The development of Russian legal science and anthropological paradigms in the XV - XVIII centuries

The process of the formation and development of national legal science in the XV-XVIII centuries was difficult and ambiguous. However, an important role was played by prominent Russian law scholars and philosophers of law who made a significant contribution not only to Russian but also the world treasury of legal thought. The legal science of that time was at the first stage of its formation. There was no legal text that was different from the monarch's will and needed to be interpreted and preserved by the efforts of professional lawyers. Due to the fact that there were no sources of law that would not come from the state power, disputes over the law were not separated from administration. Assuming the Byzantine notion of law, Russia did not form a class, professionally cultivating it. It was a voluntary, unilateral reception of Byzantine law on the basis of religion, which determined the priority of positive law over natural law and subjective law.