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Title: The Russian Tongue Author: Ivan Turgenev [More Titles by Turgenev] In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, thou alone art my stay and support, mighty, true, free Russian speech! But for thee, how not fall into despair, seeing all that is done at home? But who can think that such a tongue is not the gift of a great people! _June 1882._ [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |