S. Turgenev

There is nothing sedimentary or crystalline in Russian; everything excites, breathes, lives.

A. S. Khomyakov

The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich and everything is enriched with astonishing speed.

M. Gorky

The Russian language is a language created for poetry, it is unusually rich and remarkable mainly for its subtlety of shades.

P. Merimee

Many Russian words themselves radiate poetry, just as precious stones radiate a mysterious brilliance...

K. G. Paustovsky

You marvel at the preciousness of our language: every sound is a gift: everything is grainy, large, like pearls themselves, and, really, there is another name for the most precious thing itself.

N. V. Gogol

Our beautiful language, under the pen of unlearned and unskilful writers, is rapidly declining. Words are distorted. Grammar fluctuates. Spelling, this heraldry of the language, changes according to the arbitrariness of everyone and everyone.

A. S. Pushkin

We spoil 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 use of foreign words without much need?

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Take care of the purity of the language as a shrine! 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 a Russian word equivalent to it means to offend both common sense and common taste.

V. Belinsky

In fact, for an intelligent person, speaking badly should be considered as indecent as not being able to read and write.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

To deal with the language somehow means to think somehow: approximately, inaccurately, incorrectly.

A.N. Tolstoy

Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language - this is a treasure, this is a property handed down to us by our predecessors! Treat this mighty weapon 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 reflections on the fate of my homeland, you alone are my support and support, O great, powerful, truthful and free Russian language! Without you - how not to fall into despair at the sight of everything that happens 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 roomy.

A.I. Kuprin

There is no word that would be so bold, brisk, so bursting out from under the very heart, so seething and vibrant, as aptly said Russian word.

N. Gogol

Language is the history of the people. Language is the way of civilization and culture. Therefore, the study and preservation of the Russian language is not an idle occupation with nothing to do, but an urgent need.

A. Kuprin

Russian language! For thousands of years this flexible, magnificent, inexhaustibly rich, intelligent poetic people has been creating ... an instrument of their social life, their thoughts, their feelings, their hopes, their anger, their great future ... The people weaved an invisible web of the Russian language with wondrous ligature: bright as a rainbow after the spring rain , as well-aimed as arrows, sincere as a song over a cradle, melodious ... The dense world, on which he threw the magic net of the word, submitted to him like a curbed horse.

A.N. Tolstoy

To treat language somehow means to think somehow: inaccurately, approximately, incorrectly.

A.N. Tolstoy

There are no such sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which there would be no 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 astonishing speed.

Maksim Gorky

You marvel at the treasures of our language: every sound is a gift; everything is granular, large, like pearls themselves, and really, another name is more precious than the thing itself.

N.V. Gogol

Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language is a treasure, it is a property handed down to us by our predecessors! Treat this mighty weapon with respect; in the hands of the skilful, it is able to perform miracles.

I.S. Turgenev

It's not scary to lie dead under the bullets,
It is not bitter to be homeless, -
And we will save you, Russian speech,
Great Russian word.
We will carry you free and clean,
And we will give grandchildren, and we will save from captivity,
Forever.