Pushkin and French

🫧 Open on Bubbles Alexander Pushkin is widely credited as the creator of modern Russian language. And rightfully so: everything produced after Pushkin is easily readable today. Everything written before his age, can be read only with some effort 1 . He did literally set a standard that everyone else followed, and that would be chosen as the model for the later state enforced standard curriculum. His whole upbringing, whole education, was in French. 90% of his training as an author was reading, and emulating