How and why the history of Rus' was distorted. Forbidden history of Rus'
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Ivan Fourth in 1533 received a territory of 2,800,000 sq. km., and by the end of the century the territory of Russia was 5,400,000 sq. km. “...Many of our historians are subservient to foreigners, they do not understand the rich history of Rus', they do not studyher tea is criticaleskand" (A.A. Kur). Others have not yet been studiedother works stored withI'm in Armed ForcesYanskymonastyryakh, loadnskie, Greek, lathinskie, polish, czech, wordsn sourcesnicknames LargeinstvOhistorians do not know Greek and Latin, so information is drawn not from primary sources, but text each other. Political oppression dominates historians, the purpose of which is to prevent people from knowing the true and truthful history of their ancestors. Even the enormous legacy of Patriarch Photius has not been studied and no attempts are being made to study it. Only a few of his messages were translated, but even then before the 1917 coup. 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Did not have time The exit ends when, on the Murmansk railway, which has just been repaired, a train with fuel oil derails and floods the mouth of the Onega. The true story is hidden. It is no coincidence that the People's Commissar of Education A.V. Khaimov (Lunacharsky) in 1918 banned the teaching of history in schools. A man who does not know his history is like a blind kitten, no matter what nonsense they tell him, he will not be able to object in response, not having his own opinion, he will believe any nonsense. For example, academician D.S. Likhachev, who joined the Masonic lodge in the 1920s"Resurrection", and according to V. Danilov (Aryan Empire, book I, M. "Will of Russia", 2000, pp. 36–37) in the Masonic circle "Hilfernak" and the lodge "Space Academy", since 1992 in "Russian Pen Center" on instructions from the lodge, riggedhowling the facts, doperwent so far as to say that in “The Tale of Time”new years" approvedwaited: "Varangians,called by the Novgorodians, they began to be called Russia,” and when he made the calculations, he was mistaken by 200 years. (S.A. Lesnoy, “History of the Russians in an undistorted form,” Paris, 1954, p. 96). D.S. Likhachev was not Russian and, naturally, could not understand the Old Russian language with those subtleties that only a born Russian, like S.A., can grasp. Lsureth-PairMons, G.S.Grinevich, A.A. Kur and others. PoetryD.S. Likhachev translated the title of the workPatriarch Nicephorus rather absurdly: "The chronicler soon." It should be corrected to the Chronicler in brief." To do this, just look in any Greek dictionary, for example, "Liddell and Scott". 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The word “unknown” is used in the same sense in"The Tale of Bygone Years", where under 1093 - in the description of the suffering of the Russian people who were captured by the Polovtsians. Here it is even more obvious that the "unknown country" is a country that "eyes would not look at." That is, under " nez“hiring” does not mean under-employmenttatok inforations, and emotionalnew inaccurateyatie. Yes, already myselfisBylzueataya avtorus "C"lova” lexIRand it turns outывaetsI, bydchinenand idits productionunitseniya - condemnmoneyYufrivolous in its idea and tragic in its consequences, Igor’s campaign against the Polovtsians. And examples left-hemisphere interpretations in many places in the “Word” are endless. In the “Word” there is an expression: “jump off it barefoot." The word “barefoot” was correctly translated back in the last century as “busy” i.e. "gray" (in regionpassionate govooh boosaya”masnot different from proone hundred gray more thanaphidsm ottenkohm). 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Hence the “left-hemisphere” defects in reading “The Lay” by its first editors and publishers A.I. Musin-Pushkin, A.F. Malinovsky and N.N Bantysh-Kamensky. (Sergey Goryunkov. Metaphorism of “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign” and dashingAchyovshchina. Young Guard No. 6).In onshey stranot fromgive trbeatwe are onlytorusIRov-behindpadaysIRov: V.N.Tatimoreva, N.I.KaRamzina,CM.Solovyeva, V.O.ClyucheSunWow, N.I.Koone hundredMarova, etc.. Trueyes historykov, not withholdingtheirsIThe “Norman theory” is, as a rule, not published. In fact, the ancient scientists Plutarch, Herodotus and others did not call themselves historians; they are philosophers. By to meO.M.Gu Institutesitting downand calledvanie istOriya emerged from the darkness of Western Europeeyswhenabout weddaycenturyovI whenYesthe only “chronicle” was the Bible. With the invention of printing, knowledge about past centuries was already could not be monopolized. Printing houses arose in secret from the authorities against whom the struggle was waged. Then the ideologistand the Jesuits, without weakening the fight against the otherthoughtseat, they themselves began to fill the “market” of ovenstnoyproducts. In order not to damage the authority of the Bible, they inspired people to believe that new information supposedly came froma less ancient source - the Jewish Torah, from which even the Bible itself came. And it matches actionvigor.
Today it is customary to deify members of the family of the last Romanov dynasty, who ruled Russia for a total of more than three centuries. Let us leave to the conscience of historians, politicians, sociologists and theologians the appropriateness of the degree of scaling of the fate of the royal family.
But few know that it was with the beginning of the reign of the Romanov dynasty, who, not without reason, are considered proteges of the West, that Russian history began to be rewritten in Rus'. Paradoxical but true: this process continues to this day.
Our contemporaries are familiar with the confrontation (USSR) Russia - the West - at least formally, at the level of trifles. Who knows that this ethnopolitical antagonism has been going on for more than 300 years?
Archive purge
The influence of foreigners in Rus' began even before the accession of the Romanov dynasty to the kingdom - during the Great Troubles, which lasted until 1613. But as soon as the coronation of the first king from this dynasty, Mikhail Fedorovich, took place (1613), the vicious foreign influence on Russian history took concrete forms.
There are still debates about why there was a need to rewrite the past of Ancient Rus'. One of the most likely and understandable versions is that the then rulers of the most powerful state in the world simply “bowed in” (for free?) in front of Western headphones and went along with the foreign interpretation of Russian history.
This is what documents say about the thorough cleansing of the Russian information space since the beginning of the 17th century. Since 1616, in Rus', by order of the tsar, they began to collect monastic documents everywhere that were of importance - these were papers that reflected chronicle information. At the same time, book depositories, libraries, archives were requisitioned... At the same time, some documents were simply destroyed.
When Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich ordered in the middle of the 17th century to deliver all the books on the history of Rus' available in the capital, not even the most stale historical book was found in any of the “central” Russian libraries of the Russian state - everything was cleaned up at that time.
Why did they “clean up” the history of Rus'?
Karamzin also noted that in the written sources of the 17th century, which spoke about the past of Rus', there are factual inconsistencies and obvious contradictions, which, with a careful analysis of written evidence, are not difficult to establish. Some scientists even consider the famous correspondence between Ivan the Terrible and Prince Kurbsky to be a literary work written by a certain S. Shakhovsky in the 17th century - at a time when manipulation of Russian history was especially fashionable.
Even Peter I, who “cut a window to Europe,” during his reign ordered ancient manuscripts to be brought to the capital “to write true history.”
History since the reign of the Romanovs has been ruled in order to please Western ideologists to show the initial inferiority of our state and the people inhabiting it.
Under Empress Anna Ioannovna, foreigners began to dominate Russia in all spheres. At their suggestion, the theory quickly prevailed that the “wild” Russians were originally civilized by foreigners - supposedly in a short time the Normans turned “dark” Rus' into a powerful state. At the same time, the idea began to be introduced into the consciousness of the people that before and during the Tatar-Mongol “yoke” the Russians were a worthless, slave nation that did not play any significant role in world socio-political life.
Such an interpretation of Russian history was (and still is) to the advantage of Western ideologists. But not all Western researchers of the past were biased. A foreigner, a Dominican abbot, Mavro Orbini published a book at the beginning of the 17th century (Peter I became interested in it, by the way), in which the author convincingly, on the basis of historical documents, proves: the Slavs in ancient times, in fact, owned the entire civilized world, and in this regard, one should not underestimate them - in every sense.
Why was Lomonosov arrested?
The Russian “Leonardo da Vinci” Mikhail Lomonosov, a most talented and multi-talented representative of his time, was distinguished by his independence in judgment and was not afraid to defend them if he was confident that he was right. Mikhail Vasilyevich reacted sharply to deliberate distortions of history, and was not afraid to publicly declare this. But even a scientist of this level was “put in his place”: “... for repeated discourteous, dishonest and disgusting actions both in relation to the Academy, and the commission, and the German land, he is subject to the death penalty, or, in extreme cases, to lashing and imprisonment rights and conditions...". And this is because the Russian scientist tried to defend his opinion about the historical greatness of the nation.
In the end, of course, they weren’t killed or flogged, but Lomonosov spent almost seven months under arrest. And yet, by decree of Empress Elizabeth, he was still found guilty. But they didn’t punish me - they forced me to ask for forgiveness from the “correct” professors.” Lomonosov humiliated himself and signed this “repentance” compiled (not even by him!).
The centuries-old fierce confrontation between supporters of the Western interpretation of Russian history and domestic champions of independence is unique in itself - it is already a given part of Russian history. Was Rus', in alliance with the Mongol-Tatars, the mistress of the world or did it, the “dark” one, need to be rediscovered and enlightened from the outside after the “yoke” - these are the questions that, after centuries after the radical rewriting of the history of the “Russian state” by the Romanov dynasty, We are still being sought for answers.
Alexander Prozorov
The war against Russia has been going on for a very long time and is very, very successful. Of course, not on the battlefields, where we always beat everyone and very painfully, but where the West has always won and continues to win - in information wars. The main goal is to prove to the inhabitants of our country that they are stupid, brainless cattle, not even second-rate, but somewhere in the 6-7 category, without a past and a future. And it has practically proven that even the authors of many patriotic articles agree with this approach entirely.
Examples? Please!
Example 1. We recently celebrated the 1000th anniversary of Rus'. When did she actually appear? The first capital (only the capital of a large country!), the city of Slovensk, was founded in 2409 BC (3099 from the creation of the world); the source of information is the chronicle of the Serf Monastery on the Mologa River, the chronograph of Academician M. N. Tikhomirov, “Notes on Muscovy” by S. Herberstein, “The Tale of Sloven and Rus,” which is widely circulated and recorded by many ethnographers. Since it is believed that Novgorod was built on the site of Slovensk, I pestered the archaeologists leading the excavations about how plausible this was. They answered me verbatim like this: “Who the hell knows. We’ve already got to the bottom of Paleolithic sites there.”
Example 2. It is generally accepted that somewhere in the 8th century, wild, brainless and good-for-nothing Slavs, wandering in herds through the forests, called the Viking Rurik to themselves and said: “Own us, oh great European superman, otherwise we, idiots, are nothing ourselves.” can not". (Free presentation of a history textbook). In fact, Rurik is the grandson of the Novgorod prince Gostomysl, the son of his daughter Umila and one of the neighboring princes of a lower rank. He was drafted together with his brothers, since all 4 sons of Gostomysl died or were killed in wars. He was accepted by agreement with the elders, and worked hard to earn respect in Rus'. Source: Joachim Chronicle, Russian history according to Tatishchev, “Brockhaus and Efron”, etc.
Example 3. The opinion is being spread everywhere that almost the only civilization of the past was the Roman Empire, an example of legality and morality. In general, both the gladiatorial fights of Rome and the modern indulgence of looters in Iraq are the same thing. The morality of the Western world has not changed much, and continues to be disgusted by “savages” such as Russians, Chinese and Dagestanis.
Official history: the great, beautiful and powerful Roman civilization fell under the blows of stinking, shaggy savages. In fact, the degenerates, fed up with everyone (like the Americans now), were subjected to sanitization by their more decent neighbors. Naked and bare-legged, poorly armed Roman infantry (open a textbook on the history of the ancient world and admire the legionnaires) were trampled, chained in steel from the tops of their heads to their horse hooves cataphracts. The main source of information is “Cataphractars and their role in the history of military art” by A.M. Khazanov. (I don’t remember the rest, but those who wish can search through the auto search themselves. There is a lot of material - they just don’t let it into schools. “Harmful”).
The most interesting thing is where did the Huns come from to “cleanse” Rome? Ob, Ugra, Volga region, Urals, Azov region... Graves with partial weapons of cataphracts were also found in Dagestan. Have you, fellow patriots, looked at the map for a long time? So where did the Huns attack Rome from? Why was “wild Rus'” in Europe called Gardarik - the Country of Cities? Now it doesn’t matter, because we celebrate the 1000th anniversary of Rus' with joyful faces, we consider Rurik to be the master who came from Norway and founded Russia, and we even seem to be proud of this history.
4 millennia were sent down the drain, impudently thrown away as uninteresting - and not a single dog even blathered.
1:0 in favor of the West.
Second goal against the Russian fools. In the 8th century, one of the Russian princes nailed a shield to the gates of Constantinople, and it is difficult to assert that Russia did not exist even then. Therefore, long-term slavery was planned for Rus' in the coming centuries. The invasion of the Mongol-Tatars and 3 centuries of obedience and humility. What marked this era in reality? We will not deny the Mongol yoke out of laziness, but... As soon as the existence of the Golden Horde became known in Rus', young guys immediately went there to... rob the Mongols who came from rich China to Rus'. The Russian raids of the 14th century are best described (in case anyone has forgotten, the period from the 14th to the 15th century is considered the yoke).
In 1360, Novgorod lads fought along the Volga to the Kama mouth, and then stormed the large Tatar city of Zhukotin (Dzhuketau near the modern city of Chistopol). Having captured untold wealth, the ushkuiniki returned and began to “drink their zipuns on drink” in the city of Kostroma. From 1360 to 1375, the Russians made eight large campaigns against the middle Volga, not counting small raids. In 1374, the Novgorodians took the city of Bolgar (near Kazan) for the third time, then went down and took Sarai itself - the capital of the Great Khan.
In 1375, Smolensk guys on seventy boats under the command of governors Prokop and Smolyanin moved down the Volga. By tradition, they paid a “visit” to the cities of Bolgar and Saray. Moreover, the rulers of Bolgar, taught by bitter experience, paid off with a large tribute, but the khan’s capital Sarai was stormed and plundered. In 1392, the Ushkuiniki again took Zhukotin and Kazan. In 1409, Voivode Anfal led 250 Ushkuis to the Volga and Kama. And in general, beating the Tatars in Rus' was considered not a feat, but a trade.
During the Tatar “yoke,” the Russians attacked the Tatars every 2-3 years, Sarai was burned dozens of times, Tatar women were sold to Europe in the hundreds. What did the Tatars do in response? They wrote complaints! To Moscow, to Novgorod. The complaints persisted. The “enslavers” could not do anything more. The source of information on the mentioned campaigns - you will laugh, but this is a monograph by a Tatar historian Alfred Khasanovich Khalikov.
They still can’t forgive us for these visits! And at school they still talk about how Russian gray-legged men cried and gave their girls into slavery - because they were submissive cattle. And you, their descendants, also imbue this thought. Does anyone here doubt the reality of the yoke?
2:0 in favor of the West.
In the 16th century, Ivan the Terrible came to power. During his reign in Rus':
Trial by jury introduced;
Free primary education (church schools);
Medical quarantine at borders;
Local elected self-government, instead of governor;
For the first time, a regular army appeared (and the first military uniform in the world belonged to the Streltsy);
Tatar raids stopped;
Equality was established between all segments of the population (do you know that serfdom did not exist in Rus' at that time? The peasant was obliged to sit on the land until he paid for its rent, and nothing more. And his children were considered free from birth, in any case !).
Slave labor is prohibited (source - Ivan the Terrible's code of law);
The state monopoly on the fur trade, introduced by Grozny, was abolished only 10 ( ten!) years ago.
The territory of the country has been increased 30 times!
The emigration of the population from Europe exceeded 30,000 families (those who settled along the Zasechnaya Line were paid an allowance of 5 rubles per family. The expense books have been preserved).
The growth in the well-being of the population (and taxes paid) during the reign amounted to several thousand (!) percent.
During the entire reign there was no no one executed without trial, the total number of those “repressed” ranged from three to four thousand. (And times were turbulent - remember St. Bartholomew's Night).
Now remember what they told you about Grozny at school? That he was a bloody tyrant and lost the Livonian War, and Rus' was shaking in horror?
3:0 in favor of the West.
By the way, about the stupid Americans as a result of propaganda. Already in the 16th century, many brochures were published in Europe for every brainless layman. It was written there that the Russian Tsar was a drunkard and a libertine, and all his subjects were the same wild monsters. And in instructions to ambassadors it was indicated that the king was a teetotaler, unpleasantly smart, categorically cannot stand drunks, and even banned drinking alcohol in Moscow, as a result of which you can only “get drunk” outside the city, in the so-called “nalivka” (a place where they pour food). Source - study “Ivan the Terrible” by Kazimir Waliszewski, France. Now guess three times - which of the two versions is presented in textbooks?
In general, our textbooks are based on the principle that everything that is said about Russia that is vile is true. Everything that is said that is good or intelligible is a lie.
One example. In 1569, Grozny came to Novgorod, which had approximately 40 000 population. There was an epidemic raging there, and there was also a smell of riot. Based on the results of the sovereign’s stay, the memorial lists fully preserved in the synodics mark 2800 dead. But Jerome Horsey in “Notes on Russia” indicates that the guardsmen massacred in Novgorod 700 000 (seven hundred thousand (?)) people.
Guess which of the two figures is considered historically accurate?
4:0 in favor of the West.
Wild Russians cry and moan. And they are constantly stolen and driven into slavery by the dashing Crimean infidels. And the Russians cry and pay tribute. Almost all historians point their fingers at the stupidity, weakness and cowardice of the Russian rulers, who could not even cope with the puny Crimea. And for some reason they “forget” that there was no Crimean Khanate- was one of the provinces of the Ottoman Empire, in which there were Turkish garrisons and an Ottoman governor. No one wants to reproach Castro for not being able to capture a tiny American base on his island?
The Ottoman Empire, by this time, was actively expanding in all directions, conquering all the Mediterranean lands, spreading from Iran (Persia) and advancing on Europe, approaching Venice and besieging Vienna. In 1572, the Sultan decided to conquer at the same time the wild, as European brochures assured, Muscovy. moved from Crimea to the north 120 thousand troops, with the support of 20 thousand Janissaries and 200 cannons.
Near the village Juvenile The Ottomans faced a 50,000-strong detachment of the governor Mikhaily Vorotynsky. And the Turkish army was... No, not stopped - completely cut out!!!
From that moment on, the Ottomans' offensive against their neighbors stopped - but try to engage in conquests if your army was almost halved! God forbid you can fight off your neighbors yourself. What do you know about this battle? Nothing? That's it! Wait, in 20 years the participation of Russians in World War II will also be “forgotten” in textbooks. After all, all “progressive humanity” has long and firmly known - Americans defeated Hitler. And it’s time to correct Russian textbooks that are “wrong” in this area.
Information about the Battle of Molodi can generally be classified as closed. God forbid the Russian cattle learn that they too can be proud of the deeds of their ancestors in the Middle Ages! He will develop incorrect self-awareness, love for the Fatherland, for its deeds. And this is wrong. So, it is difficult to find information about the Battle of Moldody, but it is possible - in specialized reference books. For example, three lines are written in the “Encyclopedia of Arms” of Kosmet.
So, 5:0 in favor of the West.
Stupid Russian slackers. Remembering the Mongol invasion, I am always surprised - how did they manage to collect so many sabers? After all sabers were forged only starting from the 14th century, and only in Moscow and Dagestan, in Kubachi. Such a strange fork - the Dagestanis and I always end up unexpectedly being the same. Although, in all textbooks there are always a couple of hostile states between us. Nowhere else in the world have they learned how to forge sabers- this is a much more complex art than it might seem.
But progress came, the 17th century. The saber gave way to other weapons. There was very little time left before the birth of Peter 1. What was Russia like? If you believe the textbooks, it’s approximately the same as in Tolstoy’s novel “Peter the Great” - patriarchal, ignorant, wild, drunk, inert...
Did you know that it was Russia that armed all of Europe advanced weapons? Every year, Russian monasteries and foundries sold there hundreds of cannons, thousands of muskets, and edged weapons. Source - here's a quote from the "Encyclopedia of Arms":
“It is interesting that the producers of artillery pieces in the 16th-17th centuries were not only the sovereign’s Pushkar courts, but also monasteries. For example, quite a large-scale production of cannons was carried out in the Solovetsky Monastery and in the Kirillovo-Belozersky Monastery. The Don and Zaporozhye Cossacks owned cannons and used them very successfully. The first mention of the use of cannons by the Zaporozhye Cossacks dates back to 1516. In the 19th-20th centuries, in Russia and abroad, there was an opinion that pre-Petrine artillery was technically backward. But here are the facts: in 1646, the Tula-Kamensk factories supplied Holland with more than 600 guns, and in 1647, 360 guns of 4.6 and 8 pound caliber. In 1675, the Tula-Kamensk factories shipped abroad 116 cast iron cannons, 43,892 cannonballs, 2,934 grenades, 2,356 musket barrels, 2,700 swords and 9,687 pounds of iron.”.
So much for the wild, backward Rus' they talk about in school.
6:0 in favor of the West.
By the way, from time to time, I come across Russophobes who claim that all of the above cannot happen, since even highly progressive and developed England and France learned to cast iron only in the 19th century. In such cases, I bet on a bottle of cognac and take the person to the Artillery Museum in St. Petersburg. One of the cast iron cannons cast in 1600, there lying cheekily on a stand for all to see. I already have 3 bottles of cognac in my bar, but they still don’t believe me. People do not believe that Rus', throughout its history and in all respects, was ahead of Europe by about two centuries. But...
Loser's Conclusions. Since our school years, we have been told that our entire history is like a huge cesspool, in which there is not a single bright spot, not a single decent ruler. There were either no military victories at all, or they led to something bad (the victory over the Ottomans is hidden like nuclear launch codes, and the victory over Napoleon is duplicated by the slogan Alexander - the gendarme of Europe). Everything that was invented by our ancestors was either brought to us from Europe or simply a baseless myth. The Russian people did not make any discoveries, did not free anyone, and if someone turned to us for help, it was slavery.
And now everyone around has the historical right of Russians to kill, rob, and rape. If you kill a Russian person, this is not banditry, but a desire for freedom. And the destiny of all Russians is to repent, repent and repent.
A little more than a hundred years of information war - and a feeling of our own inferiority has already been sown in all of us. We are no longer, like our ancestors, confident in our own rightness. Look what's happening with our politicians: they constantly make excuses. No one is demanding that Lord Jad be put on trial for promoting terrorism and collaborating with bandits - he is being persuaded that he is not entirely right.
We threaten Georgia - and we do not carry out the threats. Denmark spits in our faces - and they don’t even impose sanctions against it. The Baltic countries have established an apartheid regime - politicians turn away in shame. People demand to allow the sale of weapons for self-defense - they are openly called worthless cretins who, out of stupidity, will immediately kill each other.
Why should Russia make excuses? After all, she is always right! No one else dares to say this.
You think that current politicians are simply so indecisive, but others are about to come instead. But this won't happen NEVER. Because the feeling of inferiority does not originate in the post of Foreign Minister. It begins to be systematically brought up from childhood, when the child is told: our grandfathers were very stupid, stupid people, incapable of making the most basic decisions. But the kind and smart uncle Rurik came to them from Europe, began to own them and teach them. He created for them the state of Russia, in which we live.
The poison, drop by drop, pours into the soul, and when a person leaves school, he already gets used to looking at the West as a kind master, smarter and more developed. And at the words “democracy” it begins to reflexively stand on its hind legs.
What the Western world knows best is to wage an information war. The blow was struck in a place that no one thought to protect - the educational program. And the West won. All we have to do is show a little patience - and our children themselves will crawl on their knees in that direction and humbly ask permission to lick their owners’ shoes. They are already crawling - a couple of days ago I managed to see a part of the program “Why does Russia need its own currency?” Right. Then it will be: “Why do we need an army?” Then: “Why is statehood needed?”
The West won. The consignment.
What to do?
If you don’t want children to be made slaves, you should not shout that we will fight when the hour comes, but save them right now. The hour has already come, the war is almost over due to the overwhelming advantage of the enemy. There is an urgent need to break the course of history teaching, changing the emphasis of teaching to the positive. My girls are still 4 and 5 years old, but when they go to school, I foresee difficult days. Lawsuits for poor quality teaching are guaranteed. If a historian does not teach children who such an important person in history as Rurik was or does not know about the Battle of Molodin, then he must pay fines from his own pocket.
And even better - file a claim to the Ministry of Education regarding dissemination of deliberately false information. Hire a good lawyer and kick them painfully, painfully - let them itch. But I just don’t have the money for “good” ones. To chip in feebly in the name of saving the honorable name of our ancestors?
The second way to at least slightly strengthen positions on the fronts of the information war is to demand that the prosecutors initiate a criminal case for inciting ethnic hatred by teaching false historical information. There are plenty of examples. Let us remember the Tatar yoke. They tell us that the Tatars oppressed the Russians, but they do not tell us that the Russians robbed the Tatars no less famously. As a result, Russians develop resentment towards their fellow citizens based on race. Moreover, the offense is wrong. We are all good and behaved exactly the same.
Or, for example, last year in Kazan they celebrated (or tried to celebrate) the day of remembrance of the Tatars who defended the city from Russian troops. There is a clear confrontation along ethnic lines. Although, in fact, it was not the Russians who took the city, but Russian-Tatar (!) troops. Cover for the rifle detachments was provided by the Shig-Aley cavalry - and if he is German, then I am ready to recognize myself as the Pope. Russian-Tatar troops took Kazan, eliminating the influence of Istanbul on the Volga, and protecting civilians from predatory raids, freeing tens of thousands of slaves. It is enough to acknowledge the participation of the Tatars in this noble cause - and the national question loses its urgency.
But I’m not a lawyer, and I don’t know how to write up an application in such a way that it won’t be brushed aside and sent to hell.
By the way, Dallas’ plan to incite national hatred has been mentioned more than once. And no one paid attention to how it was implemented. Also at school. Good teachers diligently sow discord between the largest national groups - Russians and Tatars. The entire history course is full of pearls about how the Tatars attacked, how the Russians attacked the Tatars, etc. But nowhere is it indicated that the Tatars are our symbiote, our partner people. Tatar units Always were part of the Russian troops, participated in all Russian wars - both internecine and in battles with external enemies. It can be said that Tatars are just Russian light cavalry. Or the Russians are the Tatar forged army. The Tatars fought against Mamai on the Kulikovo field together with the Moscow army, the Tatars were the first to attack the enemy in the Swedish and Livonian wars; in 1410, near Grunwald, the united Polish-Russian-Tatar army completely defeated the crusaders, breaking the back of the Teutonic Order - and it was the Tatars who took the first blow.
Sometimes people ask me why I don’t mention Lithuanians. So I mention - Russians. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a Russian state, with a Russian population that spoke Russian, and even office work was conducted in Russian. Did you think that a small racist country on the Baltic coast was once a great state?
7:0 in favor of the West.
We lived with the Tatars side by side for four thousand years. They fought, they became friends, they became related. They smashed the Romans, the Crusaders, the Ottomans, the Poles, the French, the Germans... And now, our children open the textbook, and it drips from every page: enemies, enemies, enemies... Legally this is called inciting national hatred. And in fact - ordinary information war.
The war continues...
Monday, 12 March 2012For many years, numerous false historians have imposed on us the myth that the history of Rus' began with the arrival of Christians; before their arrival, it was as if we did not exist, this is how some backward tribes lived, they lived in green pits, they had no culture. But when tested, this myth turned out to be a lie; archaeological excavations and numerous written sources indicate that Rus' existed and flourished long before the construction of the Chinese wall and pyramids in Egypt. Written evidence from many countries has preserved information about the depth of Russian culture, about the great and invincible Russian army, about the fact that Rus' is the foremother of many peoples inhabiting our planet...
A country: Russia (studio "Svetogor")
Duration: 00:30:15
Description: As you know, history is the most inexact science. Because it is a kind of instrument of power to manipulate the consciousness of the masses.
Increasingly, evidence is emerging that this or that episode in history was rewritten as directed from above. It is generally better to remain silent about history in Western textbooks. We know nothing about the true history of our people...
It is customary to begin the history of Rus' from the moment of baptism; this tradition was laid by our first historians Tatishchev and Karamzin, who considered the history of our country, first of all, as the history of the state.
Prince Vladimir baptized Rus', and from that moment the clock of Russian history began to tick, but there were centuries before that!
Everyone knows about ancient Egypt, ancient Rome, ancient China, etc. Rus' is not on this list. We open any book and read: “1000 year history of Rus'.” Where were we 2000-3000 years ago?
Excerpts from the film
Russian history usually begins with the moment of baptism. This tradition was laid by our first historians Tatishchev and Karamzin, who viewed the history of our country primarily as the history of the state. And the history of the state, in turn, is the history of autocracy. Prince Vladimir baptized Rus' and from that moment the clock of Russian history began to tick. But there were centuries before that.
The myth that our history began with the calling of the Varangians and the baptism of Rus' was so ingrained in the consciousness that almost no one seriously tried to trace our ancestry back thousands of years. Our faith is from Byzantium, our writing and literacy are also not our own - it was created by foreigners Cyril and Methodius, statehood is also alien - from the Varangians. In a word, there is nothing of our own. And there is nothing to study here.
Depending on what kind of history is written to the people, they will live with this mentality. Even in school and institute, I was always surprised: why is there the ancient Roman Empire, Greece, and so on and so on, and how it comes to Ancient Rus' - there is something all small, in skins, poor agriculture and the like. And everywhere there are huge temples, cathedrals, and so on, and so on. Allegedly, the entire history of Rus' begins with the adoption of Christianity. And of course this is all a complete lie.
Court historians, including Karamzin, wrote the history of the state, the history of power. Church chroniclers - theirs. And no one tried to write the history of the people. It is preserved only in oral traditions and fairy tales. Unfortunately, under the guise of fighting paganism, many written evidence and cultural monuments of the people were destroyed. In the ancient sources that have reached us, the pre-Christian history of Rus' is covered very sparingly. It’s as if some tribes of Drevlyans, Polyans, Krivichi and others suddenly appeared out of oblivion, who, due to their savagery and inability to develop independently, decided to call on the Varangians, as the Norman theory claims, an alien Scandinavian tribe. Russian statehood began with them. With its capital in Novgorod, and later in Kyiv.
Oleg Gusev, historian, professor at the International Slavic Academy:
Ideologists were sent in, specially trained in the Vatican, whom we know as the founders of Russian history. This is a whole cohort of these same historians. And they began to slowly implant this story into us.
Who is Karamzin? Karamzin is a historian who brought all this writing into a unified system. And he, relying on their works, created his famous “History of the Russian State.”
Both in Tsarist and Soviet times there was an unspoken lock on ancient Russian pagan history. Along with the Russians, dozens of other Slavic and Turkic peoples who inhabited the vast expanses of the Empire were deprived of their ancient history. Thank God, recently archaeological finds and scientific research have lifted the veil over the glorious history of our ancestors, who once inhabited the vast expanses of Eurasia.
Until recently, scientists considered Western Europe the Cradle of Humankind. Now they are forced to admit: European civilization has Russian roots.
There was a scientific direction that was engaged in discrediting all attempts to penetrate into the depths of our history, at least before Rurik. That is, Rurik was the starting point from which Russian history acquired an academic guise. Everything that was before Rurik was swept aside. And even Academician Rybakov, who studied the paganism of the ancient Slavs, was not liked by many, precisely because in his works he tried to penetrate somewhat deeper than the times of Rurik and his legendary brothers.
The latest excavations in the Southern Urals, in Arkaim, shocked the scientific community. It turns out that back in the days of the pyramids and English stonehedge, Russia had the greatest civilization with developed crafts, metal smelting, knowledge of astronomy and high art. This is a real revolution in the established ideas that the entire Indo-European civilization came to us from Asia and the Mediterranean. Perhaps its cradle is precisely in the vastness of Siberia, off the coast of the Arctic Ocean.
Andrey Vassoevich, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of St. Petersburg State University:
Let’s not forget that in the modern geopolitical space Russia has many opponents, and for them any obsolescence of Russian history is a sharp knife. On the contrary, they would like to turn the Russians into a pitiful nation, a nation of slaves, which, if it had anything good, was only thanks to foreigners.
Word "slav" in English means "Slav";
A "slave" means "slave", "slave";
German has the same meaning "sklave" and French "esclave".
A very strange coincidence in word formation in European languages that were later in relation to Russian, because until the 16th century, almost all of Europe spoke the same language. And it was Russian.
The history of a people is the foundation of its future. As is the history, so are the people. If you are taught from childhood that you are a slave, you will grow up to be a slave. And your descendants will be slaves. Therefore, falsification of history was always carried out to please the ruling regime. And not only history, but even religions.
“It is not true that all people are people. Russians are not people. They are alien creatures,” American historian Robert Conquist.
Andrey Vassoevich, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of St. Petersburg State University:
In reality, the history that is studied in schools and universities is, of course, subject to falsification. It is no coincidence that the Soviet academician Pokrovsky proposed a terrible, but in its own way brilliant formula: history is politics thrown back into the past. And it must be said that Academician Pokrovsky himself skillfully overturned the history of Russia in favor of the modern political situation of the 20s and early 30s. XX century.
And we have to admit with disappointment that in history we are faced with massive falsifications of the past.
Thus, in France, after the Bourbons came to power, they tried to erase Napoleon from history. They published a textbook in which everything connected with Napoleon was declared a mass hallucination, and their own decrees were dated from his time. In Britain, to please anti-Russian sentiments, even the mention of Gog and Magog and Prince Ros as reminiscent of Russia was deleted from the Bible.
Andrey Stolyarov, writer, political scientist:
When in the 3rd century BC the Chinese commander Qin Shihuang Di conquered 6 kingdoms and founded the Qin Empire, the first thing he ordered was to collect all the historical chronicles of the conquered states and destroy them. The history of China must have begun with the Qin Empire. This was not the first battle in history. Both the pharaohs of Ancient Egypt and the rulers of eastern tyrannies repeatedly ordered the destruction of any mention of their rivals or predecessors. And in the Middle Ages, Christianity tried to destroy the history of paganism. The battle for history is ongoing.
In the United States, under the pretext of fighting anti-Semitism, passages about Christ being crucified by Jews were removed from the Bible. They crucified and that's it. And who is unknown. And under the pressure of feminists, God the Father turned into God the Father and Mother. Since praising God the Father alone is a sign of male chauvinism. And there are many such examples.
Roman Perin, professor at the International Slavic Academy:
There is an official story that is too distorted and too false for us to base it on. I remember a case: about 5 years ago, a famous Japanese historian died, I don’t remember his name now, who admitted on his deathbed that during excavations he planted false artifacts, that is, fakes, in order to deepen the history of Japan. That is, their historians are ready to go to the extent of creating artificially, but we don’t need to create anything artificially. If we pursue this goal and intensify excavations on the territory of the same Rus', I think the greatest discoveries await us.
The myth that the history and culture of Russia begins in the 9th century is very beneficial to many of our enemies. Even in the modern manual for 5th grade published by the publishing house "Prosveshcheniye" in 1993, it is written that before the adoption of Christianity we lived in pits covered with rods on top and it is called "Stories about our native history." I just want to ask the authors - whose story is theirs?
Roman Perin, professor at the International Slavic Academy:
- Why do the Chinese constantly dig up and deepen something, deepen their culture and history, the Romans dig and show their great history deeper and deeper. And with us everything is the period of Christianity, and then the cults of God, some birch bark letters and nothing more. Of course not.
Why did Thor Heyerdahl come to Russia to dig? After his many years of research, he came to the conclusion that perhaps the basis of civilization was on Russian territory. And he found unique findings that have not yet been widely announced. Therefore, the question of what is the history of a person, a people, is also a question of his future mentality and geopolitical views.
We will not say much about those who made it their duty to humiliate everything that relates to the Slavs, especially the Rus. Not only among the ancient Asian tribes, but also among other peoples, the Rus are at the head of not only the Romans, but also the Greeks, as their ancestors. The honest historian Yegor Klassen wrote back in the 18th century: “If we were so humiliated, to whom did the Byzantine emperors humiliatingly pay tribute, whose shield is on the gates of Constantinople, who defeated the powerful Khazar Khaganate?”
Andrey Vassoevich, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of St. Petersburg State University:
Of course, we must evaluate everything, Russian history, not only on the basis of “The Tale of Bygone Years” . This is undoubtedly the most valuable source. But one of the most valuable sources. Arab writers have preserved the most valuable evidence of ancient Russian history. Syrian authors also have evidence. Finally, one cannot discount such an important source as the Jewish-Khazar correspondence. These are also valuable documents for studying the history of Ancient Rus' with its closest neighbors.
09/01/2013 05:23
This material was intended as an attempt to answer the question of why our true history is hidden from us. A short historical excursion into the area of historical truth should enable the reader to understand how far from the truth is what is presented to us as the history of the Russian people. In fact, the truth may shock the reader at first, as it shocked me, it is so different from the official version, that is, a lie. I came to many conclusions on my own, but then it turned out that, fortunately, there are already works of several modern historians of the last decade who have seriously studied the issue. Only, unfortunately, they, their works, are not known to the general reader - academicians and the authorities in Russia, well, they really don’t like the truth. Fortunately, there are interested ARI readers who need this truth. And today the day has come when we need it in order to answer - Who are we? Who are our ancestors? Where is the Heavenly Iriy, from which we must draw strength? V. Karabanov, ARI
FORBIDDEN HISTORY OF Rus'
Vladislav Karabanov
To understand why we need historical truth,
we need to understand why the ruling regimes in Rus'-Russia
a historical lie was needed.
History and psychology
Russia is deteriorating before our eyes. The huge Russian people are the backbone of the state, which decided the destinies of the world and Europe, under the control of crooks and scoundrels who hate the Russian people. Moreover, the Russian people, who gave the name to the state located on its territory, are not the owner of the state, are not the administrator of this state and do not receive any dividends from this, even moral ones. We are a people deprived of our rights in our own land.
Russian national identity is at a loss, the realities of this world are falling upon the Russian people, and they cannot even stand up, group themselves in order to maintain balance. Other nations are pushing back the Russians, and they are convulsively gasping for air and retreating, retreating. Even when there is nowhere to retreat. We are squeezed on our own land, and there is no longer a corner in the country of Russia, a country created by the efforts of the Russian people, in which we can breathe freely. The Russian people are so rapidly losing their inner sense of right to their land that the question arises about the presence of some kind of distortion in self-awareness, the presence of some kind of defective code in historical self-knowledge that does not allow relying on it.
Therefore, perhaps, in search of solutions, we need to turn to psychology and history.
National self-awareness is, on the one hand, an unconscious involvement in an ethnic group, in its egregor filled with the energy of hundreds of generations, on the other hand, it is the reinforcement of unconscious feelings with information, knowledge of one’s history, the origins of one’s origin. In order to gain stability in their consciousness, people need information about their roots, about their past. Who are we and where are we from? Every ethnic group should have it. Among ancient peoples, information was recorded by folk epics and legends; among modern peoples, who are usually called civilized, epic information is supplemented by modern data and is offered in the form of scientific works and research. This information layer, which reinforces unconscious sensations, is a necessary and even obligatory part of self-awareness for a modern person, ensuring his stability and mental balance.
But what will happen if people are not told who they are and where they are from, or if they tell them lies and invent an artificial story for them? Such people endure stress because their consciousness, based on information received in the real world, does not find confirmation and support in the ancestral memory, in the codes of the unconscious and images of the superconscious. The people, like people, seek support for their inner self in the cultural tradition, which is history. And, if he does not find it, this leads to disorganization of consciousness. Consciousness ceases to be whole and falls into fragments.
This is precisely the situation in which the Russian people find themselves today. His story, the story of his origin, is fictitious or distorted so much that his consciousness cannot focus, because in his unconscious and superconscious, it does not find confirmation of this story. It’s as if a white boy were shown photographs of his ancestors, where only dark-skinned Africans were depicted. Or, on the contrary, an Indian raised in a white family was shown to be the grandfather of a cowboy. He is shown relatives, none of whom he resembles, whose way of thinking is alien to him - he does not understand their actions, views, thoughts, music. Other people. The human psyche cannot stand such things. The same story is with the Russian people. On the one hand, the story is absolutely not disputed by anyone, on the other hand, the person feels that this does not fit with his codes. The puzzles don't match. Hence the collapse of consciousness.
Man is a creature that carries complex codes inherited from his ancestors and, if he is aware of his origin, then he gains access to his subconscious and thereby remains in harmony. In the depths of the subconscious, every person has layers associated with the superconscious, the soul, which can either be activated when consciousness possessing correct information helps a person gain integrity, or blocked by false information, and then the person cannot use his inner potential, which depresses him. This is why the phenomenon of cultural development is so important, or if it is based on lies, then it is a form of oppression.
Therefore, it makes sense to take a closer look at our history. The one that tells about our roots.
Somehow it turned out strangely that, according to historical science, we more or less know the history of our people starting from the 15th century. Since the 9th century, that is, from Rurik, we have it in a semi-legendary version, supported by some historical evidence and documents . But as for Rurik himself, the legendary Rus', which came with him, historical science tells us more conjectures and interpretations than real historical evidence. The fact that this is speculation is evidenced by the heated debate surrounding this issue. What is this Rus, which came and gave its name to a huge people and state, which became known as Russia? Where did the Russian land come from? Historical science, as it were, leads discussions. As they began to communicate at the beginning of the 18th century, they continue to do so. But as a result, they come to the strange conclusion that this does not matter, because those who were called Russia“did not have a significant impact” on the formation of the Russian people. This is exactly how historical science in Russia rounded off the question. That's it - they gave a name to the people, but who, what and why does not matter.
Is it really impossible for researchers to find an answer? Are there really no traces of the people, no information in the ecumene, where there are the roots of the mysterious Rus' that laid the foundation for our people? So Rus' appeared out of nowhere, gave its name to our people and disappeared into nowhere? Or were you looking poorly?
Before we give our answer and start talking about history, we need to say a few words about historians. In fact, the public has a deep misconception about the essence of historical science and the results of its research. History is usually an order. History in Russia is no exception and was also written to order, and given that the political regime here was always extremely centralized, it ordered the ideological construct that history is. And for the sake of ideological considerations, the order was for an extremely monolithic story, not allowing deviations. And the people - Rus spoiled a harmonious and necessary picture for someone. Only in a short period at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, when some freedoms appeared in Tsarist Russia, were there real attempts to understand the issue. And we almost figured it out. But, firstly, no one really needed the truth then, and secondly, the Bolshevik coup broke out. In the Soviet period, there is nothing even to be said about objective coverage of history; it could not exist in principle. What do we want from hired workers who write to order under the watchful supervision of the Party? Moreover, we are talking about forms of cultural oppression, such as the Bolshevik regime. And to a large extent the tsarist regime too.
Therefore, it is not surprising the heaps of lies that we encounter when looking into the story that was presented to us, and which, neither in its facts nor in its conclusions, is true. Due to the fact that there are too many rubble and lies, and other lies and their branches were built on these lies and fabrications, in order not to tire the reader, the author will focus more on the really important facts.
Past out of nowhere
If we read the history of Rus', written in the Romanov era, in the Soviet era and accepted in modern historiography, we will find that the versions of the origin of Rus', the people who gave this name to a huge country and people, are vague and unconvincing. For almost 300 years, when attempts to understand history can be counted, there are only a few established versions. 1) Rurik, a Norman king, who came to the local tribes with a small retinue, 2) Came from the Baltic Slavs, either the Obodrites, or the Vagrs 3) A local, Slavic prince 3) The story of Rurik was invented by the chronicler
Versions common among the Russian national intelligentsia also come from the same ideas. But recently, the idea that Rurik is a prince from the Western Slavic tribe of the Vagr, who came from Pomerania, has become especially popular.
The main source for constructing all versions is “The Tale of Bygone Years” (hereinafter PVL). A few meager lines have given rise to countless interpretations that revolve around several of the above versions. And all known historical data are completely ignored.
What’s interesting is that somehow it turns out that the entire history of Rus' begins in 862. From the year that is indicated in the “PVL” and begins with the calling of Rurik. But what happened before is practically not considered at all, and as if no one is interested. In this form, history looks only like the emergence of a certain state entity, and we are not interested in the history of administrative structures, but in the history of the people.
But what happened before that? The year 862 almost looks like the beginning of history. And before that there was a failure, almost emptiness, with the exception of a few short legends of two or three phrases.
In general, the history of the Russian people that is offered to us is a history that has no beginning. From what we know, we get the feeling that the semi-mythical narrative began somewhere in the middle and halfway through.
Ask anyone, even a certified historian-specialist in Ancient Rus', or even an ordinary person, as for the origin of the Russian people and their history before 862, all this is in the realm of assumptions. The only thing that is offered as an axiom is that the Russian people descended from the Slavs. Some, seemingly nationally minded representatives of the Russian people, generally identify themselves ethnically as Slavs, although the Slavs are still more of a linguistic community than an ethnic one. This is complete nonsense. It would also look ridiculous, for example, if people who speak one of the Romance languages - Italian, Spanish, French, Romanian (and its dialect, Moldavian) discard the ethnonym and begin to call themselves “Romanes”. Identify yourself as one people. By the way, the gypsies call themselves that - Romals, but they hardly consider themselves and the French to be fellow tribesmen. The peoples of the Romance language group are different ethnic groups, with different destinies and having different origins. Historically, they speak languages that have absorbed the foundations of Roman Latin, but ethnically, genetically, historically and spiritually, these are different peoples.
The same applies to the community of Slavic peoples. These are peoples who speak similar languages, but the fates of these peoples and their origins differ. We will not go into detail here, it is enough to point out the history of the Bulgarians in whose ethnogenesis the main role was played not only and perhaps not so much by the Slavs, but by the nomadic Bulgarians and local Thracians. Or the Serbs, like the Croats, take their name from the descendants of the Aryan-speaking Sarmatians. (Here and further, I will use the term Aryan-speaking, instead of the term Iranian-speaking used by modern historians, which I consider false. The fact is that the use of the word Iranian-speaking immediately creates a false association with modern Iran, in general , today, quite an eastern people. However, historically the word Iran itself, Iranian, is a distortion of the original designation of the country Arian, Aryan. That is, if we talk about antiquity, we should use the concept not Iranian, but Aryan). The ethnonyms themselves are presumably the essence of the names of the Sarmatian tribes “Sorboy” and “Khoruv”, from which the hired leaders and squads of the Slavic tribes came. The Sarmatians, who came from the Caucasus and the Volga region, mixed with the Slavs in the area of the Elbe River and then descended to the Balkans and there they assimilated the local Illyrians.
Now as for Russian history itself. This story, as I have already indicated, begins, as it were, from the middle. In fact, from the 9th-10th century AD. And before that, in established tradition, there was a dark time. What did our ancestors do and where were they, and what did they call themselves in the era of Ancient Greece and Rome, in the ancient period and during the period of the Huns and the great migration of peoples? That is, what they did, what they were called and where they lived directly in the previous millennium is somehow inelegantly kept silent.
Where did they come from, after all? Why do our people occupy the vast space of Eastern Europe, by what right? When did you appear here? The answer is silence.
Many of our compatriots have somehow become accustomed to the fact that nothing is said about this period. In the minds of the Russian national intelligentsia of the previous period, it seems to not exist. Rus' follows almost immediately from the Ice Age. The idea of the history of one’s own people is vague and vaguely mythological. In the reasoning of many, there is only the “Arctic ancestral home”, Hyperborea, and similar matters of the prehistoric or antediluvian period. Then, more or less, a theory was developed about the Vedic era, which can be attributed to a period several thousand years BC. But in these theories we do not see a transition to our history itself, a transition to real events. And then, somehow immediately, passing a couple of millennia, virtually out of nowhere, Rus' appears in 862, the time of Rurik. The author in no way wants to enter into controversy on this issue and even in some ways divides the theories according to the prehistoric period. But in any case, Hyperborea can be attributed to the era of 7-8 thousand years ago, the era of the Vedas can be attributed to the times of the 2nd millennium BC, and maybe even earlier.
But as for the next 3 millennia, the times directly adjacent to the era of the creation of the historical Russian state, the time of the beginning of a new era and the time preceding the new era, practically nothing is reported about this part of the history of our people, or false information is reported. Meanwhile, this knowledge provides the keys to understanding our history and the history of our origin, respectively, our self-awareness.
Slavs or Russians?
A common and undisputed place in the Russian historical tradition is the approach that Russians are an original Slavic people. And, in general, almost 100% there is an equal sign between Russian and Slavic. What is meant is not a modern linguistic community, but a kind of historical origin of the Russian people from ancient tribes identified as Slavs. Is it really?
What’s interesting is that even ancient chronicles do not give us grounds to draw such conclusions - to deduce the origin of the Russian people from Slavic tribes.
Let us cite the well-known words of the Russian initial chronicle for the year 862:
“We decided to ourselves: let’s look for a prince who would rule over us and judge by right.” I went across the sea to the Varangians to Rus'; for all I know, I called the Varangians Rus, as all my friends are called Ours, my friends are Urman, Anglyans, friends of Gate , tako and si. Decided by Rus' Chud, Slovenia and Krivichi: “all our land is great and abundant, “but there is no outfit in it: let you go and reign over us.” And the three brothers were chosen from their generations, girding all of Rus', and they came; the oldest Rurik sede in Novegrad; and the other is Sineus on Beleozero, and the third is Izborst Truvor. From those the Russian land was nicknamed Novugorodtsy: they are the people of Novugorodtsi from the family of Varangian, before Slovenia."
It is difficult to learn something new, but in these chronicles, in different versions, one important fact can be traced - Rus named as a certain tribe, people. But no one considers anything further. Where did this Rus' then disappear to? And where did you come from?
The established historical tradition, both pre-revolutionary and Soviet, assumes by default that Slavic tribes lived in the Dnieper region and they are the beginning of the Russian people. However, what do we find here? From historical information and from the same PVL, we know that the Slavs came to these places almost in the 8th-9th centuries, not earlier.
The first completely incomprehensible legend about the actual foundation of Kyiv. According to this legend, it was founded by the mythical Kiy, Shchek and Khoriv, with their sister Lybid. According to the version given by the author of The Tale of Bygone Years, Kiy, who lived on the Dnieper mountains together with his younger brothers Shchek, Khoriv and sister Lybid, built a city on the right high bank of the Dnieper, named Kiev in honor of his older brother.
The chronicler immediately reports, although he considers it implausible, a second legend that Kiy was a carrier on the Dnieper. So what is next!!! Cue is named the founder of the town of Kievets on the Danube!? These are the times.
“Some, not knowing, say that Kiy was a carrier; At that time, Kyiv had transportation from the other side of the Dnieper, which is why they said: “For transportation to Kyiv.” If Kiy had been a ferryman, he would not have gone to Constantinople; and this Kiy reigned in his family, and when he went to the king, they say that he received great honors from the king to whom he came. When he was returning, he came to the Danube, and took a fancy to the place, and cut down a small town, and wanted to sit in it with his family, but those living around did not let him; This is how the Danube residents still call the settlement - Kievets. Kiy, returning to his city of Kyiv, died here; and his brothers Shchek and Horiv and their sister Lybid died immediately.” PVL.
Where is this place, Kievets on the Danube?
For example, in the Encyclopedic Dictionary of F.A. Brockhaus and I.A. Efron it is written about Kievets - “a town which, according to Nestor’s story, was built by Kiy on the Danube and still existed in his time. I. Liprandi, in his “Discourse on the ancient cities of Keve and Kievets” (“Son of the Fatherland”, 1831, vol. XXI), brings K. closer to the fortified city of Kevee (Kevee), which is described by the Hungarian chronicler Anonymous Notary and which was located near Orsov, apparently in the place where the Serbian city of Kladova is now (among the Bulgarians Gladova, among the Turks Fetislam). The same author draws attention to the fact that, according to Nestor, Kiy built K. on the way to the Danube, therefore, perhaps not on the Danube itself, and points to the villages of Kiovo and Kovilovo, located about 30 versts from the mouth of Timok. »
If you look at where present-day Kyiv is located and where the above-mentioned Kladov is with nearby Kiovo at the mouth of Timok, then the distance between them is as much as 1 thousand 300 kilometers in a straight line, which is quite far even by our times, especially by those times. And what, it would seem, is common between these places. We are clearly talking about some kind of insinuation, substitution.
Moreover, the most interesting thing is that Kievets really was on the Danube. Most likely, we are dealing with traditional history, when settlers, moving to a new place, transferred their legends there. In this case, Slavic settlers brought these legends from the Danube. As is known, they came to the Dnieper region from Pannonia, pressed in the 8th-9th centuries by the Avars and the ancestors of the Magyars.
That is why the chronicler writes: “When the Slavic people, as we said, lived on the Danube, the so-called Bulgarians came from the Scythians, that is, from the Khazars, and settled along the Danube and were settlers in the land of the Slavs.” PVL.
In reality, this story with Kiy and the glades reflects ancient attempts not so much to tell as to distort real facts and events.
“After the destruction of the pillar and the division of the peoples, the sons of Shem took the eastern countries, and the sons of Ham took the southern countries, and the Japhethites took the west and the northern countries. From these same 70 and 2 languages came the Slavic people, from the tribe of Japheth - the so-called Noriks, who are the Slavs.
After a long time, the Slavs settled along the Danube, where the land is now Hungarian and Bulgarian. From those Slavs the Slavs spread throughout the land and were called by their names from the places where they sat." PVL
The chronicler clearly and unambiguously says that the Slavs lived in territories other than the lands of Kievan Rus, and are alien people here. And if we look at the historical retrospective of the lands of Rus', it is clear that they were by no means a desert, and life has been in full swing here since ancient times.
And there, in the Tale of Bygone Years, the chronicle conveys to the reader information about the settlement of the Slavs even more clearly. We are talking about movement from west to east.
After a long time, the Slavs settled along the Danube, where the land is now Hungarian and Bulgarian (more often they point to the provinces of Rezia and Norik). From those Slavs the Slavs spread throughout the land and were called by their names from the places where they sat. So some, having come, sat down on the river in the name of Morava and were called Moravians, while others called themselves Czechs. And here are the same Slavs: white Croats, and Serbs, and Horutans. When the Volochs attacked the Danube Slavs, and settled among them, and oppressed them, these Slavs came and sat on the Vistula and were called Poles, and from those Poles came the Poles, other Poles - Lutichs, others - Mazovshans, others - Pomeranians
Likewise, these Slavs came and settled along the Dnieper and were called Polyans, and others - Drevlyans, because they sat in the forests, and others sat between Pripyat and Dvina and were called Dregovichs, others sat along the Dvina and were called Polochans, after the river flowing into the Dvina , called Polota, from which the Polotsk people took their name. The same Slavs who settled near Lake Ilmen were called by their own name - Slavs, and built a city and called it Novgorod. And others sat along the Desna, and the Seim, and the Sula, and called themselves northerners. And so the Slavic people dispersed, and after his name the letter was called Slavic.” (PVLIpatiev list)
The ancient chronicler, whether it was Nestor or someone else, needed to depict history, but from this history we only learn that not very long ago Slavic clans moved to the east and northeast.
However, for some reason we don’t find a word about the Russian people from the chronicler PVL.
And we are interested in this Rus- the people, which is with a small letter, and Rus', the country, which is with a capital letter. Where did they come from? To be honest, PVL is not very suitable for the purpose of finding out the true state of affairs. We find only isolated references there, of which only one thing is clear: Rus there was and it was the people, and not some individual Scandinavian squads.
Here it must be said that neither the Norman version of origin Rus' neither Western Slavic is satisfactory. Hence there are so many disputes between supporters of these versions, because when choosing between them, there is nothing to choose. Neither nor the second version allows us to understand the history of the origin of our people. But rather confusing. The question arises, is there really no answer? Can't we figure it out? I hasten to reassure the reader. There is an answer. In fact, it is already known in general terms, and it is quite possible to form a picture, but history is a political and ideological tool, especially in a country like Russia. Ideology here has always played a decisive role in the life of the country, and history is the basis of ideology. And if the historical truth contradicted the ideological content, then they did not change the ideology, they adjusted the history. That is why the traditional history of Rus'-Russia is largely presented as a set of false statements and omissions. This silence and lies have become a tradition in the study of history. And this bad tradition begins with the same PVL.
It seems to the author that there is no need to slowly lead the reader to true conclusions regarding the past Rus'-Russia-Russia, consistently exposing the lies of various historical versions. Of course, I would like to build a narrative, creating intrigue, gradually leading the reader to the correct conclusion, but in this case it will not work. The fact is that avoiding historical truth has been the main goal of most historians, and the piles of untruth are such that hundreds of volumes would have to be written, refuting one nonsense after another. Therefore, here I will take a different path, outlining our actual history, along the way explaining the reasons for the silence and lies that determined the various “traditional versions.” It must be understood that, with the exception of a short period at the end of the era of the Romanov Empire and our present day, historians could not be free from ideological pressure. Much is explained, on the one hand, by a political order, and on the other, by the readiness to fulfill this order. In some periods it was fear of repression, in others it was a desire not to notice the obvious truth in the name of some political hobbies. As we delve deeper into the past and reveal the historical truth, I will try to give my explanations
The degree of lies and the tradition of diverting from the truth were such that for many readers the truth about the origin of their ancestors would be a shock. But the evidence is so indisputable and unambiguous that only a stubborn idiot or a pathological liar would dispute a completely clear truth.
Even at the end of the 19th century, it was clearly possible to state that the origin and history of the Rus people, the state of Rus, that is, the past of the ancestors of the Russian people, is not a mystery, but is generally known. And it’s not difficult to build a historical chain of times to understand who we are and where we come from. Another question is that this contradicted political guidelines. Why, I will touch on this below. Therefore, our history never found its true reflection. But sooner or later the truth must be presented.
Goths
Indeed, Russian history does not begin in 862, but is a continuation of the history of a strong and powerful people, because a powerful state could not appear on this vast land out of nowhere or by the force of small Norman squads from Scandinavia, and especially from the completely mythical Baltic Oudrites. There was a real basis here, on our historical land, and it was the German Gothic tribes who lived in the territory that later began to be called Russia. Their names have been preserved in history, both under the general name of the Goths, and under the tribal names - Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Vandals, Gepids, Burgundians and others. Then these tribes became known in Europe, but they came from here.
When historians throw up their hands about the fact that it is not known what was there in Eastern Europe in the territory that later became Kievan Rus, as if suggesting that it was a wild, sparsely populated land, they are at the very least disingenuous or simply lying. The entire territory from the Baltic to the Black Sea was already an integral part of the settlement of the Gothic tribes from the end of the 2nd century AD, and from the 4th century a powerful state existed here, known as the state of Germanaric. The Gothic tribes and the Gothic state located here were so strong that they could challenge the Roman Empire. There is more than enough evidence of this. In the 3rd century AD For 30 years, the empire was shaken by a war that went down in history as the Scythian War, although Roman historians call it the Gothic War. The war was waged from the territory of the Northern Black Sea region, which the Greeks called Scythia, and inhabited by tribes of Gothic origin. That is, the Goths advanced from those territories that we today consider South Russian. The scale of this war can be judged from numerous testimonies from chroniclers.
The war began with the destruction by the Goths of Greek cities subject to Rome in the Northern Black Sea region. Archaeologists clearly trace traces of the beginning of the Scythian War. At this time, the Greek colony of Olbia at the mouth of the Southern Bug and the Greek colony of Tire at the mouth of the Dniester, which was a stronghold of the Romans in the region, were destroyed.
Then large-scale military operations unfolded on the territory of the Roman Black Sea provinces - Moesia and Thrace, as well as Macedonia and Greece.
The Roman chronicler Jordan, himself a Goth by origin, in his history “On the Origin and Deeds of the Goths,” written in the 6th century AD. reports the number of Goths participating in the campaign against the Roman provinces in 248. The instigators were Roman legionnaires dismissed from service and therefore defected to the Goths: “The warriors, seeing that after such labors they were expelled from military service, were indignant and resorted to the help of Ostrogoth, the king of the Goths. He received them and, fired up by their speeches, soon brought out - to start a war - three hundred thousand of his armed people, with the help of numerous tajfals and astrings; there were also three thousand carps; These are extremely experienced people in war, who were often hostile to the Romans.”
This is how the Roman chronicler Dexippus, in a retelling by George Sincellus, describes the campaign of the Goths in 251, when they took Philippopolis: “The Scythians, called Goths, having crossed the Ister River under Decius (Decius Trajan or Decius - Roman Emperor in 249-251, author), devastated the Roman Empire in large numbers. Decius, having attacked them, as Dexippus says, and exterminated up to thirty thousand of them, was nevertheless struck by them to such an extent that he lost Philippopolis, which was taken by them, and many Thracians were killed. When the Scythians were returning home, this same God-fighter Decius attacked them along with his son at night near Avrit, the so-called Forum of Femvronius. The Scythians returned with many prisoners of war and huge booty,..."
The city of Philippopolis, now Bulgarian Plovdiv, was a very large commercial and administrative center. The Goths destroyed there, as another Roman chronicler Ammianus Marcellinus reports, citing contemporaries, about 100 thousand people.
Then the Goths, in the same campaign in 251, defeated the army led by Emperor Decius near Abritto (now the Bulgarian city of Razgrad) . Emperor Decius drowned in a swamp while fleeing.
As a result, the next Roman emperor, Trebonian Gall, entered into a treaty with the Goths on terms humiliating for Rome, allowing them to take away captured prisoners and promising annual payments to the Goths.
Another time the Goths invaded the Roman provinces was in 255 AD, invading Thrace and reaching and besieging Thessalonica in Greece. Like the last time, according to Roman historians, the Goths left with rich booty.
Let me remind you that they carried out raids from their lands in the Northern Black Sea region and retreated there with the booty.
In 258, the Goths, having built a fleet, made a naval expedition along the Western coast of the Black Sea, while the other part moved along the coast. They reached the Bosphorus and crossed there to Asia Minor. They captured and devastated a number of large and rich Roman cities in Asia Minor - Chalcedon, Nicaea, Cius, Apamea and Prus.
The next invasion, also crowned with success, was carried out by the Goths in 262 and 264, crossing the Black Sea and penetrating the internal provinces of Asia Minor. A major naval campaign of the Goths took place in 267. The Goths, along the Black Sea, reached Byzantium (future Constantinople) with 500 ships. The ships were small vessels with a capacity of 50-60 people. A battle took place in the Bosphorus, in which the Romans managed to push them back. After the battle, the Goths retreated a little back to the exit from the Bosphorus into the sea, and then, with a fair wind, headed further to the Sea of Marmara and then took ships to the Aegean Sea. There they attacked the islands of Lemnos and Skyros, and then dispersed throughout Greece. They took Athens, Corinth, Sparta, Argos.
In another extant passage from the chronicler Dexippus, he describes the siege methods used by the Goths during one of their other campaigns in the Roman provinces of Asia Minor: “The Scythians besieged Sida - this is one of the cities of Lycia. Since there was a large supply of all kinds of shells within the city walls and many people cheerfully got to work, the besiegers prepared their vehicles and brought them to the wall. But the residents had enough of this: they threw down from above everything that could hinder the siege. Then the Scythians built wooden towers, the same height as the city walls, and rolled them on wheels to the very walls. They sheathed the front of their towers either with thin sheet iron, tightly nailed to the beams, or with leather and other non-combustible substances.”
And in 268, inspired by victories, the Goths, already on 6 thousand ships (!), which had gathered at the mouth of the Dniester, launched a campaign against the Roman provinces. The Byzantine historian Zosimus writes about this: “Meanwhile, part of the Scythians, very pleased with the previous raids of their relatives, together with the Heruli, Peevians and Goths, gathered on the Tire River, which flows into the Pontus Euxine. There they built six thousand ships, on which they loaded 312 thousand people. After this, they sailed down the Pontus and attacked the fortified city of Toma, but were repulsed from it. The campaign continued overland to Marcianople in Moesia, but even there the barbarian attack failed. Therefore, they sailed further by sea under a good wind.” But this time the Goths fail due to defeat and epidemic.
Why is all this presented here, the reader may ask? And then, so that you can take a close look at the events of that era and understand the scope of military operations against the leading world power, which was then Rome. Year after year, the Goths send hundreds of thousands of warriors and thousands of ships on their expeditions to the Roman provinces. The Goths make deep raids and invade the depths of the empire. This is not possible if the Goths did not have serious rears where they come from - from the Black Sea region and the interior lands along the Dnieper and Don. To ensure such a scale, the Gothic power must have a huge internal population in its lands, which supplies hundreds of thousands of soldiers, arms them, equips them with everything necessary for long campaigns, and also builds thousands of ships and military vehicles. And it doesn’t matter that the ships are small, for 50 people, to create 6 thousand such ships at that time requires the efforts of hundreds of thousands of people over several months. Someone must feed these people at this time, feed their families and somehow compensate for their efforts. Such coordination is only possible for the state.
And it is also clear that such a population should be located inland to the north of the Black Sea coast. Up the Dnieper and Don. This means that we have the involvement of vast territories adjacent to the Northern Black Sea region, and these territories were already inhabited at that time by a large number of people consolidated under a single command, that is, states or proto-states.
The land of this state, as Jordanes reports, is located in Scythia and is called Oium. Jordanes describes the exodus of the Goths from Scandinavia and their arrival in Scythia: “From this very island of Scandza, as if from a workshop [making] tribes, or rather, as if from a womb [giving birth] to tribes, according to legend, the Goths once came out with their king named Berig. As soon as they got off the ships and set foot on land, they immediately gave the place a nickname. They say that to this day it is still called Gotiskanza.
Soon they advanced from there to the places of the Ulmerugs, who were then sitting along the shores of the ocean; There they camped, and, having fought [with the Ulmerugs], drove them out of their own settlements. Then they subjugated their neighbors the Vandals 65, adding them to their victories. When a great multitude of people grew there, and only the fifth king after Berig ruled, Philimer, the son of Gadarig, he decreed that the army of the Goths, together with their families, should move from there. In search of the most convenient areas and suitable places [for settlement], he came to the lands of Scythia, which in their language were called Oium."
We can quite definitely glean the size of the territory that was under the control of the Gothic state and its approximate contours not only from chronicles, but also from the vast archaeological material that modern researchers have accumulated. In addition, there is also toponymy and comparative analysis data.
First, let's look at the chronicles and historical evidence. The same 6th-century Gothic historian Jordanes, who served the Romans, reports information about the period of the most prominent Gothic king, Germanaric. We are talking about the middle and second half of the 4th century AD: “After the king of the Goths, Geberich, retired from human affairs, after some time the kingdom was inherited by Germanaric, the noblest of the Amals, who conquered many very warlike northern tribes and forced them to obey his laws. Many ancient writers compared him in dignity with Alexander the Great. He conquered the tribes: Goltescythians, Tiuds, Inaunxes, Vasinabronks, Merens, Mordens, Imniskars, Horns, Tadzans, Atauls, Navegos, Bubegens, sorcerers.”
There are different opinions regarding the peoples listed by Jordan and conquered by Germanaric. But basically, when analyzing the names of these peoples, historians give the following interpretation of the names of the listed peoples, under Goltescythians refers to the peoples of the Urals, under the names horns And tadzans should be understood Roastadjans, which means those who live on the banks of the Volga, under imniscars beekeepers should be understood as Meshchera, who were called that in Rus', and by merens And mordens – modern Meryu and Mordovians.
In another passage, Jordanes mentions the conquest of the Veneti tribes by Germanarich, saying that they are known under the names of Veneti, Antes or Sklavini. We are most likely talking about lands in the Pannonia region, where the Slavs then lived.
In the subsequent part of his work, Jordan, continuing the list of Germanaric’s conquests, writes: “With his intelligence and valor, he also subjugated the tribe of Estonians, who inhabit the remotest coast of the German Ocean. He thus ruled over all the tribes of Scythia and Germany as property.”
Regarding the Estonians, I think no special explanation is needed to understand that we are talking about the Baltic coast, inhabited by the ancestors of the Estonians.
And if you now look at the geographical map, a picture emerges of the huge Gothic state of Germanarich, stretching from the south from the Black Sea coast, to the Baltic coast in the north, and from the Urals and the Volga region in the east, to the Elbe in the west. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to understand that this power was one of the most extensive and powerful states of that era. And again, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to notice that these lands are very similar to the territory of already historical Rus', which is passing into Russia.
This state existed 500 years before the arrival of Rurik. Returning to the picture that worthless historians give, describing the lands of Rus' as wild, starting, in general, with the notorious Nestor, we clearly see that this is a complete lie, here it was far from a wild desert.
The historical evidence of chroniclers about the space in which the Gothic state spread out is confirmed by extensive archaeological material and preserved material evidence.
The material culture of that era, which archaeologists call Chernyakhovskaya, and which dominates the same space from the Baltic to the Black Sea and from the Volga region to the Elbe, is defined as the culture belonging to the Goths and related tribes, which have already been mentioned - the Vandals, Gepids, Burgundians and etc.
How developed the state that existed in this territory was can be judged by the monumental Serpentine (Trajan) ramparts - hundreds of kilometers of earthen fortifications 10-15 meters high and up to 20 wide. The total length of the defensive ramparts located from the Vistula to the Don, to the south Kyiv in the forest-steppe is about 2 thousand kilometers. In terms of the volume of work, the Serpentine Shafts are quite comparable to the Great Wall of China.
The topic, of course, was under the strictest taboo, and until a certain point, official historians shrugged their shoulders regarding the time of creation and the creators of the Serpent Shafts. It is interesting in this regard the revelations of the director of the Institute of Archeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Academician Boris Aleksandrovich Rybakov, whose institute was supposed to answer this question - “The Serpentine Ramparts are one of the greatest and most interesting mysteries of the ancient history of our Motherland. Unfortunately, they were completely undeservedly forgotten by archaeologists, and recently no work has been carried out on them.”(Newspaper “Trud”, 08/14/1969) So, it’s a mystery, but no work is being done to solve the riddle.
It was apparently strictly forbidden to answer an important question, so the famous Ukrainian mathematician A.S. undertook to conduct detailed studies of the shafts. Bull.
While examining the shafts, A.S. Bugai discovered in them coal from burnt logs, the age of which was determined by radiocarbon dating. Based on the data obtained, A. S. Bugai dates the ramparts to the 2nd century. BC. – 7th century AD . The map of the shafts he published shows the dates of radiocarbon analysis in the places where coal samples were taken. A total of 14 dates are recorded for nine shaft lines within 150 BC. – 550 AD, including two dates – II-I centuries. BC, one each - II and III centuries, six - IV century, two - V century. and two - VI century. If we evaluate the obtained definitions objectively, then the shafts date back to the 2nd century. BC e. – VI century AD(Book by M.P. Kucher. Serpentine Shafts of the Middle Dnieper. Kyiv, Publishing house Naukova Dumka, 1987)
Somehow, official science missed the mathematician’s research at some point. They were confused, however, and preferred not to particularly advertise the results, because related questions and corresponding conclusions immediately arose, which categorically did not suit not so much the scientists as their masters from the political leadership of the country.
If we summarize the dating results obtained, then the main time of construction of the Serpentine Shafts is the 2-6th century AD. That is, the time when the Gothic state existed here. The volume of excavation work, as experts estimate, is about 160-200 million cubic meters of soil. All shafts at the base had wooden frames, which served as the base of the shaft. Indeed, such work can only be carried out if there is a serious government center and a centralized plan.
Now a few words regarding archaeological data. It is clear that Soviet scientific managers, such as Academician Rybakov, had a clear instruction not to categorically remember any such people, which they generally did with obvious success. “Success” is evidenced by the fact that no one in the country had heard of any Goths or Germans in Ancient Rus'. All finds, all their systematization was based on the fact that the data of chronicles and archeology were attributed to anyone, but not to the Goths or Germans. However, objective data inexorably accumulated. And already in our time a book was published by St. Petersburg archaeologist M.B. Shchukin, which is called “The Gothic Way”, in which the author summarized archeological data regarding the presence of Gothic material culture in the territory from the Baltic to the Black Sea (see Shchukin M.B. The Gothic Way (Goths, Rome and Chernyakhov culture). - St. Petersburg .: Philological Faculty of St. Petersburg State University, 2005.)
Drawing conclusions from the results of archaeological data regarding the 4th-5th centuries AD, Shchukin writes: “It was by this time that a vast territory, from Eastern Transylvania to the headwaters of the Pela and Seima rivers in the Kursk region of Russia, in an area not much smaller than the entire Western and Central Europe, turned out to be covered with a dense network of settlements and burial grounds, surprisingly uniform in their cultural appearance.”(Shchukin M.B. Gothic Way p. 164 ) . We are talking about the monuments of the so-called Chernyakhov culture, known to archaeologists, which dominates the area from the Baltic to the Black Sea. This culture, as Shchukin convincingly proves, quite obviously corresponds to the settlements of the Goths (although they are trying to attribute it to anyone, even the Slavs, who came 500 years later, only to cross out the Goths). A significant amount of data has been accumulated about this culture, which allows us to build a clear picture of the settlement of the Goths, their trade and cultural contacts.
Regarding the density of monuments of the Chernyakhov culture, Shchukin reports: “Traces of the Chernyakhov settlements sometimes stretch for several kilometers. It seems that we are dealing with a certain, very large population, and the population density in the 4th century. slightly inferior to the modern one.” ( there)
Regarding the quality of objects of the Chernyakhov culture, Shchukin, summarizing the opinion of archaeologists, gives the following assessment: “These are, of course, products of highly qualified craftsmen, sometimes achieving perfection; their creation of masterpieces of applied art is, of course, a manifestation of the “high technologies” of that time. We will not find such a set of forms for this period either among the potters of antiquity or in the Barbaricums of Europe.”(ibid.)
Summarizing the archaeological data, we can safely say that in the territory from the Baltic to the Black Sea, in the territory that we now perceive as the historical territory of Rus', there was a serious center of civilization that had signs of political, cultural and economic unity.
The Scandinavians have preserved epic works about this time. Here it is necessary to recall that the Goths are an East German people, close to the Scandinavian branch of the Germans - the Swedes, Danes, and Icelanders. The Swedes themselves also come from Germanic and Gothic tribes. The Hervör Saga, recorded in the 13th century, speaks of the country of Gardarik and Reidgotland, and the capital of Arheimar on the banks of the Dnieper. It also talks about the battle with the Huns. All this corresponds to historical data, because it was there on the territory of the Gothic power, the future Rus', that the Goths encountered the nomadic Huns, against whom they built the Serpentine Ramparts.
What is interesting is that in the Russian folk tradition, memories of the power of Germanarich have been preserved, which gives us further reason to link this history with the Russian one.
All of the above about the country of the Goths, located between the Baltic and the Black Sea, is only a small fraction of the existing materials and data on this topic, and I will address them in more detail in subsequent chapters.
From ready to russian
Now, perhaps, we should move on to the main question, what does the power of the Goths have to do with the people? Rus, to historical Rus', to Russia and to the current Russian people. The most direct. And here, in fact, there are no mysteries for a long time. True, from the side of the so-called historical science, official, it is believed that there is ambiguity, however, in fact, these are not mysteries, but only silence or outright lies. Probably, as happens with many things, in this case we have the largest falsification in history.
Indeed, there is no doubt about the information reported by Eastern and Western chroniclers, merchants, and travelers of that time about the “Rus” people, with the official dating according to which they called Rus with Rurik only in 862 to Novgorod, either from Denmark, or from the lands of the Baltic Wagrians. Let's start with the fact that Novgorod itself, as has already been proven, was founded at least 50 years later. Large-scale trips undertaken Rus, territories that Rus occupies, trade operations and embassies, which Rus organizes, there was no way a handful of aliens could do it. Moreover, a lot of things, again according to officialdom, they should have done earlier than they arrived according to the official dating. And at the same time it is clear that Rus These are not Slavs, as official historians are trying to portray.
Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus, who reigned from 945 to 959, in his essay “On the Administration of the Empire” in the chapter “On the Dews departing with Monoxyls from Russia to Constantinople” reports the names of the Dnieper rapids in Russian and Slavic, calling the Slavs pactiots of the Rus “The Slavs, their paktiots, namely the Kriviteins, Lenzanins and other Slavinians...”. What is not clear here, what are the difficulties? Paktiots means subordinate allies, and judging by the names of the tribes, we are talking about the Krivichi and Lusatian tribes, then living in the upper reaches of the Dnieper. The Byzantines could perfectly distinguish the Rus from the Slavs. Well, the names of the rapids themselves in Russian - “Ess(o)upi”, (O)ulvorsi, “Gelandri” “Aifor” “Varouforos” “Leandi” “Strukun”, as all researchers admit, have obvious Germanic roots.
In fact, the most probable, and most likely the only correct version of the origin of the ethnonym Rus put forward back in the 19th century by the dean of the Faculty of History at the University of Warsaw, Professor A. S. Budilovich. At the 8th Congress of Archaeologists in 1890, he read a report where he outlined an explanation of the origin of the ethnonym. The epic nickname of the Goths, Hreidhgotar, is known, for which the more ancient form Hrôthigutans ("glorious Goths") has been restored. He both historically and ethnologically connected Rus' with the Goths, and its name with the Gothic basis hrôth, “glory.” If we translate the transcription, it sounded like hrös with a German umlaut, where the sound ö is something between Russian е and о, and in Russian it sounded like ryus with a soft “s” at the end and the first aspirated sound х, which is in the Slavic language missing and therefore lost. Actually we have an exact match rus or grew up, which in Slavic sound was reproduced with a soft “s” like Rus' or grow up. Rus, grew up, this is a self-name coming directly from Gothic. And this is absolutely logical - Rus continues the history of the ancient Gothic state, the people of Gothic origin, but in the next historical period.
The modern historian Egorov in his work “Rus and Rus' Again” writes: “So, not the legendary, but the historical state of Reidgotaland was created in the 3rd century AD. Black Sea Goths, who called themselves and are known to us in foreign language transmission as: hros / hrus, ros / rus, rodi, ‛ρω̃ς. On East Slavic soil, the aspiration [h] that was absent in the Old Russian language inevitably had to disappear, and [θ] should have moved similarly to the Greek language into [s]: → → ros/rus. Therefore, it can be justifiably stated that linguistically transformation in Old Russian language ethnonym Greuthungi in Russia it’s quite natural.”(V. Egorov “Rus and Rus' again”)
This is how the mystery was revealed. And everything falls into place, for the history of Kievan Rus naturally follows from the previous history of the Goths, which in turn follows from the ancient history of Scythia. It is immediately clear where the people Ros, Rus, Eros come from in the early medieval chronicles of Byzantine and Arab authors of the 6th and 7th centuries. And another question is resolved, which baffled even the Normanists, the question of where so many Varangians came from in Rus' that they gave it a name, a name for the people, constituted the ruling layer of the ancient Russian state and filled its considerable army that went on formidable campaigns. It was impossible for so many people to migrate from Scandinavia overnight. Indeed, it couldn't. Everything is very simple, the Varangians-Russ have lived here from time immemorial, and the state has been here from time immemorial. And then, the people of Rus' became the basis of Kievan Rus, its state-forming people, and Kievan Rus itself was the heir to the state of the ancient Goths.
Just like the Goths, who subsequently took other names and went down in history under them - Burgundians, Ostrogoths, Vandals, Gepids and so on, so here in Eastern Europe they adopted a new ethnonym, which became known to us as Russian.
Nestor talks about the fact that the Slavs and Rus' are different peoples, and about the secondary role of the Slavs in the PVL when describing the campaign of the Prophetic Oleg to Constantinople in 907, when Oleg orders the distribution of the sails: “And Oleg said: “look for the (sails) pavolochiti (thick embroidered silk) of Rus', and the word kropiinnyya (cheap silk)...".
Indeed, people Rus already present in chronicles from the 6th–7th centuries. The Syrian chronicler known as Zechariah of Mytilene contains a passage about the Eros people. The Rus are mentioned by the 10th century Arab historian, At-Tabari, in the History of Prophets and Kings, when describing the events of 644. The ruler of Derbent, Shahriyar, writes to the ruler of the Arabs: “I am between two enemies: one is the Khazars, and the other is the Rus, who are enemies of the whole world, especially the Arabs, and no one knows how to fight them except the local people. Instead of paying tribute, we will fight the Russians ourselves and with our own weapons and we will hold them back so that they do not leave their country.”
In the 9th-10th centuries, eastern chroniclers report that the Rus organized a series of campaigns in the Caspian Sea. In 884, according to the information of the 13th century historian Ibn Isfandiyar in the “History of Tabaristan”, it is said that during the reign of the Emir of Tabaristan Alid al-Hasan, the Rus attacked the city of Abaskun in the Gulf of Astrabad (the southern part of the Caspian Sea, now modern Iran). In 909 and 910, a Russian fleet of 16 ships again raided Abaskun. In 913, 500 ships entered the Kerch Strait and, having ascended the Don, with the permission of the Khazars, they then crossed to the Volga and, descending along it, entered the Caspian Sea. There they attacked the Iranian cities of the Southern Caspian - Gilan, Deylem, Abaskun. The Rus then moved to the west coast and launched attacks in the territory of Shirvan (modern Azerbaijan). Then we went up the Volga to Itil to return. The Khazars, having received part of the spoils, decided to destroy the weakened army of the Rus. The pretext was revenge for the murdered Muslim co-religionists. The Khazar cavalry attacked on a portage from the Volga to the Don. According to information, about 30 thousand Rus were killed. Five thousand managed to escape. The next campaign took place in 943/944. The city of Berdaa was taken by the forces of a 3,000-strong detachment led by Helgu.
And again we see the same ships and the same tactics as during the Scythian wars against the Roman Empire.
In general, historians have always noticed that among ancient authors the people rus is perceived as autochthonous, although it was known that the Slavs came to the Dnieper region in the 7-9 centuries. In the 19th century Ilovaisky wrote “ already in the second half of the 9th and in the first 10th centuries the Arabs knew Rus'Howa numerous, strong people, whose neighbors were the Bulgars, Khazars and Pechenegs, who traded on the Volga and in Byzantium. Nowhere is there the slightest hint that they consider Rus' not a native, but an alien people. This news is completely consistent with the campaigns of Russovto the Caspian Sea in the first half of the 10th century, with campaigns that were undertaken by several tens of thousands of warriors." (Ilovaisky D.I. The Beginning of Rus' (“Research about the beginning of Rus'. Instead of an introduction to Russian history.”) It was, in general, clear that there could not be any autochthonous Slavs in the Crimea and the Black Sea region.
Ilovaisky writes there: “Bishop Liutprand of Cremona was twice ambassador to Constantinople in the second half of the 10th century and mentions the Russes twice. In one case he says: “In the north of Constantinople live the Ugrians, Pechenegs, Khazars, Russians, whom we otherwise call the Nordmans, and the Bulgars, their closest neighbors.” In another place, he recalls his stepfather’s story about the attack of Igor’s Rus' on Constantinople and adds: “This is a northern people, which the Greeks call Russ by their outward quality, and we call Nordmans by the position of their country.”
We can safely assume that the Bishop of Cremona knew well the subject of which he spoke.
For clarity, we can cite several excerpts from numerous chronicles, notes and chronicles that baffled followers of the official versions.
“In former times there were many Gothic tribes, and there are many of them even now, but the largest and most significant of them were the Goths, Vandals, Visigoths and Gepids, formerly called Sarmatians, and the Melanchlenians. Some authors called them getae. All these peoples, as has been said, differ from each other only in names, but in all other respects they are similar. All of them are white in body, have brown hair, tall and good-looking.....” Procopius, “War with the Vandals”, book 1, 2.2
The modern historian V. Egorov, who has already been mentioned here, gave an accurate assessment of the PVL (“Tale of Bygone Years”) as a source of misconceptions and insinuations: “Centuries passed, but its status as a chronicle was not shaken by either obvious inconsistencies in its own chronology or obvious discrepancies with “foreign” sources, neither a contradiction to the objective data of archeology, nor outright fantasy, which was bashfully omitted and kept silent even by the primary historians who canonized it. This status for PVL is still preserved, although sometimes it seems that the absolute majority of our contemporaries involved in history treat it, to put it mildly, with distrust. But due to the inertia of tradition and corporate unity of interests, historians never dared to say directly that our queen is naked. Only the bravest of them allowed themselves to hint at the indecent appearance of this high-ranking person, sometimes even very expressively, as, for example, the historian D. Shcheglov did back in the century before last: “ Our chronicle, or, more precisely, our saga about the beginning of the Russian state, included in the subsequent chronicle, knows what did not happen, and does not know what happened ».
From Odin to Kievan Rus
In this way we can try to build a sequence of historical events.
At the beginning of the 2nd century AD, the Gothic tribes, or rather a significant part of them, and their relatives - the Vandals, Gepids, Burgundians, etc., took action to return to their historical homeland - the Black Sea steppes, from which they were taken away 200 years ago leader Odin (Odin's exodus to the north, presumably in the 1st century BC, is another episode of Gothic history, which was substantiated by Thor Heyerdahl . - « The source on which Thor Heyerdahl was based was the “Saga of the Ynglings,” created by the Icelandic chronicler Snorri Strulson - here is the testimony of the scientist himself: “The “Saga of the Ynglings” tells in some detail about the land of the Aesir, located in the lower reaches of Tanais, as it was called in ancient times Don River The leader of the Aesir in ancient times was a certain Odin, a great and wise leader who mastered the arts of witchcraft. Wars with the tribes of the neighboring Vanir people during his time took place with varying degrees of success: the Aesir either won or suffered defeat. For me, this proves that Odin was not a god, but a man, because gods cannot lose. In the end, the war with the Vanir ended peacefully, but the Romans came to the lower reaches of Tanais, and the Aesir, weakened by long wars, were forced to retreat to the north.
I carefully read the sagas and calculated that thirty-one generations passed from Odin to the historical figure - Harald Fairhair (10th century). Everything agrees: the Romans conquered the northern Black Sea region in the 1st century BC. In addition, I was simply amazed when I learned that the Aesir and Vanir tribes were real peoples who inhabited these places BC! And when I looked at the map of the lower reaches of the Don and saw the word “Azov”, I simply could not read it otherwise than “As Hov”, because the ancient Norse word “hov” means a temple or a sacred place!” (Quoted by A. Gaisinsky The unknown history of Rus'. Three components).
Therefore, returning to their ancient homeland, having landed in the Baltic Pomerania at the beginning of the 2nd century, the Goths, by the end of the 2nd century AD. reached the Northern Black Sea region and settled there. Along the way, the Goths settled and asserted their control over territories from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Most likely, their fellow tribesmen still remained in the Black Sea region, who had not once gone north with Odin.
By the beginning of the 3rd century, the Goths already had a semblance of a center and came into contact with outposts of the Roman Empire. By the middle of the 3rd century, the Scythian (Gothic) wars with Rome broke out, which lasted 30 years and as a result of which both sides suffered heavy losses. By the 4th century, the Gothic power had regained its potential. The area of control included Sarmatian, Ugric and Slavic tribes. By the time of Germanarich, towards the end of the 4th century, the Gothic power of Reidgotland had reached the peak of its power. The population of the country, which can be conditionally called Gothic Rus', is numerous and numbers in the millions. A small number of Goths accept Arianism.
And during this period, at the end of the 4th century, a new terrible enemy appeared from the steppe, from the East - the Huns. Germanarich, who is 110 years old, at this time has a conflict with the Roxalan tribe, because of a young wife from this tribe. ( Based on the name of the Roksalan tribe, some have built a whole version about the tribe of Rus Slavs, etc. Unfortunately, there could not be any Slavs there, Roks-Alans, can mean Alan tribe, and if in another extant version - Rosso-mons, then by the root of Mona or mana - that is, people in Gothic, then this is more likely a Gothic tribe . The plot was reflected in the sagas, the girl’s name was Sunilda, and her brothers, who wounded Germanarich, were called Sar and Ammius, which is clearly not similar to Slavic names). Perhaps the Gothic power collapsed due to the enmity that arose. Meanwhile, the Huns inflicted a series of defeats on the Goths, split into hostile camps. The country is devastated and defenseless. After the death of Germanarich, part of the Goths went to the West. Later they carried out the complete defeat of the Western Roman Empire and founded a number of states in Europe, giving rise to a new era in the West. The other part of the Goths submitted to the leader of the Huns, Attila.
Then, over the course of 2 centuries, the Goths who remained on the territory of Reidgotland restored their potential. During this time, some of them adopted another ethnonym ros/rus, perhaps by the name of some tribe. Most likely, the descendants of the Sarmatians and Alans living in this area were integrated with the Goths. At this time, the integration of Finno-Ugric peoples into the Gothic area continued. In the 8th-9th century, the integration of the Slavs began, who moved from the Danube to the Dnieper, from the oppression of aggressive nomads - Avars, Magyars. The Slavs, immigrants from the West, apparently make up 20-25% of the population of the area under Gothic influence. The Khazars began to control part of the territory of Gothic Rus'. By the 8th-9th century Rus has accumulated potential for assembly. Integrated Slavs who moved into the area Rus', under their protection, became involved in the economic and military activities of the Russian princes, and later, by the end of the 10th century, adopted the ethnonym Rus. In the 10th century, the Slavic language began to be widely used for communication due to increased trade.
However, the military-political elite was Rus. It is worth recalling the list of names in the text of the 911 treaty with the Byzantine emperor given in the PVL: “We are from the Russian family - Karls, Inegeld, Farlaf, Veremud, Rulav, Gudy, Ruald, Karn, Frelav, Ruar, Aktevu, Truan, Lidul, Fost, Stemid - sent from Oleg, the Grand Duke of the Russians...”. As you can see, these are all German names.
At the end of the 10th century, in 988, as a result of the agreement between the Kyiv prince and Byzantium, Kievan Rus officially adopted Byzantine Christianity. Clergymen from Bulgaria poured into rich Rus', bringing books, written and linguistic culture based on the Church Slavonic language, that is, the Bulgarian language. Intellectual activity, which is concentrated in monasteries, correspondence, everything is conducted in Bulgarian. As a result, Church Slavonic, actually Bulgarian, becomes the administrative language. Without participation in church ceremonies, that is, without knowledge of the Bulgarian language, access to positions is excluded. The Slavic language is already used by a third of the population of Kievan Rus - Slavs by origin, and was already partly the language of communication. Under such administrative conditions, there is a rapid decline in the use of the Gothic language Rus'(especially since due to fears of turning to Arianism, the Gothic alphabet and language are prohibited by the Byzantine church). By the end of the 11th century, the population completely switched to a language with a Slavic base. Then, in the 13th century, during the invasion of the Mongol-Tatars, a significant part of the elite, who preserved the memory of their past, was destroyed. The ancient centers of the most compact habitation were destroyed Rus'- Azov-Black Sea Rus' - Korsun, Tmutarakan Principality, etc. The remnants flee north. Under the control of the Orthodox Church, which has received privileges, there is a complete erasure of historical memory and trampling down the remnants of the Gothic past of Rus', since, according to Orthodox ideologists, this may contribute to the trend of transition to Catholicism. The Church considered the fight against Catholicism to be the most important thing. In the 15-16 centuries, family books and records preserved in princely houses, which could preserve the memory of the non-Slavic past of Rus', were successively destroyed. By the 16th century, the process of erasing memory seemed to be completed. But the roots still remained. Both in the soul and in everyday life.
To understand why we need historical truth, we need to understand why the ruling regimes in Rus'-Russia needed historical lies. After all, as is clear, by the end of the 19th century there was already a certain clarity.
In fact, despite the fact that the truth has been erased for a millennium, this past, even leaving archeology aside, is present with us. And in what we use every day and in what makes its way to us from the depths of the subconscious.
You can cite a lot of words that have been preserved in the Russian language from the Gothic base.
think - goth. domjan "to judge"
debt - goth. dulgs "duty"
sword - Gothic mēkeis
bread - Gothic hlaifs
barn - Gothic hlaiw
banner - hrungō
boiler - katils
dish/dish, - Gothic. biuÞs "dish"
buy - kaurōn “to trade
kusiti (hence Russian: tempt) - Gothic. kausjan "to try";
interest (interest, growth) - Gothic. leiƕa “loan, loan”, leiƕаn “to lend”
flattery “cunning, deception” - Gothic. lists "trick"
cattle - Gothic skatts "state"
salt - goth salt "salt"!}
glass - gothic stikls "cup"
vineyard - Gothic weinagards "grapevine"
Also, the most important words related to military affairs came to us from Gothic helmet, armor,knight, regiment, with social relationships prince, hetman, ataman, guest, with a house hut,gates, hut, with church affairs church, fast, with land cultivation plow and many more words included in the basic conceptual apparatus associated with home, food and war. Just words bread, salt mean that these almost main concepts in human everyday life came to us from this past. Despite the fact that the Bulgarian language was harshly enforced, the most important words of the modern Russian language were left to us from Rus'. Although some of the words found their way into other Slavic languages, apparently during the reign of Hermanaric. Now hundreds of such words are known, the origin of which is easily determined, but there are still a lot of words whose etymology is confusing, and among which there is probably a huge layer that we inherited from Rus'.
The loss of a language, the transition to another language base due to administrative influence or some historical events, is not something out of the ordinary. The German-speaking Franks began to speak the language of the conquered Gauls, who had previously switched to corrupted Latin, now French. The Celts of Ireland switched to English, and the Slavs of Pannonia, 95% of whom were completely switched to the language of 5% Magyars, Hungarians. This happens in history.
However, let's continue with the roots. There are other interesting points reflecting the preserved elements of historical memory.
If you pay attention to the history of the Cossacks, they firmly understood their connection with the history of the Goths and Sarmatians. Even in the 16th century, among the Cossacks, the memory of the Gothic past, reflected in their names, was preserved. Here is what the famous Cossack historian of the early 20th century, Evgraf Savelyev, writes: “In the 5th century, Priscus mentions Aspar among the Alanian leaders, one of whose sons was called Erminarik, which name is identified with the name of the Gothic leader of the same time Ermanarik. Consequently, the name Ermi, Christian Ermiy 46), Erminarik, or Ermanarik, was not alien to the ancient Royal Scythians, i.e. Black Bulgarians, or Alano-Goths. The ancient original form of this name is Herman, or Geriman (German), i.e. a man from the ancient sacred Gerros (Ger-ros); hence the diminutive versions of this name: Germanik, Germinarik, or Erminarik, Ermanarik, Ermik, and the magnifying version in the popular pronunciation is Alano-Gotov, i.e. Azov Cossacks, Ermak...”
As you know, Ermak was from the so-called Azov Cossacks. Here is another “riddle” that all sorts of academics have been going around, which, as it turned out, has an answer for a long time. Evgraf Savelyev further directly calls Ermak a goth.
We must also remember the Novgorod ushkuiniks who remembered their origins from Rus' They also preserved ancient Germanic names, such as Aifal Nikitin, a famous Novgorod boyar of the 15th century, ataman of the Ushkuy freemen.
Well, it would not be superfluous to recall the history of the Cossack campaigns against Istanbul and the shores of Asia Minor. They repeat the tactics and routes of the Gothic sea campaigns of the Scythian wars. The prefect of Cafa, Emiddio Dortelli d'Ascoli, in 1634, characterized the Cossack plows (gulls, oaks) in battle: “If the Black Sea has always been angry since ancient times, now it is undoubtedly blacker and more terrible due to the numerous seagulls that devastate the sea and land all summer. These seagulls are long, like frigates, can accommodate 50 people, and row and sail.”
The seagulls are the same monoxyls that the Goths used to attack Byzantine cities - the monoxyls also accommodated 50 soldiers. Here are literally a few episodes of Cossack campaigns - In 1651, 900 Donets on 12 large plows entered the Black Sea and attacked the Turkish city of Stone Bazaar near Sinop. They took 600 prisoners and many slaves. On the way back, three large merchant ships carrying wheat to Istanbul were captured and sunk.
The following year, a thousand Donets on 15 plows, led by Ataman Ivan the Rich, again broke into the Black Sea, devastated the shores of Rumelia and visited Istanbul, taking rich booty. On the way back, the Cossacks were caught up by a Turkish squadron of 10 galleys, but the Cossacks defeated it.
In May 1656, atamans Ivan Bogaty and Budan Voloshanin, on 19 plows with 1,300 Cossacks, plundered the Crimean coast from Sudak to Balykleya (Balaklava), then crossed the Black Sea and tried to take Trabzon in Turkey by storm. The attack was repulsed, and then the atamans plundered the smaller city of Tripoli. On August 18, the Cossacks, after a 3-month campaign, returned to the Don with rich booty, from where three days later a new batch of those wishing to annoy the Tatars and Turks emerged on the same plows. One part of them attacked Azov, and the other immediately headed to the coast of Crimea, where Temryuk, Taman, Kafa and Balakleya were devastated.
So it wasn’t just names that reflected the past.
Not only among the Cossacks, but also in the people's memory, images of Ancient Rus' were preserved. The great Russian poet and writer Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin drew his amazing stories from his nanny, Arina Rodionovna. This has always aroused interest in its origins. Unfortunately, literary scholars puzzled over where the Russian peasant woman got such images from, and they came up with the idea that she was supposedly a “Chukhonka,” that is, a Karelian or Izhorian. Recent studies of metric books prove that her ancestors were Russian. That is, Arina Rodionovna was the bearer of the Russian folk oral tradition, which reflected Gothic Rus', its stories and images. Therefore, we meet there something that the Slavs could not have had. These are the stories Rus', who lived on the shores of the Russian Sea, what is now called the Black Sea. “An old man lived with his old woman. At the very blue seas" - This is how "The Tale of the Old Man and the Goldfish" begins. Anyone who has been to the Baltic understands that no matter how much one wants to call this sea blue, at the same time there is, as the song says, “the bluest in the world – my Black Sea.” And if you carefully look at the plots, the names of the heroes - Chernomor and 33 heroes emerging from the sea, Tsar Saltan, Guidon, Ruslan, Rogdai, Farlaf, then images of the Varangians, sea warriors arise, which reflect a special world. This world is not like the landscapes of the forests near Moscow; there is not even a hint of Slavicism in it. And this world fits surprisingly well into our consciousness as a national epic. Pushkin, a great artist, could read the ancient images of Gothic Rus' and embody them in his works.
Another famous story about Kashchei the Immortal is preserved in Russian fairy tales, and which no other nation has. As the researchers figured out, the plot is based on the story of Germanarich. For people of that era, when life expectancy was not long, a king who was 110 years old was perceived as immortal. Indeed, what could a 70-year-old man say to his grandchildren when he, as a young man, remembered the old Germanarich? In the real past, Germanarich also married a young girl. This is how, in folk tradition, we find a connection with our past.
Now readers probably have a question about who we should consider ourselves to be - German Goths, Slavs, Sarmatians or Finno-Ugric peoples. In fact, the question is not posed correctly, therefore, none of the answers are acceptable. We are Russians, descendants of all these peoples who are intertwined in historical destiny. But if we put the question differently, whose heirs are the Russian people, whose land, whose history, whose glory we are inheriting - the answer is clear, we are the heirs of Rus', and through them, the heirs of the GLORIOUS GOTHS. And we have no other options, when we realize, then we will awaken.
Another question arises: what was the interest of the ruling classes of Russia in hiding the true history of the Russian people? More than one monograph can and should probably be written on this issue, but I will try to answer briefly. The fact is that the designation of the Goths and Germans as historical ancestors, the presence of Gothic Rus' made our people and their elite equal to the free peoples of Europe, many of whom traced their origins to the Goths. In such a situation, it was in no way possible to build an eastern despotism. This is an important and even key point. It is impossible to force a person to put up with his slave position if he knows that he is a descendant of free people. Therefore, in tsarist historiography the Cossacks were persistently declared to be the descendants of runaway slaves.
Before unfinished chapters
This work, of course, is only a small review, and in my opinion it requires continuation. Much has been left behind the scenes in order to more fully build our story. And the name of Prince Vladimir’s mother, whom Nestor called Malferd – that is, Malfrida. And about the beautiful Gothic maidens from “The Tale of the Regiment.” And the history of Azov-Black Sea Rus'. Relationship with other Gothic clans. And the epic of the Nibelungs. And the history of Russian princes. And the participation of the Sarmatians. And consider DNA genealogy.
But the main thing that is needed is to sort out issues related to the faith of our ancestors, to the pantheon of Gods. Perun, Veles, Semargl, what Heavenly powers have we inherited......
But due to the importance of the topic, I decided not to wait for the end of the work and give general information in this material.
The work will continue. Maybe I'll try to make a film.
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