What Pushkin is to us Russians. Russian Russian people and the Russian genius are self-revelation in it. He is in us ourselves, self-revealing to ourselves. Russian Russian Russian Russian soul, Russian nature, Russian history, Russian creativity, our very Russian element speaks to us in it. He is our love and our joy. It penetrates into the soul, growing together with it, like a child's prayer, like a mother's caress; like a golden childhood, fiery youth, the wisdom of maturity. We breathe Pushkin, we carry him within us, he lives in us more than we know ourselves, just as our Homeland lives in us. Pushkin is for us, in a sense, the Motherland, with its unexplored depth and unsolved mystery, and not only Pushkin's poetry, but also the poet himself.