Ministry of Justice of the Russian Empire

Ministry of Justice — one of the Russian Empire's central public institutions.

Established on 8 September 1802. The Ministry was headed by the Minister (who was at the same time Senate Procurator General)

Structure

• A Board of Consultation for the cases brought from the Senate before the Minister of Justice as Procurator General.
• First Department.
• Second Department.
• The Office of Surveys and the Surveying Institute. (since 1870)
• Imperial School of Jurisprudence.
• Moscow Archives of the Ministry of Justice.
• The Council on Prison Affairs and the Chief Prisons Office. (since 1895, transferred from Ministry of Interior)

See also

• List of Justice Ministers of Imperial Russia

Sources

• Statesman handbook for Russia. 1896.
• Encyclopedia of St. Petersburg