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Eye of the Sovereign

Peter I
Peter I

Phraseologism: Eye of the sovereign.

Meaning: About the special representative of the head of state (jokingly-iron.). Sometimes by tradition - about the prosecutor's office.

Origin: The expression was formed on the basis of the words of the Russian emperor (since 1721) Peter I (1672-1725), said by him when he personally introduced the first Prosecutor General Pavel Ivanovich Yaguzhinsky (1683-1736) to the Senate: "Here is my eye, with which I will see everything ". The decree on the introduction in Russia of the "position of prosecutor general" was issued by Peter I on January 12, 1722. The main task of the "eye of the sovereign" was to oversee the Senate. (During the military campaigns of the tsar or his trips abroad, the Senate replaced him, acting as the collective ruler of Russia.) Immediately after the appointment of the Prosecutor General, Peter I began to draw up instructions for him (position position). In its first edition, he defined the status in the most exalted tones: "This rank is our eye and the heart of the entire State." The tsar finally approved his instruction only in its fifth edition, where the prosecutor general was called more modestly - only "the eye." On January 18, 1722, Peter I appointed Pavel Yaguzhinsky as the first prosecutor general, and Grigory Skornyakov-Pisarev as his deputy, that is, chief prosecutor.

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Meaning:

Feigned sadness, insincere regrets.

Origin:

The expression arose in Russian as a result of a literal translation of the complex German word "Krokodilstranen". The appearance of the corresponding formation in the German language is associated with the belief that when a crocodile devours a victim, it sheds tears (cf. in the Alphabet Book of the XNUMXth century: "Korkodil, a water beast ... When you have a man to eat, then he cries and sobs, but the food does not stop").

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