Аннотация
The study is dedicated to the memory of Professor Nadezhda Gainullina. The aim is to show the role of professor N. Gainullina in the study of the Russian literary language history. N. Gainullina’s research interests focused on the literary language of the Peter the Great’s era. Her Ph.D. thesis and doctoral research, articles and monographs contain a deep understanding of the role and place of Peter the Great in the history of the Russian literary language. N. Gainullina defined the term “creative linguistic personality” and introduced it into science. She established the place, role and significance of the epistolary genre in the history of the Russian literary language. She described the nature of the epistolary genre evolution under the influence of extra-linguistic and intralinguistic factors. It is approved that conclusions reached by N. Gainullina, have important theoretical value. The results of N. Gainullina’s scientific activity differ because of their novelty, theoretical and practical relevance in researches on the history of the Russian literary language.