M. : Mirror, 2003. — 256 s. — ISBN 5-8078-095-8 . The book examines the development in Russian society during the X-XVIII centuries of teachings about the Russian state, its character and purpose, views on the supreme state power, its essence and functions, ideas about the law and proper law and order. Particular attention is paid to the content of the official political ideology of the Russian state at various stages of its historical evolution and, in particular, the doctrines of the supreme state power that formed its core. The basis of the book is the material of the original texts of Russian chronicles, legal monuments, legislative acts, works of Russian thinkers of the X-XVIII centuries. Author of the book - Professor of the Department of State History and Law of the Moscow State University . M. In. Lomonosov Vladimir Alekseevich Tomsinov - assigns it to students and teachers of law, historical and philosophical faculties of universities, as well as to all those who are interested in the history of Russian political and legal ideology