Polnoe Sobranie Zakonov Rossiiskoi Imperii
The Polnoe Sobranie Zakonov Rossiiskoi Imperii is the richest single source for the legal, political, economic, administrative, and cultural development of Russia from 1649 to 1913. In 1830, Speranskii and his colleagues published 45 volumes containing, in chronological order, the text of more than 30,600 legislative enactments starting with the Ulozhenie of 1649 and ending with the reign of Alexander I on December 11, 1825. The second series, embracing the reigns of Nicholas I and Alexander II (1825-1881) takes up 55 volumes; the third comprises 33 volumes for the period March 1881 to 1913, when publication was terminated.
