Proverbs of the Russian People. A set in 2 volumes

The great Russian scientist, physician, naturalist, writer, and lexicographer Vladimir Ivanovich Dal, whose main work is the «Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language», dedicated his life to collecting 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 not only of domestic but also of world folklore. The work contains more than thirty thousand sayings, riddles, and proverbs.