Analyzing the recent monograph of the French historian Marie-Pierre Rey L’effroyable tragédie. Une nouvelle histoire de la campagne de Russie(Paris, 2012) the author notes that it dramatically demonstrates some trend appeared in the newest historical literature on the 1812 war, namely the trespassing of narrow borders of national historiographical traditions. The appearance of the works on this war in many countries which authors based on various traditions at the same time permits to state the gradual formation of the really global historiographyof this event.