- Condition:MNH**
- Year:10th July 2020
- Catalog:Michel
- Number(s):Block109 (1152)
- Catalog value:8.0
Paper: chalky
Printing process: offset
Perforation: comb 13 : 13 1/4
Size of a stamp: 30,0 x 40,0 mm.
Size of the Suvenir Sheet: 122,0 x 55,0 mm.
Printing run: 20.000
650 D. multicoloured. The Emperor of France, statesman and general Napoleon Bonaparte.
Un document sur l'abdication de Napoléon Bonaparte (Palais de Fontainebleau, 6 avril 1814), dont l'un des originaux est conservé au Musée de la Littérature et de l'Art du nom de Yeghishe Charents à Erevan.
A document on the abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte ( Fontainebleau Palace, 6th April 1814, ), one of the originals of which is kept in the Museum of Literature and Art named after Yeghishe Charents in Yerevan. Armenia.
One of the most prominent military and political figures in the history of mankind, Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, on April 6, 1814, signed an act of abdication for himself and his heirs from the throne of France.
“Since the Allied Powers proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the only obstacle to the establishment of peace in Europe, the Emperor Napoleon, faithful to his oath, declares that he renounces for himself and for his heirs the throne of France and the throne of Italy, because there is no that personal sacrifice, even a sacrifice of life, which he would not be ready to make in the interests of France,” the text of the renunciation noted.
Few people know, but one of the copies of this document, which were traditionally made for distribution to the rulers of that time, is kept in the Yeghishe Charents Museum of Literature and Art in Yerevan. According to other sources, the document stored in Armenia is not a copy, but a handwritten draft of the act.
The document of Napoleon's abdication came a long way before it came to Armenia. Initially, it ended up in Russia, where it was kept for many years in the Russian Imperial Archive, then it ended up in the archives of the family of General Astafyev, after which it fell into the hands of one of the princes of the Argutinsky-Dolgorukov family. Then the act was transferred to the archive of musicologist, critic and publicist of Armenian origin Vasily Korganov.
After Korganov's death in 1934 in Yerevan, his documentary archive was transferred to the National Library of Armenia. Several valuable documents and the act of Napoleon's abdication from the throne were later transferred to the Yeghishe Charents Museum of Literature and Art.
The fact that one of the copies of the text of Napoleon's abdication is today in our country, according to experts, is somewhat symbolic.Numerous historical facts testify to Napoleon's connections with Armenian leaders.
It is worth pointing out only the fact that after the conquest of Italy, having dissolved all religious organizations and unions, he made the only exception for the Mkhitarist Congregation located on the island of St. Lazarus, assessing its scientific and academic character.
We were a nation that has always been in contact with the world, and one should not be surprised that in our archives there are also manuscripts of Beethoven, Goethe, Balzac, Pushkin and others.
