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Abstract: School history textbooks are the most important source for the ideas about the past, influencing not only the attitude to the history of their country and other states, the evaluation of certain events and personalities, but also largely predetermining the interpretation of contemporary problems that have historical origins. The authors of school history textbooks always face the difficult task of creating such a manual that would meet the methodological guidelines, the goals of historical education at a particular time, the ideological course of the country's leadership and at the same time, reflect the achievements of historical science. The question of what a history textbook should be in Russia remains relevant throughout the post-Soviet period. The article describes the features of the coverage of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78 in the Russian and Soviet history textbooks published at the end of the XIX – beginning of the XXI centuries. Attention is drawn to the ways of forming knowledge about this period in this or that textbook: in reliance on the cognitive or emotional-cognitive component of the personality. One of the important ideas of this article is that the knowledge about the Balkan military campaign among students should be based not only on their informational and cognitive potential, but also on feelings and experiences. The way of appearance of such relations forming the feelings and experiences of high school students is the folk songs that were created by the participants of these events. Thematic musical blocks on the Balkan war theme are proposed - complexes of folk and composer songs composed during this period by Russian soldiers and Kazaks. These complexes can be used by history teachers, researchers interested in forming an active emotional-value perception of historical events in the Balkans and their evaluation by modern schoolchildren.