The politico-legal model of derzhavnost and sobornost through the prism of state and popular sovereignty: the historiographical aspect

Introduction: the formation of the doctrine of sovereignty is traditionally of interest for the study of models of statehood. In light of the development of new concepts of international relations in recent years, it is important for Russia, as well as for other countries, to preserve traditional values. Reflected in history, philosophy, culture, they are represented in the legal model of statehood as the foundations of sovereignty. The article analyzes the evolution of the politico-legal concepts of derzhavnost and sobornost through the prism of state and popular sovereignty. We study the manifestations of various forms of sovereignty in Ancient Rus, autocratic Russia, approaches to its realization in the Soviet and modern period. On the basis of historiographical analysis of derzhavnost and sobornost as basic elements of the foundation of Russian statehood, the context of sovereignty, previously not reflected in its concept, is proposed. The purpose of the study is to shape new approaches to the concept of sovereignty based on its Russian politico-legal manifestations in the form of derzhavnost and sobornost, which will significantly change the ideas about the domestic (Russian) influence on the creation of the model of modern statehood. The use of formal-legal, historiographical, comparative-legal, historical-legal, and other scientific methods allowed us to come to conclusions substantiating the following results. In the system of existing politicolegal ideas about state and popular sovereignty, formed under the influence of Western European legal traditions, to date there is no indisputable manifestation of the domestic concepts. The analysis of the essential characteristics of derzhavnost and sobornost as politico-legal phenomena exclusively inherent in the Russian statehood reveals the features that make it possible to integrate them into the concepts of sovereign statehood. Recognition of derzhavnost and sobornost as elements of sovereignty necessitates their inclusion in the emerging new domestic historiographical model of politico-legal views.