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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 tempestuous developments of the following centuries (the incessant wars among the princes, the Mongol invasion, the rise of the Novgorod republic) all left their marks on the legal system until the princes of Muscovy succeeded in reuniting the country. This resulted in the creation of major legislative monuments, such as the Codes of Ivan the Great of 1497 and of Ivan the Terrible of 1550. After the Time of Troubles the Council Code of the second Romanov Tsar, Aleksei, of 1649 became the starting point for the comprehensive Russian codification of the 19th century.
The next period of Russian legal history is the subject of vol. 70 of Law in Eastern Europe: “A History of Russian Law. From the Council Code (Ulozhenie) of Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich of 1649 to the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917”, Brill | Nijhoff, 2023 .
Price: $526.00
Pages: 1098
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill | Nijhoff
Series: Law in Eastern Europe
Publication Date:
20 October 2017
ISBN: 9789004346420
Format: Hardcover
"The book under review culminates a life-long study of legal codes from the Kiev Rus' era to the 1649 Ulozhenie. This is not a monograph with an overarching argument; Feldbrugge’s goal is more descriptive and historiographical. [..] There is much valuable information in this book. It analyzes all the sources of secular and church law over these centuries and comprehensively covers social structures, landholding patterns, the development of towns, and judicial venues. It can be a good resource in study of the law of Kiev Rus', the era of fragmentation, and Muscovite Russia." - Nancy S. Kollmann, Stanford University
"…[I]mpressive, professional and profound… The book is of great value to researchers and to those who make this their first exposure to Medieval Russian law. The author’s ability to mirror the 'national spirit' of the Russians, to feel and to bring to the international readers the 'notoriously tricky' Russian language, and to depict the historical changes reflected in the law deserves admiration and is worth keeping in mind in the contemporary legal landscape and world’s intellectual climate." - Sergey Yu. Marochkin, University of Tyumen; Oleg Yu. Vinnichenko, University of Tyumen and Svetlana S. Racheva, University of Tyumen
"…[I]mpressive, professional and profound… The book is of great value to researchers and to those who make this their first exposure to Medieval Russian law. The author’s ability to mirror the 'national spirit' of the Russians, to feel and to bring to the international readers the 'notoriously tricky' Russian language, and to depict the historical changes reflected in the law deserves admiration and is worth keeping in mind in the contemporary legal landscape and world’s intellectual climate." - Sergey Yu. Marochkin, University of Tyumen; Oleg Yu. Vinnichenko, University of Tyumen and Svetlana S. Racheva, University of Tyumen
The author headed the department of East European Law and Russian Studies of Leiden University until his retirement in 1998. Among his numerous works on Soviet and Russian law is Law in Medieval Russia (Brill, 2009).