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The article analyzes different variants of critical study of official acts as primary historical sources by the Russian historians in the first half of the XIX century. The main attention is paid to scientific work of the less well known historians: A.Z. Zinoviev, V. Vinogradov, A.F. Fedotov and others. The author considers their scientific theories concerning the Russian official acts as historical sources; shows the prominent German scholar  A.-L. Schloezer's impact on the Russian historians. The purpose of the article is to demonstrate what was new in studying the official acts as historical sources in the Russian science of the first half of the XIX century.