Introduction Part I. Judicial Culture: 1. Foundations of the criminal law 2. The problem of professionalism: judicial staff 3. Staff and society 4. Policing of officialdom 5. Procedure and evidence 6. Torture 7. Resolving a case 8. Petrine reforms and the criminal law Part II. Punishment: 9. Corporal punishment to 1648 10. Corporal punishment, 1649-98 11. To the exile system 12. Peter I and punishment 13. Capital punishment: form and ritual 14. Punishing highest crime in the long sixteenth century 15. Factions, witchcraft and heresy 16. Riot and rebellion 17. Moral economies: spectacle and sacrifice 18. Peter the Great and spectacles of suffering Conclusion: Russian legal culture Appendix: punishment for felonies Bibliography.
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