Аннотация
A. F. Koni’s Recollections of the Vera Zasulich Case offers a cross-section of social history useful for reconstructing the macrohistory of the Russian judicial Counter-Reformation together with the microhistory of the many characters who crowded Russia’s dungeons and courtrooms in the 1870s. In these pages, Judge Koni retraces the milestones of the procedural history of revolutionary Vera Zasulich and writes about himself as a judge, his own idea of justice, and the factors that led him away from criminal law. Koni is self-deprecating throughout this account of those days of great upheaval, above all in his dialogues with Minister of Justice K. I. Palen. Koni, blamed for neither convicting Zasulich nor resigning, defends his actions and the institution of the popular jury. This article reevaluates Koni’s self-portrait on the basis of his dialogues with Palen and his chosen evaluative lexicon.
