Russian Federation, From the Civil Code. November 11, 1922
Article 416: Inheritance by legal and testamentary succession is admitted, in conformity with the articles set out below, subject to the total value of the estate not exceeding 10,000 rubles in gold after deduction of the debts of the deceased.
Article 418: The persons entitled to succeed, under the conditions indicated in Article 416, are limited to direct descendants (children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren) and to the surviving spouse, but may include destitute or incapacitated persons who were being wholly maintained by the deceased for a period not less than one year before his decease.
Note: Only persons alive at the time of the death of the deceased and children conceived during his lifetime but born posthumously are entitled to succession.
Article 419: Legal succession, within the limits set by article 416, is effected wherever and in so far as it is not affected by a testament.
Article 420: In cases of legal succession, the inheritance is shared out in equal parts per capita among all the persons indicated in article 418.
Article 421: Of the persons indicated in Article 418, those who lived with the deceased shall receive the property connected with the equipment and daily requirements of the household, exclusive of luxury goods, without these articles being included in the maximum sum set down in article 416.
Article 422: As a testament shall be regarded the dispositions made in view of death by a person in writing, whether with intent to leave property to one or more specified persons from among those mentioned in article 418, or to share out this property among several or all of these persons in a manner differing from that provided for in article 420.
Source: Rudolf Schlesinger, ed., Changing attitudes in Soviet Russia; the Family in the USSR (London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1949), pp. 43-44.