A scientific publication created by Slovenian and Russian authors introduces the reader to the history of Slovenian literature from the birth of writing to the beginning of the 20th century. This is the first edition in the domestic Slavic literature, in which the literature of Slovenia is presented as an independent object of analysis. The book shows the development of Slovenian literature, taking into account its typological ties with Western European and Slavic literatures and cultures, presents the most important stages of literary evolution. periods of the Reformation, Baroque, Modern times, revealed features of manifestation on the Slovenian soil of romanticism, realism, modernism, naturalism, shows the dynamics of synchronization of Slovenian literature with the pan-European literary movement The book is addressed to philologists, cultural historians, teachers and students, all who are interested in literature of Slovenia .