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Ancient and modern

The rise and fall of the Tsarist legal system

16 April 2022

9:00 AM

16 April 2022

9:00 AM

St. Petersburg University in Russia is (desperately?) inviting scholars worldwide to a conference in September celebrating Mikhail Speransky. It was he who, on the orders of the Russian emperor Nicholas I, published in 1830 a 45-volume compilation of all the laws of the Russian Empire, which he reduced to a 15-volume digest by 1839.

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