and became part of modern folklore. Vladimir Dal's father was a Danish physician named Johan Christian von Dahl (1764 – October 21, 1821), a linguist...

Ukrainian and in some Russian dialects the word 'mara' means dream. But Vladimir Dahl says it means 'phantom', 'vision', 'hallucination'. The tradition of...

Explanatory Dictionary of the Live Great Russian language (1882) of Vladimir Dahl gives the meaning of "cheburashka" as another name for the roly-poly...

Dahl, Canadian business economist Olga Dahl (1917–2009), Swedish genealogist Robert A. Dahl (1915–2014), American political scientist Vladimir Dahl (1801–1872)...

or lesser authors as Goncharov, Turgenev, Dmitry Grigorovich, Vladimir Dahl and Vladimir Sollogub. Gogol himself appeared skeptical about the existence...

especially among Russian émigrés. Vladimir Nabokov, for instance, compared his dictionary with that of Vladimir Dahl unfavorably and, in his novel Ada...

broken Russian words borrowed from Greek and other foreign languages. Vladimir Dahl in his Explanatory Dictionary of the Live Great Russian language gives...

novelist Nikolai Gogol, the poet Fyodor Tyutchev and the lexicographer Vladimir Dahl. Their struggle for purity of the Russian language had something in...

horse. A metal piece was used for defense against wolves. According to Vladimir Dahl's "Explanatory Dictionary of the Live Great Russian language", this nagayka...

О поверьях, суевериях и предрассудках русского народа (Даль)/Ведьма Vladimir Dahl, О поверьях, суевериях и предрассудках русского народа [On Beliefs,...