Review: The article's research subject is the scientific work of the outstanding Soviet scholar, representative of the "Russian school" scholars of English history, Sergei Ivanovich Arkhangelsky (1882-1958). As the object of research, the author chose the scholar's work focused on the study of the history of England's foreign policy in the 17th century within the system of international relations. In studying this topic, the author conducted a comprehensive examination of his published works and of the materials stored in his personal funds (the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Central Archive of the Nizhnegorskaya Oblast, the Science Museum of Nizhni Novgorod State University). The author also separately examined the scholar's popular works on various aspects of the USSR foreign policy and the history of international relations, which were not related to his scientific work. Additionally, the author considers "The History of England's Foreign Policy in the 17th Century," which was one field of scientific interest of S. I. Arkhangelsky, in the context of the Soviet stage in the development of the "Russian school" of English history. This approach includes the study of the topic's aspects from the general (the Soviet stage of the “Russian school” of English history) to the particular (the scientific work of S. I. Arkhangelsky). The leading research method for this study of the scientific work of S. I. Arkhangelsky is the biographical method. The novelty of this research lies in the author's proof of a previously unknown fact from the scientific biography of S. I. Arkhangelsky: from the late 1930s to the middle of the 1950s., he worked on a monograph on the history of England's foreign policy in the 17th century. Consequently, the scholar's scientific work on the history of England’s foreign policy should be viewed as part of a monograph he had envisioned.

Keywords: historiography, history of international relations, England, Evgeny Alekseevich Kosminsky, Anatoly Stepanovich Kaplin, Sergey Ivanovich Arhangelsky, source studies, XVII century, public diplomacy, science