The article is devoted to the fate of the Pension Statute of 1827. The Pension Statute of 1827 became the basis of the system of pensions for civil servants in the Russian Empire.He completed the formation of the Russian bureaucracy.During the adoption of the Statute, the financial capabilities of the state were not taken into account. But very soon it became clear that the payment of pensions to retired employees placed a heavy burden on the State Treasury. At the same time, the amount of pensions lagged more and more behind the salaries of officials and was clearly insufficient. As a result, a project was born to switch to a “funded pension system” by creating an Emerital fund (following the example of the Kingdom of Poland). But the Emeritus Committee, specially created in 1843 to develop this project, found that the creation of such a system was unrealistic. When discussing the reform of the Pension Statute in the Committee of Ministers in 1850-1851. Count D.N. Bludov proposed to return to the practice of the 18th century, when pensions were paid only to those who did not have their own means of subsistence. This proposal was unanimously rejected by all ministers. There was also a proposal to abolish all pension benefits for "special types of service" - educational, medical, customs, etc. This proposal was also not supported by the majority of ministers. The Decree of Nicholas I on November 6, 1852 made only partial changes to the Pension Statute of 1827. These changes mainly concerned the length of service required to receive a pension.But the problem of the need, on the one hand, to reduce state spending on the payment of pensions, and on the other hand, to increase the size of pensions remained. In 1866, a special commission was created under the Ministry of Finance to prepare a new pension statute, but its proposals were never implemented, and in 1883 the commission was closed.Archaism of the Pension Statute of 1827 to the endXIX - early of the20th centurieswas obvious, but until 1917 this charter remained almost unchanged.