Tomsinov, Vladimir Alekseevich

The research activity of V. A. Tomsinov covers such areas as the history of state and law of foreign countries and Russia, the history of domestic and foreign law, the general history of political and legal doctrines, international law and geopolitics. He was engaged in in-depth studies of the political system and legal order of Ancient Egypt , the jurisprudence of Ancient Rome, the influence of the ancient Roman legal culture on the development of the legal culture of Western Europe. He specifically studied the legal aspects of the English Revolution of 1640-1660. and the “ glorious revolution ” of 1688-1689, the constitutional law of Great Britain. Known for his works on the history of Russian jurisprudence and the development of legal education in the Russian Empire, the history of Russian political and legal thought, the systematization of Russian legislation in the 18th - early 20th centuries, and the series of works on the revolutionary catastrophe of 1917 that appeared in recent years. In Russia .

V. A. Tomsinov is the author of biographies of outstanding statesmen of Russia - M. M. Speransky, A. A. Arakcheev, K. P. Pobedonostsev, Russian jurists and thinkers - I. A. Ilyin, B. N. Chicherin, S. A. Muromtsev, L. A. Kamarovsky, F. F. Kokoshkin, S. A. Kotlyarevsky, P. G. Vinogradov and many others, as well as the Soviet lawyer and statesman A. Ya. Vyshinsky. In books on Count A. A. Arakcheev - “Temporary Worker” (1997, 2013), “Arakcheev” (ZhZL, 2003, 2010) - Tomsinov rehabilitated Count Arakcheev, debunking the myth of him as an “evil genius” of Russia and showing on the basis of archival documents the true nature and scale of his personality, his true role in Russian history as an outstanding statesman, patriot, talented administrator and reformer.

In 2006-2013, Professor V. A. Tomsinov acted as an expert lawyer on the part of the Russian state in the case of the Tsarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich memorial, which was examined by the French judicial authorities. It was a dispute between the state of the Russian Federation, on the one hand, and the Russian Orthodox Religious Association (RPRA), subordinate to the Patriarch of Constantinople, on the other hand, about the ownership of the St. Nicholas Cathedral in Nice with all its contents, as well as on the adjacent land . The system of legal argumentation of the Russian state’s rights to this property developed by V. A. Tomsinov helped Russia win this dispute. See more about this dispute: A. N. Aristov. St. Nicholas Cathedral on the scales of the French Themis (Legislation Journal. 2012. No. 8-12).

V. A. Tomsinov, founder and editor-in-chief of the multi-volume book series “Russian Legal Heritage”, “Great Reforms”, “Great Russian People”. He has published more than 800 scientific and journalistic works, including more than 60 books.

• Speransky (series “The Life of Wonderful People”). M .: Young Guard, 2006 .-- 455 p.
• Arakcheev (series “Life of wonderful people”). M .: Young Guard, 2003, 2010.
• Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev (1827-1907): man, statesman and legal scholar // Pobedonostsev KP Legal works / Edited and with a biographical sketch of V. A. Tomsinov. M .: Mirror, 2012.S. 7-216.
• The thinker with a singing heart: Ivan Aleksandrovich Ilyin - Russian ideologist of the era of revolutions. M., 2012 .-- 192 s. http://tomsinov.com/Articles/Misc/Myslitel_s_poyuschim_serdcem.pdf
• History of Russian political and legal thought. M., 2003 .-- 256 s. http://tomsinov.com/Articles/IPPM/ippm.pdf
• A brief history of Egyptology. M., 2004 .-- 320 s. http://tomsinov.com/Articles/Misc/egypt_history.pdf
• History of the state and law of foreign countries. Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Textbook for seminars. M .: Mirror, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018.
• A reader on the history of state and law of foreign countries. Antiquity and the Middle Ages. M .: Mirror, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2012, 2014.
• A reader on the history of state and law of foreign countries. New and modern time. M .: Zertsalo-M, 2012. 2nd edition, revised. M., 2018 .-- 472 p.
• History of Russian jurisprudence. X — XVII centuries. M .: Zertsalo-M, 2014 .-- 168 p. 2nd edition, revised and enlarged: M .: Zertsalo-M, 2017 .-- 212 p.
• Legal education and jurisprudence in Russia in the 18th century. M .: Zertsalo-M, 2010. 2nd edition: 2012. - 232 p.
• Legal education and jurisprudence in Russia in the first third of the XIX century. M .: Zertsalo-M, 2010, 2011 .-- 280 p.
• Legal education and jurisprudence in Russia in the second third of the XIX century. M .: Zertsalo-M, 2010 .-- 336 p. 2nd ed .: M .: Zertsalo-M, 2015 .-- 352 p.
• Legal education and jurisprudence in Russia in the era of the "great reforms" (60s - early 80s of the XIX century). M .: Zertsalo-M, 2013 .-- 300 p.
• University reform of 1863 in Russia. M., 2012 .-- 480 s. http://tomsinov.com/Great_Reforms/universitetskaja_reforma_1863_goda-2012.pdf
• The constitutional issue in Russia in the 60s - early 80s of the XIX century. M., 2013 .-- 336 s. http://tomsinov.com/Articles/Misc/Myslitel_s_poyuschim_serdcem.pdf
• Russian jurists of the XVIII — XX centuries: essays on life and work. In two volumes. M .: Publishing house "Mirror", 2007. - 1280 p. 2nd Edition, revised. In 3 volumes. M .: Mirror, 2015 .-- 1392 p.
• State and law of Ancient Egypt. M .: Zertsalo-M, 2011, 2017 .-- 512 p.
• “Crimean law”, or the Legal grounds for the reunification of Crimea with Russia. M., 2015 .-- 134 p. http://tomsinov.com/Geopolitika/tomsinov_v.a-krymskoe_pravo.pdf
• Andrei Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky (1883-1954): statesman and lawyer // Journal "Legislation". 2017. No. 8-12. 2018. No. 1-12. 2019.No 1-5.

• Zvyagintsev A. G., Orlov Yu. G. Russian lawyers. M .: Ripol-classic, 2004.S. 455-457.
• Biographical dictionary of professors and teachers of Moscow University. 1755-2005. Volume 2. M .: Publishing house of Moscow University, 2005.P. 510.
• Prominent Russian legal scholars (second half of the 20th century). Encyclopedic Dictionary of Biographies / Ed. V. M. Raw. M .: RAP, 2006.S. 436
• Rubanik V.E. Tomsinov Vladimir Alekseevich // Legal science and the legal ideology of Russia. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Biographies and Autobiographies. Volume 4. 1965—2011 / Res. ed. V. M. Raw. M .: RPMU, 2015.S. 662-664.

• Tomsinov official website
• The official website of the publishing house "Mirror"
• Page on the website of the Law Faculty of Moscow State University named after MV Lomonosov