Judicial Statutes of 1864 and Criminal Proceedings: Historical Role and Legacy

The article reveals from a modern perspective, the historical role and significance of the Judicial Statutes adopted on November 20, 1864, which were the roots of the historical process that laid the foundation for the establishment of democratic principles of Russian criminal procedure. Among the complex phenomena and events of the judicial reform, which affected the fate of criminal proceedings, the most important will be the formation of the system and mechanism of criminal proceedings as the embodiment of judicial power, the establishment and development of the institution of jury trial as a national historical phenomenon in the Russian criminal process, the transition to the formation of a new for that era mixed historical form of criminal proceedings, as well as the introduction of true differentiation of criminal proceedings