Ельцина; e-mail: vladimirzemtsov@yandex.ru РУССКАЯ КАМПАНИЯ НАПОЛЕОНА: 200 ЛЕТ ПОИСКА ИСТИНЫ1 КЛЮЧЕВЫЕ СЛОВА: русская кампания Наполеона, Отечественная война 1812 г., историческая память, национальная историографическая традиция. <...> Русская кампания Наполеона и последовавшие за ней события 1813-1814 гг. имели грандиозные последствия: рухнул наполеоновский проект Единой Европы и началось последовательное становление национального самосознания многих народов, прежде всего русского, немецкого и испанского. <...> Переплетаясь с практикой «научного историописания», национальные исторические мифы заложили основы самосознания многих современных европейских наций и даже породили то, что сегодня принято называть исторической политикой и политикой прошлого. <...> Zemtsov Vladimir Nikolaevich, Doctor of History, Professor, Head of Department of General History, Ural State Pedagogical University; Professor of Depar tment of New and Contemporary History, Ural Federal University named after the First President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Ekaterinburg, Russia. <...> RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN OF NAPOLEON: 200 YEARS OF SEEKING TRUTH KEYWORDS: Napoleon’s Russian campaign; the Patriotic War of 1812; historical memory; national historiographic tradition. <...> Napoleon’s Russian campaign and the subsequent events of 1813-1814 had a huge impact: Napoleon's project of a United Europe had collapsed, and the formation of national identity of many nations, primarily Russian, German, and Spanish had begun. <...> The events of those years could not fail to produce thousands of various legends, which became, in turn, the foundation for the formation of basic historical myths of a number of European nations. <...> Connected with the practice of "scientific research", national historical myths laid the foundations of the consciousness of many modern European nations, and even spawned what is today known as the historic politics and policies of the past. <...> The Russian tradition of studying the war was, for the most part, under the influence and control of the institutions of power (Monarchy-Patriotic or Soviet-Patriotic). <...> Since the mid-1980s there began the process of rapid expansion of research tools, attempts were made to formulate problems, contrary to the established tradition. <...> The foreign traditions of studying the problems of 1812 represent several national segments. <...> As a rule, recourse to the events of the Russian campaign of Napoleon <...>