The national and monarchical implementation of public interest in the political and legal concept of I. L. Solonevich

The article determines the concept of “public interest” in the works of I.L. Solonevich in a broad political and legal context. The authors make particular reference to the state, legal, historical and cultural grounds and the national characteristics of public interest. The “national monarchy” is analyzed as a political and legal phenomenon that reflects the public interest of the Russian state in an appropriate manner. At first, the Russian thinker points to the necessity of a paradoxical combination of autocracy, self-government and absence of stratification acting as the “bracers” of Russian statehood. It is further revealed the Slavophilic grounds in the theory of I.L. Solonevich, its reliance on the cultural and historical exclusiveness of genealogy and the genesis of Russian statehood. Moreover, the article investigates the critical reasoning for the republican form of government by the thinker. Finally, it is concluded about the identity, the national rootedness of the theoretical implementation of the Russian public interest by I.L. Solonevich through the concept of “national monarchy”.