Abstract
This article is concerned with the historical continuity of such criminal law institutions as crime and punishment with due regard to changing views on components of crime and the imposition of penalty. The authors have conducted a comparative-legal analysis of the sources of criminal law in Russia, considered the influence of the Greco-Roman, Byzantine, Germanic law on the Old Russian law and substantiated its originality. The stages of committing a crime and their role in choosing a certain penalty are discussed in the following documents: the Russian Truth, the Council Code of 1649, the Military Articles of 1715, the Code of Civil Laws of the Russian Empire of 1832, the Criminal and Correctional Punishments Code of 1845, the Charter of Punishments Imposed by Magistrates of 1864, the Criminal Code of 1903 and the Criminal Code of the RSFSR of 1926.
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