The text of the decree is widespread on the Internet, in which the Russian emperor allegedly explains how the subordinate must behave when meeting with his superiors. We checked whether Peter I issued such a decree in fact.
According to numerous publications on the Internet, Peter I issued a decree of the following content: "A subordinate in the face of the commanders must have the appearance of a dashing and foolish, so as not to embarrass the authorities with his mind." This order supposedly behind the authorship of the first Russian emperor is used not only in signatures to funny photos of animals, but also in Councils by subordination and corporate psychology. Moreover, the text of this decree was seriously disassembled by the authors "Komsomolskaya Pravda", "RIA Novosti", Radio "Vesti.fm" And the portal "Scientific Russia".
For his long -term rule, Peter I issued many decrees. Now these texts Available On the website of the Presidential Library. Yeltsin. We were not able to find a command of “dashing and blowing form”. The search for the full collection of the laws of the Russian Empire, which was led to similar results, which presented On the website of the Russian National Library. On the Internet, a decree on subordinates usually dates into either December 908, or December 9, 1709. In the first case, we discovered a decree on a set of recruits “in Moscow and counties near Moscow”, where there is nothing about “dashing and diligent species”, in the second - not a single document.
Professional historians do not know about the existence of such a decree. Senior researcher at the State Historical Museum Gennady Marshad He saidthat he "did not come across a text with such words in the sources." Director of the Center for the History of Russia New Auh High Association Igor Fedyukin He thinksthat such a decree is a "fake, and it seems to be running already in the era of the Internet." According to the historian, the content of the text contradicts the position of the emperor, who, on the contrary, believed that it was necessary to “embarrass” his own leadership and tell the sovereign about his mistakes. Supports Colleagues and historian Gleb Kazakov, who emphasizes that the text "painfully in its content and style is similar to jokes, which were composed about Peter and about other monarchs."
Doubts of the authenticity of the decree are also caused by speech turns used in the text. The national corps of the Russian language allows you to check how often and in what years certain words and expressions were used. For example, the first use of the word "foolish" Fixed In the Russian -speaking text only at the end of the 19th century - it is extremely unlikely that the word, allegedly known at the beginning of the 18th century, more than one and a half centuries, fell out of circulation. Moreover, the word "bosses" at the turn of the XVIII - XIX centuries was often used in a meaning that is different from modern: it meant Not a group of leaders, but rather the obligation to lead something or someone. For example, designs were widespread like “accept bosses over” in the meaning of “starting to lead something”.
The earliest references to this decree that we managed to find belong to the line of the 20th and XXI centuries. Ukrainian writer Andrei Durund in 1999 published the novel "Tears of St. Mary", where the alleged command of Peter I It became One of the epigraphs. Other Ukrainian authors of that time, such as a satirist, also refer to this decree Evgeny Dudar. In the detective novel of Tatyana Stepanova "Mirror for invisible" 2000 there is such a fragment: “On the wall above the table, a colorful poster hung with the image of Judge Dredd in all his cosmic splendor. Below there was a smaller poster, where the following recommendation was written in black mascara: "A subordinate in the face of the commanders should have the appearance of dashing and diligent. So that with his understanding, not to embarrass the authorities." And the signature: Peter I, the royal decree at the number ... ”Finally, in the“ records and extracts ”of philologist Mikhail Gasparov, published in 2001, It is saidthat he saw a “discharge” with similar text on the wall in the building of the Russian Fund of Fundamental Research (exists Since 1992). It is likely that this text was born among historians of the late XX century in the form of a joke, but at some point became known for a wide audience, which took him for a real decree issued by the emperor.
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