Life of the language: from Vyatichs to Muscovites

Vitaly Kostomarov - President of the State Institute of Russian Language. A.S. Pushkin, Dr. Philological Sciences, Professor. The author of many books on the history of linguistics has written wonderful. A book for children in which retrospectively showed the development of a written literary and living spoken Russian language. He tried to draw a synthetic picture of the life of the language, as if a leafing history to reverse - from modernity to antiquity. The main heroine of the book, Schoolgirl Nastya Vorobyeva, with the help of a fairytale talisman falls into the past. Traveling deep into the past centuries begins by century XIX and ends at the end of the first millennium of our era. Gradually, the main character, and with it the reader, begin to comprehend the secrets of the language: to find out why and how the language changes. The life, the needs of people change and the language. Living, changing, but lives, because it is unchanged ... "