NAMES OF FABRICS AND ORNAMENTS IN THE EMBASSY BOOKS ON RUSSIA'S RELATIONS WITH KHIVA AND BUKHARA OF THE XVII CENTURY
In the article, there have been analyzed the names of some units of everyday vocabulary - the names of fabrics and ornaments- in the material of unpublished written monuments on the relations of the khanates of Central Asia in the 17th century with Russia.To this end, documents of various genres included in the books of the embassy - “diplomas” of Moscow kings, “letters” of military commanders of Russian cities, Russian “police”, petitions of translators, interpreters, Russian prisoners, excerpts from reports of Russian ambassadors, oral interrogation speeches of Central Asian ambassadors, couriers, decrees, memorandums, reports, Russian translations of the labels of the Central Asian khans made at that time, the list of gifts of khans and ambassadors were analyzed and it allowed to reveal the peculiarities of the official working documents of the period and, on the other hand, to identify some features of the lexicon of the Russian literary language of the century being studied.The analyzed material provided an opportunity to imagine the features of the Russian lexicon of 17th century speech, as Russian official work written monuments, especially the everyday lexicon of the first period of formation of the Russian language, have not been sufficiently studied yet, despite several scientific studies.Differences in the names of fabrics in terms of which type of fiber they are woven from, the ways of entry of these names were observed, the existence of lexical units of ornament names that are not reflectedin Russian dictionaries, previously unnoticed meanings and peculiarities of use of some words were considered.