The War of the Polish Succession in the Russian historiography of the XIX – early XXI century

The presented articleshows the evolution of ideas about the War of the Polish Succession in Russian historiography, starting with the appearance of the first works on this problem in the XIX century and up to the most recent studies. The author concludes that three stages can be distinguished in the development of the study of this topic: pre-revolutionary, Soviet and postSoviet, each of which is characterized by specific features. During the study of the topic, a general conclusion was made about the need at the present stage to write a generalizing monograph on the War of the Polish Succession, which would take into account all currently available achievements in this field.