This historical dictionary of an explanatory type, produced by the Institute of Linguistic Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is a systematic description of the vocabulary of the Russian language in the era of the formation of a new literary language in Russia on a national basis. The dictionary describes the vocabulary used in written texts from the beginning of the independent reign of Peter I (1690s) to the transitional period in the history of the Russian literary language, which falls on the first decade of the 19th century. and closely adjacent to the language of Pushkin's time.