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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...