Criminal and military-criminal legislation in the creative heritage of P.S. Romashkin

Abstract

Pyotr Semyonovich Romashkin (1915 - 1975) – Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Law, Professor; in 1958 - 1964 he headed the Institute of State and Law of the USSR Academy of Sciences, after 1964 he headed the Sector of General Problems of Criminal Law of the Institute. Author of a number of works on Criminal and International Criminal Law. The article analyzes his monograph “The main principles of the criminal and military criminal legislation of Peter the Great” (Moscow, 1947) - the first and, unfortunately, the last in the Soviet and post-Soviet criminal law literature study of the legislation of the Peter the Great era. The general issues of the Criminal and Military Criminal Law of Peter the Great are considered, its difference from both the previous criminal legislation and the Cathedral Code of 1649, which operated along with the military Articles of 1715. The author’s views on the crime and punishment reflected in the imperial acts, his assessment of the scope of these Articles, types of punishments and, in particular, the death penalty are investigated. P.S. Romashkin expressed his own point of view on a number of issues, therefore, the work of pre-revolutionary criminologists on both Criminal and Military Criminal Law is widely used in the article.