Whose Law Was It? — Kyivan Rus in Six Chains, Part 4
Russkaya Pravda, the Lithuanian Statutes and Moscow's Sudebniks: which legal line kept older Rus' law alive. 7 pages. Part 4 of 7 in Kyivan Rus in Six Chains.
Codes survive as texts, with dates and named rulers, so law resists vague claims better than some other chains.
Russkaya Pravda has no direct line into Moscow's own codes. It survived in northern manuscript collections and fed into the Lithuanian Statutes of 1529, 1566 and 1588, written in the Ruthenian chancery language and used across Ukrainian and Belarusian lands, in part until 1840. Moscow built a separate line: the Sudebniks of 1497 and 1550 and the Ulozheniye of 1649. Serfdom turns out not to separate the lines.
WHAT YOU GET
- 7 pages, PDF, in your choice of edition: English, Ukrainian, or both (same price), with four illustrations
- Russkaya Pravda, the Statutes, the Hetmanate's 1743 Code of Laws and Moscow's codes
- A status-labelled timeline from the thirteenth century to 1840
- A "three peoples, one chain" comparison
- Where historians disagree; what we checked and what we did not; sources and further reading
FILE FORMAT: PDF
DOWNLOAD: PDF, one file per edition.
LICENSE
Personal use only. Please do not redistribute or resell.
ABOUT THE GUIDE
AI-assisted. Checked against reference sources. Not a scholarly monograph.
Part 0 is free: payhip.com/b/RkbVK
Part 1, "Who Was Really Called 'Rus'?": payhip.com/b/Y1nE7
Part 2, "Who Ruled After Kyiv Fell?": payhip.com/b/SZQ8z
Part 3, "Who Kept the Church of Kyiv?": payhip.com/b/lFL9t
Publisher: Ukraine Eternal
