"And we will save you, Russian speech, great Russian word! .." Classics and contemporaries about Russian

Four centuries of Russian poetry, for the first time collected in such a volume in the anthology. Lomonosov began this great tradition of protecting his own speech, in the bright poetic manner inherent for him: "The language of our heaven is not a member of the livestock, and at the beginning of the twentieth century Nikolai Gumilyov reminded of responsibility to the spiritual basis of Russian culture: but we forgot What is mastered only the word environment of terrestrial alarms, and in the gospels from John it says that the word is God. "And we will keep you, Russian speech, great Russian word! .." Classics and contemporaries about Russian.
Compiled by Krasnikov Gennady Nikolaevich