Russian in Italian Textbooks of Linguistics

It is known that Russian linguists contributely greatly to lay the foundations of Linguistics of the twentieth century. But how much was and is the Russian language important for linguistic studies? The author of the article answers both this question and, in addition, the question about Italian people and students' knowledge about Russian, analyzing the textbooks written by outstending Italian linguists. M.L.Aliffi considers what the authors say about Russian and, thus, finds out which information about the Russian anguage passes to those who do not study it. This article allows the students to enrich their linguistic an d cultural level, giving the opportunity to reflect ipon certain features of the Russian language and its place among other languages.