THE HISTORY OF RUSSIAN CRIMINAL LAW REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD OF LIABILITY FOR THEFT GROUP Kuybeda Dmitry Ivanovich, postgraduate student. <...> Place of study: Kislovodsk Humanitarian and Technical Institute. <...> Email: kislovodsksiti@mail.ru Annotation: As object of research in this article criminal rule of law of the Russian state till 1917, establishing responsibility for group plunders act. <...> The purpose of the real work consists in studying of historical aspects of development of considered criminal and legal institute during the pre-revolutionary period. <...> The methodology of work is presented by a general scientific method of dialectic materialism, and also the system analysis, functional approach, historical and legal and legallistic methods. <...> As a result of the conducted research it is possible to state gradual development and differentiation of criminal liability for com178 mission of the crimes covered by concept of plunder in its modern understanding, and also development of criminal and legal signs of considered acts. <...> Results of research can be used in the course of teaching of historical and legal subject matters, and also at further research of development of the Russian criminal law. <...> Conclusion of research is the statement about compliance of the Russian legislation of the pre-revolutionary period to an appropriate level of development of the economic and political relations in the country, about priority ensuring property interests of dominating sectors of society and about development of the considered criminal and legal institute which is expressing in differentiation of responsibility for various on degrees of public danger of a form of plunder, the partnership made in various forms. <...> Kirilin A.E. Organized groups and criminal organizations as a form of criminal cooperation: diss. . <...> Collection of Laws and orders of the government for 1903. <...> Kuybeda D.I. Public danger of theft committed by a group of individuals / / Journal gaps in Russian law. 2013. <...> Предметом исследования в данной статье выступают уголовно-правовые нормы Российского государства до 1917 г., устанавливающие ответственность за групповые хищения. <...> Цель настоящей работы состоит в изучении исторических аспектов развития рассматриваемого уголовно-правового института в дореволюционный период. <...> В результате проведенного исследования можно констатировать постепенное развитие и дифференциацию уголовной ответственности за совершение преступлений, охватываемых понятием хищения в его современном понимании, а также развитие уголовно-правовых признаков рассматриваемых деяний. <...>