The beginnings of Russian law are documented by the Russo-Byzantine treaties of the 10th century and the oldest Russian law, the Russkaia Pravda. The tempestuou

The creation of a powerful state by the first Christian rulers of Russia, its subsequent fragmentation and subjugation to the Mongol khan and its determined rea

Russia’s emergence as the dominant Eurasian power was realised and structured by a mass of legislation issued in the period of 1649 to 1917 by the Romanov tsa

Russia is often portrayed as a regressive, even lawless country, and yet the Russian state has played a major role in shaping and experimenting with law as an i

This book, authored by an international group of scholars, focuses on a vibrant central current within the history of Russian legal thought: how Christianity, a