Iazyk, slovo, imia - Ktorova A.

Russian writer, Muscovite, Alla Ktorova has lived in the United States for almost fifty years. Her books are well known to the foreign Russian-speaking reader and are marked by true and very peculiar literary skill.
Sixth and final book in the series "The Past..." is a collection of works by the author on onomastics, a section of linguistics that studies its own names, reveals hitherto unfamiliar historical and linguistic facts, as well as articles of literary naming and, in particular, about Pushkin, Lermontov, Nakhimov: "Every squalid and noble, at the first moment at birth - gets his name."