Was the Russian language used by the aristocracy during the rule

>>2151897
Im interested too. Bump

Never. French culture was popular but they wouldn't have been speaking French as their mother tongue.

Was it ever?

Anyway, the Ouiabooism began with Peter the Great, and then Catharine

>>2151897
>during the rule of Ivan the Terrible
Certainly not. French did not become a court language in Russia until much later. It was an enlightenment import, mainly facilitated by Catherine the Great

>>2151897
>Was the Russian language used by the aristocracy during the rule of Ivan the Terrible?
of course, obviously it was a very different language then

> when did French become the dominate language of the Russian ruling class?
Started with Peter who (sometimes violently) forced all aristocracy into behaving more European, wear wigs and western clothes, shave beards and speak french among many other things

>>2152022
>Peter the Great
Was actually a Germanoboo.

>>2152597
he was just generally a westaboo

I thought the russian aristocracy was ethnically russian prior to the petrine reforms?

>>2151897
>I'm curious when did French become the dominate language of the Russian ruling class?
Came into fashion in 18th century (when female empresses started to rule Russia), reached its peak during Catherine II, started to decline during Napoleonic wars.