Secret Council would be abolished by the project, most verhovniki were against it. Dmitry Golitsyn, the main author of the Conditions, did not directly report that the power of the Supreme Secret Council was temporary and so most of the high-ranking officials, as well as many young lower officers, thought that Golitsyn and the Supreme Secret Council wanted to usurp power. All of those misinterpretations were worsened by absolutist propaganda from Theophan Prokopovich. The nobility began to oppose the Conditions. When Anna Ivanovna came in Moscow, noble delegations came to her demanding her to abolish the Conditions and return to absolutism. Terms The Conditions acted as a constitution binding the monarch in relation to declarations of war, the signing of treaties, the imposing of new taxes, the appointing of officers to ranks higher than plolkovnik'' (colonel), the depriving and granting of estates, appointments to the court ranks and the use of public revenues. None of those powers could be exercised by the monarch under the Conditions without the approval of the Supreme Privy Council, or else the monarch would face the possibility of deposition. 1730s in the Russian Empire 1730 in Europe Political history of Russia