Kievlyanin2015.livejournal.com Website Review

CASE OF FAKE NIKITA Vinnichenko, A member of the silver shop organization and self-defense artisans began to appear in Kiev in the first half of the XV century. After the city was incorporated into the Moscow kingdom and the latter was transformed into an empire, these self-government bodies were guided in their work by the decrees of Peter I (1722) and Catherine II (1785). One of the guild rights prescribed in the decrees, and at the same time, the duty, was, so to speak, the struggle for the purity of their ranks, with the masters who consciously produced marriage and fakes. In 1820, the Kiev police, according to a craft council, initiated an investigation into the case of tradesman Nikita Vinnichenko and his wife Maria. They were accused of manufacturing and selling on the territory of the Mikhailovsky Monastery, under the guise of silver, ninety-two copper rings. Caught with the goods in her hands, Maria first denied everything, but after the testimony of the witnesses she was forced to confess. She stated that her husband had seized the rings for sale from her monastery courtyard, but did not say that they were made of copper. The decision of the Kiev magistrate was uncompromising: