The present study is one of the first eye-tracking experiments on Russian language material, checking if the text style (static or dynamic) is among the readability categories and if it influences the effect of reading perspective. Two text types were used: a static text (descriptive sentences) and a dynamic text (a sequence of events quickly following one another). In the experiment participants (20 native speakers of Russian) read eight texts of the same length written in different styles (4 static texts and 4 dynamic texts), presented randomly, and retell them afterwards. The following measurements were considered: first fixation duration, average saccade velocity, regression path duration. Retelling the texts was additionally used to collect data on text comprehension and accessibility. The readability of the texts was also checked on the website http://ru.readability.io/ where five readability formulas adapted for the Russian language are used (Flesch-Kincaid formula, Automatic Readability Index, SMOG, C