A forged document was discovered in the Russian State Military Historical Archive.
The decree of Emperor Peter I of November 11, 1723 turned out to be a fake.
Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that the valuable document in the archive was in fact a forgery, the Izvestia article emphasizes.
The deputy director of the Russian State Museum of History contacted law enforcement agencies.
She stated that a similar document was put up for auction on the website of the Spanish auction house International Autograph Auctions Europe SL.
They demanded that it be checked to see if it belonged to the Russian archive fund.
The police found out that the document stored in the Russian archive is not genuine.
It turned out that a similar document was put up for sale at the auction.
An investigation has been launched into the theft of a document from an archive.
