1733. Prince Mikhail Shcherbatov was born

280 years ago, on August 2, 1733, Prince Mikhail Mikhailovich Shcherbatov, a historian and publicist, a real secret adviser, author of the 15-volume “History of the Russian from ancient times” and a pamphlet “On damage to customs in Russia”, first printed by Herzen’s grandfather, grandfather of Peter Chaadayev, was born.

Shcherbatov wrote: “If, entering later the other nations on the Enlightenment, and we had nothing more to do more, as prudently to follow the paths of previously enlightened peoples; We truly in humanity and in some other things, one might say, the amazing ones had successes and gigantic Shegs walked to the adjustment of our outside the span, but then we fled to the damage to our customs and reached the fact that faith and divine law in our hearts exterminated, the divine secrets fell into contempt. Civil lawsuits are despised. Judges in all matters began to try to explain the case, to make their conclusion on the basis of legalizations, as that, having dusiated justice, to get a profit or, pleasing to which nobles, try to penetrate, what his desire is; Others, not knowing and not the old man to know legalized, in their judgments, as crazy crazy, and neither life, nor honor, nor civil estates are safe from such non -legal advisers. ”