The role of church and ecclesiastical law in educational course “History of state and law of Russia”: problems and prospectives

The article is devoted to problems of describing the role of church and ecclesiastical law in teaching of history of state and law of Russia according to modern manuals and textbooks. The author supposes that this information is quite short and lapidary for understanding by students some specific features of development of the Russian state and law during different historical periods. The author compares modern manuals with the ones of the second half of 19th - first half of 20th century and concludes that situation was differ earlier and previous authors of manuals considered church and ecclesiastical law as an integral part of the system of Russian state and law. The author suggests improving of the situation by including into educational course some aspects of interaction of church and state and influence of ecclesiastical law on the “secular” one. To perform that it makes sense to use not only previous manuals and textbooks but also modern research works.