Gavrila Derzhavin. Mikhail Speransky. The faces of law in the Russian Empire

Gavrila Derzhavin. "Singer of Felitsa", a comprehensively gifted person of the Enlightenment. If the poet, then the genius of Russian classicism, if the statesman, then the forerunner of legal science in the Russian Empire and ascetic of the norms of the rule of law. He is remembered, considering the work of A. S. Pushkin, who admired Derzhavin, but all his activities and personal life can be rightfully considered a brilliant ode. Mikhail Speransky. Count Mikhail Mikhailovich Speransky had a lot to be a “genius of good” (A. S. Pushkin) in autocratic Russia. The author of the “Code of Laws” in 15 volumes and the innovative reform plan (“Introduction to the Condition of State Laws”), the ancestor of Russian legal science, the exiled and disgraced adviser of the emperors. Enormous energy and tireless thirst for activity, reformation balanced with the modest and ascetic personal life of Speransky.