Parisian dictionary of Muscovites

The Parisian Dictionary of Muscovites (Dictionnaire Muscovite 1586) is a 16th-century Russian-language vocabulary compiled at Kholmogory by Captain Jean Sauvage of Dieppe along with French merchants who arrived with him at the mouth of the Northern Dvina . Published in 1586 in Paris by the royal cosmographer Andre Teve, with a considerable number of errors.

Contains 621 bilingual French-Russian dictionary strings, or "article". The content is diverse - the thematic sections are devoted to geographical terms, the names of professions, goods, names of tools, whole conversational phrases - from trade expressions to records of gallant conversations with ladies.

A number of Russian words are recorded in this dictionary for the first time: ensign, nutmeg, kite, astrologer, suede, partridge, walking, joking , etc.

Published in 1905 by Russian scholar Paul Boyer, published by Teve. In 1948 , B. Larin again published in Riga for a more serviceable (though also non- protograph ) photocopy of the Paris National Library with commentaries. Together with the Latin Grammatica Russica, Heinrich Wilhelm Ludolph and the Russian-English dictionary from the notebook of Richard James became part of the publication of the works of Larin: B. A. Larin . Three foreign sources on the colloquial speech of Muscovite Russia of the 16th — 17th centuries. SPb .: Publishing house of St. Petersburg University, 2002.