Vestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philologyVestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philology2542-04452712-8946Samara National Research University1099510.18287/2542-0445-2022-28-4-33-37Research ArticleSome features of censorship policy during the Crimean War of 1853–1856SmirnovYu. N.<p>Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor, head of the Department of World History, International Relations and Document Science</p>smirnov195503@yandex.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4333-3230Samara National Research University0501202328433370501202305012023Copyright © 2023, Smirnov Y.N.2023<p>The article is devoted to the analysis of new sources found in the National Archives of the Republic of Tatarstan in Kazan, which clarify the picture of the censorship policy of the tsarist government during the war years. The study was carried out based on the modernization concept of Russian history, in which the printed word appears as one of the main engines of modernization, as well as on the methods of intellectual history, in which book publishing and the press are studied in close connection with issues of censorship policy. The modern historiography of the Crimean (Eastern) War continues to be enriched with new works devoted to Russian public life and connected with the history of the press and censorship. А rich literature is devoted to the history of Russian periodicals and journalism, but not to the censorship policy of the Russian Empire. The article considers a number of circulars of the Ministry of Public Education, which was the leading state body in the implementation of the censorship policy, but in war conditions it carefully took into account the requirements of the Military Censorship Committee under the General Staff. 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