Vladimir Ivanovich Dahl's "An Intelligible Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language" is the national pride of Russia, a true masterpiece of Russian literature. Here are about 200 thousand words and at least 30 thousand proverbs and sayings. Here is a unique, fully illustrated modern edition of this one-of-a-kind monument of Russian dictionary science. Numerous illustrations - images of national history, the rich subject world of the culture of our people - make this dictionary a true encyclopedia of Russian life.... The compiler of the dictionary is not a pointer to the language, but a servant, his slave; the same can be said of any writer; you write with a pen, you do not cut off with an axe . How many sentences could be collected, devoting all his leisure to the collection and processing of Russian words, so much was included in the dictionary, and not one was missed intentionally... It is impossible to joke with language: the verbal speech of a person is a visible, tactile connection between the soul and the body, the spirit and the flesh... Home »