The book of the famous Soviet linguist, Doctor of Philology, Professor L.A. Novikov talks about the richness of the visual capabilities of the Russian language, its most important figurative means, about the work of word artists - Russian and Soviet writers, the works of famous philologists in the field of the language of fiction, poetics, and the art of the word. Outlines basic information about the language, its origin and development. For high school students.