This article is pay attention to the evolution’s problem of the biographical forms at Russian historical-literary tradition from final 18th to start 19th ages. So at this article is considering the structural biography’s philosopher at the D.I. Fonvizin’s story: the union of the idealized and «energetic» narrative types (Pheophrast’s and Plutarch’s traditions) and the rhetorical forms (εγκώμιον, παραβολή, σύγκρισις).