The article considers a semantic volume of the lexeme ‘end' in connection with verbalization of important fragments of picture of the world in quotidian Russian of Muscovite Rus of the XVI-XVII centuries. Semantic blocks of meanings of the noun are analyzed; a discursive analysis of its functioning in written monuments of different genres is carried out. The study has revealed spatial, temporal and metrological blocks of meanings that are actualized both in use contexts of the word and in stable word combinations with the component ‘end'.