Lawmaking and the development of Russian legal thought at the turn of the XVI-XVII centuries

the article is devoted to the analysis of legislative and political processes that took place in the Russian state at the turn of the XVI-XVII centuries from the point of view of assessing their significance as factors that influenced the development of the state and legal structure of Russia and, ultimately, the form of government. In particular, the paper reveals the impact of the results of the Time of Troubles on further stabilization legislative changes aimed at increasing the level of legal protection of a person, socio-economic well-being, as well as strengthening the central government around the figure of the monarch. At the same time, one of the key features of the development of legal thinking in the period under study is the revision of views on the unlimited nature of state power, which from now on changes to ideas about limiting the power of the monarch, which cannot be arbitrary, and must also respect the rights and interests of the population.

the development of the Russian state, the history of Russian lawmaking, the evolution of Russian legal consciousness, the state structure, centralized power, the power of the monarch, the form of government, limitation of power, human rights