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LAW SOCIETY of Petersburg University, scientific society. Founded in 1877 to study issues of law and legal procedure, it initially had two departments, civil and criminal, with an administrative department and common law department added in 1878 and 1897, respectively. Among founding members were the most prominent lawyers including I. E. Andreevsky, A. F. Koni, V. D. Spasovich, and I. Y. Foinitsky. Its principal activity was to hold commissions in order to discuss separate issues of law or major items of legislation. The society published a journal with changing names in 1894-1914. It was disbanded after the October of 1917.

Reference: Юридическое общество при Имп. С.-Петербургском университете за двадцать пять лет (1877-1902). СПб., 1902.

O. N. Ansberg.

Persons

Andreevsky Ivan Efimovich
Foinitsky Ivan Yakovlevich
Koni Anatoly Fedorovich
Spasovich Vladimir Danilovich

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Юридическое общество при Имп. С.-Петербургском университете за двадцать пять лет (1877-1902). СПб., 1902

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Koni A.F. (1844-1927), lawyer, public figure KONI Anatoly Fedorovich (1844, St Petersburg 1927, Leningrad), lawyer, statesman, man of letters, Actual Privy Counsellor (1910); Doctor of Law (1890), Honorary Member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1900)

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Kuzmin-Karavaev V.D. (1859-1927), public figure KUZMIN-KARAVAEV Vladimir Dmitrievich (1859-1927) was a public and political figure, lawyer, publicist, Major General (1901). On graduating from the Corps of Pages (1878) he served in Guards' Mounted-Artillery Brigade

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Polovtsov А.А. (1832-1909) statesman, entrepreneur POLOVTSOV Alexander Alexandrovich (1832, estate in Rapti Luzhsky Uyezd, St. Petersburg Province - 1909, same place), statesman, entrepreneur, patron of arts, Actual Privy Counsellor (1885), Secretary of State (1883)

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