RECONSTRUCTION OF THE FINAL EDITORIAL OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL PROJECT OF ARVONTSOV 1801

Abstract

As you know, one of the issues planned for the implementation of reforms during the reign of the reign of Emperor Alexander I was the question of drafting a Russian constitution. In the specific conditions of the Russian Empire of the early XIX century, this constitutional project took the form of «Letters to the Russian people», which was supposed to be approved and promulgated on the day of his coronation in the opinion of Emperor Alexander I. The main draft of the Charter, considered in the Secret Committee, was the project of A.R. Vorontsov, a famous statesman of the era of Empress Catherine II, returned to the civil service at the beginning of the reign of Emperor Alexander I. At its core, the A.R. Vorontsov project was a feudal charter composed primarily in the interests of the nobility, but affirming and affirming in it a number of rights of philistines and merchants, as well as peasants, gives grounds to speak of its partially universal character. For various reasons, Emperor Alexander I never decided to approve this project, nevertheless, this project has great scientific significance.