Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Russkaya Pravda (Old East Slavic: , Pravda Rus''kaya (XIII century, 1280 years), , Pravda Rus''kaya (second half of the XV-th century); Russian: , Russkaya Pravda; Ukrainian: , Rus''ka Pravda) was the legal code of Kievan Rus and the subsequent Rus'' principalities during the times of feudal division. While it shares a number of features with contemporary Germanic codifications (e.g., the Salic law), it is also distinguished by many peculiarities, such as the absence of capital punishment. Three recensions of "RP" are known: the Short Edition (Kratkaya), the Vast Edition (Prostrannaya), and the Abridged Edition (Sokrashchennaya). Over 110 extant copies dating from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries are preserved, included in various manuscripts: chronicles and compilations. Of these, over 100 copies, including the oldest preserved, are of the Vast Edition.