The picturesqueness of the language: on the specifics of historical knowledge and narration. Review of the collective monograph “Linguistic turn and historical knowledge in western philosophy of the XX-XXI centuries” (Moscow St. Petersburg, Publishing House of the Center for Humanitarian Initiatives, 2021. 304 p.)

The article examines the problems of picturesqueness of language and historical narrative in the light of the linguistic turn carried out by L. Wittgenstein, whose ideas actively influenced Anglo- American and continental European thought of the second half of the XX - beginning of the XXI century. The book “Linguistic Turn and Historical knowledge in the Western philosophy of the XX- XXI centuries” is being discussed in its format, in which a comparative analysis of the views of Western authors on the specifics of the narrative organization of historical cognition and narration is carried out.