Disappeared from The decree of Peter II of 1727 of the Russian Military Historical Archive (RGVIA) was sold at auction in France. This is reported by the Fontanka SPB-online telegram channel.
The valuable historical document was put up for auction the day before with an initial price of € 1-1.2 thousand, and was sold for € 3.12 thousand.
The lot card on the portal of the auction house Aguttes stated that "this is a very rare military decree of the tsar who died at the age of 14."
As reported by EADaily, a week earlier it became known that the original decree stored in the RGVIA was replaced. According to telegram channel 112, the forgery was noticed by the deputy director of the archive Vasilisa Denisova. "The decree of Emperor Peter II in The Military Collegium on the removal of Famintsin from the post of commandant of St. Petersburg and the appointment of Prince G.A. Urusov in his place. 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of Internal Affairs, one of the heads of the archive appealed to the police about the disappearance of a valuable historical document.
"An inspection is being carried out on this fact, all the circumstances of the incident are being established," the TASS department said, without specifying the name of the document.
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