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.