Through Dialogue with the Past to Finding the Future: Some Aspects of Gavriil V. Derzhavin’s Legacy for the Development of Modern Russian Jurisprudence

The paper provides an expanded version of the theses of the author’s report delivered at the scientific and educational conference «Your duty is to preserve the laws … " dedicated to the 280th anniversary of Gavriil Romanovich Derzhavin held at the Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL) on July 5, 2023. The paper deals with the issues of understanding of law as the initial category of jurisprudence in Derzhavin’s ideological and creative semantic space and understanding of the Constitution, bearing in mind G. R. Derzhavin participation in the formation of the project-doctrinal origins of Russian constitutionalism. The author focuses on ideological and spiritual legacy of G. R. Derzhavin directly reflected in his state-political and literary-creative biography. The author, relying on the concept of constitutional dialogue with the past put forward by Derzhavin, reveals a comprehensive creative potential of Derzhavin’s philosophy of state-legal life for the formation of value-semantic, pedagogical and institutional foundations of a nationally oriented constitutional model of the development of sovereign Russian statehood in modern conditions.

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