Pjotr Pustoroslev
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Pjotr Pustoroslev (1854–1928) was a Russian lawyer.[1] He was the rector of Tartu University from 1915 to 1917.[2]
He taught criminal law at Tartu University.[1]
Pustoroslev was born on January 22, 1854 into the noble family of the Pustoroslevs.[3] He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Imperial Moscow University.
As a privat-docent for seven years he taught prison studies at Moscow University. In the journal Legal Bulletin No. 12 for 1891, he published a large article telling about the Moscow Committee for the analysis and charity of the poor.[4]
He received a master's degree for his dissertation: Понятие о незаменимой саморасправе как учреждении уголовного права, (The concept of indispensable self-destruction as an institution of criminal law), a doctorate degree for the dissertation: Анализ понятия о преступлении, (Analysis of the concept of crime). He was a professor of criminal law, dean of the Faculty of Law of the Imperial University of Dorpat; in 1915-1917 he was its rector.
He left Tartu in 1918 due to the evacuation of the university to Voronezh. He died in Moscow, buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.[5]
