Konstantin Karlovich Grot

1835 Mr.. finished the course in the Tsarskoe Selo Lyceum, was the governor of Samara, and the liberation of the peasants - a member of the committee on provincial and district institutions, held under the chairmanship of N.A. Milutin and work out a project of the Institute of conciliators and the general institutions of peasant affairs, and gave the idea of zemstvo institutions. As the first director of the Department neokladnyh charges, converted in 1863. from the department of taxes and charges, Groth led the liquidation of paying off the economy and the imposition of an excise system. In 1870, Mr.. was appointed a member of the Council of State, where about 10 years was present in the department of laws. In 1879, Mr.. under his chairmanship was formed as part of the State Council special committee on prison reform. This commission, . consisted of several members of the Council of State, . and was introduced to the board extensive work, . in which each of our existing penalties have been studied in the historical origins, . studied was the current state penal system not only for us, . but abroad, . and thus prepared the soil is designed by the new penal ladder,
. But the State Council, giving full justice to this work, has not found it possible to approve all the details of the assumed system of sanctions, fearing that hamper future drafters of the new criminal code. Therefore, he limited himself to the establishment of only the principal began a punitive system, which should be put in the ground as the reform activities of the prison administration, and work on drafting a new criminal code. The result was a law of 11 December 1879, taking, among other things, the system of solitary confinement with mandatory work. In the early 1880's Grotto was the chief steward IV Office of Her Imperial Majesty's own office (agency Empress Marie), now is chairman of guardianship of the Blind. In 1882, Mr.. Groth was elected permanent chairman of dinners, annually organizes February 19 parties in the works for the liberation of the peasants. Died in 1897