The Decree on primogeniture of 1714 as a comprehensive normative legal act of the Petrine era: historical and legal analysis
- Authors: Zazolina E.V.1
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Affiliations:
- Dubna State University
- Issue: No 3 (2025)
- Pages: 13-23
- Section: THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL LEGAL SCIENCES
- URL: https://bakhtiniada.ru/2307-9525/article/view/309870
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.21685/2307-9525-2025-13-3-2
- ID: 309870
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Background. The presented article examines the legislative act of the Petrine era – the de cree of March 23, 1714 (decree on primogeniture) from the point of view of its consideration as a complex normative legal act containing norms of various branches of law: land, civil, hereditary and in the field of public service. Based on the analysis and study of the provisions of the decree of 1714, the goals and reasons for the adoption of this act are established. The norms of land, civil, and inher itance law included by the legislator in the decree of 1714 are considered and analyzed, their interrela tion is established and revealed when regulating relations in the field of public service. Structurally, the article is divided into several sections, including an overview of existing research on Peter the Great's legislative activities, an analysis of the content of the main provisions of the decree of 1714, as well as the reasons for its cancellation. The structure proposed by the author allows us to fully reveal the subject of this research. Materials and methods. The implementation of the research objectives was achieved based on an analysis of the legal norms of the decree of 1714 on the monarchy. The research methodology is represented by general scientific methods of cognition, as well as methods of legal science – historical-legal, formal-legal and comparative-legal methods. Results. The legal norms of the decree of 1714 are investigated and analyzed; the features and interrelation of the legal norms of the decree of 1714 in the field of civil, inheritance, land law and in relation to the exercise of public ser vice are revealed. Conclusions. The following conclusions are drawn: about the complex nature of the decree of 1714 on monogamy, which consists in the close relationship of the legal norms governing various spheres of public relations; the principle of monogamy introduced by the decree of 1714 was contrary to the traditions of Russian society and everyday life, as a result of which the decree did not bring the expected results.
About the authors
Elena V. Zazolina
Dubna State University
Author for correspondence.
Email: elena_zazolina@mail.ru
Senior lecturer at the Department of Jurisprudence
Russian Federation, 19 Universitetskaya street, Dubna, Moscow Region, 141980References
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