Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin. Early diaries 1905-1917 (№ 320446)

In Galicia there is the dream of a great net beautiful Russian.
High-school student, a seventeen year old boy, was walking with me in Lviv and spoke in pure Russian. He told me about the persecution of the Russian language, was not allowed even to have a map of Russia, before the war, he was forced to burn Pushkin, Lermontov, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.
- How did you learn Russian?
- I slowly taught grandfather - his grandfather was taken prisoner. I taught others, and so it began. We have acted as revolutionaries, we were always revolutionaries.