Kazak Lugansky - Kazak Lugansky

…He became a military doctor, but soon retired and worked as a civil servant in Orenburg and other border provinces. He also traveled widely and energetically collected Russian dialects, folklore such as old tales and proverbs, and woodblock prints and other folk materials. At the same time, under the pen name Kazak Lugansky, he published old tales, travelogues to remote areas, and fiction with a strong realistic color. He published the Russian Proverbs (1861-62), which contained more than 30,000 proverbs and idiomatic expressions, and the Explanatory Dictionary of the Great Russian Language in Modern Use (1863-68), which contained about 200,000 words, and was made an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences. …

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…軍医となるがまもなく退職して，オレンブルグをはじめ辺境の諸県で官吏として勤めるかたわら，広く旅行して，ロシア語の方言，昔話やことわざなどのフォークロア，さらには木版画などの民俗資料の採集を精力的に行った。同時に，カザク･ルガンスキーの筆名で昔話，僻地への旅行記，写実的色彩の強い創作なども発表した。3万以上のことわざや慣用句を含む《ロシア俚諺集（りげんしゆう）》(1861‐62)につづいて，約20万語を収める《現用大ロシア語詳解辞書》(1863‐68)を刊行し，科学アカデミーの名誉会員に迎えられた。…

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