The article presents an overview of the views of Russian thinkers of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries on the issue of the Slavic homeland. The author examines the Danube basin hypothesis («Russian Primary Chronicle»), which dominated Russian historical thought from XIIth to XIXth centuries, the hypothesis of the missing homeland (I. Giesel), the Asia Minor hypothesis (V.N. Tatishchev, M.V. Lomonosov) and notes that in the XVIIIth century historical thought of Russia the issue of the Slavic homeland had no independent significance and was treated within the more politically relevant issue of the origin of Russian state.