На полях Полного русско-польского словаря Петра Павловича Дубровского: комментарии к буквенным статьям
In the Margins of the Russian-Polish Complete Dictionary by Pyotr Pavlovich Dubrovsky: Comments on the Letter Entries

Summary/Abstract: The author presents P. P. Dubrovsky, a Russian Slavist associated with Poland, and his most extensive 19th-century dictionary of Polish and Russian. He focuses on the letter headwords in the Russian-Polish part of the dictionary. The author collects scarce theoretical remarks concerning the translation of graphemes, and also reviews the letter headwords in the 19thand 20th-century Russian-Polish dictionaries. In the studied part of the dictionary by P. P. Dubrovsky, all the letters of the 19th-century Russian alphabet were recorded as vocabula, but they were not treated as translanda. The entries under analysis lack any translational information, and there are no Polish equivalents of Russian letters. P. P. Dubrovsky used these entries to provide Polish users with information about the vocalisation of Russian letters and their earlier names. He relied on the lexicographic description of the letter headwords in the explanatory dictionary by V. I. Dal, sometimes modifying them, for example, omitting in the entry for A, information about “the akanye” areas of the Russian Empire. The editor of the dictionary made some errors and inaccuracies in the descriptions of pronunciations. Nevertheless, P. P. Dubrovsky᾽s observations about the 19th-century Russian pronunciation deserve the attention of historians of the Russian language. They document the considerable orthoepic freedom characteristic of the period in question.

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