Abstract
Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev (1827– 1907) was a highly prominent— and highly controversial— political figure in late imperial Russia. 1 Home-schooled by his father (a priest’s son who opted out of a clerical career and became a literature professor at Moscow University), Konstantin matriculated in the newly established Imperial School of Jurisprudence for the elite and well-connected. After graduating in 1846, he received an appointment to serve in the Moscow branch of the Senate, the supreme judicial organ. For the next fifteen years, he not only oversaw several central provinces but also conducted research on the history of Russian law.