Morosova I. Correspondence of Count S. R. Woronzow, as the source on the history of anglo-russian relations at the end of XVIII – beginning of XIX centuries.

Object: complex of letters of private correspondence of Count S. R. Vorontsov with prominent public figures of the Russian Empire and Great Britain; objective: identify and analyze the composition, content, representation of that part of the archives of Count S. R. Vorontsov, represented his private correspondence, as the source on the history of Russian-British relations in the late XVIII - early XIX centuries; methods: historical, historical-comparative, historical-typological, historical-systematic, diachronic, heuristic, a method of source analysis and synthesis, content analysis; results: established a system of correspondent relations correspondence of Count S. R. Vorontsov, letters grouped under the thematic basis, elucidated their informative features, defined the ability of letters to fill in information gaps in the history of Russian-British relations involved in scientific use new, still unpublished and raw, letters of Count S. R. Vorontsov and his correspondents, installed gaps in private correspondence of Count S. R. Vorontsov and found the prospect of further scientific inquiry, is defined informative correspondence of Count S. R. Vorontsov as the source on the history of the accession Crimea to the Russian Empire and its settlement; novelty: the first discovered and investigated systematically complex of letters S. R. Vorontsov and his correspondents, more advanced identified composition respondents correspondence S. R. Vorontsov than in the "Archives of Prince Vorontsov," edited by P. Bartenev, introduced to the scientific use new sources of research topics, the author made translating letters, define their source-value, analyzed letters of Count S. R. Vorontsov as the source on the history of modern Ukrainian lands in the Russian Empire, elaborated the prospect of further scientific inquiry in connection with the discovery of new correspondent S. R. Vorontsov and historical events that have not been reported in the literature; branch: historiography, source and special historical disciplines.