The book for the first time presents the work of A.S. Pushkin in the broad context of the oratory culture of his time. Monuments of eloquence created by outstanding spiritual speakers - metropolitans Plato, Ambrose, Filaret; orders and military reports of M.I. Kutuzov; written by A.S. Shishkov government manifestos; Rastopchinsky posters of 1812, which have long become a bibliographic rarity; parody speeches of the Arzamas society; textbooks of rhetoric known to Pushkin, among the authors of which are lyceum professors; oratory speeches made in classrooms and literary salons, on battlefields and in state assemblies - allow you to approach the world of Pushkin and his contemporaries, read his works in a new way and reveal in them the meaning understandable to his first readers and lost today.