person
Nikolai Stepanovich Tagantsev
Tagantsev
also: Николай Степанович Таганцев, Н. С. Таганцев
Nikolai Stepanovich Tagantsev (1843-1923), eminent Russian jurist and criminologist, author of the treatise on criminal law ("Уголовное право") that Chekhov asks Suvorin to lend or send him for his research toward the Sakhalin book.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, 13 May 1891. Aleksin. §7 Tagantsev's "Criminal Law"
Nikolai Stepanovich Tagantsev's multi-volume treatise on Russian criminal law ("Русское уголовное право"), the standard scholarly authority of the day; Chekhov wants it for the legal argument he is building in the Sakhalin book against life sentences and the exile statutes.