V. O. Klyuchevsky as the founder of the economic history of Russia

V.O. Klyuchevsky is approved as the founder of the economic direction in Russian historiography, and scientific economic history in Russia. The paper focused attention on the position that Klyuchevsky’s economism, unlike western science, was not associated with legal forms of economy and with the development of industry (as in Marxism), but with everyday life and moral foundations of life. The author’s view of V.O. Klyuchevsky's synthetic approach to the development of the history based on the multifactorial method is substantiated. The authors show that this research method did not consist in the priority of individual factors of the historical process (economic, social, political, etc.), but in their interaction.