The temporal distributor of the structural basis of a sentence in the modern language is expressed by adverbs, stable phraseological combinations of an adverbial character and nouns that are included as dependent words in different types of phrases.

In order to have a complete picture of the development and formation of the Russian literary language, "each of the old monuments of the language must be analyzed separately in relation to lexical, grammatical, and historical-literary." The present work aims to make some contribution to the solution of this problem.