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| 1878 | Trepov, Fyodor Fyodorovich |  |
| Moscow The Jury refuse to convict Zasulich because of Trepov's repressive measures |
| 1878 | Zasulich, Vera |  |
| The Jury refuse to convict Zasulich because of Trepov's repressive measures |
| 1922 | Kamenev, Lev Borisovich |  |
| Moscow Decides SRs are guilty of trying to overthrow the Bolsheviks in 1919 |
| Moscow Holds SR death sentences open & have them executed if they undermine the Communists |
| 1931 | Bazarov, Vladimir Aleksandrovich |  |
| Tried for heading a counter-revolutionary organization with Gosplan |
| 1931 | Groman, Vladimir |  |
| Tried for heading a counter-revolutionary organization with Gosplan |
| 1933 | Stalin, Joseph |  |
| At the Metro-Vickers trial British technologists in Russia are charged with espionage |
| 1934 | Stalin, Joseph |  |
| Kirov's assassin & 13 accomplices are tried & executed |
| 1935 | Kamenev, Lev Borisovich |  |
| Moscow Exonerated for the assassination of Kirov |
| Moscow Forced to admit the "moral & political responsibility" for Kirov's assassination |
| Moscow Tried for a 2nd time in secret & sentenced to a long term of imprisonment |
| Moscow Zinoviev, Kamanev & 17 others are tried for the murder of Kirov |
| 1935 | Stalin, Joseph |  |
| Jan Zinoviev, Kamanev & 17 others are tried for the murder of Kirov |
| 1935 | Zinoviev, Grigory Yevseyevich |  |
| Moscow Exonerated for the assassination of Kirov |
| Moscow Forced to admit the "moral & political responsibility" for Kirov's assassination |
| Moscow Tried for a 2nd time in secret & sentenced to a long term of imprisonment |
| Moscow Tried in secret & sentenced to 10 years imprisonment |
| Moscow Zinoviev, Kamanev & 17 others are tried for the murder of Kirov |
| 1936 | Kamenev, Lev Borisovich |  |
| July Secretly put on trial by Stalin for his life |
| 1936 | Stalin, Joseph |  |
| Holds stage trials of old Bolsheviks |
| Moscow Show trials are held in Moscow during the "great purge" |
| 1936 | Zinoviev, Grigory Yevseyevich |  |
| Moscow Accusations are made against Zinoviev for his life during a show trial |
| 1937 | Radek, Karl Bernhardovich |  |
| Jan Moscow Sentenced to imprisonment |
| 1938 | Bukharin, Nikolai |  |
| Mar Accused of plotting to kill Lenin during the Brest-Litovsk negotiations in 1918 |
| 13th Mar Nikolay Bukharin, a revolutionary economist who helped edit Pravda with Lenin, is put on trial and executed in the purges |
| 1938 | Stalin, Joseph |  |
| Moscow Show trials are held in Moscow during the "great purge" |
| 1938 | Trotsky, Leon |  |
| Tried in absentia by Stalin, the secret police, the GPU, are sent to hunt Trotsky down |
| 1953 | Beria, Lavrenti Pavlovich |  |
| June Moscow Tried for being a British agent, undermines relations between Russian nationalities |
| 1953 | Konev, Ivan Stepanovich |  |
| Moscow Presides over a tribunal which sentences Lavrenti Beria to death |
| 1966 | Daniel, Yuli |  |
| Feb A dissident writer who goes on trial, the trial signifies the end of a Russian "thaw" |
| 1966 | Siniavskii, Andrei |  |
| Feb Trial of dissident writer Angrei Siniavskii |
| 1966 | Sinyavsky, Andrei |  |
| A dissident writer who goes on trial |
| 1978 | Shcharansky, Anatoly |  |
| Found guilty of espionage, reason & "anti-Soviet agitation" |
| 1993 | Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich |  |
| 26th Mar The Congress of People's Deputies of Russia tries to impeach Yeltsin |
| 2004 | Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich |  |
| 13th Sep Prosecution of Russia's richest man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, President of Yukos oil company, for fraud and tax evasion |