Russian Dictionary of Quotations

[Alina Israeli]

>>Review
>>
> Slovar' Sovremennykh Tsitat
>>4,300 khodyachikh tsitat i vyrazhenii, ikh istochniki, avtory, datirovka
>>Konstantin Dushenko
>>Published by Agraf, Moscow, 1997. Price circa #20. Vinyl, 632pp. ISBN 5 7784
>> 0031 4
>>For a culture which loves dictionaries, it is surprising that Russian has not
>> had a
>>dictionary of quotations before now.
>
>The new dictionary is very much to be welcomed, but Russianists were
>not totally helpless before. I have often referred to N.S.Ashukin,
>M.G.Ashukina, "Krylatye slova: Literaturnye citaty, Obraznye vyrazhenija"
>Izdanie vtoroe, dopolnennoe, GIXL, Moskva 1960.

In my youth we had a pre-revolutionary dictionary "Krylatye slova i
vyrazhenija" I believe by Mixel'son. I may be wrong about the name.
Obviously I could not take it out of the country.

Alina Israeli