The article deals with the life and scientific heritage of the Russian
philologist, historian of literature and art, Professor of the Moscow University Fedor Ivanovich Buslaev, who made a great contribution to the development of historical and comparative method in linguistics.
Keywords
F.I. Buslaev; linguistics; philology; history of literature; history of art; Moscow University; comparative and historical linguistics; «The Teaching of the Russian Language»; «The Experience of Historical Grammar of the Russian Language»; «My Memories».