The grand instructions to the commissioners appointed to frame a new code of laws for the Russian Empire
Subtitle: composed by Her Imperial Majesty Catherine II. Empress of all the Russias. To which is prefixed, a description of the manner of opening the commission, with the order and rules for electing the commissioners. Translated from the original, in the Russian language, by Michael Tatischeff, ...
Publisher: printed for T. Jefferys
Published: 1768
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 258
Work titles: Instruction de Sa Majesté Impériale Catherine II, pour la commission chargée de dresser le projet d'un nouveau code de loix.
Notes: Largely compiled and adapted by Catherine personally from Montesquieu's 'De l'esprit des loix', Beccaria's 'Traité des délits et des peines', and several other sources.

This work apparently was first written almost entirely in French, and published in a Russian translation in 1767. The present edition is a translation of the German text entitled in the bilingual edition of 1767 'Jhrer Kaiserlichen Majestät Catharinae II Instruction für die zu Verfertigung des Entwurfs zu einem neuen Gesets-Buche verordnete Commission'.

Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1991. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 4638, no. 17).