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Novorossiysk Imperial University
In summer 1861 Alexander II who stopped in Odessa in transit received a petition to establish a university. The tsar agreed to transform the Richelieu lyceum into Novorossiysk University. However, an official permit was received only in June 1862. Three more years have passed between the receiving of the permit and the realization of the idea.
Тhe inauguration of Novorossiysk University took place on the 1st (13) of May 1865.
The first academic year of the Novorossiysk university began on the 7th of September 1865 at three faculties: physical and mathematical, historic and philological, and juristic - the most populous. The fourth faculty - medical - was opened in 1900. Professor I. D. Sokolov became the first rector of the University..
A full councillor of State O. M. Bogdanovsky became the first dean of its law faculty.
In 1865 the law faculty included the following chairs:
- Encyclopedia of the Law;
- History of significant legislation systems (ancient and modern);
- History of Russian law;
- History of Slav law;
- Of Roman law;
- Of state law;
- Of civil law with criminal judicial system and court proceedings;
- Criminal law with criminal judicial system and court proceedings;
- Police law;
- Financial law;
- International law;
- Economy and statistics;
- Clerical legislation (canon right).
In 1865 the council of the university found it useful to introduce on the juristic faculty an additional subject - Russian history.
Apart from other faculties which never lacked lecturers there was a big demand for qualified specialists: for almost a decade there was no substitute for the head of the chair of the state law, for about 20 years - the post of the head of the chair of international law was vacant. In spite of the difficult situation with scientific and pedagogical personnel, delivering lectures on civil and lawful sciences was effectuated by many prominent scientists-jurists, talented lecturers, jurists-practitioners.
From 1869 till 1877 a well-known jurist F. I. Leontovich who graduated from the law faculty of the university of St. Vladimir in Kiev and from April 1861 became an acting junior scientific assistant of professor at the chair of the state law of Richelieu lyceum, became the rector of the university. Later, after having worked during three terms as a privat-docent of Kyiv University, he returned to Novorossiysk University in 1865 to work as the head of the chair of history of Russian law. In February 1868 F. I. Leontovich defended thesis for a Doctor's degree on the theme: "Old Croatian and Dalmatian legislation". He worked as an extraordinary and then ordinary professor of history of the Russian law, refusing an offer to move to Kuiv University.