Truth exists. The life of Andrei Zaliznyak in the stories of her participants

Andrei Zaliznyak is a great Russian linguist who proved the authenticity of the Word of Igor’s Regiment and managed to read the birch bark letters so that we now know how he said and what Novgorod lived a thousand years ago. On his account, the fight against pseudoscientific linguistic theories and the "grammatical dictionary of the Russian language", on the basis of which the Yandex search algorithm was built. "Truth exists" is the first biography of the ground, collected from his own stories and oral memoirs of his relatives, friends, colleagues and students.
War and evacuation, children"s hobby for languages, studying in Paris, grandiose scientific discoveries and lectures that collect thousands of people - in this story the Soviet life, the European Academy, the voices of ancient Russia, vague nineties and much more were reflected. Maria Buraz, a student and a long -standing friend of Zaliznyaka, talked with dozens of people and studied many documents to restore the life and creative path of an outstanding scientist