Did Putin’s spokesman say that the country's leadership wants to restore Russia from Nicholas II?

For several years, social networks have been actively distributing a quote "We want to restore Russia of the times of Nicholas II - this is our ideal." The statement is attributed to the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov. We checked whether he really said it.

Publications with comments on the topic of such statements by Peskov began to appear back in 2016. At first, the quote was used in tweet And posts In Odnoklassniki. Later, Yandex.Dzen users also began to spread the statement of Peskov, one of these materials Read 25,000 platform users. December 12, 2020, the screensaver of this post Published In his Instagram with almost 900,000 subscribers, entrepreneur Evgeny Chichvarkin.

These publications appeared at different times and on different platforms. Some of these texts have read dozens of times, some tens of thousands. Nevertheless, they have a common feature: in none of the materials about the statement of Peskov there is no link to his public performance or statement with such a quote. Some of the authors for persuasiveness provided their publication with a photograph of the president’s press secretary, which in itself does not prove anything, but in the eyes of an inexperienced reader gives the material of persuasiveness.

We were not able to find in the public speeches or texts of the presidential press secretary the phrase “We want to restore Russia of the times of Nicholas II-this is our ideal”. A similar thought can be found in interview “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, which Dmitry Peskov gave in May 2016. Talking about the scenario of the future for the country, he said about Russia at the end of the 19th century: “This is one of the most beautiful times, with all sorts of large social cataclysms, difficulties and everything else, but this is the time when, what is called, serfdom was canceled when we have a golden age of literature, when we are rapidly growing, when we are competitive when we have a strong science when we have a strong science when we have a strong science. be proud. This is a really good image. "

This quote really belongs to Peskov. Only not to Dmitry Sergeyevich, but to Dmitry Nikolaevich. The namesake of the presidential spokesman occupies position of the director of the direction "Young Professionals" of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives and works Special representative of the President on digital and technological development.

In 2016–2017, bloggers attracted readers with loud headlines that began with the words “Peskov”, and then told which Peskov we were talking about. By 2020, the quote acquired a “canonical” look and finally lost his connection with her true author. Users of social networks and a blog platform, in turn, publish it already with a photograph of the more famous Dmitry Peskov.

Incorrect attribution of quote

What do our verdicts mean?

Read on the topic:

1. https://www.saratov.kp.ru/radio/26533/3550221/
2. https://digital.ac.gov.ru/poleznaya-informaciya/4198/
3. http://kremlin.ru/catalog/persons/309/biography