M.N. Katkov's Coverage of the Judicial Reform of 1864 on the Pages of the Moscow Vedomosti

The paper analyzes numerous articles by the outstanding Russian publicist, one of the prominent representatives of the Russian conservative thought of the XIX century, M.N. Katkov, published by him in the newspaper «Moskovskie Vedomosti» in the 1860s-1880s and devoted to the judicial reform of 1864. A special place in the article is occupied by the analysis of Katkov's newspaper publications, revealing the basic principles of the new judicial procedure after 1864.