About the book: 2011 / Reader on the history of Russian rhetoric includes many materials of handwritten rhetoric of the 17th-18th centuries published for the first time, as well as textbooks from the 18th - first half of the 19th centuries that have become a bibliographic rarity V. The historical and philological commentary allows you to get acquainted with the biographies and works of the main rhetoricians, professors of academies and universities. The anthology can be useful for literature teachers, rhetoric teachers in secondary schools, as well as philological specialists.