The history of F. Polikarpov’s “An Alphabetical Lexicon of New Words” compilation

In the scientific literature there are references to two lists of “An Alphabetical Lexicon of New Words”, while in their work, researchers, as a rule, refer to the text of the dictionary on one of the lists — published by N.A. Smirnov in 1910. An undertaken comparison of the two lists showed that they reflect two different versions of the dictionary, while F. Polikarpov was the author of both editions with a high degree of probability. In its original form, the vocabulary was used by him as an accompanying text explaining the borrowed vocabulary in the text of his essay on Russian history, and later the vocabulary of the vocabulary was expanded, and the dictionary acquired the status of a self-sufficient collection of new borrowed vocabulary. A detailed analysis of the structure of “An Alphabetical Lexicon of New Words”, carried out in the article, shows that it consisted of a number of sources, and the dictionary, apparently, was conceived as an attempt to bring together and interpret the latest borrowings from European languages, which makes it the first known original explanatory dictionary of the new time, formed on the basis of vocabulary selection from the text corpus of the beginning of the 18th century.