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Konstantin Pobedonostsev life and biography
The Russian statesman and jurist Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev as director general of the Holy Synod, became a champion of czarist autocracy, orthodoxy, and Russian nationalism.
Konstantin Pobedonostsev was born on May 21, , in Moscow.
His father, Peter V. Pobedonostsev, a professor at the University of Moscow, educated Konstantin at home until he enrolled at the St. Petersburg School of Jurisprudence in From his father, he learned to read Old Church Slavonic, French, Latin, and German.
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He also studied the Bible, the writings of the Russian Orthodox Church Fathers, Greek and Roman classics, Russian history, and Russian literature. He graduated from the School of Jurisprudence with a wide knowledge of Western judicial institutions, laws, and literatures.
Pobedonostsev first won acclaim as a historian of Russian judicial institutions and as a specialist in Russian civil law.
In Pobedonostsev was assigned to the eighth department