Проанализированы внешние условия формирования Русского централизованного государства в XIV–XV вв., их влияние на возникновение государственных институтов в формах, которые оказались закреплены исторической традицией.

The article analyzes the external and internal conditions of the formation of the Russian centralized state in the 14th-15th centuries and the impact on them of the development of church changes in connection with the formation of the Russian Church as an independent institution, its transition to autocephaly and the formation of its own socio–political doctrine within the framework of the principles of the symphony of power and governance.