The collection includes materials in which individual monuments of Old Russian literature are studied, in particular, the Izbornik of 1076, Kyiv school poetics of the 17th-18th centuries. in their connections with the European school theory of poetry, the aesthetic concept and literary work of F. Prokopovich are covered, humanistic ideas are studied in the polemical journalism of Ivan Vishensky, etc. The text of one of the first known Kyiv school poetics is published - poetics of 1637, as well as "Praise on wisdom..." A. Kotsaka.