MILITARY JUSTICE OF THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER II

Abstract

The article is devoted to the research of problematic issues of the reformation and functioning of the Russian military-judicial system during the reign of the Emperor Alexander II. This brief description of the scientific literature, which reveals some issues of the functioning of military courts during the historical period under consideration, is given. The military-judicial reform carried out in the analyzed period in 1867 is considered. The analysis of the impact on the course of the military-judicial transformation carried out shortly before this military and judicial reform was analyzed. This brief description of the Military Tribunal of 1867, which has become the “cornerstone” of the ongoing reforms, is also done. The influence of the personality of the first Russian Chief Military Prosecutor ‑ Vladimir D. Philosofov (1820‑1894) ‑ who over 25 years of fruitful work, has been able to transform the military-judicial office raising the level of military justice to a qualitatively new level. There are changes in the administrative management of the military-judicial system, and instead of the abolished Auditorium Department of the Military Ministry, the General Military Board was established in March, 1867. The conclusion is drawn that, despite the transformation of the B-SS, it remained in many respects departmental and had a separate position in the judicial system of the Russian Empire.