The formation and development of the institution of unfinished crimes in Russia during the pre-Soviet period

Acts aimed at realizing a criminal intent, but not completed for objective or subjective reasons, have always been of interest from the point of view of punishment, its measure, and its correlation with the punishment imposed for a completed crime. The distinction between completed and uncompleted crimes was already understood in Old Russian law, which contained the elements of an uncompleted crime, but the Old Russian legal monuments did not yet understand that any uncompleted crime could be punishable. The object of this study is the historical and legal monuments that regulated the responsibility for uncompleted crimes. A number of conclusions were drawn about the development trends of this institution in the pre-Soviet period.