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EuroDocs > History of Russia: Primary Documents > Legal and Governmental Documents
- Digitized documents from the archive.
- (Russian facsimiles)
- Including charters, statutes and treaties.
- (English)
- One hundred documents total from the following time periods:
- 10th-16th Century
- 17th Century
- 18th Century
- 19th Century
- 20th Century
- Includes facsimiles and transcriptions of the documents, with options to search document transcription.
- Governmental treaties, codes, and manifestos; newspaper selections.
- (10th-20th centuries; Russian facsimiles and transcriptions)
- Legislative documents of Russia.
- (1334-1700; Russian transcription)
- Documents discuss truce, boundaries, and agreements between Russia and Sweden.
- (17th century; commentaries, Russian transcription)
- Discusses organization of the new governments and its administrative and military rules.
- (June 30, 1611; commentaries, Russian translation).
- (1611- 1918; Russian transcription)
- Ability to search by law number.
- 1649-1825 Part I
- 1649-1825 Part II
- 1825-1850
- (1649-1850; pre-Soviet Russian facsimile)
- Grand Prince Aleksei Mikhailovich took council with the Patriarch of Russia and others to discuss laws in the canons and of the Byzantine emperors in the Procheiros Nomos.
- (1649; English translation)
- (1653; modern Russian translation)
- Ranks and responsibilities of court nobility.
- (1666; modern Russian translation)
- (1762-1825; Russian translation)
- Conditions and agreements between Russia and Prussia for dividing Poland.
- (January 4, 1772; Russian transcription)
- Conditions and agreements between Russia and Austria for dividing Poland.
- (July 25, 1772; Russian transcription)
- History of agreement between Russia and Turkey about sea and land borders and rights.
- (June 21, 1774; map, modern Russian)
- Letter grants benefits to Russian nobles.
- (April 21, 1785; image, Russian transcription)
- Letter grants benefits to cities.
- (April 21, 1785; Russian transcription)
- Treaties reflecting relations between Russian Empire and China in the second half of the 19th century.
- (1858-1902; Russian transcription)
- Digitized documents from the Federal Archive Agency.
- (20th century; Russian transcriptions)
- Includes documents from government investigations of individuals.
- (1900-2000; Russian transcriptions)
- Responsibilities of employers and rights of workers.
- (June 2, 1903; Russian transcription)
- Manifesto of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Removes local legislation from Grand Duchy of Finland.
- (15 February 1899; English translation)
- Consolidating Russian control.
- Also available in French.
- (30 June 1910; English translation)
- Signed by Russian officials following the abdication of Nicholas II.
- Also available in Russian.
- (20 March 1917; English translation)
- (18 December 1917; English translation)
- Also available in Russian.
- (18 -23 December 1917; English translations)
- Constitutions of the Russian Soviet Social Republic and the USSR.
- (1918-1978; Russian transcription)
- Nazi-Soviet Relations (Department of State Publication)
- From the archives of the German Foreign Office.
- (1939-1941; English translations)
- Documents and agreements from the Avalon Project.
- (1939-1941; English translations)
- Desclassified Politburo (Presidium) documents " from the Russian State Archive of Contemporary History and the Archive of the Russian Federation President."
- Full reference: "The Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU. 1954-1964. Rough protocol recording sessions. Transcripts. Regulation. Volume 2: Resolutions. 1954-1958. / Ed. AA Fursenko. - M .: Russian Political Encyclopedia, 2006."
- From Russian Archives Portal Electronic Library.
- Also see Regulations of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU: 1959-1964.
- (1954-1958; Russian transcriptions)
- Desclassified Politburo (Presidium) documents " from the Russian State Archive of Contemporary History and the Archive of the Russian Federation President."
- Full reference: "The Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU. 1954-1964. Rough protocol recording sessions. Transcripts. Regulation. Volume 3: Regulation. 1959-1964. / Ed. AA Fursenko. - M .: Russian Political Encyclopedia, 2008."
- From Russian Archives Portal Electronic Library.
- Also see Resolutions of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU: 1954-1958.
- (1959-1964; Russian transcriptions)
- (1990 - 2000; Russian transcription)
- ON THE GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
- (1997; English)
- Collection of Russian Laws.
- Statutes, criminal and civil codes, and other legal materials.
- A portal of the BYU Law School.
- Library of Congress guide to constitutional, legal and government documents.
EuroDocs > History of Russia: Primary Documents > Legal and Governmental Documents
EuroDocs Creator: Richard Hacken, European Studies Librarian,
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.
Feel free to get in touch: Hacken @ byu.edu
With special thanks to Natalya Georgiyeva for her help with this webpage.