title: Ministry of Justice of the Russian Empire
text: # Ministry of Justice of the Russian Empire
  
  The Ministry of Justice was one of the Russian Empire's central public institutions and was established on 8 September 1802. The ministry was headed by the Minister of Justice (who was at the same time the Senate Procurator General).
  
  ## Structure
  
  * A Board of Consultation for the cases brought from the Senate before the Minister of Justice as Procurator General.
  * First Department.
  * Second Department.
  * The Office of Surveys and the Surveying Institute (since 1870).
  * Imperial School of Jurisprudence.
  * Moscow Archives of the Ministry of Justice.
  * The Council on Prison Affairs and the Chief Prisons Office (since 1895, transferred from Ministry of Interior).
  