[Polizeistaat and police against pestilence: Russian authorities and law in the fight against the threat of epidemics in the 1st third of the 18th century].

The beginning of the 18th century in the history of the Russian state and society was marked by the beginning of large-scale transformations initiated by Peter I. As a result of these reforms, the patriarchal Moscow kingdom turned into a "regular" Russian empire, the political, legal and administrative structure of which differed significantly from what it was before. It is no coincidence that Peter is often referred to as a «revolutionary on the throne.

["Whether the Lord putted Moscow and neighbouring cities empty?": Moscow pest of 1654].

The first ten years of the reign of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich were distinguished by extreme turbulence. The unsuccessful actions of the "government" of the boyar Morozov provoked chain of city riots which reached their apogee in famous "Salt Riot" in the capital. After that, religious feuding began that in near future resulted in the Schism.

[HOMEOSTASIS AS A TOOL FOR STUDYING TECHNOLOGICAL IMPACTS ON HUMAN HEALTH].

The analysis of homeostasis as a tool for restraining, saving, security and rehabilitation technologies which ensures the sustainable functioning of the human organism through the cultivation of health-saving and rehabilitation technologies, as well as health programs, preventive (anti-alcohol, anti-nicotine, drug addicts) and recreational activities, upbringing of health culture and also environmental, medical treatment practices and correctional technologies. The cyclic mechanism of homeostasis is described, which works on the principle of alternating modes of behavior of the social system - structures for generating order and structures for maintaining order. The functioning stability of the human organism is relative and has the nature of a dynamic balance, fluctuating around a certain average value and constantly deviating from it either in the direction of positive, strengthening changes, or in the direction of negative and destructive ones.

[The "Nastas'in Pestilence": the Great Plague of 1417-1425 in Rus].

The plague pandemic ("The Black Death") that struck Eurasia in the middle of XIV century, "settled" this lethal disease in Europe for a long time. The new outbreaks of this disease, with breaks of several years, occurred in single cities, regions and states, covering sometimes entire continent over the next centuries. However, impression that "The Black Death" made upon minds of European scribes, staggering European society by its inevitability, for a long time determined particular angle of view under which it is accepted to consider the history of plague in Europe in the epoch of Middle Ages and early New Age.