Proverbs of the Russian people. Set in 2 volumes

The great Russian scientist, doctor, natural scientist, writer and lexicographer Vladimir Ivanovich Dahl, whose main work is the "Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language", devoted the years of his life to the collection of proverbs and sayings of the Russian people. The book became one of the most famous works of the Russian ethnographer and writer, an outstanding work of not only domestic, but also world folklore. The work contains more than thirty thousand sayings, riddles and proverbs.
Perennial labor was completed in 1853, but the collection did not go to print due to censorship. The first edition saw light only nine years later - in 1862 under the name "Proverbs of the Russian people". IN AND. To give created a semantic division of the collection, breaking it on the chapters, in which proverbs and sayings were collected on a common topic.
The collected sayings give an idea of ​​the culture, life and life of the Russian people, are a monument of oral and written speech of the 19th century. All sayings are recorded in a living folk language, and the terms and phraseological revolutions regarding crafts are presented. Additional sources for the book were collections of the 18th century, private notes, works by D. Knyazhevich and I. Snegirev. This auxiliary material amounted to the fifth share of "proverbs and sayings of the Russian people".
For philologists, folklorists, culturologists and all those interested in the fate of the Russian word