Genre peculiarities of the charter of Kazan metropolitan Germogen to all Russian patriarch job (1592)

The article deals with the genre peculiarities of the charter to Patriarch Job. There is described the specificity of its content, composition and language realization. The author concludes about the charter’s belonging to the business correspondence of the official type. There is demonstrated that the content-related fragments of the text are characterized by “literary character” and the existence of the attributes appropriate to hagiography, in line with etiquette elements.