Development of culturological competence at Russian language lesson with the use of the text of the old Russian literature

The article deals with the description of one of the methods of developing the culturological competence - the work with the Old Russian text. There is identified the purpose of the development of the culturological competence. The author suggests the system of tasks of the Old Russian text presented in the form of the complex analysis of the fragment (reading and translation into the modern Russian language, the definition of the central idea, the explanation of the lexical meaning of the word in context, the choice of synonyms and the creation of the composition about the word).