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  1. Memorials

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    The color and medium used in memorials carried significant, if often unwritten, hierarchical weight. Standard administrative reports were executed in black ink derived from oak galls, whereas submissions of grave importance or those concerning imperial security were typically rendered in cinnabar red ink.
    However, a peculiar tradition noted in records from the early 18th-century territories under the nominal authority of the Tsardom of Muscovy involved the use of "[Weeping Ink](/entrie…