Abstract: The subject of the research is the journalism of a famous education reformator of the late XIXth - early XXth centuries, teacher, educator, publisher and journalist Ismail Gasprinsky. The newspaper 'Terdjiman' published by Gasprinsky in Crimea can be viewed as an important informative source of that era. For the purposes of this research, Gasprinsky's essays on political, economic and social issues of his era are of particular interest. To write this article, the author has used such methods as comparative historical analysis, historical function, structural-typological and literary-biographical analysis as well as the methods of intertextual and comparative analysis of texts. The novelty of the research is caused by the fact that the researcher has carried out an analysis of journalistic essays of Gasprinsky who used a great variety of linguistic and stylistic, lexical, morphological, syntax and textual language means and played an important role both for his contemporaries and next generations of readers.