The printed calendar communicates not only information about time and chronology, but also broadcasts ideological dogmas and political doctrines. This distinguished both the calendars of the tsarist period and the calendar publications of the Soviet era. Calendar dates were served by calendar literature, which spoke to the reader in the language of newspaper clichés and political templates. Despite the fact that the calendar served as a mouthpiece of state power, it was perceived as a guarantor of the natural course of life, not subject to arbitrariness and dictatorship. Contemporary Russian writers and publicists (L.S. Rubinstein, D.L. Bykov), turn to the format of the calendar to express their personal view of the country's history. As a result, the official calendar and the ideological picture of the world associated with it are deconstructed.