The book of the historian and folklorist Afanasyev A.N. (1826-1871) reveals the connections of language and traditions, moreover, it resurrects the foundations of Russian thinking, which is especially important now, when the language and thinking of a Russian person are disfigured by newspaper stamps, thieves jargon and slang of all kinds, littered with foreign words. This edition consistently reproduces all three volumes of "Poetic Views," published during the author's lifetime in 1865-1869. They are translated into a new spelling with some preservation of the features of the old spelling in order to feel the taste and aroma of the verbal turns of a bygone era.