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Monuments of Imperial Russian Law: Catherine the Great's Bookplate

[Catherine II (1729-1796), Empress of Russia]. Armorial bookplate, engraved. Text: Catherine Alexievna II, | Imperatrice de toutes les Russies. Second half 18th century, after 1762. Irene D. Andrews Pace Memorial Collection, Haas Family Arts Library Special Collections , Yale University Catherine II...

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Monuments of Imperial Russian Law: The Nakaz in French

[Catherine II (1729-1796), Empress of Russia]. Instruction donnée par Catherine II., impératrice et législatrice de toutes les Russies: a la commission établie par cette souveraine, pour travailler à la rédaction d'un nouveau code de loix, telle qu'elle...

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Monuments of Imperial Russian Law: Catherine the Great's Legislative Commission

Medal awarded to deputies of Catherine II's Legislative Commission. Private Collection The Legislative Commission summoned to Moscow has been seen as a "major, highly personal political experiment" formed by election and intended to represent the "estates" of the Russian Empire...

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Monuments of Imperial Russian Law: The Polyglot Nakaz

[Catherine II (1729-1796), Empress of Russia]. Nakaz jeio impieratorskogo velichestva Ekateriny Vtoroi samodevzhitsy vserossijskaia olannyi Kommissii o Sochinenii proekta novogo ulozheniia | Instructio Sacrae Imperatoriae Maiestatis Aecaterinae Secundae Autocratorissae Omnium Rossiarum Coetvi Auspiciis...

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Monuments of Imperial Russian Law: The Nakaz in English

[Catherine II (1729-1796), Empress of Russia]. The Grand Instructions to the Commissioners Appointed to Frame a New Code of Laws for the Russian Empire. London: T. Jeffreys, 1768. Rare Book Collection, Lillian Goldman Law Library The enduring contribution of Catherine II (1729-1796) to Russian law commenced...

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Monuments of Imperial Russian Law: Catherine the Great

Strube de Piermont, Friedrich Heinrich (1704-1790). Lettres russiennes: suivies des notes de Catherine II . Pisa: Goliardica, 1978. Facsimile reprint; originally published 1760 in St. Petersburg. Yale University Library Peter the Great set in motion the measures required to found the Academy of Sciences...

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Monuments of Imperial Russian Law: Peter the Great

Zertsalo. Russia. ca. 1750-80. Russian Historical Museum, Moscow. Photograph by M. Kravtsova. Peter the Great spent the majority of his years in power at war with his neighbors. His reforms were directed principally towards modernizing the structure of the Russian State, which had implications for Russian...

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Monuments of Imperial Russian Law: Russian Orthodox Canon Law

Kormchaia Kniga [ Book of the Pilot ]. Moscow, 1650. Special Collections, Harvard Law School Library Ecclesiastical jurisdiction remained intact under the 1649 Ulozhenie . The Russian Orthodox Church immediately set about producing a modern version of the Book of the Pilot . This was approved by an ecclesiastical...

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Monuments of Imperial Russian Law: The 1649 Sobornoe Ulozhenie

[ Sobornoe ulozhenie ]. [Moscow], 1649. Special Collections, Harvard Law School Library Throughout Europe the period 1648 to 1650 was a watershed. During those years in Russia, two major law codes, unprecedented in scope and size, became the first printed law books in Russian history. Following the 1497...

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Monuments of Imperial Russian Law: Medieval Origins

Iaroslav I (c. 978-1054), Russkaia Pravda. [Bound with:] Ivan IV, the Terrible (1530-1584), Note on the Sudebnik of Tsar Ivan Vasil'evich. Russia, 18th century manuscript. Private Collection Virtually all surviving documents from the Kievan period of early Russian and Ukrainian history are legal...

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