The political power and the law in social consciousness of Byzantium and Ancient Russia
The article is devoted to the investigation of the psychological perception of the political power and the law in Ancient Russia and Byzantine Empire. Based on the evidence of contemporaries and historians the author concludes that the two nations had ideas of the value of the political liberty and the right. State power in the Byzantium and in Ancient Russia was not tyrannical, but it was understood as responsible for the management results. The two countries, disparate in terms of its political development, were similar in understanding the phenomena of power and law, and it was the understanding of the European type.