This manual includes a political and social overview of the history of the Russian people. Moreover, only one aspect was chosen: the state and law. In other words, the history of Russian statehood. The purpose of the work is to show how domestic traditions were formed, the structures, institutions and mechanisms of state power and political activity evolved as the Russian state became, what legal acts supported this, how the state took the form that we have today. It is difficult to answer this question without analyzing the general history of the state, therefore, some attention is paid to the state's foreign and domestic policy and topics. who stood at the head of it at that and another stage of historical development.