Official Conflict and the Execution by the Voivode of Krasnoyarsk

The author publishes a selection of archival documents (Russian State Archives of Ancient Documents — RGADA) about an event that took place in Krasnoyarsk in 1707 and is unknown in science. The local governor, I. S. Musin-Pushkin, had a quarrel with his colleague, the clerk with a record, I. F. Mishagin. The governor arrested Mishagin and put him in prison. Then, without conducting an investigation or a trial, the voivode ordered the clerk to be taken to the square and beheaded. During this time, Mishagin publicly declared “Word and Deed”. This summary execution, carried out in front of the entire city, was in stark contrast to all existing laws and judicial practices. It sparked a protest from two officials, who filed petitions with the Siberian authorities. They did this despite the repressions they faced from the voivode. At the same time, information about this unprecedented event reached the judge of the Siberian Prikaz M. P. Gagarin. He immediately dismissed Musin-Pushkin from the voivodeship and appointed an investigation. However, at some point there was a “slowdown” in the case: the petitions of the servicemen, the official results of the investigation disappeared from the records of the Siberian Order. There was no trial of Musin-Pushkin. The most amazing thing was that in St. Petersburg they found out about it (and even then by accident) only 13 years later, in 1720. However, something strange happened: for unknown reasons, the judge of the Preobrazhensky Prikaz, I. F. Romodanovsky, who had received information about the case, did not report it to Peter I, although the tsar was known for his intolerance of official crimes

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