On this day

On this day

Prince A. D. Menshikov is deprived of powers of authority

19 September 1727

In the morning of September 8 (19), 1727 55 years old president of Military board, generalissimo, His Serene Highness Alexander Danilovitch Menshikov, the most powerful person in Russia, sworn father-in-law of the Emperor Peter II, received the tsar’s order to stay under house arrest.