La caduta dell’Impero zarista e le conseguenze giuridiche ed economiche per la famiglia imperiale russa

Abstract

“The October Revolution and its legal and economic consequences for the Russian imperial family” - The article places emphasis on the peculiar patrimonial and sacral conception that linked the Tsar and the imperial family to the Russian Empire. A concept that has its roots in the Byzantine-Orthodox "imperial-territorial" vision and which remained almost unchanged until 1917. This vision not only did not allow incisive limits to be placed on the autocratic power of the Tsar, not even with the "Constitution" of 1906, but also to reform the rules relating to assets owned by the Crown and those personally owned by members of the imperial family by establishing a clear distinction. However, it remains to be noted that to date, no claim has been made by the descendants of the imperial family on the privately owned assets of the Romanov family confiscated by the Soviet regime.

Keywords: Russian Empire; Tsar’s autocratic power; Imperial Civil Code; Statute of the Russian Imperial family; Private property of members of the Imperial family