Fernand Braudel (1902-1985) - an outstanding French historian who revolutionized historical science thanks to his original model of historical research, which is based on the study of the material conditions of human existence in a given geographical and social environment. This methodology was described in detail and brilliantly applied in Brodel's most famous work - his three-volume "Material Civilization, Economics and Capitalism, XV-XVIII Centuries.," Published in 1979.