"Klyuchevskiada" by M.V. Nechkina

The article analyzes the evolution of the image of V.O. Klyuchevsky in the historio-graphic heritage of M.V. Nechkina Special attention is paid to unpublished or little-known works of M.V. Nechkina of the 1920s. It is shown that early works became a kind of polygon of theoretical and methodological searches of M.V. Nechkina, who presented the synthesis of psychoanalysis and externalist class approach to the development of science. Nevertheless, it is concluded that conceptually early works are closely connected with the final monograph "Vasily Klyuchevsky: the history of life and creativity" (1974).