Abstract: The monograph clarifies and explains the pictorial and expressive meaning of mainly small means and forms of narration in old Russian literary works of the 12th-17th centuries and manuscripts of the 17th century; phrases, enumerations, comparisons, epithets, parallelisms, aphorisms, complexes of parts, story cycles and other forms of Old Russian exposition are analyzed. This determines the degree of literary literary monuments and their place in the history of old Russian literature. The book is intended for philologists and students with a literary taste, for a deeper and more accurate understanding of the text of the works of Old Russia.