The book is devoted to the emergence and development of the historiographic tradition of the Crimean Khanate during the period of independence and after joining the Russian Empire. Based on the generalization of a large array of Crimean handwritten texts of a historical nature from the archives of the Russian Federation, Turkey, France, Ukraine, Egypt, Iran and a number of European countries, the origins of the Crimean historical tradition of the 15th-19th centuries, its internal evolution and external influences are revealed. Much attention is paid to descriptions and source analysis of the lists of Crimean historical works: the establishment of editions of texts, their sources and the dependence of Crimean historical works of different eras on each other. The nature of the written arabographic heritage of the Crimean peninsula is also analyzed: the Crimean manuscript tradition in Arabic, Turkic and Persian.