History Of The Russian Language
The history proper of the Russian language dates from just before the year 1000 AD.
Note: in the following sections, all examples of vocabulary appear in their modern spelling.
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“Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.”
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“The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.”
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“That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.”
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)