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DAHL (or See also:DALE), See also:VLADIMIR IVANOVICH (1802-1872)  , See also:Russian author and philologist, was See also:born of Scandinavian See also:parent-See also:age in 1802, and received his See also:education at the See also:naval cadets' institution at St See also:Petersburg . He joined the See also:Black See also:Sea See also:fleet in 1819; but at a later date he entered the military service, and was thus engaged in the See also:Polish See also:campaign of 1831, and in the expedition against Khiwa . He was afterwards appointed to a medical See also:post in one of the See also:government hospitals at St Petersburg, and was ultimately transferred to a situation in the See also:civil service . The latter years of his See also:life were spent at See also:Moscow, and he died there on See also:November 3 (See also:October 22), 1872 . Under the name of Kossack Lugansky he obtained considerable fame by his stories of Russian life: The See also:Dream and the Waking, A See also:Story of Misery, Happiness, and Truth, The See also:Door-Keeper (Dvernik), The Officer's See also:Valet (Denshchik) . His greatest See also:work, however, was a See also:Dictionary of the Living Russian See also:Tongue (Tolkovyi Slovar Zhivago Velikorusskago Yasika), which appeared in four volumes between 1861 and 1866, and is of the most essential service to the student of the popular literature and folk-See also:lore of See also:Russia . It was based on the results of his own ' investigations throughout the various provinces of Russia,—investigations which had furnished him with no fewer than 4000 popular tales and upwards of 30,000 See also:proverbs . Among his other publications may be mentioned Bemerkungen zu See also:Zimmermann's Entwurf See also:des Kriegstheaters Russlands gegen Khiwa, published in See also:German at See also:Orenburg, and a Handbook of See also:Botany (Moscow, 1849) . A collected edition of his See also:works appeared at St Petersburg in 8 volumes, 186o-1861 .

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