Imprisonment as a type of criminal punishment in the legislation of the Russian empire

Imprisonment as a type of criminal punishment began to be used in Russia from the time of the Moscow State, which was reflected in the Council Code of 1649. Then, already in the Russian Empire, criminal legislation was consistently improved, having received a certain systematization in the first third of the century before last, and on the basis The Code of Laws of the Russian Empire of 1832, a little later, the first full-scale criminal law was adopted - the Code on Criminal and Correctional Punishments (1845). The article presents an analysis of the norms of this legal act (as amended in 1885, as the most characteristic of the Russian Empire until the beginning of the twentieth century), which regulated the institution of criminal penalties associated with imprisonment. It is noted that both in the General Part and in the Special Parts, the legislator described the relevant regulations in great detail, in cumbersome paragraphs, so much so that this greatly complicated law enforcement practice, given that in one act it was defined as criminal, that ki administrative responsibility. This approach was later recognized as inappropriate, and already the Criminal Code of 1903. has been greatly simplified.