Work of Mikhail Задорнова walked over the scopes of satire and humour a long ago. His interests are scalene: нумерология, history, etymology of Russian life and endless investigations originally of words.How to learn to understand native sense of the acquainted words, hear the natural trembling of the mother tongue? Maybe, it will be enough to someone to read the autobiographic story of Mikhail Задорнова about that, how he, being a yet beginning journalist, went to Siberia to write an essay about староверах and met a witch in a taiga.Plenty of time passed since. An author traveled on the world, listened attentively in speech our and other people. Conducted researches, sat in archives. Calling to glorify the family, Mikhail Nikolaevich tells surprizing things about the origin of simple words : dad, mother, grandmother, aunt - and words-riddles for the present young generation: daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law.In this book you are waited by keen interpretation of plots of the Russian fairy-tales and usual calendar holidays. you will hear that the letters of our alphabet will whisper, and will test pride for a mother tongue, knowing that English - spoiled Russian.