The book includes the works of the famous Soviet philologist, one of the largest researchers of Pushkin's creative heritage, Professor G.O. Vinokur (1896-1947), devoted to the analysis of the language and style of Russian fiction. On the example of her classical and modern samples, the theoretical foundations of the stylistics of artistic speech, poetics and textology are examined in detail. Special attention is paid to the language of A.S. Pushkin and V.V. Mayakovsky.