{{Short description|Russian statesman and politician}} {{Infobox officeholder|image=File:Muraviev_nikolay.jpg|office=[[List of Ministers of Justice of Imperial Russia|Minister of Justice]]|term_start=July 1894|term_end=1905|birth_date=1850|death_date=1908|alma_mater={{hlist|[[University of Saint Petersburg]]|[[University of Moscow]]}}}} [[File:Muravyov by Kustodiev.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Nikolay Muraviev]] '''Nikolay Valerianovich Muraviev''' or '''Muravyov''' ({{langx|ru|Никола́й Валериа́нович Муравьёв}}) (1850–1908) (anglicized Nicholas V. Muravev) was a [[Russian Empire|Russian]] politician, nephew of the famed Count [[Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky]], explorer and Governor General of the Russian Far East.
Muraviev was a graduate of both the [[University of Saint Petersburg]] and the [[University of Moscow]]. Early in his career he was a noted lecturer on criminal law at the University of Moscow and served in various positions within the judiciary. He came to prominence after successfully prosecuting the assassins of Emperor [[Alexander II of Russia|Alexander II]].
In 1892 he was appointed Imperial Secretary. He served as Minister of Justice from 1894 to early 1905. He was appointed [[List of ambassadors of Russia to Italy|Ambassador to Italy]] in 1905 and served until his death in 1908.
He was married to Katharina Vasilyevna [[:File:RU_COA_Sleptsov_XII,_80.png|Slepzowa]] (1862-1929), who secondly married the German industrialist Prince [[Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck]]. (Source: Materialy dlya Istorii Dvoryanskikh Rodov Martynovykh i Sleptsovykh, by A. N. Nartsov. Tambov, 1904)
==References==
*''Out of My Past: The Memoirs of Count Kokovtsov'' Edited by H.H. Fisher and translated by Laura Matveev; Stanford University Press, 1935. *''The Memoirs of Count Witte'' Edited and translated by Sydney Harcave; Sharpe Press, 1990.
{{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{succession box | before=[[Nikolay Manasein]] | title=[[List of Ministers of Justice of Imperial Russia|Minister of Justice]] | years=July 1894 – 1905 | after=[[Sergey Manukhin ]]}} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}}
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