… Grandson of Genghis Khan, sent to look at Kiev.
He first saw it on the left side of the Dnieper.
What the chronicler writes:
“He could not behold the beauty thereof … shiny head of many temples in the dense greenery of gardens — high white wall with her Gordumy gates and towers, vozdvignuta, ukrashenyy Byzantine art in the happy days of the Great Yaroslav, could really surprise the steppe barbarians.”
This writes the Russian historian N. M. Karamzin in his “History,” IV, p. 163-164 .
And at that time represented a mokselskie settlement?
Quote from the “History” Karamzin:
“…where in the dense forests and poor scattered huts, and abitaly Moksha Mordovian their dinoplaneta, only the rich Suriname kogami, honey and falcons.” N. M. Karamzin “the History” volume IV, p. 190.
Appropriate quote from the work of C. M. Soloviev “Reading and stories …”, pp. 224-225:
“It is impossible not to notice … about the cities important in its consequences of unilateralism in the Western half (Kievan Rus), which was the main historical scene in ancient times, we see a number of significant cities that flourished precisely because They were on the road from the Varangians to the Greeks, i.e., from Northern and southern Europe; in the North-Eastern part (Rostov-Suzdal land) … major cities there, and because they do not show the influence on the subsequent course of events, which are made by them. City here are mainly large ogorojennaja the villages”.
But that says archaeologist A. Spitsyn, is also Russian:
“Slavic graves in the ethnic territory of Muscovy 10-century is nowhere to be found”.
The first Church made of stone appeared in Moscow only in 1479. And in ancient Chernihiv to 1239, there was already a stone Savior and Borisoglebsky cathedrals. Kiev was a stone Church of the tithes and St. Sophia Cathedral.
Read. I think. Trying to understand: what happened?
Right now it is fashionable to lead in connection with the recent events the words of Russian writer A. Tolstoy, the man who wrote the famous novel “Peter the First”:
“There are two Russia. First, Kiev has its roots in the world, and at least in European culture. Ideas of good, honor, freedom, justice understood the Rus as they understand the entire Western world. And there is the other Russia-Moscow. Is Rus of the Taiga, Mongolian, wild animal. This made Russia its national ideal of bloody dispoto and wild rage. This Moscow Russia has long been, is and will be a complete rejection of everything European and a sworn enemy of Europe”.
There is an information war. From all sides. There is a huge number, not truthful information. Perhaps, too, from all sides.
For example, I was not able to ascertain the veracity of quotes Tolstoy, the source I found. Now became popular that the word “fake”. This is a fake? Or Tolstoy wrote these lines?
Anyway, I have a feeling that the gap between us is growing every day.
It’s amazing how unstable, fragile peace.
Peace in our hearts, the harmony of which is disturbed by experiences of all kinds: from petty quarrels in the kitchen during the gathering to work up to insomnia after watching the news on TV.
Peace in the world, depending on the momentary mood of those who reached the highest peaks of power.
I naively trying to understand why the world powers all this? Do games on the lives of people, make them happier?
People emotionally discuss: whether Putin is sick? Or all of these actions are the result of sophisticated mind is able to see many moves ahead?
I think how easy the world has become fragile again. Was removed one card from the card house and everything started to fall apart. I remember the first time I saw falling for each other masterfully folded earlier dominoes in some movie. They all fell down a ladder and fell. There were many of them. Each of the chain links was the cause of the fall of the next…
Somehow standing in front of this frame when I read the news.
No, Putin is healthy. No doubt even.
He is healthy in the physical sense, and in mental too. I’m sure any of the district psychiatrist will prove it…
Just…
… Grandson of Genghis Khan, sent to look at Kiev.
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Illustration – Ancient Kiev X-XIII centuries.
