Sergey Zarudnyy

Sergei Ivanovich Zarudny 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.