The book returns to the intellectual space a powerful block of Russian pre-revolutionary English studies, demonstrates the scale and thematic diversity of the English heritage, allows you to look at the works published in the Russian Empire through the eyes of their contemporaries. The thematic orientation and the main ideas of both Russian and translated into Russian between 1801 and 1917. works of the English profile of British, French, German, Swiss, Belgian, American researchers - historians, jurists, economists, political scientists and sociologists, as well as selection criteria for foreign authors to present their work to the Russian-speaking reader.