Keyword: «morality and law»

The article pays attention to the development of G.R. Derzhavin's ideas about fair social order and their value for the modern period. The content of his poems is used, the ideas expressed in which are consonant with the issues that are solved in the process of improving the legislation and prac-tice: the responsibility of officials for the fulfillment of their duties, the equality of all before the law regardless of social status, the protection and support of the poor. The connection between the ideas of G.R. Derzhavin and other thinkers who created in the subsequent period is reflected.