Background
Murav’ev, Nikolai was born in 1870.
Murav’ev, Nikolai was born in 1870.
Before the February Revolution 1917, a well-known defence lawyer in political trials. Appointed by the Provisional Government head of the special commission for the investigation of illegal acts of Tsarist officials. After the October Revolution, 1917, again defence lawyer in political trials (the paper UtroRossii, 1918, the Bruce Lockhart trial, 1918, the Tactical Centre, 1920, and the Central Committee of the SR Party in 1922).
From the mid 1920s, member of the Moscow City Collegium of Lawyers. Disappeared during the purges, presumably a victim of the Gulag. (The secretary of the Murav’ev Commission in 1917 was the poet Aleksandr Blok, who described the proceedings in his diaries and in Poslednie Dni Imperatorskoi Vlasti (Last Days of Tsarist Rule), 1921.) Padenie Tsarskogo Rezhima, 7 vols., Moscow-Leningrad 1926-1927.