Аннотация:The 19th century witnessed a new stage in the development of Russian Arabic studies by introducing the teaching of this oriental language into the curriculum of the higher school. At that period the issue of acute necessity of creation of various Arabic language teaching aids arose. Professor A.V. Boldyrev (1784-1842), who started teaching Arabic at the new Chair of Moscow University, compiled “The Arabic Chrestomathy” which was spread throughout Russia in its two publications (1824 and 1832). The author took into account all the achievements of the Arabic Science of that period in full, and the examined chrestomathies were distinguished by both continuity and originality.