Abstract: the article reveals the modern requirements for doctoral dissertations on the history, gives the statistics on doctoral theses for the past four years, analyzes the dynamics of the network of dissertation councils for the history, states the main problems interfering the preparation of highly qualified specialists in the Russian Federation.

Keywords: history, science, organization of science, scientific personnel, training of highly qualified specialists, appraisal, dissertation, tips on dissertations, the Higher Attestation Commission, the main problem.

Abstract: the article reveals the informational potential of the confession statements of XVIII-XIX centuries. On the example of the famous merchant family Tretyakovs’, the author shows that from this historical source a unique information about various aspects of the lives of several generations of pre-revolutionary Moscow merchants can be extracted: the denominational activity, links with a particular parish, places of residence, consisting of residents of each house, everyday side of the life, etc. The author also lists some of the limitations associated with using this source.

Keywords: history, source study, Tretyakovs’ family, merchants, Moscow, confession statements, parishes, soroka (group of churches, formed the diocese), everyday life, Orthodoxy.

Abstract: the article proposes a new answer to the traditional question of the nature of the relationships in the pair «the historian — the source». Using the work of Emile Durkheim, the author poses the problem of dual socialization of the historian: in the «world of sources» and in the «world of people». The article offers its own classification of types of historians, describing the structure of the professional community and the rules of the game in it.

Keywords: history, socialization, Emile Durkheim, A. Schyuts, community, M. Weber, world of sources, types of historians, classification, methodology.

Abstract: the article provides information on the events held to celebrate the 40-year anniversary of the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Far East of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, about the VII Krushanovskiy readings and the main activities of the institute.

Keywords: history, IIAE FEB RAS, Academician of RAS A.I. Krushanov, Doctor of History, Professor V.L. Larin, areas of researches, scientific potential, historical school of Far East, the «round table» on the «10th anniversary of the Agreement of good-neighborliness, friendship and cooperation between the Russian Federation and the Republic of China», celebration, anniversary.

Abstract: one of the most important areas of the modern human sciences is the study of problems of national identity, a key element of which is to recreate a picture of the historical past of the nation, the history of its national symbols in particular. The author attempts to trace the origins of the symbols of the Russian state since the tenth century. The question about the comparison with other European countries, primarily with countries «Byzantine region» is discussed.

Keywords: history, emblem and seal, heraldry, national symbols, national identity, power, insignia, coronation, sovereignty, ideology.

Abstract: the article discusses the historical consciousness of a little-known French philosopher of XVI century, poet and theologian Robert Le Roch, author of historical and eschatological poem «The Mirror of Eternity». The study focused on Le Rock’s perception of present as an epoch in the history of mankind, which he conceptualizes through the lens of two concepts — the history of Christian theology and medieval ideas about God’s chosen people and the special mission of «Christian » Kings of France. It is the interaction of these two concepts that determines the identity of Le Roch’s representations about «our time» as a historical epoch.

Keywords: History, Apocalypse, Second Coming, historical consciousness, the Holy Roman Empire, Renaissance, sacred history, theology of history, France.

Abstract: the article deals with the historical fate of the last emperor of the China Pu Yi, its tragic pages at the end of his life — in 1967. It tells about what happened to the former emperor, what impact has a beginning of the «cultural revolution » had on him, how and where he was buried.

Keywords: history, Pu Yi, Pu Jie, Changchun, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Li Yuqing, cultural revolution, dazibao, XI plenum of the Communist Party of China, 8-th convocation.

Abstract: the article shows the process of consolidation of the bourgeois class — this «forgotten by the state and society» estate of the Russian cities — in the revolutionary 1917. High potential of middle-class estates was shown in the creation of the All-Russian Union of bourgeois societies at the I and II All-Russian Congress of bourgeois societies, where were also outlined the contours of the further development of middle class after the liquidation of estates.

Keywords: history, philistine class, classes, society, urban middle classes, Labor Union of citizens of Bogorodsk, All Russian Union of bourgeois society, All Russian conventions of bourgeois society, citizen, corporativity.

Abstract: the article examines the history of the formation of the capital region in the twentieth century. Author gives a description and analysis of the basic administrative and territorial changes over the course of this century. The statistical and cartographic data reflecting these changes is given. The questions of scientific and effective administrative and territorial division is discussed.

Keywords: history, historical geography, an administrative-territorial division, Moscow Province, Moscow Region, Moscow Area, the history of the formation of the capital region, demographic, administrative and territorial boundaries, stewardship areas.

Abstract: the article demonstrates how significant was the influence of the Russian-Swedish war 1590–1593 on the formation of church worship of Metropolitan Philip. A successful offensive in the north-west and the preparation of a confrontation with the Swedes on the White Sea formed the main political context of the initial stage of this process. No less important was the change of monarch.

Keywords: history, the Church, foreign policy, Moscow State, Metropolitan Philip, the Russian-Swedish war, canonization, monasticism, the Baltic region, the White Sea region.

Abstract: author states that the major periods of Soviet history have always caused debate on memory questions. In this regard, the article raises the question of adjusting the periodization of social and political history of Russia in connection with the historical forms of media representation. The article attempts to go beyond the pure chronology (to the area of interpretations, carried out in the space of aesthetic and political, social needs and more or less imposed by instrumentalization of the media), to show what relations between history and memory were made on the screen.

Keywords: Soviet history, the modification of the Soviet interpretation of history, influences, memory, creation of myths, media representation of history, writing an alternative history, Soviet cinema, audiovisual history, the methods of the political usage of the past.

Abstract: the history of creation and enactment of the Constitution of the RSFSR in 1937 is for the first time studied based on the archival materials. The article highlights some features of these processes in comparison over the preparation of the Stalin Constitution of 1936. The article emphasizes that the development and adoption of the new republican constitutions was a part of the Soviet Union of the constitutional reform carried out in the second half of the 1930-ies. A conclusion about a special role of party structures — the Politburo and Central Committee of the CPSU(b) controlling the entire process of creating and adopting new republican constitution is made. The study of the materials of the brief national discussion of the draft of the Constitution of the RSFSR in 1937 reveals the range of the most significant problems that worried the people of the Russian republic. Among them — the national ratio, the position of autonomous regions, the equalization of economic and social rights of urban and rural population, education, repression.

Keywords: history, constitution, constitutional reform, the Commission, the Politburo, a project of the RSFSR, the Allnational debate, an extraordinary session.

Abstract: the article illustrates the contribution of both fundamental edition «Gedenkbuch: the Memory book of German Labour Army members of Bogoslovlag. 1941–1946» and the project «Returned Names» as a whole in the development of a topical scientific issues of totalitarianism and authoritarianism in the USSR and the creation of the Book of Memory — a historical source, which appears as a result of purposeful work of researchers with substantial massif of different types and sources of and returns forgotten names to the historical memory of the people.

Keywords: history, concepts of totalitarianism and authoritarianism, repressive system, a historical source, the Book of Memory, the project «Returned Names», the Soviet Germans Labour Army members, analysis of labor activity, collective social portrait, map of Bogoslovlag.