The paper provides an overview of the main directions of research and outreach activity of representatives of Slavophilism in relation to Russian folk culture. The main areas highlighted areas of interest, forming and concentrating the attention of researchers, these include the interest in the Russian language, the concept of the people, folklore, everyday life of Slavs. Each of these areas is considered separately from the others, because around each of them concentrates its terms researchers developed a separate set of terminology, own the problem field.