Abstract: Modern Russian historiographical and source base make it possible to present the nature, role and place of Anglo-Russian relations in Central Asian Region, understand the fenomenon of so called «Russian threat» to India in the latter half of 18 to early 20 centuries, developed in English historiography within the concept of the «Great Game» as a complex of interstate contradictions and rivalry, reveal policy motives and objectives of the Russian and British Empires in the region in the period under review.