Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation was founded in 1991 by renaming the Ministry of Justice of the Russian SFSR following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It claims succession from the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Empire, which was founded on the 8th of September 1802 by Manifesto of Alexander I.
The first Minister of Justice of the Russian Empire was Gavriil Romanovich Derzhavin, who also served simultaneously as General Prosecutor of the Russian Empire.
Konstantin Chuychenko has been the Minister of Justice of Russia since the 21st of January 2020.
The Ministry of Justice is headquartered at Zhitnaya Street 14 in the Yakimanka District, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow.
Two subordinate executive federal agencies operate under the Ministry of Justice: the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN), which handles the execution of criminal penalties, and the Federal Bailiffs Service (FSSP), which enforces judicial acts and other orders.
After the October Revolution of 1917, the Ministry of Justice was transformed into the People's Commissariat of Justice. In 1936, the prosecutor's office was separated into an independent agency, reducing its powers. The Soviet Justice Ministry was dissolved in 1991 when the Russian Federation established its own Ministry of Justice.