The Rules of Historical Documents Publication: History of Creation, XX Century
This article aims to show the history of creation of unified normative document - Rules for publishing historical documents for a hundred years - from the first draft, prepared in 1919 by a special commission of the Petrograd branch of Glavarchiv to the current Methodical Recommendations, replaced the acting for the last thirty years “Rules for publishing historical documents in the USSR” (M., 1990). The process of archaeography formation is shown, including the clarification of the subject of its research, its specific goals and objectives, as an independent scientific discipline, and its delimitation from source study and archival science. The issue of creating a unified normative document, regulating preparation of documentary publications at the next stage of its development has been updated.