RESTRICTION OF THE RIGHTS AND CAPACITY FOREIGN MERCHANTS IN THE RUSSIAN LEGISLATION OF THE XVIII CENTURY Falin Nikolay Alekseevich, postgraduate student. <...> E-mail: Prowlergt40inza@yandex.ru Annotation: In article questions of legal regulation of a domestic and foreign trade policy of the state are considered and also features of legal status of foreign merchants in Russia the first third of XVIII century are considered. <...> Literature list: Kostomarov N.I. Essay on Trade of the Moscow State in XVI and XVII c. St.Petersburg, 1862. 301 page. <...> Kulisher I.M. The history of Russian trade and industry./drafted A.V. Kuryaev. - Chelyabinsk: Socium, 2003. 557+ix page. <...> Complete Collection of Laws of the Russian Empire. <...> Semenov A. The study of historical information about Russian foreign trade and industry with half of the XVII-th century to 1858. <...> Chulkov M.D. Istoricheskoe opisanie rossiiskoy kommercii pri vseh portah i granicah ot drevnih vremen do nine nastoyashego i vseh preimushestvennuh uzakonenii po onoi gosudarya imperatora Petra Velikogo i nine blagopoluchno carstvuyushei gosudarini imperatrici Ekaterini Velikoi. <...> В статье рассмотрены вопросы правового регулирования внутренней и внешней торговой политики государства, а также рассмотрены особенности правового статуса иностранных купцов в России первой трети XVIII в! <...>