Activities of commercial courts in the Russian empire in the late XIX and early XX centuries

At the end of the XIX century the activities of commercial courts was characterized by a decrease in the number of cases. Purpose: to review the problem of the development and functioning of commercial courts as judicial institutions in the late XIX and early ХХ centuries. Methods: the author uses dialectical, historical, comparison, description methods. Results: the paper shows that in 1892 at the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Empire the Special meeting on problems of commercial courts where the main problem what to do further with commercial courts as Institute of judicial power began to function. The paper analyzes the activities of a higher instance, The Commission for the revision of legal provisions on the judicial part of the State Council. The paper shows that in the period of counter-reforms there was a change in the position of the ruling elite of the Russian Empire on the future fate of commercial courts. It is emphasized that commercial courts, formed largely with the participation of the merchant community and in this regard, incorruptible, began to prevent many representatives of the ruling elite from deriving profits from ties to large capital, which did not facilitate commercial litigation.