For ages people have been exaggerating Pushkin's role in the history of the Russian language. You will hear it from everybody, 'Pushkin this!', 'Pushkin that!', 'he is the greatest!', 'the genius!', 'that's classics!', 'you'll understand when you grow up!' But what was the real difference between Pushkin and his contemporary writers? No one really knows it. Even those philologists who haven't studied Pushkin's writings.
In this video we are going to look at Pushkin's opinion about the developing of the Russian language, the opinions of his contemporaries and the way Pushkin's language evolved.
Content:
- 00:58 The fatal duel
- 01:34 How did Pushkin change Russian language?
- 02:29 Is Pushkin the creator of modern literary language?
- What did Pushkin NOT do?
- 03:37 Pushkin didn't reform nor standardize the language (grammar)
- 05:27 Pushkin didn't change Russian syntax
- 08:47 An anecdote about Pushkin and Barkov
- 10:16 Pushkin didn't get rid of Church-slavonic words in Russian language
- 14:21 Sasha is telling which writer she would prefer as a man
- 15:16 Pushkin's main principle
- What has Pushkin done? The crucial questions of his time (about the evolution of the Russian language)
- 16:30 How do we deal with Church-slavonic words?
- 19:53 How do we deal with "vulgar" words? (colloquialisms, dialects, argot)
- 24:44 100-year anniversary of Pushkin's death and soviet folklorists' unique discovery; 25:25 ditties about Pushkin
- 26:19 How do we deal with foreign words?
- 28:04 What is more important: to write elegantly or to write short and straight to the point?
- 30:56 Throw Pushkin off the steamer of modernity!
- 31:43 How will the Russian language be split into different styles?
- 36:25 Is the Russian language applicable for every purpose?
- 38:31 Summing-up
- 40:51 It's a pity that Alexander Sergeich and I can't just...
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Cast:
Pushkin - Arseny Klinichev, aka Encyklop / @encyklop
Natalie Goncharova - Alexandra Berze a.berze
Sуcond - Alexander Sukharev. Pseudo-soviet announcer's voice - Ilya Savchenko.
Music used in the video:
Louis XIII - Le ballet de la Merlaison. I: Les Flamands
The hussar march
Monique Haas - «Les Cyclopes»
The Scottish waltz for four
Insula Magica - «Пчёлка златая»
François Couperin - «Les Papillons»
Countrydance «Indian Queen»
Isaak Dunayevsky - "The Children of Captain Grant" theme
Частушки на мотив сумецкого наигрыша
NΔПѣβЪ1 - Искушение Исаакия Печерского
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi - «Stabat Mater. VII. Eja Mater fons amori»
No.2 Aria (Soprano) «Cujus animam»
Bulat Okudzava - «А всё-таки жаль» («Былое нельзя воротить»)