Nikolay Pavlovich Bogolepov (Russian: Николай Павлович Боголепов) (December 9, 1846 – March 15, 1901) was a Russian jurist and Minister of National Enlightenment, assassinated by Socialist-Revolutionary activist.
Bogolepov was born in a village in Serpukhov uyezd. His father was a police inspector. In 1857 he moved to Moscow to continue his education in secondary school because his father did not find a satisfactory one in Serpukhov. The father c...
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Nikolay Pavlovich Bogolepov (Russian: Николай Павлович Боголепов) (December 9, 1846 – March 15, 1901) was a Russian jurist and Minister of National Enlightenment, assassinated by Socialist-Revolutionary activist.
Bogolepov was born in a village in Serpukhov uyezd. His father was a police inspector. In 1857 he moved to Moscow to continue his education in secondary school because his father did not find a satisfactory one in Serpukhov. The father could not afford moving to Moscow himself and Bogolepov had to live alone in a school boarding house. In 1864 he finished the school and entered the Law faculty of the Moscow State University. After graduation he worked in the Criminal Department of the Senate but left it a year after and in 1869 returned to the University for academic studies in Roman law. In 1881 he was appointed professor and two years later he was elected rector of the Moscow University continuing lecturing in Roman law. In 1886 two his children died in a row. Being unable...
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