LEGAL REGULATION OF MOTHER AND CHILD WELFARE IN THE REIGN OF PETER THE FIRST
The article touches on the problems of the formation of the state policy of mother and child welfare and its legal coverage in the Russian Empire in the period of the governing of the emperor Peter the Great. The author analyzes the appropriate legislation of the investigated period. The article presents normative documents, which the researcher for the first time introduces into academic use. It’s worth mentioning that the paper analyzes legal sources that entrenched mother and child welfare at the state level, and this fact influenced cardinally the formation of the home policy of the Russian Empire in subsequent reigns.