The Russian Language--Early folk literature: Folk-lore--Songs--Sagas--_Lay of Igor’s Raid_--Annals--The Mongol Invasion; its consequences--Correspondence between John IV. and Kúrbiskíy--Split in the Church--Avvakúm’s _Memoirs_--The eighteenth century: Peter I. and his contemporaries--Tretiakóvsky--Lomonósoff--Sumarókoff--The times of Catherine II.--Derzhávin--Von Wízin--The Freemasons: Nóvikoff; Radíscheff--Early nineteenth century: Karamzín and Zhukóvskiy--The Decembrists--Ryléeff. One of the last messages which Turguéneff addressed to Russian writers from his death-bed was to implore them to keep in its purity “that precious inheritance of ours--the Russian language.” He who knew in perfe…
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