The study of socio-political thought in Russia at the end of the 17th century depends on the identification, research and introduction of new sources into scientific circulation, which make it possible to concretize ideas about the thoughts, views and judgments of Russian people of the 1680s and 1690s - participants in the political and ideological struggle on the question of ways further development of the state. Along with documentary materials, chronicles, various kinds of petition and political engraving, an important source on the history of socio-political thought in Russia at the end of the 17th century. are literary panegyrics, the publications of which are devoted to this publication.