Quote Originally Posted by Inego View Post
The slightly "archaic" style of this story is not that of Pushkin himself, but of Belkin, a fictional author of Tales of Belkin". As a matter of fact, this style is more ironic than archaic and a part of the image of Belkin made by Pushkin. As a Russian, I think that the language used in this story is 99% modern Russian.
It is not a matter of big importance for a person learning Russian whether it is Pushkin's or Belkin's style.

Do you claim that the words and expressions that I mentioned are used in the modern Russian language? Which of them? We could count the percentage of them in your passage. But I guess it will be much more than 1%.

Bulgakov is certainly modern in this regard.