Vladimir Dal'

V etoy knizhke rasskazyvaetsya ob udivitel'nyh priklyucheniyah Vladimira Dalya — moryaka, vracha, voennogo hirurga, blizkogo druga Pushkina. Ne v tishi kabineta, a sredi bitv i srazheniy on po krupicam sobiral uslyshannye slova, vyrazheniya, oboroty russkoy rechi, chtoby sozdat' svoy znamenityy «Tolkovyy slovar' zhivogo velikorusskogo yazyka».