ANCIENT TMUTARAKAN IN PRE-SOVIET HISTORICAL AND LEGAL HISTORIOGRAPHY

Abstract

In the Russian historical and legal science at the present stage, many topical issues remain unresolved, including those concerning the origin of the state and law on the territory of modern Russia. The purpose of this work is to study the historical and legal historiography of Tmutarakan, an administrative-territorial formation of the period of Ancient Russia (X- XI centuries). The author sets the following tasks: 1) analysis of the historical and legal historiography of Tmutarakan; 2) identification of gaps that have not been eliminated at the present stage; 3) search for ways to solve problems, fill in gaps and characterize the prospects for further research of the issue. In conclusion , the author of the work comes to the conclusions: 1) there is practically no pre-Soviet historical and legal historiography of Tmutarakan. This is partly due to the difficulties of geographical definition of this territory, difficulties in finding sources and insufficient development of archaeological science; 2) there is a need to create and develop a legal archeology

Keywords

• tmutarakan
• ancient rus
• state
• society
• law