The article describes the theoretical and methodical principles of the aesthetic culture formation of students in the process of the foreign literature teaching. Fiction as a carrier of aesthetic views of artists, aesthetic views and forms of their personalization as means of art of the word are the basis for the education of a highly spiritual aesthetically perfect personality, a citizen of a European state and the development of the aspiration of a young person to personal growth. Among the important criteria for the formation of aesthetic culture, we defined the following: the orientation of activities to achieve a specific goal, the development of students' interest in the formation of aesthetic culture during the literature study, the desire for self-improvement and self-realization, both in classroom and out-of-classwork. In the process of the foreign literature studying, there are determined the main stages of aesthetic culture formation and their content in the context of the specifics of the future professional activity of philologists students. The aesthetic discoveries of different epochs and literary trends, the modern achievements of linguoculture, hermeneutics, onomastics, semiotics, comparative studying are laid down as the base points in the basis of our proposed pedagogical system and its realization. In the technological maps developed for practical classes, there are presented the types of individual work, there are defined personally oriented spiritual and value orientations. For analysis and correction of aesthetic activity of students there are proposed the methods of studying and correction the level of formation of the aesthetic culture.