ENThe article analyzes the journalistic heritage of Vintsent Kanstantsin Kalinouski and those assessments, which it received in the scholar tradition. Representing different conceptual evaluation of those materials in the national historiography, the author argues that they sometimes wrongly found features of literary and philosophical works and supposes strongly to their consideration as propaganda. It is noted that in any works of Kalinouski was not distinctly presented his position on the future statehood of Belarus and Lithuania. Moreover, he idealizes the past times of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. As for the «separatist» or «federalist» submissions of Kalinouski, they represented in his works rather indirectly and not clear.