how, according to the tour guide, lived in Gorgipia people BC, the search, excavation and versions, the establishment of Soviet power and the fact that until now, Esser referred to the Bolsheviks, the heroes who laid down their head conquering and defending this beautiful city. And about the omissions of historians and guides
Coming to rest in a historic place just impractical to spend all day lying on the beach. We have to look around to take in the story, so to speak. Moreover, the story in Anapa is around you.
You think it’s a simple bench, lined with mosaic? No, it’s the remains of the fortress wall that once surrounded the Turkish fortress and abundantly watered by Russian blood.
Yes, and in ancient times, I think it also spilled not a little. The Greeks, Genoese…. They were traveling in this magical land, not on the sand to lie.
The city excavations have been carried out and, moreover, for the inspection highlighted an area which is called
All as expected. Tickets, if desired, in process of acquisition groups, guide. We got a burly man of around sixty with a scythe (normal tail, which often makes my daughter). Don’t know about you, but I always feel terrible suspicion and some disgust to men with similar tails….
I was not mistaken this time.
I listened to it and was very surprised. He told the times of antiquity as if he were a contemporary event. So beautifully, so convincingly. About water, population, way of life. Honestly, I am always surprised such awareness. It began in childhood, when I considered a perfectly executed scheme battles in Gaugamela, Granik and Cannes.
To think that what we have done historians! Know everything! When and what team gave Alexander, how many chariots have identified Darius on the right flank…
Miracles, and only….
And the man with the scythe Nightingale sang about things, I listened to him attentively, and then asked:
“Why don’t you talk about the slave trade? Where was the slave market, and how the walls were placed the sentries?
– Can I see a diagram of the water?
The man slowly stood and began to mumble something in response. And I was unstoppable:
– You told about the system of water pipelines and roads. I would like to understand how they lay in relation to the current city, it’s so interesting….
Nothing intelligible to me the guide didn’t answer, for us it was not interesting, and we went out to wander by themselves. In my opinion, it is better to see for yourself than listen to any nonsense.
In fact, a small excavated plot itself is quite interesting. In Anapa will go, you will not regret it.
In addition to excavation, you can see amphorae, sculptures and other objects found during the excavations.
Widely represented tombstones, obelisks, and sarcophagi
And this is also the story. It is a pity that the tour itself is built uninteresting and, in fact, is a paraphrase of the model guide. No word on Prometheus, very casual about the cult of Hermes and virtually nothing about the time of the Genoese domination.
All neatly combed and sleek. Shame on such material could be put on a very good scientific and educational show.
And Souvenirs, a complete blockage. So much to do, based on the antiquity and subsequent history. To be honest, sorry. So much potential, so virgin no tillage. Probably, here we lose much in losing the import of such museums.
But the Museum Gorgippia have the know-how. In one of the rooms of the exposition dedicated to the establishment of Soviet power in Anapa. Perhaps the exhibition remained from Soviet times. After seeing it, I have no doubt.
The fact is that the Soviet government in Anapa has established SRS. By the way, SRS is probably the most not deservedly forgotten party in Russia. It is the socialists-revolutionaries were the main driving force of both Russian revolutions, and then just out of the way of the Bolsheviks.
Now, the Central place of the exposition is occupied by the slogans and programme of the Bolsheviks, although, to his credit, a lot of photos and other materials about those who have left their mark in history. In fact, the history of the formation of the new government in Anapa quite tragic. It quickly toppled, killed someone directly, someone the Bolsheviks later. Many have gone into exile. Anyone interested, look on the Internet, it is very interesting.
The woman-Keeper I asked only one question:
Once the exhibition presents SRS, why no slogan? Why the walls are hung with quotations of Lenin?
An elderly woman, quite possibly, in the not so distant past, a former party worker, looked at me and said:
– And what is the Esser can be a slogan, if they were fellow travelers of the Bolsheviks and then betrayed them?
It’s lights out…. I immediately remembered a tour of my daughter in Sestroretsk, in may this year, when the same grandparents, in all seriousness told the second-graders as a curse Finnish Nazis cowardly attacked our country in the thirty-ninth year…
How many years have passed, and still the roars sounds like a refrain: “long live the Communist party of the Soviet Union! The organizer and inspirer of all our victories”…
– I’m sorry You do not know. The slogan of the socialist is: “In struggle you will attain your right”…. Read “the Golden calf”….
Sorry, but such a good Museum. So much in the city made for residents, for tourists. Don’t understand. Money lying on the ground, you just have to bend over and pick them up. And all….
Although no. For this it is necessary to send on pension of the grandmother and the girls are still confident that the Soviet Union collapsed, damn America and …. Send in the Barber shop men-guides.
Not much and quite possibly very soon, in our thematic museums will be impossible to get tickets. And I believe, I have no doubt that it will!
And on the ruins will stand monuments…
