THE CANON OF RUSSIAN POLITICAL VOCABULARY OF PAUL I (based on the principles of historical reconstruction of Russian political discourse)
. The article discusses the Canon of Russian political vocabulary of Paul I. and the urgency and the possibility of reconstruction of unwritten or incomplete original texts. It also discusses the idea and the composition of Paul’s Canon. The article describes verbal reconstruction and the features of Emperor Paul’s work with the language and on the language. The Emperor sees the Canon of political vocabulary as the foundation of public discourse, in which he talks with his subjects and with the world. The Canon documents define words in a certain order: default order of the meanings is the order of state structure. The Canon divides the language into “old” and “new” with the high value of the latter, there is trend for renaming governmental positions, the name of the state, the title of the head of state, geographical and personal proper names, etc. All these are regarded by the Emperor as a natural function of government. In full accord with the eschatological mythology of the Empire, an act of destruction-creation (the transformation of the “old” world into “new”) is thought of as renaming and reinterpreting.