Statements about Rus'. Statements of great people about Russia

I hope you already know about the Kadyrov Bridge in St. Petersburg?

and now the plot:

Before you continue reading, I will say that I am not forcing things, I am not a Russophobe, not an agent of the State Department, the post is not paid for. This is history. There's no escape from it.

“It [Russia] is a terrible spectacle of a country where people trade in people, without even having the justification that American planters slyly use, claiming that the Negro is not a person; countries where people call themselves not by names, but by nicknames: Vanka, Steshka, Vaska, Palashka; a country where, finally, there are not only no guarantees for personality, honor and property, but there is not even police order, but there are only huge corporations of various official thieves and robbers" . - - V. G. Belinsky, literary critic(1811 - 1848)

“Heavy Russian spirit, you can’t breathe and you can’t fly.” - A. Blok

“Muscovy is the Rus' of the taiga, Mongolian, wild, bestial.” (Muscovy - the Russia of taiga, Mongolic, wild, bestial.) - Alexey Tolstoy

"Not the people, but brute, boor, a wild horde, murderers and villains." (They are not people, they are boors, villains, wild hordes of murderers and miscreants.) - Michael Bulgakov

“The most important sign of the success of the Russian people is their sadistic cruelty.” (The most important trait of the success of the Russian people is their sadistic brutality.) - Maksim Gorky

“The Russian is the greatest and most insolent liar in the whole world.” (A Russian is the greatest and the cheekiest of all liars in the world.) - IvanTurgenev

"The Russian people are boorish." - Mikhail Bulgakov, 1923

"The Russian people have not a hint of Creative skills". - G. Uspensky.

“Russians are a people who hate freedom, deify slavery, love shackles on their hands and feet, love their bloody despots, do not feel any beauty, are dirty physically and morally, have lived for centuries in darkness, obscurantism, and have not lifted a finger towards anything. human, but always ready to captivate, to oppress everyone and everything, the whole world. This is not a people, but a historical curse of humanity." - I.S. Shmelev.

“Oh, how hard, how unbearably hard it is sometimes to live in Russia, in this stinking environment of dirt, vulgarity, lies, deceptions, abuses, good little scoundrels, hospitable bribe-takers, hospitable rogues - the fathers and benefactors of bribe-takers!” - Ivan Aksakov, from a letter to his family.

“In the soul of every Russian, unlike a European, lives a cunning, evil animal.” - Carl Gustav Jung in an interview.

“I must express my sad view of the Russian person - he has such a weak brain system that he is not able to perceive reality as such. For him there are only words. His conditioned reflexes are coordinated not with actions, but with words.” - Academician Pavlov. About the Russian mind. 1932

“A people that hates freedom, loves slavery, loves chains on their hands and feet, dirty physically and morally... ready at any moment to oppress anyone and everyone.” (The people who hate freedom, adore enslavement, love handcuffs and who are filthy morally and physically, ready to oppress everyone and everything.) - Ivan Shmelev

“A people indifferent to the least responsibility, to the least justice, to the least truth, a people that does not recognize human dignity, that does not fully recognize any free man, not a free thought." (The people who are indifferent to the least of obligations, to the least of fairness, to the least of truth... the people who do not recognize human dignity, who entirely defy a free man and a free thought.) - Alexander Pushkin

“Russia is the most vile, sickeningly disgusting country in the entire history of the world. Using the method of selection, monstrous moral monsters were bred there, in whom the very concept of Good and Evil was turned inside out. Throughout its history, this nation has been wallowing in shit and at the same time wants to drown the whole world in it...” - I.A. Ilyin (1882-1954), Russian philosopher

“... The measure of devotion to the Motherland is in informing the special services.”
“...The measure of groveling before power is the measure of devotion to the country.”
- I.A. Ilyin, Russian philosopher, from the article « Soviet Union- not Russia", 1947

“I am not proud that I am Russian, I submit to this position. And when I think... about the beauty of our history before the damned Mongols and before the damned Moscow, even more shameful than the Mongols themselves, I want to throw myself on the ground and roll in despair at what we have done...” - Tolstoy A.K. From a letter to friend B. M. Markevich April 26, 1869. Collected works in 4 volumes. T. 4. - M., 1964

"The Russian people are in an extremely sad state: they are sick, ruined, demoralized." “And so we learn that, in the person of a significant part of his intelligentsia, although he cannot be considered formally insane, he is nevertheless obsessed false ideas, bordering on delusions of grandeur and delusions of hostility towards him from everyone. Indifferent to his actual benefit and actual harm, he imagines non-existent dangers and bases the most absurd assumptions on them. It seems to him that all his neighbors offend him, do not worship his greatness enough and are plotting against him in every possible way. He accuses each of his household of trying to harm him, to separate from him and go over to his enemies, and he considers all his neighbors to be his enemies..." - Philosopher Vladimir Solovyov

Russian character is a constant ebb and flow, and the purely Russian word “Nothing!” expresses well the fatalism of these endless fluctuations. - D. Galsworthy

The Russian man has an enemy, an irreconcilable, dangerous enemy, without whom he would be a giant. This enemy is laziness. - N. Gogol

“Not the people, but a hellish freak.”- V. Rozanov is a Russian philosopher, publicist and critic.

"The agreement signed with Russia is not worth the paper it is written on." -- Otto von Bismarck

“The main feature of the Russian national character is cruelty, and that cruelty is sadistic. I’m not talking about individual outbursts of cruelty, but about the psyche, about the soul of the people. I looked through the archives of one court for 1901-1910. and I was overcome with horror huge amount incredibly cruel treatment of people. In general, here in Russia everyone takes pleasure in beating someone. And the people consider beatings to be useful, so they made up the saying “for a beaten person they give two unbeaten ones.” For 1917-1919 the peasants buried the captured Red Guards upside down so deep that their feet stuck out of the ground. Then they laughed as those legs twitched. Or they nailed one arm and one leg high on a tree and enjoyed the torment of the victim. The Red Guards tore the skin from living captive Denikin counter-revolutionaries, hammered nails into their heads, and cut out the skin on their shoulders, like officer’s shoulder straps.” - Gorky Maxim. About the Russian peasantry (1922)

“The Russian man has selfless love to meanness. He won’t have anything to gain from this, but he will do something nasty to his neighbor.” - N.V. Gogol

Alas, this beast was... His Majesty the Russian people... - Shulgin V.V. Days; 1920. - M., 1989, p. 182(1878-1976), publicist, one of the leaders of the right in the State Duma

If Russia had failed, there would have been no loss or unrest in humanity. -- Ivan Turgenev

“There is no smaller, bastard and rude individual in this world than the Katsap. Born in a Nazi country, fed by the propaganda of Nazism, this bastard will never become a Human. His country has no friends - either lackeys or enemies. His country is only capable of threatening, humiliate and kill. And for the preservation of this status of Russia, an ordinary Katsap is ready to sacrifice own life, the lives of their parents and children, the quality of life own people. Truly: Katsaps are beasts. Fierce, bloodthirsty, but... mortal." - A. Solzhenitsyn

In all countries railways They are used for transportation, and in our case they are also used for theft. - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

“The Russian mind shows itself most clearly in stupidity.” -- Vasily Klyuchevsky

There are no average talents in Russia, simple craftsmen, but there are lonely geniuses and millions of worthless people. Geniuses can do nothing because they have no apprentices, and nothing can be done with millions because they have no masters. The first are useless because there are too few of them; the latter are helpless because there are too many of them. - Vasily Klyuchevsky

The Russian commoner - the Orthodox - serves his faith as a church duty imposed on him to save someone’s soul, just not his own, which he has not learned to save, and does not want to. No matter how you pray, the devil will get it all. This is his whole theology. - Vasily Klyuchevsky

You can revere people who believed in Russia, but not the object of their belief. - Vasily Klyuchevsky

The Russian clergy has always taught their flock not to know and love God, but only to fear the devils, which they also bred with their priests. - Vasily Klyuchevsky

The Russian government, as a reverse providence, arranges for the better not the future, but the past. - Alexander Herzen

There are no roads in Russia - only directions. - Napoleon I

Nothing is impossible in Russia except reforms. - Oscar Wilde

“The Russian woman, by the very nature of her upbringing and life, too easily puts up with the fate of a hanger-on...”
“If I fall asleep and wake up in a hundred years and they ask me what is happening in Russia now, I will answer: they drink and steal...”
"Strictness Russian laws mitigated by the optionality of their execution.”

“The worst laws are in Russia, but this shortcoming is compensated by the fact that no one implements them.”

“The Russian government must keep its people in a constant state of amazement.”

“We have no middle ground: either the snout or the hand!”

Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin

“Scattering! Destroyed spiritual desert!”

“There are too many famous thieves. There are too few famous heroes."

- Nikolay Kolychev

“Never fight the Russians. They will respond to your every military stratagem with unpredictable stupidity.” - OTTO von BISMARCK

It is not difficult to govern Russia, but it is completely useless. - Emperor Alexander II

"You can't understand Russia with your mind..." — Fyodor Tyutchev, Russian poet.

Russian History before Peter the Great is one memorial service, and after Peter the Great - one criminal case. - F. Tyutchev

“To lie to a Russian is to blow your nose. Their lies come from their slavish essence. A people who have never known or told the truth are a people of spiritual and physical slaves. Poor people.” - N.M. Karamzin

"It's easier to rule a drunken people." - CATHERINE II, who opened many taverns, - to the question of Princess Dashkova: “Your Majesty, why are you making the Russian people drunk?”

Russians are a terrible nation. They do three things better than anyone in the world: drink, fight and assign beautiful phrases about yourself to foreign politicians. - Benito Mussolini

“Russian people are distinguished by their tendency to spend their last funds on all sorts of extravagances when their most pressing needs are not satisfied.”

« Russian man big pig. If you ask why he doesn’t eat meat and fish, he makes excuses by the lack of supplies, means of communication, etc., while vodka is available even in the most remote villages and in any quantity.”
“Russian people strive to crack the ham precisely when trichinae are sitting in it, and to cross the river when the ice is cracking on it.”

“Nature has invested in Russian people an extraordinary ability to believe, a searching mind and the gift of thinking, but all this is broken into dust by carelessness, laziness and dreamy frivolity...”

“Russian people love to remember, but do not like to live.”

“Russian people lack the desire to desire.”

- A.P. Chekhov

The only hope for a Russian is to win two hundred thousand . - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. Notebooks. Diaries

“And the Russian peasant, taking up an ax, defended his slavery with desperate frenzy.” - F. Engels

“Love for the fatherland has turned into sugary boasting. Proof of this is our so-called leavened patriots“After their inappropriate praise, I just want to spit on Russia.”

“Are we better than other nations? Are you closer to Christ in life than they are? We are no better than anyone, and life is still much more unsettled and disordered than all of them. “We are worse than everyone else” - that’s what we should always say about ourselves.”

"In our national character servility and servility, obscenity and bloodthirstiness, fanaticism and drunkenness prevail.” - Metropolitan Hilarion

"National self-consciousness - national complacency - national self-adoration - national self-destruction."

“Russians are not even capable of having intelligence and conscience, but have always had one meanness.” - V. Soloviev

“I’m reading Solovyov. Continuous sedition, claims to power by boyars and still unfinished appanage princes, deceptive “kissing of the cross”, insatiable ambition, feigned repentance (“they beat you with their forehead, your slave” and again deception, mutual reproaches, attacks on each other, continuous burning of cities, devastation them, “devastation to the ground” - the eternal words of Russian history! - and fires, fires... And how tired the whole world is of this vile, greedy, absurd bastard Russia with its abominations and misfortunes! - Ivan Bunin,from diaries

"The Russian man knows how to be a saint, but he cannot be honest." - Konstantin Leontiev, Russian philosopher (1831 - 1891)

“They are the dirtiest of Allah’s creations - they are not cleansed from excrement or urine, they do not wash themselves from sexual impurity and they do not wash their hands after eating, but they are like wandering donkeys.”-- Ibn Fadlan

“These people are by nature prone to deceit; only strong beatings can curb them. I heard one Russian say that it is much more fun to live in prison than in freedom, if only there were no severe beatings there. In prison they receive food and drink without work, as well as alms from people who are kind to them. When they are free, they receive nothing. The number of poor people here is very large, and they live in the most miserable manner: I saw them eating salted herring and other stinking fish. You cannot find a more stinking and rotten fish, but they eat it with pleasure, praising that it is healthier than any other fish or fresh food.” - Richard Chancellor, English traveler, 1553

“This people has more inclinations towards slavery than towards freedom. I have heard servants complain that their masters do not beat them enough. Muscovites are considered more cunning and deceitful than everyone else... If they begin to swear and swear, know that there is deception hidden here, for they swear with the aim of deceiving...” - Councilor-Chamberlain and Head of the Austrian State Treasury Sigismund Baron Herberstein-Neiperg-Hüttentag, "Notes on Muscovite Affairs", 1549.

“The entire Moscow nation is in the worst slavery. Each and every one, without distinction of class, together with ministers, are slaves. High nobles sign their letters to the tsar “your slave and servant Ivashka or Petrushka,” etc. If anyone had signed Ivan or Peter, he would have lost his life. The Muscovites are convinced that their entire country, with all its wealth and all its people, is the private property of the king, and he has the divine right to do whatever he wants with the estates and people. Muscovites do not have simple moral principles. They don’t want to learn even decent behavior from strangers, considering their own to be the best. This nation, born and brought up in slavery, is furious whenever the despotism of the king is weakened even a little. Muscovites are submissive only if they are bridled and yoked... The upper classes, although they themselves are slaves, treat the lower classes as slaves. Lacking the simplest culture, Muscovites consider it a fraud greatest wisdom. When it comes to lies, they know neither boundaries nor the slightest shame. Ordinary human virtues are so alien, incomprehensible to Muscovites, that they consider meanness to be a high virtue... These people hate freedom and protest if it is thrown at them. If any king reigned like the kings in Europe, that is, he would lead state affairs, without interfering in the private and public life of their citizens, then the Muscovites would not obey this and would certainly kill... Moscow soldiers, of their own free will, without orders, love to cruelly mock and torture prisoners. In Muscovy, you can always and everywhere, for little money, find false witnesses who will swear on the cross and the Gospel in the church. Even the Turks do not have such disgusting servility towards the higher and such cruel mockery of the lower, defenseless” - Sigismund Baron Herberstein-Neiperg-Güttentag, ibid.

“...They are very inclined towards evil, they easily lie and steal” — Raphael Barberini, "Journey to Muscovy", 1565

"Merchants and all business people Muscovy lie all the time, and are very easily deceived; they cannot be trusted with any money - they can be misappropriated. It is impossible to trust the Russians in debt; any goods left unattended will certainly be stolen.” - Heinrich Staden, “About Ivan the Terrible’s Moscow. Notes of a German guardsman" (1578)

“Moreover, they are cunning, crafty, stubborn, intemperate, resistant and vile, depraved, not to mention shameless, prone to all kinds of evil, using violence instead of reasoning...” — Ulfeld Y. Journey to Russia of the Danish envoy Jacob Ulfeld in the 16th century. M., 1889

“Russians are cunning, crafty, stubborn, intemperate, resistant and vile, prone to all kinds of evil, using violence instead of reasoning...” - “Journey to Muscovy of the Danish envoy Jacob Ulfeld in the 16th century.”

“In Rus' before Rurik there were, of course, people, but people without a state; they lived like forest animals, did not stand out in any way, without any communication with the world and therefore were not noted or described by any of the cultured Europeans... Wild, rude, scattered Slavs began to become public people only through the mediation of the Germans, who were destined to scatter the first seeds of civilization in the northwestern and northeastern worlds.” - August Ludwig Schlözer, German historian (1735 - 1809)

“But seeing that this people are completely barbaric and uneducated, and therefore are not able to learn 24 greek letters, Cyril and Methodius invented and inscribed 35 letters for it.” - Banduri don Anselm, historian (1671 - 1743)

“A people who have not declared themselves in any way, disrespectful, considered on a par with slaves, unnamed, but gained fame since the campaign against us, insignificant, but now gained importance, humble and poor, barbaric, nomadic, proud of their weapons, without guards, a blameless people." - Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople (820 - 896)

“The Eastern Slavs lived in tribal communities; their farming was dominated by a primitive method, which was fully consistent with the conditions of their existence. U Eastern Slavs there was nothing that resembled even the most rudimentary form of statehood... The Mongol-Tatars were culturally superior to the Russians in almost all respects.” - Richard Pipes, American historian

I cannot predict Russia's actions. She is an enigma, wrapped in mystery and immersed in mystery. But perhaps the key does exist after all. This key is national interests Russia...

Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, famous Russian poet: “The best purpose is to defend one’s Fatherland”

Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov, famous Russian scientist: “The power and wealth of the state does not lie in the vastness of its territories, but in the preservation and proliferation of the Russian people.”

Stolypin Petr Arkadyevich, Prime Minister Russian Empire: "The people who do not have national identity, is the manure on which other nations grow." "We must also think about the lower classes, we must not shy away from menial work, we must not forget that we are called upon to free the people from beggary, from ignorance, from lack of rights.<…>The main thing that is necessary is, when we write a law for the whole country, to keep in mind the intelligent and strong, and not the drunken and weak."

SKOBELEV Mikhail Dmitrievich, Russian general, hero Russian-Turkish war: “I am ready to write on my banner - Russia for Russians and in Russian, and raise this banner as high as possible”

POPOV Alexander Stepanovich, Russian physicist and electrical engineer, inventor of radio: “I was always proud that I was born Russian”

Fyodor Mikhailovich DOSTOEVSKY, Russian writer:

“The master of Russia is only Russian, this is how it is and should always be”

“Russian land belongs to Russians, only Russians, and there is Russian land, and there is not a single piece of Tatar land in it. The Tatars, former tormentors of the Russian land, are strangers to this land. But, having pacified them, having won back their land from them and conquering them themselves, the Russians did not take revenge on the Tatar for two centuries of torment, did not humiliate him<…>but, on the contrary, they gave him such complete civil equality of rights, which you, perhaps, will not find in the most civilized lands of the West, so enlightened, in your opinion.” He who is not Orthodox is not Russian

Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov, famous Russian commander: “We are Russians, and God is with us”

MENDELEEV Dmitry Ivanovich, Russian chemist who discovered the periodic law chemical elements: “Nationalism in me is so natural that no internationalists will ever drive me out of it.”

Russia can do without each of us, but none of us can do without it. Woe to the one who thinks this, doubly woe to the one who actually gets along without it. (Ivan Turgenev)

Denial of Russia in the name of humanity is the robbery of humanity.

(Nikolai Berdyaev) Ours normal condition- this is crawling and crawling out. This is Russia’s unique ability to crawl out of abysses with broken bones, sometimes on the teeth, if there are no teeth, on the gums.

(Alexander Ivanovich Lebed)

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It is easier to kill Russians than to force them to retreat.

(Frederick II) “Never plot anything against Russia - they will find their own stupidity in any of our cunning.” The Slavs cannot be defeated, we have been convinced of this for hundreds of years. But the Slavs can be instilled with false values, and then they will defeat themselves." "Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the disintegration of the main power of Russia, which is based on millions of Russians themselves... These latter, even if they are dismembered by international treatises, will just as quickly reconnect with each other, like particles of a cut piece of mercury. This is the indestructible state of the Russian nation, strong with its climate, its spaces and limited needs" - Otto von Bismarck in heaven there is God, and on earth there is Russia.

Serbian proverb. “The extent to which a person is Russian, he is a Black Hundred. The extent to which a person is church-going, he is a Black Hundred. The extent to which he is international, he is not Russian!” (V.I. Ulyanov-Lenin) Russia is the only country that currently has a future that can wait, can promise! Russia is the opposite of the pathetic nervousness of small European states

Friedrich Nietzsche

Brothers Slavs, let us rise from our knees and be worthy sons of our Rus'.

"The Russian people will not rise from their beds unless religious and religious forces awaken in them.

national. It is not political parties that will save Russia, it will be resurrected by the revived

the national spirit to the light of eternal shrines."

Novgorodtsev P.I.

"The best purpose is to defend your Fatherland."

Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin

The Russian people truly have freedom of spirit, which is given only to those who are not too absorbed in the thirst for earthly profit and earthly prosperity. Russia is a country of everyday freedom, unknown to the advanced peoples of the West, enslaved by petty-bourgeois norms. Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev

The Russian man, although extremely attractive in many respects, is unable to settle on anything specific. Therefore, he has always been and, I think, will always be a victim of one or another bureaucracy. John Galsworthy

You don’t need to be Russian: you just need to think in order to read with curiosity the traditions of the people who, with courage and courage, gained dominance over a ninth part of the world, discovered countries hitherto unknown to anyone, bringing them into common system Geography, History. Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin

Imperialism in the Western and bourgeois sense of the word is alien to the Russian people, but they dutifully devoted their energies to the creation of imperialism, in which their hearts were not interested. Here lies the secret of Russian history and the Russian soul. Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev

The Russian people are the most apolitical people who have never been able to organize their land. All truly Russian, our national writers, thinkers, publicists - all were stateless, a kind of anarchists. Anarchism is a phenomenon of the Russian spirit; it was inherent in different ways to both our extreme left and our extreme right. Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev

For Russian material values and the principles behind them mean too little, and the feelings and expression of them mean too much. John Galsworthy

The Russian intelligentsia has always treated nationalism with disgust and abhorred it as if it were evil spirits. She professed exclusively supranational ideals. And no matter how superficial, no matter how banal the cosmopolitan doctrines of the intelligentsia were, they still reflected, albeit distortedly, the supranational, all-human spirit of the Russian people. Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev

Velikorus is a historian by nature: he understands his past better than his future; he will not always guess what needs to be provided, but he will always understand that he did not guess. He is smarter when he discusses what he has done than when he figures out what needs to be done. There is more circumspection than forethought, more humility than impudence. Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky

Russians have always been underestimated, and yet they know how to keep secrets not only from their enemies, but also from their friends. Winston Churchill

Russians take a long time to harness, but drive quickly. Otto von Bismarck

The Russian people seem to enjoy their suffering. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

At the heart of Russian history is a significant legend about the calling of foreign Varangians to rule the Russian land, since “our land is great and abundant, but there is no order in it.” How characteristic this is of the fatal inability and unwillingness of the Russian people to establish order in their own land! The Russian people seem to want not so much a free state, freedom in the state, as freedom from the state, freedom from worries about the earthly order. Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev

Our love must always be stronger than our hatred. You need to love Russia and the Russian people more than you hate the revolution and the Bolsheviks. Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev

State power has always been an external, not an internal principle for the stateless Russian people; she was not created from him, but came as if from outside, like a groom comes to his bride. And that is why the power so often gave the impression of being foreign, of some kind of German rule. Russian radicals and Russian conservatives alike thought that the state was “they” and not “us.” Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev

The Russians admire nothing more than strength, and there is nothing for which they have less respect than military weakness. Winston Churchill

The Russian character, if one can speak of it as something unified in a country inhabited by many peoples, is practically indifferent to the value of time and place; the main thing for him is feelings, and even more, perhaps, is the expression of feelings, so he does not have time to achieve his goals before new waves of feelings wash them away. John Galsworthy

The Russian people are in highest degree a polarized people, that is, a combination of opposites. You can be fascinated and disappointed by him, you can always expect surprises from him, he is extremely capable of inspiring strong love and intense hatred. Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev

Russia is the most non-chauvinistic country in the world. In our country, nationalism always gives the impression of something non-Russian, superficial, some kind of nonsense. The Germans, British, and French are chauvinists and nationalists en masse; they are full of national self-confidence and complacency. Russians are almost ashamed of being Russian; National pride is alien to them and often even - alas! - alien national dignity. The Russian people are not at all characterized by aggressive nationalism or inclinations for forced Russification. The Russian does not put forward, does not show off, does not despise others. In the Russian element there truly is some kind of national unselfishness, sacrifice, unknown to Western peoples. Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev

There is a correspondence between the immensity, boundlessness, infinity of the Russian land and the Russian soul, between physical geography and spiritual geography. In the soul of the Russian people there is the same immensity, boundlessness, aspiration to infinity, as in the Russian plain. Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev

A Russian person cannot be happy alone; he needs the participation of others, and without this he will not be happy. Vladimir Ivanovich Dal

Literature 5 - 11 grade

School essays

Russian language

To handle language in a haphazard manner means to think haphazardly: imprecisely, approximately, incorrectly.
(A.N. Tolstoy).

There are no 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.
(Maksim 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 notation. They hold the text firmly and do not allow it to crumble.
(K. G. Paustovsky).


(M.V. Lomonosov).

The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is 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 uneducated and inexperienced 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 - 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
in fall and rise 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 Vasilyevich 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 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

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.
Fedor 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 Vasilyevich 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 Russian is one of the richest languages in the world,
there is no doubt about it.
Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky

Beauty, majesty, strength and wealth Russian language This is quite 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

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

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 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”
and feels the hidden beauty of our land.
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky

There is one significant fact: we are still on our
unsettled and young language we can transfer
the deepest forms of spirit and thought of European languages.
Fedor 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.
Maksim Gorky

The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich and everything is being enriched with amazing speed.
Maksim 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 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

There is no doubt that there is a desire to dazzle Russian speech in foreign words without need, without sufficient reason, 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

We must have a native language the main basis and 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 about its 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 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

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

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.
Maksim 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 Yurjevich 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.
Maksim 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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