Vasily Vladimirovich Efimov

(1857 - 1902). He graduated from St. Petersburg University, defended his master's thesis "Essays on the history of ancient Roman kinship and inheritance" (1885) and doctorate: "feasible liability of the debtor" (1888). He was the first - and so far only - professor, has acquired a doctorate in civil law and occupied the chair of Roman law without a trip to foreign universities. Belonging to the new historical school, . Representatives who have sought not only to restore the facts of the past, . but also to find the link between legal institutions and the general way of life and the idea of the time and the people, . Efimov in their studies tried to apply this method, but he is hardly able,
. He attributed the idea of modern era that not only did not know them, but they could not know them, is often desirable to take a really existed. Yefimov belong to another: "Lectures on the History of Roman Law" (1892), "The dogma of Roman Law" (1901) and articles, "The Muslim Marriage" ( "History of the Civil and Criminal Law", . 1883) and "Inheritance in the legacies of the Romans" ( "Legal Chronicle, . 1890).,