Abstract
The article examines the problems of the formation of a modern historiographical model of political and legal knowledge, the possibility of its development as a Eurasian paradigm, for the positioning of which there are various past and modern ideological prerequisites. In the context of the spread of various distortions, arbitrary modifications and ideological restrictions in relation to other cultural and civilizational types of development in world history, traditional Western European patterns of legal historiography often turn out to be not only ineffective, but also harmful to ensure sovereign conditions for unlocking the potential and preserving the stability of the civilizational space of Russia. The best elements of historiographical approaches to law and the state accumulated in foreign thought must certainly be preserved, but above all serve to clarify the total capital of Russian and foreign political and legal thought, strengthen the positions of Russian science and literature in solving various kinds of reconstructive historical and philosophical problems.