Сочинение И. П. Сахарова «О русских конституциях»
I. P. Saharov’s work “On Russian Constitutions”

Summary/Abstract: This manuscript “On Russian Constitutions” was opened at the archive of St.-Petersburg’s Institute of History of Russian Academy of Sciences among the papers of the collector I. A. Shliapkin. It is an account of the historian I.P. Saharov written by his nephew N.A. Belovodsky. According to it the 20 of January 1851 the historian A.N. Popov, the staff of II Department of H. M. I Chancellery, snowed to Saharov a manuscript of the constitution signed by Alexander I three days after his accession. According to it Alexander I signed this project of the constitution proposed him by D. P. Trostchinsky in three days after his accession, but V. P. Kochubey made change the mind of the young tsar. Send by him Kochubey took away the signed project, which the liberals didn’t publish yet, because they were drinking of happiness. Naivety of the account shows that it is an apocryphal thing. But Popov wrote a book about Alexander I during 15 years. It must be a special chapter about legislation of the tsar at the book. There were many original documents stolen from the archives among his papers after Popov’s death. We don’t know today where they are now. The Saharov’s account proves the fact very important. 1851 Popov had one of the constitution’s project of 1801. Indirect evidences let us propose that it was one of the project of “Chart to Russian People”, prepared to day of the coronation.

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