About the Theoretical Aspects of Historiographical Research in the Article S. N. Valk "A Historical Source in the Russian Historiography of the XVIII Cent."
The article characterizes the history of writing, contents, novelty and significance of the article by S. N. Valk "A Historical source in the Russian historiography of the XVIII century" from the point of view of the theoretical aspects of historiographical research; the author pre-sents S.N. Valk’s views on methods of work with historical works by V.N. Tatischev, A.-L. Schlözer, M.D. Chulkov, V. V. Krestinin, I. N. Boltin and M. M. Shcherbatov, I.-G. Shtritter.