Education
Moscow State University.
Moscow State University.
Muromtsev was a Russian nobleman from Tula and a Professor of Roman Law at Moscow University. In the late 19th century, he was among the creators of the Constitutional Democratic Party, better known as the KD or Cadet party, of which he was chairman for several years. In April 1906, he was elected as a representative for Moscow in the First Duma, of which he was then elected chairman (or president) on May 10.
He tried to maintain some degree of order and dignity in this difficult assembly, which is often known as the "Duma of the Public Anger".
He was much praised for the way he chaired the debates, always keeping to the strictest legality but always pursuing a constitutional and anti-autocratic agenda. Despite his efforts, the Duma was dissolved on July 21, 1906, by Imperial ukase of tsar Nicholas World War II Muromtsev wanted the elected Duma to continue its work and proposed that it should retreat to Finland.
Foreign signing this appeal, he was imprisoned for some months and could not be re-elected in the later Dumas. His funeral, at the New Donskoy Cemetery on October 7, 1910, was the occasion of one of the first public demonstrations of support for constitutional ideas since the dissolution of the Duma.
In the 1870s, he advanced the then-novel sociological approach for the study of law, employing the functional (функционального) and historical comparative ("историко-сравнительного") methods.
From 1879 to 1892, Muromtsev was the co-editor, along with Maksim Kovalevsky of the law journal Juridical Vestnik («Юридический Вестник»).
Muromtsev was a staunch opponent of formalism and positivism.