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MUROMTSEV SERGEY ANDREEVICH

- a famous lawyer and politician.

Short biography: was born in 1850 in St. Petersburg, an ancient noble family, studied at the 3rd Moscow Gymnasium and Moscow University, listened to Göttingen Ieringa. On the defense of the master's thesis ("On conservatism in Roman jurisprudence," M., 1875) was elected assistant professor of Roman law, as the successor to NI Krylov. After receiving his doctorate in 1877 (for his thesis: "Essays on the general theory of civil law." Moscow, 1876) was elected professor at the same department. In 1884, he was forced to leave the university. Entering the class of jurors, Muromtsev continued his journalistic activity, despite the difficulty of censorship. In 1885 and 1886 years. He led in the "Bulletin of Europe" a special department "Letters from Moscow." "Legal Journal", he edited until the closure of it, by order of the administration, in 1892. In 1899, the Legal Society was closed. In 1897, Mr .. took part in zemstvo and city self-government. As a vowel of the Moscow City Duma, he was the main leader of political speeches. In November 1904 he took part in the famous congress of zemstvo figures and was one of the leaders of his majority. With the establishment in October 1905 of a constitutional-democratic party joined its membership and was elected to the central committee. He died in 1910.

The main works: "The Civil Law of Ancient Rome" (Moscow, 1883); "Reception of Roman law in the West" (Moscow, 1885). Articles "The Court and Law in Civil Law" ("The Legal Gazette", 1880), "The Creative Power of Jurisprudence" (Ne., 1887) and "Law and Justice" (Collection of Law, II). The originally conceived "Sociological Essays" of M. ("The Russian Thought", 1889) are not over. See V. M. Nechaev "S.A. M. as a Scientist and Professor" (St. Petersburg, 1910), obituary articles on M. in "Prave" for 1910, AI Kaminki, MM Kovalevsky and others).