Development of the military criminal law: from Peter I to Alexander I

The article considers the main development areas of the military criminal legislation in the Russian Empire from the early XVIII to the early XIX centuries, which was determined by the emergence of fundamentally new objects of legal regulation - the regular army and navy that required new legal and other normative acts. The author analyses various legal acts regulating the reformation of the Russian military criminal legislation during the period under review. The opinions of various researchers studying the history of the Russian military criminal law are cited. Special attention is paid to the military criminal legislation of Russia in the period of the reforms of Peter I and Alexander I.