Fiction, especially art works on a historical topic can not be history itself, it is a natural process that they can not be pure history. In them, first, the people’s view of this reality must be displayed, and secondly, the view and outlook of the creator, his goals and tasks, the author’s artistic image and artistic conception plays the most important role. The article discusses the given problems, then eats the mastery of Berdakh in the creation of artistic images of historical figures in historical and epic works, this problem is analyzed in the example of the image of Genghis Khan.