The Great Charter. Its history and publication

Abstract

The article is referred to the Great Charter, circumstances of its adoption and history . In addition, this article analyses issues of studying the document and in England and Russia for last 100 years. The first-ever in Russia the Charter was studied, translated and published in Russian language by D.M. Petrushevsky. Studies of the Magna Charta and documents, connected with it, are based on materials, kept in the personal fund of D.M. Petrushevsky in Russian Academy of science archive. The other sources are comments of Petrushevsky referred to the first publications The Great Charter, written by Petrushevsky himself.