Dmitry Pevtsov read Pushkin’s main “imperial” poem at a concert in Moscow

Actor, singer and State Duma deputy Dmitry Pevtsov read from the main stage of the concert-meeting in honor of the accession of the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions to Russia from the “program” poem by Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin “To the Slanderers of Russia.” The lines addressed to European critics of the then policy of the Russian Empire sounded quite in the spirit of political statements of the 21st century:

– You are formidable in words – try it in deeds!

Or an old hero, deceased on his bed,

Unable to screw in your Izmail bayonet?

Or is the word of the Russian Tsar already powerless?

Or is it new for us to argue with Europe?

Or is the Russian unaccustomed to victories?

On the Internet, viewers share videos of not only poetic “readings,” but also the actual appearance of popular performers on stage. Nikolai Baskov, Larisa Dolina, Oleg Gazmanov and other artists were greeted very warmly by the public on Red Square. “What a man,” young women shouted when they saw the owner of the “Golden Voice of Russia.”

And hundreds of people sang together Sergei Zhukov’s song “My Baby” – in 1998, the words about a soldier writing a letter home probably did not have the same semantic load as they do now.