The photo exhibition of the Russian Historical Society on the occasion of the 225th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Dahl opens on November 9 in Moscow.
The illustrator Peter Skalyar in the Konservatniki program:.
"Tomorrow at 11:00 on Gogolevsky Boulevard in Moscow there will be an opening of an exhibition dedicated to Vladimir Ivanovich Dahl - our great collector of Russian words, collector of Russian proverbs and my cosmic teacher. And I'm very happy to have the opportunity to open it. I am very happy that the Russian Military Society is also a historical society of hers, which I also supported in this exhibition. Not easy, there were certain difficulties, but we had a plan, and we stuck to it.
We open tomorrow. Anyone who has this opportunity, come to Gogolevsky Boulevard at eleven. This is an open-air exhibition - sixteen large booths, very informative, full of the life, creativity and legacy of our dear compatriot Vladimir Ivanovich Dahl.
All his life will be there: his first years, his military pages, because not everyone knows, but Vladimir Ivanovich participated in two military campaigns: the Russian-Turkish 1828–1829, and then he went to the Russian-Polish campaign of 1830–1831. And there he served as a military doctor. He left an absolutely amazing memoir about it. These are amazing pages in his biography.
Besides, of course, there is friendship with Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin. They met only a few times, but these several times brought "The Captain's Daughter" to world culture and Russian literature, as well as to the history of the Pugachev Rebellion - this is what is reliably known. Wadahl got the brilliant idea to turn his pile of words into a dictionary. It is generally accepted that the idea of the dictionary was given to him by Pushkin, who, being a brilliant poet and a brilliant Russian man, immediately understood what a treasure Vladimir Ivanovich had in it and that sooner or later it would be necessary to show it to people."
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