The textbook consists of two parts: the first half of the XIX century. and the second half of the XIX century. Various areas of journalism, the content of literary, journalistic and satirical magazines, newspapers, illegal printing are considered, A.S. Pushkin, V.G. Belinsky, A.I. Herzen, N.A. Nekrasova, M.N. Katkova, FF M. M. Dostoevsky, M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrin, A.P. Chekhov, V.G. Korolenko, A.M. Gorky and others.