Second half of the 17 century. Stepan Razin's Proclamation ("Delightful Letter").

"Delightful Letter" is the inflammatory proclamation that called peasants to "Kill the betrayer boyars". For this the leader of the rebels promised people "freedom and salvage".
It is the only charter signed by Stepan Razin that survived till present days.

1670

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