The book presents information about the formation and development of the phraseology of the Russian literary language, establishes the regularities of its changes under the influence of social factors and as a result of lexical-phraseological system connections. There are also theoretical discussions about the specifics of phraseological semantics due to the internal form. The work was done on a large factual material of Russian phraseology of the end of the XVIII beginning of the XIX century .. which is first introduced into scientific usage. The book is designed for students, graduate students of philological faculties, teachers of philology of universities and schools .