The article examines the development of Russian history as an independent school discipline during the reign of Emperor Nicholas I. During this era, the history of Russia began to develop rapidly both as a science and as a university and school discipline with its own specific content and range of tasks. The concept of Orthodoxy, autocracy, nationality, proposed by the Minister of Public Education Count S.S. Uvarov and supported by the emperor contributed to this. In accordance with Uvarovs views on the tasks of education, the history of Russia played an important educational and ideological role, therefore, the teaching of national history gradually acquired a systemic character.
Alexander V. Maiorov (Wed,) studied this question.