Linguistic meaningful letters of family archives of Bakunins

The article discusses the features of epistolary texts from the family archive Bakunin wrote at a time when language go through the process of formation of linguistic norms. The peculiarities of private correspondence documents, determines the significance of language letters for study of the period of formation of a new type of language, analyzes the phenomenon reflected in written texts at the level of the structure, as well as phonetic, lexical, morphological and syntactic levels. The study examined a specific form of communication distant type set standards inherent in the language of the xVIII century letters, punctuation and word formation considered the language features of the epistolary genre. The paper analyzes the characteristics of the text genre writing, due to objectives set by the writer, and function, the main of which are informative.