Ах, Александр Сергеевич, милый .... (с) or Pushkin's Birthday

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Today, on the 6th of June ,we celebrate Alexander Pushkin's birthday. Only lazy one didn't mention it today in his account anywhere. This just proves that Pushkin is indeed "наше в�е" - 'our everything', as we use to call him now, following the phase of some critic.

Indeed, if you ask many interesting and talented professors in Russia 'who is your favourite writer', many of them will say 'Pushkin...', and that is of course not because they didn't read anything else! Pushkin is indeed greatest poet and a real treasure of Russian literature

Let's see why. Let's read the quotations about Pushkin by the writers and critics of his time  - here we will find interesting facts about him


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It isdifficult to estimate the contribution of  Pushkin in the formation of Russian literatureand Russian language. This is already the undisputed truth, and confirmed by awide variety of studies.


Russianliterature and Russian language is constantly experiencing the impact of thepolitical situation in the country. Depending on who rules a great power, beganto set up their own rules and regulations that speak about how to write or saywhat books will be sold and which will fall under the ban. Language  assimilated, feeling the impact of populardialects, as well as European language. Gradually, language and literatureacquired properties of other cultural traditions that took root in Russia, butall were strange. Everything has changed since then, as theliterary arena joined Alexander Pushkin. In his works, the author uses thepopular lexicon. Despite the fact that he is considered a good connoisseur ofFrench language, is widely established in various areas, Pushkin refersspecifically to the people's speech, using specific words or concepts. Thus, hebrings in a whole new language of communication elements that have beenforgotten or replaced by a foreign vocabulary. Pushkin understood that theRussian language - is primarily a national treasure, and however  it had been changed and distorted by the greatminds of his time, ordinary people will still speak the national language –same that had been used by their ancestors.
 In addition, the author introduces thelanguage of a large variety of beautiful epithets and metaphors. He imbues hisworks phraseology and expressive epithets, the writer tries his readers not thinkstraight, and try to see the image and beauty of language and words denoting theusual subject and ordinary action. The literary language of Pushkin became aclassic of Russian language, which was later followed by other writers. Pushkin wasthe first Russian writer who began to make experiments with the stylisticorientation of the text. He never followed the strict framework of genre whenwriting texts. Pushkin is more appealing to the notion of style, highlightingthe common features of it, playing with it, creating a unique product. Inaddition, Pushkin laid the foundation of a new stylistic direction in Russia -realism. All the writer's works are multi-faceted and diverse.
ReadingPushkin, you hear his voice. He was the first poet who destroyed the image of aconvention of copyright: in "Ruslan and Lyudmila," "EugeneOnegin", Pushkin speaks to the reader "on an equal footing", asit is between close friends, all grasping at a glance 


За�луги Пушкина перед Ро��ией велики и до�тойны народной признательно�ти. Он дал окончательную обработку нашему �зыку, который теперь по �воему богат�тву, �иле, логике и кра�оте формы признает�� даже ино�транными филологами едва ли не первым по�ле древнегрече�кого; он отозвал�� типиче�кими образами, бе��мертными звуками на в�е ве�ни� ру��кой жизни. Он первый, наконец, водрузил могучей рукою знам� по�зии глубоко в ру��кую землю...И.С. Тургенев
The merits of Pushkin for Russia are  great and worth getting national recognition. He gave a final transormation to our language, which is now by its richness, power, logic and beauty of form is recognized even by foreign philologists as almost the first after the ancient Greek.  He was the first, who finally hoisted the banner of poetry, deep in the Russian land by the mighty hand...IS Turgenev



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text (Russian) here and here