The decree of Peter II of 1727, which disappeared from the Russian Military Historical Archive (RGVIA), was sold at auction in France. This was reported by the Fontanka SPB online telegram channel.
The valuable historical document was auctioned the day before with a starting price of between 1 and 1.2 thousand euros and was sold for 3.12 thousand euros.
The card of the lot on the portal of the Aguttes auction house said that “this is a very rare military decree of the king, who died at the age of 14.”
As reported EADailyA week earlier it was learned that the original decree stored in the RGVIA had been replaced. According to Telegram channel 112, the falsification was discovered by the deputy director of the archive. Vasilisa Denisova. “Decree of Emperor Peter II to the Military College on the dismissal of Famintsyn from the post of commander of St. Petersburg and the appointment of Prince GA Urusova. September 9, 1727″ was replaced by a copy.
The decree is one of the first documents of the grandson of Peter the Great, who ascended the throne in May 1727, at the age of 11. And three years later he died of smallpox.
According to the Moscow department of the Ministry of the Interior, one of those responsible for the archive contacted the police about the disappearance of a valuable historical document.
“An investigation is being carried out into this fact, all the circumstances of the incident are being established,” – said the TASS department, without specifying the name of the document.
