Sergei Ivanovich Zarudny
Sergei Ivanovich Zarudny (Ukrainian: Сергій Іванович Зарудний, romanized: Serhiy Ivanovych Zarudnyi; Russian: Серге́й Ива́нович Зару́дный; March 29 [O.S. March 17], 1821 – December 30 [O.S. December 18], 1887 ) 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. He was born in the village of Kolodiazne in the Russian Empire (now in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine), and died near Nice, France.