The grand instructions to the commissioners appointed [1767] to frame a new code of laws for the Russian Empire :
composed by Her Imperial Majesty Catherine II. Empress of all the Russias. To which is prefixed, a description of the manner of opening the commission, with the order and rules for electing the commissioners. Translated from the original, in the Russian language, by Michael Tatischeff, ...
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printed for T. Jefferys,
1768.
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| Notes: | This work apparently was first written almost entirely in French, and published in a Russian translation in 1767. The present edition is a translation of the German text entitled in the bilingual edition of 1767 'Jhrer Kaiserlichen Majestät Catharinae II Instruction für die zu Verfertigung des Entwurfs zu einem neuen Gesets-Buche verordnete Commission'. Largely compiled and adapted by Catherine personally from Montesquieu's 'De l'esprit des loix', Beccaria's 'Traité des délits et des peines', and several other sources. Physical description: xxiii,[1],3-258 p. ; 4to more |