English-Russian phrasebooks of the late 18th - early 19th century as textbooks
The early Russian English-Russian phrasebooks, both as parts of textbooks and published as separate editions, are analyzed in the paper. Having acquired teaching and educational functions, they were actively used in teaching English and served as rich sources of practical language knowledge. Phrasebooks by two authors, P. Zhdanov’s (1772) and V. Kryazhev,s (1795) are compared.