The Ministry of Justice was one of the Russian Empire's central public institutions and was established on 8 September 1802. The ministry was headed by the Minister of Justice (who was at the same time the Senate Procurator General).

Structure

• A Board of Consultation for the cases brought from the Senate before the Minister of Justice as Procurator General.
• First Department.
• Second Department.
• The Office of Surveys and the Surveying Institute (since 1870).
• Imperial School of Jurisprudence.
• Moscow Archives of the Ministry of Justice.
• The Council on Prison Affairs and the Chief Prisons Office (since 1895, transferred from Ministry of Interior).