29 January 1649Law CodeAlexis I Mikhailovich
The Zemsky Sobor adopts the Sobornoye Ulozheniye, the great law code of Muscovite Russia
Historical records for Russia in 1649, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
The Zemsky Sobor adopts the Sobornoye Ulozheniye, the great law code of Muscovite Russia
The Ulozheniye legally binds peasants more tightly to landowners and helps define hereditary serf status
Works as a scribe on the 1649 law code commission
Works as a scribe on the compilation of the Sobornoye Ulozheniye
Heads the special commission that drafts the Sobornoye Ulozheniye for the Zemsky Sobor
Serves on the commission preparing the new Russian law code under Tsar Alexis I
Serves on the drafting commission for the Sobornoye Ulozheniye of 1649
Copies of the Sobornoye Ulozheniye are issued to Moscow government offices as a guide to law and administration
The patriarch and consecrated clergy take part in the upper house of the Zemsky Sobor that approves the code
After the Moscow uprising and the 1649 assembly, Morozov loses his dominant place as court favourite
Promulgates the Soborn Ulozheniye, a code of laws for legitimizing serfdom. New Law Code, Sobornoe ulozhenie
Parliament produces the Code of Law, Ulozhenie, to redress widespread discontent
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