The monograph is devoted to the role of Russia in the formation of a new Serbian statehood. For the first time, the author makes an attempt to comprehensively study Russian-Serbian political relations during the first half of the 19th century. against the wide background of pan-European international life. Much attention is paid to the difficult internal political situation in the Principality of Serbia, the tasks of Russian foreign policy until the middle of the 19th century. and the place of the Balkans, in particular Serbia, in it.