This famous collection of the most popular Russian proverbs, sayings, tongue twisters, anecdotes, signs, riddles and aphorisms took 50 years to compile by the editor, V.I. Dal. It is unique in the wealth and breadth of its material - and will help the students to expand their knowledge of Russian culture as well as the language.

The enormous variety of its content is structured into 181 thematic sections such as 'Good-Bad', 'Truth-Lie', 'Nation-World', 'Laugh-Joke', etc. - all designed to make finding an entry by topic easy.

Nicely presented, the latest hardback edition from the publisher 'Eksmo', is very well illustrated.