Judicial reform of 1864 and the status of the prosecutor on criminal cases in the Russian empire

The article examines the legal status of the public prosecutor in the trial, which is determined by the judicial reform in 1864 and changed in the subsequent development. It is noted that prosecutors, as before, have traditionally represented the State on whose behalf they supported the prosecution, as in the particular case procedurally independent entity. In the first years after the reforms in the judiciary, prosecutors, along with lawyers, sought to establish the truth in the case, not proof of guilt of the accused, come what may. However, after the assassination of Alexander 11 and the beginning of counter-reforms became noticeable trend of transformation of the prosecutor's office in the existing mechanism for the maintenance of power.