It is important to know that in tsarist Russia acted in fact very mild and humane laws. Russia was the only country where the death penalty was abolished altogether (since the Empress Elizabeth), for all crimes are tried by general courts. It remained only in military courts and for high crimes against the state.
In XIX-th century the number of executions was not a hundred people for a hundred years. During the reign of Alexander III, except for members of regicide March 1, executions were only a few people who had attempted to kill the Emperor (one of them was Alexander Ulyanov - Lenin's brother). "From the book of prof. Sergei Oldenburg's" The Reign of Emperor Nicholas II »(p. 22).
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