Notes of a judicial figure. Koni A.F.

Anatoly Fedorovich Koni was born on January 28 (February 9), 1844 in St. Petersburg. “I lived my life so that I have nothing to blush for,” wrote 82-year-old Anatoly Fedorovich Koni, a Russian lawyer, prosecutor, judge, state and public figure, senator, member of the State Council, writer, writer , Honorary Academician of the Imperial Academy of Sciences on the category of elegant literature, professor of the Department of Criminal Procedure of the 1st Petrograd University.

The case that he describes in this book itself, the process of pre-revolutionary proceedings seem impossible today when Russian justice It is a rather sad sight. But even at the zenith, careers - and this was the time of the reforms of Alexander II - Koni was known as a “white sheep” thanks to the incidence that sometimes harmed him.