Аннотация:The works of the Russian classics form the basis for teaching literature in schools and universities. One of the most important methodological skills that a master’s student of a pedagogical university is the search for techniques and technologies for teaching classic Russian literature for later professional activity. The following research methods are presented: Interviewing master’s students studying at a pedagogical university, content analysis, qualitative and quantitative generalization of the obtained results, prediction of the main directions of work at the stage of identification, design, and control of experiments. The research was conducted among the master’s students in the 2nd year of the Institute of Philology of Moscow State Pedagogical University (Russian Federation). A total of 45 students participated in the experimental part from September 2019 to February 2020. The study results were also discussed in the advanced training courses for teachers at the St. Petersburg Institute of Business and Innovation. The necessity of using digital technologies and organizing a dialog with contemporary literature in studying classic Russian literature is empirically demonstrated. As a result, a classification of digital technologies was created, and the main areas of work related to the inclusion of modern literature in studying Russian classics were identified.