>>>How about Shakespeare? I understand that when he's read in foreign languages they use the archaic forms of those languages to match his form of English.
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>>I can not understand him :( I love his sonets and all his plays, but I read them in Russian when I was young and memorized some. But it's hard to read in English, so I didn't repeat my attempts after few unsuccessful tries.
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>Maybe you cannot understand him in archaic English but I was asking if his plays, in Russian, are written in an archaic Russian, as they spoke in the 17th century.

No, they are written in modern Russian.

I want to quote Hamplet's monologue in Russian, but I don't have Russian keyboard here, so now I have to google...

Мы вянем быстро - так же, как растем.
Растем в потомках, в новом урожае.
Избыток сил в наследнике твоем
Считай своим, с годами остывая.

Вот мудрости и красоты закон.
А без него царили бы на свете
Безумье, старость до конца времЈн
И мир исчез бы в шесть десятилетий.

Пусть тот, кто жизни и земле не мил, -
Безликий, грубый, - гибнет невозвратно.
А ты дары такие получил,
Что возвратить их можешь многократно.

Ты вырезан искусно, как печать,
Чтобы векам свой оттиск передать.