Artemiy Volynskiy and his "Villainous discourses and project"

The paper treats the reasons of the disgrace of the Cabinet-Minister A.P.Volynskiy (1689 - 1740) and the significance of his projects for the political thought of the XVIII-century Russia. The author makes an attempt to reconsider some aspects of the traditional historiography and to elicit the role of Volynskiy's project in his destiny.