Abstract: The object of the study is such a concept as "landscaping", as well as its constituent elements at different stages of the development of the Russian state. In each of the periods of Russian history, the legislator determined in his own way what landscaping is, what measures to create a comfortable space for people's lives should be fixed in existing regulations, which bodies and organizations should be given powers of control and supervision in the sphere of public life in question, what specific powers (their nature and scope), as well as which sanctions for violations of the established requirements will be most commensurate with what has been done. In this regard, the interpretation of the concept of "landscaping", the selection of a definition that would be universal for all periods of the development of Russian statehood, is a controversial issue in modern science. Both general scientific and private scientific research methods were used in the preparation of the work. Thus, among the general scientific methods, analysis and synthesis were most widely used. Among the private scientific methods, the historical method is of key importance, since the subject of the study involves the study of different periods of the history of the Russian state, as well as the analysis of historical documents of the corresponding eras. In the course of the study, based on legislative acts of different eras, the constituent elements of the concept of "landscaping" inherent in a particular time are determined and a conclusion is formulated about the direct continuity of the development of this concept. As a result of the research, the author comes to the conclusion that in the early stages of the development of the Russian state, the era of Peter the Great is the most significant in the context of the development of landscaping as an object of administrative and legal protection. It was during this period that the elements of landscaping were isolated and legislatively fixed, as an activity that is provided by the state, administrative responsibility for many violations of the requirements for external landscaping of Russian cities was introduced for the first time, and the main vectors of further development in this area were laid and determined.