Alexander Sergeyevich Zarudny (Russian: Александр Сергеевич Зарудный, 31 August [O.S. 19 August] 1863, Tsarskoye Selo, Russia - 30 November 1934, Leningrad, Soviet Union) was a Russian lawyer and politician. In 1887 he was arrested in conjunction with the assissination of Alexander II of Russia but was released due to the lack of evidence. In 1902-1917 he worked as a lawyer. He was a representative of Menahem Mendel Beilis, a Jew accused in ritual murder during the infamous Beilis trial. In 1917 he was the Minister for Justice of the Russian Provisional Government. [1] After the October Revolution he stopped his political activities and worked as a lawyer in the Soviet Union.