Abstract
In this article, the author considers the issues of speech and language stylistics used by L.N. Tolstoy in his novels. Attention is drawn to the distinctive features of the literary language of the great writer, which give a special flavor to the Russian language, and highlight the style of his speech against the background of other Russian writers of that time.
Keywords
stylistics
literary language
pronunciation norms
stylistic core
etymological and syntactic forms