At the center of the textbook is an analysis of the texts of works of art, the problems of literary skill of V.K. Trediakovsky, M.V. Lomonosov, A.P. Sumarokov, A.N. Radishchev, V.P. Petrov, G.R. Derzhavin, N.M. Karamzin and other writers who laid the foundations of Russian classical literature in the 18th century.