Russian pre-revolutionary scientists on the Constitutional monarchical form of Government in Russia

Background. Relevance of the chosen topic is conditioned mainly due to the in-creased interest of society and scientists to Russian history in general and to the history of Russian law in particular. This creates a real opportunity to identify effective solutions, institutions of the past, proven by time and practice, for their application and use in modern reality with appropriate correction. The purpose of the study is to characterize the form of government created during the first bourgeois-democratic revolution of 1905–1907 in our country, there are controversial issues on this issue, to present our point of view. In this regard, a wide range of issues that were at the center of attention of the scientific world at that time and remain relevant today are analyzed. This is the concept of a form of govern-ment; monarchy (limited, dualistic); the essence of constitutional monarchy; the Russian form of constitutional monarchy; the main features of the constitutional monarchy in Russia are the existence of the all-Russian constitution (the Main State Laws of 1906) and the crea-tion and functioning of the peopleʼs representative office – Parliament, the State Duma. Two main conclusions on the topic are presented, which were and are important both in theoretical and practical terms and are particularly controversial. Firstly, in Russia, during the reforms of 1905–1907, a constitutional monarchy was established. It was backward and had significant drawbacks, deviations from the classical model. However, conditions have been created to eliminate them. But that didnʼt happen. On the contrary, decisions were made that indicated a return to absolutism. Secondly, the Main state Laws of 1906 are the first all-Russian constitution. Three main scientific methods were used in the preparation of the article: dogmatic, historical, and comparative.