Abstract: This paper consists of an introductory article and an original source text with the author's commentary. It introduces into scientific circulation S. I. Archangelsky's report "T. N. Granovsky as a Scholar of History", prepared for public reading in 1955. The research object of the introductory article is the scientific work of Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor and Associate Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences S. I. Arkhangelsky (1882-1958). The research subject is his work focused on the history of historical sciences and the place that he assigned to himself in the framework of the Moscow school of scholars at that time. The author also attempts to delimit S.I. Arkhangelsky's texts, conducted within the framework of cooperation with Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow scientific organizations. The work of S.I. Arkhangelsky is considered through the prism of an analysis of the scientific schools and corporations of scholars. The author applied the comparative-historical and biographical methods, as well as the general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis. The novelty of the presented research lies in the fact that, in the first place, it introduces into scientific circulation the previously unknown text of S.I. Arkhangelsky, dedicated to the work of T.N. Granovsky, which is important both for the further development of the history of Russian historical sciences and for the reconstruction of the scientific biography of S.I. Arkhangelsky; secondly, the author significantly enhances the picture of the initial formation of S.I. Arkhangelsky as a specialist in world history, differentiating between his research on domestic and foreign history; the author also reveals the role and place of the scientist within the corporation of scholars.

Abstract: The research subject of this article is the ideological, theoretical and methodological views of S. I. Arkhangelsky, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, during the early period of his scientific work (the beginning of the 20th century to the middle of the 1920s.). In order to obtain objective results from the research, the author founded the study on the materials from the scholar's personal archival funds (the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Central Archive of the Nizhnegorskaya Oblast, the Conservation Center of Documents up to 1917 and the Science Museum of Nizhni Novgorod State University). The author identified the main topics that interested the scholar in the early period of his work, including the genesis of capitalism and social history. The article's leading research method is the biographical method. The indicated research topic is considered through the prism of the scientific biography of S. I. Arkhangelsky. For the first time in historiography, Arkhangelsky's plan for a monograph on the history of the development of capitalism is introduced into scientific circulation. The author establishes that the origin of the scholar’s interest in social history should be associated with his professional formation under the conditions of the general transition from the study of the state to the study of social history, which began in the middle of the 19th century. These trends joined the aims and objectives of local history studies in the 1920s. The author attests S. I. Arkhangelsky's understanding of the continuity and unity of development between academic science and historical local history. From the general trends of recreating the social history of mankind, which received a new impetus for development under the influence of the revolutionary transformations at the beginning of the 20th century, S. I. Arkhangelsky began to study the social history of the Nizhny Novgorod region (the history of the peasantry, the history of the industrial proletariat) and the social history of England.