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The paper offers a detailed analysis of the foundation of the “state school” in the sekond half of the 1840s in the works of Kavelin and Solovyov and follows its development up to the 1860s, when the formation of the school rounded off with the works of Chicherin. The established facts are then confronted with rendering of the activities of the school in the contemporary press and historiography, in order to demonstrate which historiographical conceptions were justified. The article presents the conception of the “state school” in the works of M. P. Pogodin, V. G. Belinsky, N. G. Chernyshevsky, I. Y. Zabelina and particularly in the works of N. K. Bestuzhev-Ryumin and P. N. Milyukov.