The textbook on the history of the Russian literary language reflects all the topics of the program. The author departs from the traditional presentation principle for manuals of this type: instead of analyzing the language of individual writers, the book shows the history of the Russian literary language as a single process. The author sought not only to give a description of the most important processes in the development of the Russian literary language, but tried to show the achievements of Russian linguistic science in the field of studying the history of the Russian literary language from Lomonosov to the present day.