Three-volume edition of "Antiquities of Russian Law" (original name - "Russian Legal Antiquities")created by the largest and brightest representative of the historical and legal direction in Russian historical science B.I. Sergeevich (1832-1910), in scientific terms, is not only not inferior, but, on the contrary, in many respects surpasses the works on the history of Russia-Russia, written by such famous researchers of the second half of the XIX - early XX centuries as C.M. Solovyov, V.O. Klyuchevsky, N.P. Pavlov-Silvansky, S.F. Platonov, M.K. Lyubavsky and others. The work of V.I. Sergeevich is devoted not only to the development of Russian law. It gives a holistic history of Russia-Russia, from the emergence of class society and the state to the 17th century.