Abstract
Appeal to the Book «the Path of the Historian. Selected works on source studies and historiography» S.O. Schmidt is determined by the fact that his work in the field of preservation of historical and cultural monuments is a practical expression of scientific principles, approaches to sources and scientific formulation of research procedures in the field of historiography. The methodological provisions of this author are of great scientific interest both in the framework of historiographical research and for the younger generation of historians who need to refer to the works of major scientists and study their methods of source analysis. The scientific heritage of the author has many methodological aspects. Some of them are of interest to us: interaction of historiography and source studies, historical research; logical procedures of cognition, i.e. its methods of analysis of sources; formulation of the problem of studying historiographical sources, historiographical tradition; continuity in source studies; expansion of the complex of historiographical sources; oral history as a historiographical source. In the history of source studies, the study of the methods of work of authors with historical sources is important, since they are the basis of historical research and any form of popularization of historical knowledge.