4. "At least take it on a roll, but don't drag it with your business"
Initially, red tape was called riding a travois – a special wagon on skids. The travois could be ridden off-road: in winter on snow, and in summer on grass, but it dragged slowly, so that red tape was a long and tedious task. But the expression "red tape" found its current meaning in Moscow. With the centralization of the Moscow state, Moscow chancelleries — orders became increasingly important and influential on the life of Russian society. They were in charge of the financial affairs of the state, judicial, military, and local authorities were subordinate to them. In the XV century, during the reign of Ivan III, the Moscow orders had already taken into their own hands the solution of most litigation cases. Now, it was not enough for the plaintiff and the defendant that they had to drag themselves from God knows how far to Moscow to resolve the case, and in Moscow itself the case dragged on indefinitely. A myriad of unresolved cases accumulated in the Moscow orders, and due to the fact that the clerks of the orders - clerks and clerks — previously considered the cases of those petitioners from whom they received a bribe, those who did not have the means to give it had to wait indefinitely for a long time. That's how she was a Moscow philanderer.