Pjotr Pustoroslev (1854–1928) was a Russian lawyer.[1] He was the rector of Tartu University from 1915 to 1917.[2]

Pjotr Pustoroslev

He taught criminal law at Tartu University.[1]

Biography edit

Pustoroslev was born on January 22, 1854 into the noble family of the Pustoroslevs [ru].[3] He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Imperial Moscow University.

As a privat-docent for seven years he taught prison studies at Moscow University. In the journal Legal Bulletin [ru] No. 12 for 1891, he published a large article telling about the Moscow Committee for the analysis and charity of the poor [ru].[4]

He received a master's degree for his dissertation: Понятие о незаменимой саморасправе как учреждении уголовного права, (The concept of indispensable self-destruction as an institution of criminal law), a doctorate degree for the dissertation: Анализ понятия о преступлении, (Analysis of the concept of crime). He was a professor of criminal law, dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Dorpat; in 1915-1917 he was its rector.

He left Tartu in 1918 due to the evacuation of the university to Voronezh. He died in Moscow, buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.[5]

Selected writings edit

  • Criminalité et imputabilité (Yuriev: Matthiesen, 1899) read online
  • Анализ понятія о преступленіи (Moscow: 1892) read online

References edit

  1. ^ a b "TU siseregistrid". ut.ee. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  2. ^ "TRÜ : Tartu Riiklik Ülikool : EKP TRÜ komitee, TRÜ rektoraadi, ELKNÜ TRÜ komitee ja TRÜ ametiühingukomitee häälekandja 1 detsember 1967 — DIGAR Eesti artiklid". dea.digar.ee. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  3. ^ "Калужская губерния. Список дворян, внесенных в дворянскую родословную книгу по 1-е октября 1908 года и перечень лиц, занимавших должности по выборам дворянства с 1785 года (in Russian)". Калуга: Типо-Литография Губернского Правления. 1908. p. 67. Archived from the original on 27 January 2022. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  4. ^ "Комитеты для разбора и призрения нищих". ru.wikisource.org.
  5. ^ Kipnis, Solomon (1998). Новодевичий мемориал: Некрополь Новодевичьего кладбища / Сост. С. Е. Кипнис.. — Изд. 2-е, испр. и доп (in Russian). Арт-Бизнес-Центр. p. 76. ISBN 5-7287-0159-0.

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Preceded by Rector of Tartu University
1915–1917
Succeeded by