Sergei Ivanovich Zarudny

Sergei Ivanovich Zarudny (; ; , 1821 – , 1887 ) was a Russian legal scholar, lawyer, senator, and privy councillor in the Russian Empire, mostly during the reign of Alexander II. He was a supporter of the emancipation reform of 1861, which freed serfs; and played a key role in writing the Russian Judicial Reform Act of 1864, which established an independent judiciary and extended the right to a trial by jury to all defendants.

He was born in the village of in the Russian Empire (now in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine), and died near Nice, France.

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•   English translation of the above.  "Butkov, notifying Zarudny of the subsequent highest gratitude for his efforts in drafting the [Emancipation] decree on February 19 [1861], added that he was 'especially pleased to hand over the highest resolution to Zarudny, as one of the most active participants in the work.' Zarudny valued the gold 'peasant' medal he received at that time above all other awards. ... The closest witness to Zarudny's works [on judicial reform], V.P. Butkov, handing over to him on November 22, 1864 the first copy of the just-printed judicial statutes, indicated in the inscriptions on it that 'the first copy should rightfully belong to Sergey Ivanovich, as the person to whom the new judicial reform in Russia owes its existence more than others.'"
•   English translation of the above.

See also

• Alexander Sergeyevich Zarudny (1863–1934) – Sergei's oldest son, a lawyer who defended clients in the trials by jury made possible by the 1864 judicial reform his father chiefly wrote; later a Minister of Justice during the [first] Russian Republic.
• Emancipation reform of 1861
• Judicial reform of Alexander II
• Reform movement#Russia 1860s

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