Боровиковський Олександр Львович (1844–1905 рр.) – український і російський правознавець, адвокат, науковець, поет

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Oleksandr Lvovych Borovykovskyi (1844–1905) – a prominent Ukrainian and Russian jurisprudent, lawyer, prosecutor, judge, civilist, criminalist, senator, secret counselor, publicist, and poet. In 1866 he graduated from the Law Faculty of Kharkiv University. He started his judicial career with the service in the Kharkiv District Court, later he became a lawyer. He worked as an assistant attorney at law of the district of the St. Petersburg Court of Justice, assistant prosecutor of the Simbirsk, Samara and St. Petersburg district courts, was an honorary judge of the Verkhnedneprovsk judicial district of the Yekaterinoslav province, was a member of the Odessa Court of Justice, the honorary judge of the city of Odessa, later he was appointed assistant of the secretary of the State Council, he was the chief procurator of the Civil Cassation Department of the Governing Senate, a senator and a secret counselor. He taught civil and criminal law at the University of Novorossiysk, and had the academic title of professor. As a lawyer, he took part in the political affairs of the revolutionaries – populists – «The Process of 50» (1877) and the «Process of the 193’s» (1877–1878), he also specialized in civil cases. The main theses of the judicial reform of 1864 were highlighted in a number of practical and scientific works, the main of which are «Civil laws with explanations on decisions of the Civil Cassation Department of the Governing Senate», «The Charter of Civil Procedure», «Report of the Judge», in which he defended the publicity of the litigation and explained the meaning of its adversarial proceedings. As the poet was known under the pseudonym A. Fet and M. Valentin, he became famous for the essay «Women’s fate in malorussian songs», for his poems «From ukrainian motives», «To a judge», «To unknown God», «First blacksmith». Thanks to his literary work, there was a connection between art and law, literature and jurisprudence.