18 October] 1855, Nizhny Novgorod – 26 February 1919, Armavir) was a Russian state and public figure and teacher.

The last Chief Procurator of the Most Holy Synod in the Russian Empire (from August 30, 1916 – until the fall of the monarchy in March 1917).

Raev received the rank of a state councilor on January 1, 1896, and was appointed a member of the Council of the Minister of Education on October 12, 1905.

[6] Protopresbyter of the army and navy Georgy Shavelsky in his posthumously published memoirs claimed:[7] All three candidates for the chief prosecutor's chair were faithful Rasputinists.

In relation to Metropolitan Pitirim, the new chief procurator kept too respectful, ingratiatinglyShavelsky also noted that Raev had an ordinary mind and did not show much knowledge.

In addition, the appearance of the new chief procurator was very comical: a bright, black-colored wig, painted with the same color mustache and beard, bruised cheeks and lacquered shoes: "He gave the impression of a youthful old man of indecent tone," "in the Synod, Raev was colorless, outside the Synod <...> ridiculous".

[8] September 15, 1916 the highest decree to fulfill the post of comrade of the chief prosecutor was appointed Prince N.D. Zhevakhov, he also had a reputation as a "Rasputin" and friend of Metropolitan Pitirim of Petrograd.

[9] On February 27, 1917, when in Petrograd the troops of the Moscow garrison crossed over to the side of the rebels, Raev, like the comrade of the chief procurator, Prince Zhevakhov, proposed to the Synod to publicly condemn the revolutionary movement, but this proposal was not supported by the members of the Synod.