The article discusses L.P. Karsavin’s "Philosophy of History" (1923) in the context of teaching philosophical, historical and theoretico-methodological disciplines at St. Petersburg University based on the courses of philosophy and methodology of history taught at St. Petersburg University by M.M. Stasyulevich, A.S. Lappo-Danilevsky and N.I. Kareev. The article decribes the philosophical and historical views of K.N. Bestuzhev-Ryumin and V.I. Lamansky - followers of the Slavophil doctrine. It is noted that Lamansky’s ideas were developed in the historical philosophy of the Eurasians rather than in the philosophical and historical teaching of Karsavin who participated in the Eurasian movement. The article pays attention to the conceptual coincidences in the views of Karsavin and his predecessors. However, in general it is recognized that the philosophical attitudes of positivism and neo-Kantianism, that guided the teachers of philosophical and historical disciplines, did not correspond to Karsavin’s philosophic