The «Eastern Question» and attempts of its resolution have repeatedly been studied by the researchers of Russian foreign policy since the end of the XIXth century. Pre-revolutionary historiography considers this problem as a confrontation between Russia and Western governments, where Russian diplomacy bends to Europe in the fight for the the Black Sea straits regime and the influence in the Balkans. One of the points of view has been represented by M.A. Taube, a specialist in the international law, in his research «The Eastern Question and the Austro-Russian Policy in the First Half of the XIXth Century». He analyzes formation of the Russian eastern policy dependence from the Austrian cabinet, which is based on the archival materials of the XIXth century and primarily on the dispatches of the Austrian diplomat, Count K.L. Fikelmon. According to M.A. Taube, these documents make it possible to «to recognize the direct historical roots of the present war, which precisely began because of the Russian-Austrian con