Political and regulatory framework of history education’s functioning in the Russian empire in the first half of the nineteenth century

In the article is made an analysis of legislative regulation of the higher historical education in the Russian Empire during the first half of the 19th century. Defined the structure and procedure of functioning of university education, including historical education; outlined the features of the individual schools’ functioning, which was associated with the ethnic, national and religious specificity of the regions, in which these universities were located.

In this paper are described the conceptual documents, which defined the basis of functioning of university education in the Russian Empire in the 19th century.   It was established that the design of the system of humanities education in general and historical in particular in universities turned out to be a lengthy process that continued throughout the nineteenth century.