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This article deals with formulas of Russian chronicle texts and their functions.
According to the article, a chronicle is a specific type of Old Russian texts representing
the synthetic genre and style. It is proven that speech formulas used in chronicles
influenced the formation of the stylistic system of the Russian language. The formulas
take both the stylistic function, marking certain parts of the text, and the semantic function,
esta-blishing a semantic link between chronicle and precedent texts.