Examining Magistrate

Reading notes

• Trouble §15 investigating magistrate

  Sudebny sledovatel, the judicial official who conducted the preliminary investigation of a criminal case under the 1864 judicial reform -- distinct from the prosecutor (prokuror) and from the trial judges Avdeyev later faces.

• A Drama at the Hunt §70 examining magistrate

  Sudebny sledovatel, the Imperial Russian judicial officer who conducted the preliminary investigation of criminal cases -- Kamyshev's former post, and the vantage point from which the manuscript he submits claims its authority.

• A Trivial Incident §29 examining magistrate

  A sudebny sledovatel (examining magistrate) investigated criminal cases prior to trial; the prince's acquaintance in this post does little real work yet believes himself dutifully employed, another figure of easy self-assurance the prince contrasts with his own inability to imagine holding any post at all.

• In the Carriage §10 examining magistrate

  A judicial official in Imperial Russia who conducted the preliminary investigation of criminal cases, roughly analogous to an investigating judge; a stock figure of bureaucratic authority in Chekhov's fiction.