polish-lithuanian commonwealth, such characteristic terms have not been preserved there, nizhnik and vyzhnik, this is the jack and queen, yes, they had such a version, therefore, most likely western europe, well, it is curious that they spread very quickly throughout the moscow state, that is, somewhere already in 1627 in ... apparently, after all, alexei mikhailovich preferred traditional chess to cards. well, in any case, you say, yes, that the history of cards is calculated for some criminal things, when someone was caught or something, but we know that our rulers also issued many decrees to prohibit card games. and peter too, each of his followers was noted for different decrees. what kind? starting with alexei mikhailovich, the famous cathedral code, yes, where card players. dice players were prescribed to be treated like thieves, that is, they cut their fingers, ears, tore out their noses, in fact, this is not so, that is, for the game they didn't punish themselves, they punished if a player, in order to get money for the game, was engaged in robbery, theft, took off hats, where money