The central theme of the issue is the agrarian development of Russia. The authors analyze the peasant economy in the pre-revolutionary period, the grain procurement policy in the 1930s, the source problems of official statistics during the years of "stagnation," the dynamics of agricultural production in the post-Soviet period, the sociocultural appearance of the modern peasantry. A prominent place in the issue is occupied by analytical publications of archival documents, which from various angles represent the aspects of historical development covered in them. The current problems of Russian history are devoted to works placed in the Miscellanea section. A number of messages inform readers about the events of the scientific life of Siberia.