The problems of historical memory and verification of historical sources have come to the center of world humanitarian knowledge. The one-dimensionality of the positivist picture of the world with its linear highway of movement of history crumbled. Reality did not want to fit into the "Procrustean bed" of the theory prepared by her. The humanitarians themselves declared the relativity of knowledge of the past, its subjective nature, and the factor of historical memory. Judge for yourself.