THE THEORY OF THE PATRIMONIAL STATE IN THE SOCIAL THOUGHT OF PETER THE GRATE's TIME

Abstract

The theory of the patrimonial state is based on the idea of the Moscow state as a grand-ducal and tsarist patrimony. V. O. Kluchevsky emphasized that the Time of Troubles (Smuta) called into question these ideas, since the existence of the state was not stopped with the suppression of the dynasty. The historian-lowyer G. G. Telberg emphasized that the absence in the Code of 1649 of the article on crimes against tsar relatives testifies to the obsolescence of the concept of the patrimonial state in Russian society. However sources dating back to the time of Peter the Grate indicate that in the minds of people of modern Russia the idea of the patrimonial state was preserved. This is evident from the legislation, from the writings of F. Prokopovich, V. N. Tatishchev, I. T. Pososhkov. At the same time F. Prokopovich and V. N. Tatishchev used arguments in the spirit of modern rationalism to justify it.