Pskov Judicial Charter

[2] It, along with the Novgorod Judicial Charter, was an important source for the Sudebnik of 1497 under Ivan III, the first collection of laws of the unified state.

[9]Although the preamble refers to the year 6905 in the Byzantine calendar (1396/1397), there were only two cathedral districts in Pskov at the time, while the fifth sobor was introduced in 1462 and the sixth in 1471, which suggests an enactment date somewhere between 1462 and 1471.

[13] Despite this, Pskov was a borough (prigorod) of Novgorod at the time of Aleksandr Nevsky's reign, and the grand prince of Moscow, Ivan III, refused to confirm the charters presented by the Pskovian ambassadors in 1474 due to them not being issued by the grand princes themselves; therefore, it is unlikely that Ivan would have denied the title to his direct paternal ancestor.

[1] Several scholars have also noted the similarities between the Charter and the Russkaya Pravda, which is in the terminology and common legal institutions rather than direct borrowings.

[1] Lev Cherepnin [ru] says that the Pskov Judicial Charter was edited in Moscow during 1484–1486 as part of the codification programme of Ivan III, and he believes that the surviving copy of the full text is based on this revision.