Archives and archival data in the creative work of Leopold von Ranke: research of Ivanovo scientists. Book Review: Chernoperov V.L., Usmanov S.M. Leopold von Ranke — life and creative heritage: monograph. Ivanovo: Ivanovo State University, 2021

. The readers are presented with a review of the book by Vasily Lvovich Chernoperov and Sergey Mikhailovich Usmanov “Leopold von Ranke — life and creative heritage”. The book is characterized by the diversity of the covered issues. We will concen-trate our attention on the coverage in this monograph of the issue of archives and archival data in the work of the outstanding German historian Leopold von Ranke (1795—1886). According to the reviewer, the main conclusion seems to be the following: the authors con-vincingly prove that it is from the time of his works that the archives receive that great im-portance, which they enjoy now.