“Destroy the Port of Baku” – Picture of the Day – Kommersant

Usually, with the advent of summer, if nothing extraordinary happened, there was a relative lull in making the most important decisions, associated with the rest of the highest ranks, but there were often exceptions, sometimes very, very remarkable.

From the “Act of the election, between Putivl and Konotop in the Cossack Oakwood, to the Zaporizhzhya Hetmans of Ivan Samoylovich, who confirmed the previous agreements …”, June 17, 1672

… The Great Sovereign, Tsar and Grand Duke Alexei Mikhailovich, all the Great and Small and White Autocrats of Russia … ordered to inflict Rada in Konotop; and at the Rada he ordered to be His Grace Archbishop Lazar Baranovich of Chernigov and Novgorod, Obozny, Judges, Yasauls, Colonels and all the foremen and Cossacks, and by their right to order them to rob the Hetman, whom they love among themselves …

And how will they rob the Hetman, and they and that newly elected Hetman to Him the Great Sovereign … and Their Sovereign Heirs to eternal and black citizenship, according to the immaculate Gospel commandment, make faith and kiss the cross, and be with Him the Great Sovereign, with His Royal Most Serene Majesty and His Sovereign Heirs in eternal allegiance relentlessly in their former rights and liberties …

From the decrees of the Governing Senate on delays in delivery and loss of letters in the mail, June 21 and July 23, 1772

The Governing Senate, having the reasoning that the reports received in the Senate at the Yamskaya post office are transported so slowly on the way that they almost always do not reach here at the right time, Ordered: the strictest confirmation, but they themselves would closely observe that all the letters sent here by the Yamskaya mail without the slightest delay were transported on the road and were always received here in due time, otherwise, from whom it is due, the penalty is unrelenting.

… Sent (from the Senate, October 17, 1771.— “Story”) no decrees were received in the Moscow Senate Departments and in many different places, and no proper execution was carried out on them; but instead, now (in July 1772.— “Story”), and then, at the request of the Executioners, the St. Petersburg Post Office notified that all packages sent at that post office were lost …

From the Decree of the Governing Senate “On the appointment of the lower servants of the Moscow police from the loitering in Moscow”, July 2, 1772

… Due to the contagious ulcer that was in Moscow, a large number (lower police officers.— “Story”) has died, and the Police are in dire need of them … and now the Moscow Police Fire Department has presented such loitering and passportless economic peasants 6 people and a soldier’s son not yet identified anywhere, who, however, have different skills that are very necessary for the Police: why from this and it is required, due to such an extreme need for people, declared idlers … to determine the number of people missing in the state of the lower rank Police …

From the personal decree of Emperor Paul I of the Admiralty Board “On measures to stop the traveling of robber parties along the Volga River”, June 20, 1797

To stop raiding parties along the Volga River, we order in Kazan to build nine light rowing warships, on which there would be one cannon and several falconets (guns of small caliber.— “Story”), supplying them with artillery, as well as naval teams, as much as they need, which will remain there forever; three of them will occupy the distance from Tsaritsyn to Astrakhan, three from Kazan to Tsaritsyn, and three from Kazan up the Volga … and try to exterminate immediately, if such robber boats were opened anywhere. Why and proceed immediately on this to the execution.

From the nominal decree of Emperor Paul I “On the collection of double tax from the Jews”, June 23, 1797

Allowing the Jews to carry out their philistine and merchant crafts in the provinces: Minsk, Izyaslav, Bratslav, Polotsk, Mogilev, Kyiv, Chernigov, Novgorod-Seversk, Yekaterinoslav and in the Tauride region, enrolling in the cities in the philistinism and merchants, we command from those mentioned Jews who they wish to use such permission, to collect from the first day of the following July the established taxes doubled against those laid down from the townspeople and merchants of the Christian law of different confessions; those who do not want to stay, to those who do not wish to leave Our Empire on the basis of the regulations on cities, on the payment of a three-year double tax.

From the nominal decree of Emperor Paul I “On the destruction of the Baku port”, July 7, 1797

His Imperial Majesty the Sovereign Emperor deigned to command: built in Kazan and sent to Astrakhan for the services of the Caspian squadron and the transportation of life supplies for the ground forces 12 galliots (auxiliary sailing vessels of coastal navigation.— “Story”), to which the seat is assigned in the Baku port, to leave forever for the mentioned use at the Astrakhan port; The port of Baku, as it does not insist on any need for it, should be destroyed, and the servants who are in it should be turned into their former commands …

From the nominal decree of Emperor Paul I “On the fine of petitioners for litigation based on one slander”, July 19, 1797

To the suppression of all those evils that the benefit of service and public suffers, from the initiation of litigation, based on one sneak, and for which many examples are seen especially in the Lithuanian Province, we command: the complaints of the inhabitants of this Province, found empty, without any higher decisions on these Governments, to send to the Provincial Authorities for the sake of entering according to the laws of that region, and all those who incorrectly make such requests, fined with a fine fine in favor of the Order of Public Charity, publish through Lithuanian newspapers.

From the nominal decree of Emperor Paul I “On collection of fair and evidentiary debts to the fullest extent of the laws, regardless of the faces, ”August 12, 1797

Correctness in paying debts on bills of exchange and other obligations is so much based on good faith, honor and conscience that failure to comply with it should be acceptable only as an act of contempt and extremely harmful to society. However, we see from the circumstances that reach us that there are such frivolous people who, having incurred debts, for the sole purpose of avoiding paying them, place themselves under the guardianship and guardianship of others, as happened with the Privy Councilor Count Chernyshev, who, recognizing justice himself promissory note claims on it by the foreigner Gambihler, responded by the lack of cash to satisfy it, and the state under the guardianship of his estate. In order to suppress such acts that have crept in from abuse and destroy the general trust, we order the Senate to confirm everywhere that in the collection of just and evidentiary debts, it should be done to the fullest extent of the laws, regardless of persons and without respect for guardianship …

From the nominal decree of Emperor Nicholas I “On honors during the passage of Persons of the Imperial family through the fortress”, June 10, 1847

The Sovereign Emperor, in order to resolve the issues that arose, the Highest command deigned to decide by rule:

… 3) The sentries at the entrance of the apartment and the latrines of non-commissioned officers appointed by position should be left at their posts if the guard of honor is removed on the occasion of breaking through the evening dawn.

4) If an order is received not to put up a guard of honor at all, then appoint sentries only to the entrance to the apartment and to the carriages.

From the opinion of the State Council approved by Emperor Nicholas I “On the preparation of cigars in home establishments and on the sale thereof”, published on July 30, 1847

The Council of State in the Department of Economy and in the General Assembly, having considered the proposal of the Minister of Finance regarding the preparation of cigars in home establishments and the sale thereof, decided by opinion: to approve this submission, and as a result, admitted … in the form of experience, for four years, permission to philistines and other persons , selling according to certificates, to prepare cigars from tobacco of Russian origin in their home establishments and sell in tobacco shops themselves, not only cigars made in such establishments, but also bought from other Russian tobacco factories, to leave, after the expiration of the mentioned period, and henceforth in their strength.

Publication by Evgeny Zhirnov