Legal status of illegitimate persons during the systematization of law in Russia 1649-1833

Introduction: the article surveys a legal status of illegitimate persons during the systematization of law in Russia from 1649 till 1833. Purpose: the author sequentially analyses the development of illegitimate children’s legal position in Russia, finds out the problems existed in this sphere. Methods: used in the article General scientific (dialectics, analysis and synthesis, abstraction and specification) and private-scientific methods of research (formal and legal, comparative legal, technical and legal). Results: firstly, the bases of illegitimacy in the legislation of Russia were fixed in the Cathedral Code of 1649. The Code of laws of the Russian Empire of 1833 adopted these bases and expanded them, for protection class, laws of succession and moral, and also in connection with negative attitude of the emperor, church, the state and society to illegitimate persons and illegal cohabitations. Conclusions: the law didn't contain the specific rights and duties of such persons, and also didn't define legal concept of the category “illegitimate” person. There were formulated only positions, which point on forbiddance for them to use the rights of legitimate children. Codification of the right at the beginning of the XIX century revealed the existing problems in this area.