Genesis of Legal Regulation of Family Relations

Every state is interested in the stability of family groups, which constitutes its public interest in regulating family relations. Despite the persistence of this interest, both the boundaries and methods of legal influence on family relations change significantly over time, which determines the relevance of modern, comprehensive scientific research on family legal relations that takes into account current trends in legal regulation. This article examines the evolution of the legal regulation of family relations through the prism of the pre-Christian, early Christian, Petrine, post-Petrine, postrevolutionary, and modern stages of the development of Russian statehood. It concludes that there is an inherent connection between the legal policies relevant to a given historical period and the specifics of legal influence on family relations. The author concludes that the approval of the Concept of State Family Policy in the Russian Federation through 2025 ushered in a fundamentally new stage in the legal regulation of family relations, based on a renewed understanding of the family. Since 2014, the family has been positioned for the first time as an institution within the public interests of the Russian state. In the same spirit, the 2020 constitutional amendment was adopted, introducing several family law innovations into the Basic Law of our country.