Pushkin. Russian genius

What Pushkin is for us, Russians. It has the self -healing of the Russian people and the Russian genius. He is in us, ourselves, self -discovered. In it, the Russian soul, Russian nature, Russian history, Russian work, our Russian element itself tells us. He is our love and our joy. He penetrates into the soul, growing up with her, like a prayer of a child, like a affectionate of a mother, like a golden childhood, fiery youth, wisdom of maturity. We breathe Pushkin, we carry it in ourselves, he lives in us more than we know this, just as our homeland lives in us. Pushkin is for us in a sense, the Motherland, with its unnecessary depth and unsolved secret, and not only Pushkin’s poetry, but also the poet himself