LEGAL REGULATION OF LOTTERIES IN RUSSIA IN XVIII – THE BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURIES Tsakoyev Arthur Akhsarbekovich. position: vice-chairman, associate professor at criminal law chair. place of employment: Supreme Court RSO-Alaniya, Vladikavkaz institute of management, Vladikavkaz. <...> E-mail: age1955@yandex.ru Annotation: In presented article the author analyzes the legislation on lotteries in XVIII – tСe beРinninР oП XX and comes to a conclusion about its rather inconsistent condition. <...> Discrepancy was that, on the one hand, the state, called Пor reduction oП lotteries, paвinР «attention to extremely their harmful value in national life from the moral and economic points oП vieа», and, on tСe otСer Сand, couldn't refuse to itself such easy way of production of money, justifying that the income goes on the charitable purposes. <...> Michnevich V.O. History of gambling in Russia//the HТstorТМКХ ЛuХХОtТЧ. 1901. № (JКЧuКrв, 83tС). 2. <...> About measures to reduction of number of lotteries played in Rossi with the charitable purpose//the GovernЦОЧtКХ ЛuХХОtТЧ. 1870. № 31. 3. <...> TСО sОЧКtorТКХ DОМrОО «AЛout МoЧПТsМКtТoЧ oП tСosО goods which carry on houses for playing lotteries and about organization of merchant shops on force of deМrООs» ПroЦ DОМОЦЛОr, 07tС, 1760//PSГ –I. . 15. <...> NoЦТЧКХ, РТЯОЧ to tСО SОЧКtО, tСО DОМrОО «AЛout playing of last fourth class of the State lottery and about holiday of money from treasury on payment of all won prТгОs» ПroЦ MКrМС, 20tС, 1764//PSГ –I. . 16. <...> Nominal, declared from the Senate, the Decree «AЛout proСТЛТtТoЧ to pХКв ХottОrТОs ТЧ RussТК КЧН to tКkО tТМkОts ТЧ ПorОТРЧ ХottОrТОs» ПroЦ MКrМС, 23rН, 1771//PSГ –I. . 19. <...> The highest confirmed general order to Civil GoverЧors ПroЦ JuЧО, 3rН, 1837//PSГ –II. . 12. <...> The arch about punishments criminal and corrective in edition of 1866 of SPb., 1866. 8. <...> The arch about punishments of criminal and corrective 1885 in edition//the Code of laws of the criminal. <...> The highest confirmed opinion of the State Council «AЛout ЦОКsurОs to rОstrТМtТoЧ oП ЧuЦЛОr oП ХottОrТОs» ПroЦ MКв, 23rН, 1870//–II. . 45. <...> The highest confirmed opinion of the State Council «AЛout ЦОКsurОs to rОНuМtТoЧ oП ЧuЦЛОr oП ХottОrТОs» ПroЦ MКв, 13tС, 1875//–II. . 50 <...>