Essays on the Social and State Structure of Ancient Russia

Author of the book - Mikhail Aleksandrovich Diakonov (1855-1919) - a well-known historian of Ruish law, an ordinary academician and an adjunct of the Imperial Academy of Sciences on Russian antiquities and history. The proposed book Essays of the public and state system of ancient Russia is the processing of the general course of the history of Russian law, read by the author in Derptsky (Yuryevsk) University, and is one of the largest works on the social history of ancient Russia. The history of law is studying ... and the state, and the right in all its branching, but studying them from a special point of view, studies them ... in historical development.
The first department of the book is devoted to the sources of law and the state structure of ancient Russia from the moment of the birth of the state, and the second - Moscow kingdom. However, this is not just a formal division. Three elements that make up the concept of the state, there are significant changes. There are two large territories of Moscow and Lithuanian states at the site of a significant number of small and unstable territories in their borders of the territories. Among the public population on the basis of various public classes, class groups are gradually emerging. Finally, changes occur in the very structure of state power: the monarchical element is seriously enhanced, and the democratic and aristocratic elements, on the contrary, gradually lose their former political weight, although they are not destroyed completely