SOCIAL AND CULTURAL-HISTORICAL FACTORS OF ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF FAMILY LAW IN THE ANCIENT RUSSIAN STATE
The article is devoted to the study of social and cultural-historical sources of the legal regulation of family and marriage relations in Russia. The author analyzes the complex of factors and prerequisites for the formation of the foundations of family law in the historical space of the ancient Russian state in the X-XII centuries. An assessment is given of the degree of influence and role in this process of traditions and beliefs of the 124 pagan era, the reception of Byzantine canon law, and the princes' own legislation. The author concludes that the regulatory system that has arisen as a result of the Christianization of Russia and the synthesis of the original national principles with the borrowed norms of Church-Byzantine law is hybrid. This circumstance predetermined the specifics of the further development of family law in Russia.