«ПОВСЕДНЕВНЫЕ ЗАПИСКИ ДЕЛАМ КНЯЗЯ А. Д. МЕНШИКОВА» КАК ИСТОРИКО-ЛЕКСИКОЛОГИЧЕСКИЙ И ИСТОРИКО-ЛЕКСИКОГРАФИЧЕСКИЙ ИСТОЧНИК
“DAILY NOTES ON THE AFFAIRS OF PRINCE ALEKSANDR MENSHIKOV”AS A SOURCE OF HISTORICAL LEXICOLOGY AND HISTORICAL LEXICOGRAPHY

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the vocabulary of “Daily Notes on the Affairs of Prince Aleksandr Menshikov”, which comprise seven journals of notes (dated 1716 to 1720, 1726, and 1727) written by Prince Menshikov’s secretaries who recorded his everyday activities. The text has not previously been the subject of linguistic analysis and contains a number of lexemes that have not been recorded in lexicographic sources, in particular, the Dictionary of the Eighteenth-Century Russian Language and the Dictionary of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The article characterizes the words selected by the continuous sampling method and analyzes them according to their origins (i. e., borrowings and Church Slavonic lexemes) and stylistic register (i. e., colloquial, formal high style, and official lexical units) in order to examine interaction of various lexical layers and lexical parallels, present words and variants that have not been fixed in dictionaries so far, and clarify the dating of certain borrowings entering the Russian language. The analysis demonstrated the importance of studying the “Daily Notes...” as one of the meaningful examples of the language of the Petrine era, which demonstrates the blending of words from differently marked sections of the Russian language and the lack of clear patterns for their usage, on the one hand, and the emerging trends in the formation of new norms of word usage during the initial period of the formation of the national Russian language, on the other hand. Identified words and their variants, as well as earlier occurrences of borrowings not recorded in the dictionaries of the Russian language are fundamentally important for filling the gaps in historical lexicography.

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