WHEN "THE TALE OF FROL SKOBEYEV" WAS COMPOSED (BASED ON THE LANGUAGE ANALISIS)
The article analyses linguistic, primarily lexical and phraseological, features of the «Tale of Frol Skobeyev» in order to clarify the time of creation (composition) of this work, to consider the information on the genre and to find out the status of the author. The speech basis of the story is the vernacular as a functional variety of the Russian national language that was beginning to take shape.