Dal, Vladimir Ivanovich (10.11.1801 – 22.09.1872) – a famous lexicographer. Born Nov. 10, 1801 in Yekaterinoslav province, in Lugansk plant (hence the nickname AD: Cossack Lugansk). Her father was a Dane, versatile educated linguist (he knew even the Hebraic language), theologian and a doctor and his mother – a German woman, daughter Freitag, translated into Russian and Gessner Iflanda. Father D. adopted Russian citizenship, and in general was an ardent Russian patriot, acting for children in the same direction. After finishing the course in marine corps, D. several years he served in the Navy but, without prejudging the sea, resigned and went to Dorpat univervitet at the medical school. Hiking his life as a military doctor, was pushing him to the inhabitants of different regions of Russia, and materials for the future "Explanatory Dictionary", which he began to gather early, all grew. In 1831 AD participated in the campaign against the Poles, and distinguished himself at a ferry across the Vistula in Ridiger Yuzefova. In the absence of an engineer, D. built bridges, defended him at the crossing and then he destroyed it. From superiors, he received a reprimand for failure to perform its duties, but the imp. Nicholas I awarded him the Order. After the war, AD entered an intern in St. Petersburg. voennosuhoputny hospital. However, medicine does not satisfy D., and he turned to literature, and became close to Pushkin, Zhukovsky, Krylov, Gogol, Language, Vol. Odoyevskiy, etc. The first experiment ("Russian fairy tales. Pyatok first", St. Petersburg. 1832 – retelling of the folk. Tales) have discovered ethnographic inclinations D. This book had brought trouble to the author.
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