In Russia, in dopetrovsky period of literature, rhetoric can be use only in a spiritual eloquence, and the number of its monuments a minute: we have some stylistic observations Izbornike Sviatoslav, Tractate XVI Century: It tonkosloviya Greek and Science of adding sermons Ioannikiya Golyatovskogo.
Systematic teaching of rhetoric begins in the south-western theological schools in the XVII century, with books - all in Latin, so that the original treatment of them do not have to go. The first major Russian work is a brief guide to the eloquence University ( Rhetoric Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1748), made on the basis of the classical authors and the Western European guidelines, and giving in support of the general provisions in a number of examples in Russian - examples drawn from the works of new European writers. Lomonosov, in his evaluate the usefulness of books church, apply to the Russian language of the western theory of three styles. Because the area of rhetoric in Russia was limited almost exclusively to the church sermon, the rhetoric is almost always coincides with gomiletikoy. On the secular rhetoric in Russia was established, very little work, and they did not differ autonomy, such as leadership NF Koshanskogo. Scientific development of rhetoric in the sense as understood in the West, Russia did not begin at least until the XX century.