The proposed educational manual is addressed to high school students and contains more than 200 texts of historical sources and attached tasks of a high level of complexity (in the draft demo version of the Unified State Exam 2017 - tasks No. 20-22), as well as response models. The book is used to prepare for the Unified State Exam in history, but it can also be used for current, thematic and intermediate control in grades 10-11, since all the material presented is grouped chronologically into thematic blocks. Systematic work with the manual will allow you to master the practical skills of analyzing the historical text, determining the authorship of the source and, in addition, will develop the ability to correctly express and interpret the information received from the document.