The monograph presents the research on the formation of linguoculture of the East Slavs on the basis of written records of the XI-XVII centuries. The dynamics of this process can be traced in three aspects: linguocultural, cognitive and communicative. The prospects for investigation of concepts and cognitive categories in diachrony are determined by the problems of a new direction in linguistics ¿ diachronic cognitive linguistics. The publication is a collection of articles of different years.