NAPOLEON RUSSIAN FORGED ASSIGNATIONS IN NADDNIPRIANSHCHYNA (OVER DNIPRO LAND)

Authors

  • Viktor KOTSUR Academician (real member) of the National Academy of Educational Science of Ukraine, PhD hab. (History), full professor, rector of the State Higher Educational Establishment «Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi state pedagogical Grigorii Skovoroda University», Ukraine
  • Andrii BOIKO-GAGARIN leading researcher of the sector of numismatics, phaleristics, medals and bonistics of the «National Museum of History of Ukraine»., Ukraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24919/2519-058x.11.170701

Keywords:

Russian French War of 1812, Napoleon the First, assignation forgery, financial diversion, methodology of forgery discovery, archive materials

Abstract

The aim of article is generalization of the most completed and authentic facts about French financial diversion in 1812, specification of mistakes and inaccuracy of the previous researches, enlargement of Ukrainian archive depository and museum information; formation of generalized information about existing and forged assignations in legends as well as extension of concepts displaying about the methodology of finding those assignations in the collections and museums as well as in private ownerships. Methodological basics of the research are general scientific and special methods, method of historical periodization, historically comparative, topographic, the method of analysis variety, research of physical and chemical characteristics of paper and ink. Scientific novelty consists in introduction of earlier not published materials from the state archives and museums into scientific circulation which is seen in aggressive activity of original ink. Conclusions. The most full picture of the preparation process for the finance diversion during the war time of 1812 by French people was done and it was extended with evidences from the state archive of Ukraine. A trustworthy peculiarity while discovering French forgery of Russian assignations was established and it fundamentally completes the methodology of discovering of forgeries of this kind in museum and private collections. 

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