Background
Tagantsev, Nikolai was born on February 19, 1843 in Penza.
Tagantsev, Nikolai was born on February 19, 1843 in Penza.
Graduated from Petersburg University in law, 1867.
Professor there, 1870. Member of the Senate. Foremost authority on criminal law before the revolution.
Formulated the Criminal Code and compiled commentaries to it. Lifelong fighter against capital punishment. Editor of the prestigious legal magazine Zhurnal Grazhdanskogo i Ugolovnago Prava.
Member of the State Council (1906).