Published: 15 July 2014
The article is devoted to the analysis of the norms providing responsibility for commission of the outrage upon bodies of the dead and places of their burial in the Russian criminal law. During the author’s research the unique lines inherent in the secular and church legislation of the period of the XI-XVI centuries regarding the regulation of responsibility for commission of the acts, connected with the violation of bodies of the dead and places of their burial were revealed. The author comes to a conclusion that at the first stage of historical development the specified norm didn't gain distribution within the secular legislation, however, was provided by an ecclesiastical law. The attention to that the norms of an ecclesiastical law had a great impact at the initial stage on the development of domestic legislation concerning the crimes connected with the violation of bodies of the dead and places of their burial is paid.