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Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev Константин Петрович Победоносцев The 'Grand Inquisitor' who made autocracy a creed Ideology and propaganda · Russian Empire state institutions 1827–1907
Sergei Andreevich Muromtsev Сергей Андреевич Муромцев The Roman law scholar and Kadet leader who chaired Russia's first constitutional parliament Political and party leadership · Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 1850–1910
Sergey Yefimovich Kryzhanovsky Сергей Ефимович Крыжановский The Empire's legal architect who tamed the Duma with the "shameless" electoral law of 1907 Law and justice · Russian Empire state institutions 1862–1935
Alexander Nikolayevich Vinokurov Александр Николаевич Винокуров The Bolshevik physician who built the USSR Supreme Court and led it for fourteen years Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1869–1944
Nikolai Dmitrievich Sokolov Николай Дмитриевич Соколов Secretary of the Petrograd Soviet Executive Committee and the lawyer who drafted Order No. 1 Law and justice 1870–1928
Pyotr Ananyevich Krasikov Пётр Ананьевич Красиков First Procurator General of the USSR and architect of revolutionary legality Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1870–1939
Pavel Nikolaevich Pereverzev Павел Николаевич Переверзев A lawyer who crossed the boundary between law and politics in revolution Law and justice · Russian Provisional Government state institutions 1871–1944
Dmitry Ivanovich Kursky Дмитрий Иванович Курский Architect of revolutionary legality and the first Soviet People's Commissar of Justice and Prosecutor General Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1874–1932
Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin Иван Александрович Ильин Hegelian legal philosopher who deemed October a 'national catastrophe' and became a White émigré ideologue Law and justice 1883–1954
Vladimir Pavlovich Antonov-Saratovsky Владимир Павлович Антонов-Саратовский Bolshevik jurist who joined the party in 1902 and became an architect of Soviet legislation Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1965
Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko Николай Васильевич Крыленко Architect of revolutionary legal consciousness, consumed by the Great Terror Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1885–1938
Maxim Maximilianovich Filonenko Максимилиан Максимилианович Филоненко The Socialist Revolutionary official who pressed the revolutionary government toward coercive order Law and justice · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1885–1960
Georgy Ippolitovich Lomov Георгий Ипполитович Оппоков First People's Commissar for Justice, Gosplan deputy chairman, and victim of the Great Purge Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1937
Ivan Alekseyevich Akulov Иван Алексеевич Акулов Founder of the Soviet Procuracy, caught between state security and socialist legality Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1937
Ivan Terentyevich Golyakov Иван Терентьевич Голяков Chairman of the USSR Supreme Court through the Great Terror and war Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1961
Nikolai Vasilyevich Ustryalov Николай Васильевич Устрялов Founder of National Bolshevism, the exile who saw the Bolsheviks turning into Russian state-builders Law and justice · Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 1890–1937
Evgeny Bronislavovich Pashukanis Евгений Брониславович Пашуканис The Marxist legal philosopher who argued the legal form corresponds to commodity exchange: the most radical critic of Soviet law from within Law and justice · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1891–1937
Yevgeny Alexandrovich Korovin Евгений Александрович Коровин Founder of Soviet international law theory who conceptualized a distinct international law for the transitional period Law and justice 1892–1964
Iona Timofeievich Nikitchenko Иона Тимофеевич Никитченко Soviet judge at the Nuremberg IMT, death-sentence arbiter of the Great Purge Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1967
Nikolai Mikhailovich Rychkov Николай Михайлович Рычков The justice commissar without a law degree who ran Soviet courts for a decade, from the Great Terror through the war-crimes trials Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1897–1959
Alexander Fyodorovich Gorkin Александр Фёдорович Горкин The Supreme Court chairman of rehabilitation who survived Orenburg Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1897–1988
Anatoly Antonovich Volin Анатолий Антонович Волин The Supreme Court chairman who purged judges and was removed for rehabilitation measures Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1903–2007
Grigory Nikolayevich Safonov Григорий Николаевич Сафонов USSR Prosecutor General who served at Nuremberg and was removed for refusing to sanction Beria's arrest Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1904–1972
Konstantin Petrovich Gorshenin Константин Петрович Горшенин The USSR's first Prosecutor General who organized war crimes trials and handed Khrushchev the statistics of the Great Terror Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1907–1978
Lev Nikolayevich Smirnov Лев Николаевич Смирнов From Nuremberg assistant prosecutor to chief justice of the USSR, the Supreme Court chairman who presided over political trials Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1911–1986
Vladimir Ivanovich Terebilov Владимир Иванович Теребилов Jurist who revived the abolished Justice Ministry and directed the codification of Soviet legislation Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1916–2004
Alexander Mikhailovich Rekunkov Александр Михайлович Рекунков Soviet Procurator General who served from Brezhnev to Gorbachev and personally delivered Sakharov's exile decree Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1920–1996
Alexander Yakovlevich Sukharev Александр Яковлевич Сухарев The last reform-era Procurator General of the USSR, who oversaw the legal rehabilitation of Stalin's victims during perestroika Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–2021
Anatoly Ivanovich Lukyanov Анатолий Иванович Лукьянов Gorbachev's classmate turned critic: the last speaker of the Soviet parliament Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1930–2019
Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak Анатолий Александрович Собчак Constitutional Assembly chairman and first elected mayor of Saint Petersburg Government and administration · Russian Federation state institutions 1937–2000
Alexander Filippovich Katusev Александр Филиппович Катусев The Deputy Prosecutor General whose TV broadcast lit the fuse of the Sumgait pogrom Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1939–2000