This book is the first experience in the systematic study of landscape images of Russian poetry from V. Trediakovsky to the poets of our day. On extensive material - 3700 works by 130 authors - the most stable national characteristic motifs ("winter," "birch," etc.), the laws of construction and combinations of different types of landscapes ("ideal," "exotic," "fantastic," etc. are distinguished). The poetic language in which nature itself speaks to man is explored. The last section is a small encyclopedia of landscape worlds of the largest Russian poets, whose creative individuality finds figurative correspondence in certain phenomena of natural life.