What's happened first night right? This is an ancient custom that involves the bride having sexual contact with another man rather than her husband. This could be a tribal leader, a landowner, a feudal lord, or some other person on whom the newlyweds depended. This dependence was expressed in different ways. Serfdom, debt obligations, religious foundations, an ancient tradition, strictly observed.

For modern man this action is a rather humiliating and unpleasant fact at the very beginning family life. But in ancient times, people looked at such things differently. The village girl knew from an early age that it would not be her future husband who would take her virginity, but, say, a count living in a large and beautiful castle standing on a hill near the village.

At the same time, the grandmother and mother of the child also underwent a similar procedure at one time, so the young creature did not see anything shameful or terrible in it. The girl was even flattered by the thought that she would spend the whole night with a gentleman of noble blood. If, moreover, she is obedient and manages to please her, then it is very possible that she will be given some kind of gift.

As for the groom voluntarily giving his bride to another man, here again we need to understand the mentality of the people who lived in that distant time. If a person was born a peasant, then he died a peasant. And if a person was born a nobleman, then he died a nobleman.

There was a gulf between different social groups or classes. Representatives of the lower class did not at all consider themselves equal to representatives of the upper class. The peasants looked at the noble gentlemen with sincere respect and servility. Therefore, the groom considered it an honor to give his bride to an important gentleman of noble blood. He would be horrified if, say, the count renounced his right. This would be a terrible shame for both the young husband and his wife.

In democratic times there was no such custom. He was not known in Ancient Greece And Ancient Rome, since in these states there was no strict distinction between social groups. Any soldier could become an emperor, and an ordinary city resident could become a philosopher. The same thing was observed in Kievan Rus. In many cities, veche was practiced, and the common people appointed princes or removed them. Therefore, honor and respect were earned not by origin, but by specific deeds.

But in Western Europe the picture was completely different. The feudal lords, who lived in their castles, had unlimited power over the peasants. Each such duke or count had his own armed detachment, and any disobedience was punished most severely. Knights even often ignored the king’s authority, let alone their attitude towards commoners. Peasants were the same property as cows or sheep. There was no talk about any sense of self-worth.

When did the right of the first night appear in European lands? It is difficult to name a specific date or even a century. Everything is lost in an endless series of years and centuries. But this custom ended around the 17th century. In Switzerland, he ordered to live long at the beginning of the 16th century, in Germany 100 years later. In France they forgot about it in the middle of the 15th century. A little later, this practice was stopped in England.

Much also depended on the nobles themselves. Enlightened and smart people themselves renounced the shameful practice, and the ignorant and sensualists were happy to engage in this business, while in defense ordinary people legislation did not come into force.

The origins of the custom are, as a rule, sought in the tribal and communal system. This was a time when people lived in tribes, and a woman was the property not of an individual man, but of the entire community. Then the institution of marriage began to develop, but some ancient traditions remained. It was they who became the reason for the right to the first night powerful of the world this.

This practice prevailed among the Germanic tribes. They conquered Rome, settled on the lands of the empire, but were significantly behind the local residents in their social and moral development. Having adopted everything advanced and new from them, they at the same time retained their primitive morals, which changed little over the next 1000 years.

As for other parts of the planet, the right of the first night was practiced among the peoples of Africa and South America. But Africans were not like the arrogant feudal lords of Medieval Europe. It was not the tribal leader who deflowered the bride, but the most respected guests at the wedding. Moreover, there could be several of them. They all had sexual intercourse with the girl.

But this does not mean at all that a full-fledged sexual intercourse took place, as it appears in our time. Guests simply “entered the bride and left.” It was a ritual rite associated with ancient customs and traditions about which we know nothing.

Virgin pleura And menstrual cycle always seemed to people as something mystical, connected with higher divine powers. Therefore, the grooms, due to their inexperience, were not trusted with such important question like deflowering. This responsibility was taken on by experienced men who knew how to properly and painlessly deprive a woman of her virginity.

Therefore, group intercourse at weddings can be seen as friendly participation and paternal care for young people. The groom had practically nothing to lose. Over the years, he gained experience and then took part in such rituals himself. There was no humiliation or desecration of honor here. Everything was done in front of everyone and evoked only a feeling of deep satisfaction and respect.

Africans and Indians treated sexual life as a natural physiological process. They never limited themselves in bodily joys and were not embarrassed by the presence of other people. But Europeans perceived the process of intercourse completely differently.

The Catholic Church has always preached abstinence and restraint. The priests took a vow of celibacy, and other citizens viewed intimate life as a necessary but sinful part human life. Without sexual intercourse it is impossible to conceive a child, so the spouses, having done the most important thing, stopped all sexual contact until the need for the next baby arose.

Back in the 19th century, this practice was considered the norm. True Catholics have always been ascetics and adhered to strict morals. As for Orthodoxy, there were more liberties. Even common baths were practiced, in which both men and women washed together. But this does not at all indicate sexual promiscuity, but simply speaks of a certain mentality of our ancestors.

Keeping one's passions in check was considered the highest manifestation of fortitude. Those who threw themselves at every skirt did not enjoy respect, since they seemed to those around them to be spiritually poor and weak-willed.

The right of the first night was not at all a sign of degradation and immorality. This was an ancient custom, and people treated it with respect and understanding. Another thing is that already in later times, some landowners in the same serf Russia, using their power, persuaded young peasant women to cohabitate.

But this had nothing in common with the ancient custom. Rather, one can see a connection here with current times, when bosses sexually harass their employees. They threaten dismissal if they refuse. Some ladies themselves are not averse to entering into intimate relationships with management in order to ensure a problem-free existence for themselves. So each time has its own concepts of morality and ethical standards.

Each nation has its own interesting traditions for celebrating their wedding night. And although they sometimes seem strange to us, they still have the right to be in connection with the peculiarities of the development of culture, the history of a particular country.

Responsible Role

At that time in Europe there was a custom called the “right of the first night.” Its essence is that the feudal lord had the right to deflower any girl from his possessions who got married. That is why, after marriage, the bride spent her wedding night not with her newly-made husband, but with the feudal lord. If he did not like the bride, he had the right to refuse the first night, or sell this right to the groom. In some countries this tradition continued until the end of the 19th century.

How did this tradition begin? According to one hypothesis, in this way the feudal lord confirmed his right of ownership.

According to another version, the gentleman took on this “difficult” role so that the husband would get a “proven” wife. Some historians see elements of sacrifice in this tradition (virginity was sacrificed to a deity, while the role of the deity in some countries was played by a priest).

Some peoples believed that the blood that appears during deflowering brings evil and disease. Therefore, the ritual was entrusted to a tribal elder or a sorcerer - that is, a strong person capable of resisting the machinations of evil spells. And only after this “purification” ritual was the newlywed given to the groom.

There was such a custom in Scandinavian pagan cults. With the onset of darkness before the first wedding night, the priest of the god of fertility Frey took the bride (of course, a stranger) into the forest, lit a fire and sacrificed a pig. After this, he performed the ritual, and then brought the bride to the groom. It was believed that after this mystery, a woman would be able to give birth to many healthy sons.

Some tribes in Africa and South America the act of deprivation of innocence was even performed by women (healers or the wife of the tribal leader).

Celebration of the first wedding night

A very interesting tradition existed in Scotland - there friends and relatives prevented the newlyweds from spending their wedding night in every possible way. They immediately did not allow the young couple to have privacy, and if they succeeded, they made noise and shouted, preventing them from enjoying each other. They could feel all the delights of their wedding night only when the guests were tired of the fun and fell asleep.

In Greece, a child must run around the marriage bed in order for healthy children to be born in the family in the future.

In Germany and France, friends and relatives acted in the same way as in Scotland - they made noise under the windows, placed alarm clocks in the room. In the Philippines, newlyweds were completely forbidden to have sex on their wedding night, and this is due to the fact that a child conceived on the wedding day could be born sick through alcohol consumption by the future parents.

The Chinese tradition of spending the first night differs from the European one, since here great importance added beauty to the room where such an important event was to take place. The room was decorated with flowers, red and yellow candles in the shape of dragons, the main purpose of which was to drive away evil spirits from the newlyweds. Before entering this room, the newlyweds had to drink wine from glasses that were tied together with a red ribbon.

The most exotic traditions existed in Africa. There, in some tribes, after the wedding, the husband knocked out his wife’s two front teeth on their wedding night. Thus, the husband informed his fellow tribesmen that this girl was married.

A sovereign is not a sovereign if he does not have the right to the first night of St. Bartholomew..."
From the Unsaid by Nicolo Machiavelli

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First night right

The right of the first night (Latin jus primae noctis, German Recht der ersten Nacht, Herrenrecht, French Droit de cuissage, Droit de pr;libation, “the right to lay the thigh”) - which existed in the Middle Ages in European countries - the right of landowners and feudal lords After the marriage of dependent peasants, spend the first night with the bride, depriving her of her virginity. In some cases, the peasant had the right to buy off this by paying a special date. The same right existed in many cultures of the Indians of South America for sorcerers or for leaders, and perhaps exists among some tribes even now. The right of the first night for relatives of the bride and groom existed in some African tribes and among the Balearics on the Balearic Islands.

Excerpts from the book by B.Yu. Tarasova “Serf Russia. History of People's Slavery"

Everyone knows that serfdom existed in Russia. But today almost no one knows what it really was.

The entire system of serfdom, the entire system of economic and everyday relationships between masters and peasants and courtyard servants were subordinated to the goal of providing the landowner and his family with the means for a comfortable and convenient life. Even concern for the morality of their slaves was dictated on the part of the nobility by the desire to protect themselves from any surprises that could disrupt the usual routine. Russian soul owners could sincerely regret that serfs cannot be completely deprived of human feelings and turned into soulless and voiceless working machines.

Animal persecution was not always the main goal of the landowner, who went to the “away field” at the head of his servants and hangers-on. Often the hunt ended with the robbery of passers-by on the roads, the destruction of peasant households or the pogrom of the estates of unwanted neighbors, and violence against their household, including their wives. P. Melnikov-Pechersky, in his essay “Old Years,” cites the story of a servant about his service with one prince:

“Twenty versts from Zaborye, there, beyond the Undolsky pine forest, there is the village of Krutikino. It was in those days of the retired corporal Solonitsyn: due to injury and wounds, that corporal was dismissed from service and lived in his Krutikhin with his young wife, and he took her out of Lithuania, or from Poland... Prince Alexei Yurich liked Solonichikha... We left one day in the summer They hunted the red beast in the Undolsky forest, hunted about a dozen foxes, and made a halt near Krutikhin. They laid out a poisoned animal from toroks in front of Prince Alexei Yuryich, we stand...

And Prince Alexey Yuryich sits, does not look at the red beast, looks at the village of Krutikhin, and, it seems, with his eyes, he wants to eat it. What kind of fox is this, he says, what kind of red beast is this? Just like if someone hunted down a Krutikhinsky fox to me, I wouldn’t even know what I would have given to that person.

I whooped in Krutikino. And there the lady is walking around in the raspberry patch in the garden, playing with the berries. I grabbed the beauty across the belly, threw it over the saddle and back. He galloped up to Prince Alexei Yuryich and laid the little fox at his feet. “Have fun, your Excellency, but we are not averse to service.” We look, the corporal is galloping; I almost jumped on the prince himself... I can’t really tell you how it happened, but the corporal was gone, and the Lithuanian girl began to live in the outbuilding in Zaborye...”

In the era of serfdom, there were many cases when a large landowner had a noble wife or daughter forcibly taken away from her husband as a concubine. The reason for the very possibility of this state of affairs is precisely explained in her notes by E. Vodovozova. According to her, in Russia the main and almost only importance was wealth - “everything was possible for the rich.”

But it is obvious that if the wives of minor nobles were subjected to gross violence from a more influential neighbor, then peasant girls and women were completely defenseless against the tyranny of the landowners. A.P. Zablotsky-Desyatovsky, who collected on behalf of the minister state property detailed information about the situation of serfs, noted in his report:

“In general, reprehensible connections between landowners and their peasant women are not at all uncommon. In every province, in almost every district, examples will be shown to you... The essence of all these cases is the same: debauchery combined with greater or lesser violence. The details are extremely varied. Another landowner forces him to satisfy his bestial urges simply by the force of power, and seeing no limit, he goes into a frenzy, raping young children... another comes to the village temporarily to have fun with his friends, and first gives the peasant women drink and then forces him to satisfy both his own bestial passions and his friends.” .

The principle that justified the master's violence against serf women was:

“You must go if you have a slave!”

Compulsion to debauchery was so widespread on landowner estates that some researchers were inclined to single out a separate duty from other peasant duties - a kind of “corvée for women.”

One memoirist told about a landowner he knew that on his estate he was “a real rooster, and the entire female half - from young to old - were his chickens. It would happen that he would walk through the village late in the evening, stop in front of some hut, look out the window and lightly knock on the glass with his finger - and that very minute the most beautiful of the family would come out to him...”

On other estates, violence was systematically ordered. After finishing work in the field, the master's servant, one of the trusted ones, goes to the courtyard of one or another peasant, depending on the established “queue”, and takes the girl - daughter or daughter-in-law - to the master for the night. Moreover, on the way he goes into a neighboring hut and announces to the owner there:

“Tomorrow go winnow the wheat, and send Arina (wife) to the master”...

Many of our landowners are quite serious debauchees...

IN AND. Semevsky wrote that often the entire female population of some estate was forcibly corrupted to satisfy the master's lust. Some landowners who did not live on their estates, but spent their lives abroad or in the capital, specially came to their estates only for a short time for nefarious purposes. On the day of arrival, the manager had to provide the landowner with full list all the peasant girls who grew up during the master’s absence, and he took each of them for himself for several days:

“When the list was exhausted, he left for other villages, and came again the next year.”

All this was not something exceptional, out of the ordinary, but, on the contrary, was in the nature of an ordinary phenomenon, not at all condemned among the nobility. A.I. Koshelev wrote about his neighbor:

“A young landowner S., a passionate hunter of women and especially fresh girls, settled in the village of Smykovo. He did not allow the wedding otherwise than for a personal actual test of the bride’s merits. The parents of one girl did not agree to this condition. He ordered both the girl and her parents to be brought to him; chained the latter to the wall and raped their daughter in front of them. There was a lot of talk about this in the district, but the leader of the nobility did not lose his Olympian calm, and he got away with the matter happily.”

We have to admit that two hundred years of the noble yoke in the history of Russia, in terms of its destructive consequences on the character and morality of the people, on the integrity of folk culture and tradition, surpasses any potential threat ever emanating from an external enemy. The state authorities and landowners acted and felt like conquerors in a conquered country, given to them “to be poured out and plundered.” Any attempts by peasants to complain about unbearable oppression by the owners, according to the laws of the Russian Empire, were subject to punishment as a riot, and the “rebels” were dealt with in accordance with legal regulations.

Moreover, the view of serfs as powerless slaves turned out to be so strongly rooted in the consciousness of the ruling class and government that any violence against them, including sexual violence, in most cases was not legally considered a crime. For example, the peasants of the landowner Kosheleva repeatedly complained about the estate manager, who not only burdened them with work beyond measure, but also separated them from their wives, “having sexual intercourse with them.” Reply from government agencies there was none, and the people, driven to despair, “nailed” the manager themselves. And here the authorities reacted instantly! Despite the fact that after an investigation, accusations against the manager of violence against peasant women were confirmed, he did not suffer any punishment and remained in his previous position with complete freedom to act as before. But the peasants who attacked him, defending the honor of their wives, were flogged and imprisoned in a restraining house.

In general, the managers appointed by landowners to their estates turned out to be no less cruel and depraved than the legal owners. Having absolutely no formal obligations to the peasants and not feeling the need to take care of future relations, these gentlemen, also often from among the nobles, only poor or completely without place, received unlimited power over the serfs. To characterize their behavior on the estates, we can cite an excerpt from a letter from a noblewoman to her brother, over whose estate such a manager ruled, although in this case he was a German.

“My most precious brother, revered with all my soul and heart!.. Many of our landowners are quite serious libertines: in addition to their legal wives, they have concubines from serfs, they organize dirty brawls, they often flog their peasants, but they are not angry with them to such an extent, not They corrupt their wives and children to such filth... All your peasants are completely ruined, exhausted, completely tortured and crippled by none other than your manager, the German Karl, nicknamed among us "Karla", who is a fierce beast, a tormentor... This unclean animal has been corrupted all the girls of your villages and demands every pretty bride to come to him for the first night. If the girl herself or her mother or groom do not like this, and they dare to beg him not to touch her, then all of them, according to routine, are punished with a whip, and the girl-bride is put on the neck for a week, or even two, as a hindrance. I'll sleep the slingshot. The slingshot locks, and Karl hides the key in his pocket. The peasant, the young husband, who showed resistance to Karla molesting the girl who had just married him, has a dog chain wrapped around his neck and secured at the gate of the house, the same house in which we, my half-brother and half-brother, were born with you... »

However, the author of this letter, although she speaks impartially about the way of life of Russian landowners, is still inclined to somewhat elevate them in front of the “unclean animal Karla.” A study of the life of the serf era shows that this intention is hardly fair. In the cynical debauchery that the Russian nobles demonstrated towards forced people, it was difficult to compete with them, and any foreigner could only imitate the “natural” masters.

Russian soul owners had many opportunities to make money from corrupting their serfs, and they used them with success. Some released the “girls” on rent in the cities, knowing full well that they would engage in prostitution there, and even deliberately sending them by force to brothel houses. Others acted less rudely and sometimes with greater benefit for themselves. The Frenchman Charles Masson says in his notes:

“One St. Petersburg widow, Mrs. Pozdnyakova, had an estate with quite a large number of souls not far from the capital. Every year, on her orders, the most beautiful and slender girls who had reached ten to twelve years of age were brought from there. They were brought up in her house under the supervision of a special governess and were taught useful and pleasant arts. They were simultaneously taught dancing, music, sewing, embroidery, combing, etc., so that her house, always filled with a dozen young girls, seemed like a boarding house for well-bred girls. At the age of fifteen, she sold them: the most dexterous ones ended up as maids for ladies, the most beautiful ones - as mistresses for secular libertines. And since she took up to 500 rubles apiece, this gave her a certain annual income.”

The imperial government has always been extremely hospitable to foreigners who wished to stay in Russia. They were generously given high positions, high-profile titles, orders and, of course, Russian serfs. Foreigners, finding themselves in such favorable conditions, lived for their own pleasure and blessed the Russian emperor. Baron N.E. Wrangel, himself a descendant of people from foreign lands, recalled his neighbor on the estate, Count Vizanur, who led a completely exotic lifestyle. His father was a Hindu or Afghan and ended up in Russia as part of his country's embassy during the reign of Catherine II. Here this ambassador died, and his son, for some reason, stayed in St. Petersburg and was surrounded by the favorable attention of the government. He was sent to study in the cadet corps, and upon graduation, he was endowed with estates and elevated to the dignity of a count of the Russian Empire.

On Russian soil, the newly-minted count had no intention of abandoning the customs of his homeland, especially since no one thought of forcing him to do so. He did not build a large manor house on his estate, but instead built several small cozy houses, all in different styles, mostly oriental - Turkish, Indian, Chinese. In them he settled peasant girls forcibly taken from families, dressed up in accordance with the style of the house in which they lived - Chinese, Indian and Turkish girls, respectively. Having arranged his harem in this way, the count enjoyed life by “traveling” - that is, visiting alternately with some concubines and then with others. Wrangel recalled that he was an elderly, ugly, but amiable and excellently educated man. When visiting his Russian slaves, he also dressed, as a rule, in an outfit corresponding to the style of the house - either a Chinese mandarin or a Turkish pasha.

Many of our landowners are quite serious debauchees...

But it was not only people from Asian countries who started serf harems on their estates - they had a lot to learn in this sense from Russian landowners, who approached the matter without unnecessary exoticism, practically. A harem of serf “girls” in a noble estate of the 18th–19th centuries is as integral a sign of “noble” life as hound hunting or a club. Of course, not every landowner had a harem, and in the same way, not everyone took part in baiting the beast or ever sat down at the card table. But, unfortunately, it was not virtuous exceptions that determined the image of a typical representative of the upper class of this era.

Of the long series of reliable, “copied from life” noble characters with which Russian literature is so rich, Troekurov will be the most characteristic. Every Russian landowner was a Troyekurov, if opportunities allowed, or wanted to be, if the means to realize his dream were not enough. It is noteworthy that in the original author’s version of the story “Dubrovsky,” which was not passed by the imperial censor and is still little known, Pushkin wrote about the habits of his Kirill Petrovich Troekurov:

“It was a rare girl from the courtyard who escaped the voluptuous attempts of a fifty-year-old man. Moreover, sixteen maids lived in one of the outbuildings of his house... The windows in the outbuilding were blocked by bars, the doors were locked with locks, the keys to which were kept by Kirill Petrovich. The young hermits went to the garden at the appointed hours and walked under the supervision of two old women. From time to time, Kirill Petrovich gave some of them in marriage, and new ones took their place...” (Semevsky V.I. Peasant question in the 18th and first half of the 19th centuries. T. 2. St. Petersburg, 1888, p. 258 .)

Big and small Troekurovs inhabited noble estates, caroused, raped and hurried to satisfy their every whim, without thinking at all about those whose destinies they ruined. One of these countless types is the Ryazan landowner Prince Gagarin, about whom the leader of the nobility himself said in his report that the prince’s lifestyle consists “solely in hound hunting, with which he, with his friends, travels through the fields and forests day and night and places all his happiness and well-being in it.” At the same time, Gagarin’s serf peasants were the poorest in the entire district, since the prince forced them to work on the master’s arable land all days of the week, including holidays and even Holy Easter, but without transferring them to the month. But, as if from a cornucopia, corporal punishment rained down on the peasants’ backs, and the prince himself personally dealt blows with a whip, whip, arapnik or fist - whatever happened.

Gagarin started his own harem:

“In his house there are two gypsies and seven girls; he corrupted the latter without their consent, and lives with them; the first were obliged to teach the girls dance and songs. When visiting guests, they form a choir and amuse those present. Prince Gagarin treats the girls just as cruelly as he treats others, often punishing them with an arapnik. Out of jealousy, so that they would not see anyone, he locks them in a special room; I once spanked a girl because she was looking out the window.”

It is noteworthy that the nobles of the district, Gagarin’s neighbors and landowners, spoke extremely positively about him. How one declared that the prince not only “has not been noticed in actions contrary to noble honor,” but, moreover, leads his life and manages his estate “in accordance with other noble nobles”! The last statement, in essence, was absolutely correct.

In contrast to the whims of the exotic Count Vizanur, the harem of an ordinary landowner was devoid of any theatricality or costume, since it was intended, as a rule, to satisfy the very specific needs of the master. Gagarin, in general, is still too “artistic” - he teaches his unwitting concubines singing and music with the help of hired gypsies. The life of the other owner, Pyotr Alekseevich Koshkarov, is completely different.

He was an elderly, fairly wealthy landowner, about seventy years old. Y. Neverov recalled:

“The life of the female servants in his house had a purely harem structure... If in any family the daughter was distinguished by her beautiful appearance, then she was taken into the master’s harem.”

About 15 young girls made up Koshkarov’s female oprichnina. They served him at table, accompanied him to bed, and kept watch at his bedside at night. This duty had a peculiar character: after dinner, one of the girls loudly announced to the whole house that “the master wants to rest.” This was a signal for all the household to go to their rooms, and the living room turned into Koshkarov’s bedroom. A wooden bed for the master and mattresses for his “odalisques” were brought there, placing them around the master’s bed. The master himself was doing evening prayer at this time. The girl, whose turn it was then, undressed the old man and put him to bed. However, what happened next was completely innocent, but was explained solely by the old age of the owner - the attendant sat on a chair next to the master’s headboard and had to tell fairy tales until the master fell asleep, while she herself was not allowed to sleep the whole night no matter what! In the morning she rose from her seat, opened the doors of the living room, which were locked at night, and announced, also to the whole house: “The master ordered the shutters to open”! After that, she retired to sleep, and the new attendant who took her place lifted the master from the bed and dressed him.

With all this, the life of the old tyrant is still not without a certain amount of perverted eroticism. Neverov writes:

“Once a week Koshkarov went to the bathhouse, and all the inhabitants of his harem had to accompany him there, and often those of them who had not yet had time, due to their recent presence in this environment, to assimilate all her views, and tried to hide in the bathhouse out of modesty , - they returned from there beaten.”

The beatings were given to the Koshkari "oprichnitsa" just like that, especially in the mornings, between waking up and before drinking tea with the invariable pipe of tobacco, when the elderly master was most often in a bad mood. Neverov emphasizes that it was the girls from the nearby servants who were most often punished in Koshkarov’s house, and the punishments of the servants’ men were much less:

“It was especially hard on the poor girls. If there were no executions with rods, then many received slaps in the face, and loud abuse was heard all morning, sometimes without any reason.”

This is how the depraved landowner spent the days of his powerless old age. But one can imagine what orgies his young years were filled with - and masters like him, who had complete control over the destinies and bodies of serf slaves. However, the most important thing is that in most cases this did not happen out of natural depravity, but was an inevitable consequence of the existence of an entire system of social relations, sanctified by the authority of the state and inexorably corrupting both slaves and slave owners themselves.

From childhood, the future master, observing the lifestyle of his parents, relatives and neighbors, grew up in an atmosphere of such perverted relationships that their depravity was no longer fully realized by their participants. The anonymous author of notes from the life of a landowner recalled:

“After lunch, all the gentlemen will go to bed. All the time while they are sleeping, the girls stand by the beds and brush away flies with green branches, standing and not moving from their place... For boys-children: one girl brushed away flies with a branch, another told fairy tales, the third stroked their heels. It’s amazing how widespread this was - both fairy tales and heels - and passed on from century to century!

When the barchuks grew up, they were assigned only storytellers. The girl sits on the edge of the bed and says: I-va-n tsa-re-vich... And the barchuk lies and does tricks with her... Finally the young master began to sniffle. The girl stopped talking and quietly stood up. Barchuk will jump up, and bam in the face!

Another author, A. Panaeva, left only a brief sketch of just a few types of “ordinary” nobles and their everyday life, but this is quite enough to imagine the environment in which the little barchuk grew up and which formed the child’s personality in such a way as to turn him into another Koshkarov.

Many of our landowners are quite serious debauchees...

Close and distant relatives gathered at the noble estate mentioned in the previous chapter to divide the property after the deceased landowner. The boy's uncle arrived. This is an old man with significant social weight and influence. He is a bachelor, but maintains a large harem; built a two-story stone house on his estate, where he placed the serf girls. He did not hesitate to come to the division with some of them; they accompany him day and night. It doesn’t even occur to anyone around you to be embarrassed by this circumstance; it seems natural and normal to everyone. True, in a few years the government will still be forced to take custody of this respected man’s estate, as stated in the official definition: “for outrageous acts of a flagrantly immoral nature”...

But the libertine’s younger brother, he is the boy’s father. Panaeva says about him that he is “kind-hearted,” and this is probably true. His wife, the boy's mother, is a respectable woman, a good housewife. She brought with her several courtyard “girls” for services. But not a day passed without her, in front of her son, beating and pinching them for any mistake. This lady wanted to see her child as a hussar officer and, in order to accustom him to the necessary bearing, every morning for a quarter of an hour she put him in a specially constructed wooden form, forcing him to stand at attention without moving. Then the boy “out of boredom amused himself by spitting in the face and biting the hands of the courtyard girl, who was obliged to hold his hands,” writes Panaeva, who observed these scenes.

In order to develop team skills in the boy, the mother herded peasant children onto the lawn, and the barchuk mercilessly beat those who marched poorly in front of him with a long rod. How common the picture described was is confirmed by many eyewitness accounts and even unwitting participants. The serf F. Bobkov recalled the entertainment of the gentlemen when they came to the estate:

“I remember how the lady, sitting on the windowsill, smoked a pipe and laughed, looking at the game of her son, who made horses out of us and urged us on with a whip...”

This rather “innocent” at first glance lordly fun actually carried the important meaning of instilling in a noble child certain social skills and behavioral stereotypes in relation to the surrounding slaves. We can say that this “game” of horses and weird, but invariably ugly or tragicomic forms. The future of this nest, of an entire noble family, will be continued by illegitimate children. But their psyche is to a large extent traumatized by the awareness of their social inferiority. Even when they eventually receive all the rights of the “noble Russian nobility,” they cannot forget the difficult impressions suffered in their childhood years.

The moral savagery of Russian landowners reached an extreme degree. In the manor house, among the courtyard people, no different from the servants, lived the illegitimate children of the owner or his guests and relatives, who left such a “memory” after their visit. The nobles did not find anything strange in the fact that their own, albeit illegitimate, nephews and nieces, cousins, were in the position of slaves, doing the most menial work, being subjected to cruel punishments, and on occasion they were sold to the side.

E. Vodovozova described how such a yard woman lived in her mother’s house - “she was the fruit of the love of one of our relatives and a beautiful cowwife in our barnyard.” The position of Minodora, as she was called, while the memoirist’s father, a passionate lover of home theater, was alive, was quite bearable. She was raised with the owner's daughters, she could even read and speak a little French and took part in home performances. Vodovozova’s mother, who took over management of the estate after her husband’s death, established completely different rules. The changes had a hard impact on the fate of Minodora. As luck would have it, the girl, with her fragile build and refined manners, resembled more a noble young lady than an ordinary courtyard “girl.” Vodovozova wrote about this:

“What we valued in her before was her excellent manners and elegance, necessary for an actress and a maid in good home, - now, according to mother, we were not welcome. Before, Minodora had never done any dirty work, now she had to do everything, and her fragile, sickly body was a hindrance for this: she would run across the yard to call someone - she would overcome the cough, bring wood to the stove to heat - she would splinter her hands, and she would have them swollen. This made my mother increasingly disdainful of her: she looked at the elegant Minodora with increasing irritation. In addition, it should be noted that mother generally disliked thin, fragile, pale-faced creatures and preferred red-cheeked, healthy and strong women to them... In this abrupt change from mother to the unusually meek Minodora, who had done nothing wrong before her, her entire appearance probably played a significant role "air creature". And so Minodora’s position in our house became more and more unsightly: fear... and constant colds worsened her poor health: she coughed more and more, lost weight and turned pale. Running out into the street on errands in the rain and cold, she was afraid to even throw on a scarf, so as not to be reproached for being a “lord.”

Finally, the lady, seeing that it would not be possible to derive practical benefit from such an overly refined slave, calmed down by selling her serf relative along with her husband to familiar landowners.

If a respectable widow, a caring mother for her daughters, could act so cynically and cruelly, then the description of life in the estate of General Lev Izmailov gives an idea of ​​the morals of the more decisive and desperate landowners.

Information about the unfortunate situation of the general's servants was preserved thanks to the documents of the criminal investigation launched on Izmailov's estate after cases of violence and debauchery that were occurring there, somewhat unusual even for that time, became known.

Izmailov arranged colossal drinking parties for the nobles of the entire district, to which he brought peasant girls and women belonging to him to entertain the guests. The general's servants traveled around the villages and forcibly took women directly from their homes. Once, having started such a “game” in his village of Zhmurovo, it seemed to Izmailov that not enough “girls” had been brought, and he sent carts for replenishment to the neighboring village. But the peasants there unexpectedly put up resistance - they did not give up their women and, in addition, in the dark they beat the Izmailovo “oprichnik” - Guska.

Many of our landowners are quite serious debauchees...

The enraged general, without delaying revenge until the morning, at night, at the head of his servants and hangers-on, raided the rebellious village. Having scattered the peasants' huts over logs and started a fire, the landowner went to the distant mowing, where most of the village's population spent the night. There, unsuspecting people were tied up and crossed.

When welcoming guests at his estate, the general, in his own way understanding the duties of a hospitable host, certainly provided each of them with a courtyard girl for the night for “whimsical connections,” as it is delicately stated in the investigation materials. By order of the landowner, very young girls of twelve to thirteen years old were given over to the most important visitors to the general's house for molestation.

In Izmailov’s main residence, the village of Khitrovshchina, next to the manor house there were two outbuildings. One of them housed the patrimonial office and the prisoner's office, the other housed the landowner's harem. The rooms in this building had access to the street only through the premises occupied by the landowner himself. There were iron bars on the windows.

The number of Izmailov’s concubines was constant and, at his whim, was always thirty, although the composition itself was constantly updated. Girls 10–12 years old were often recruited into the harem and grew up for some time before the eyes of the master. Subsequently, the fate of all of them was more or less the same - Lyubov Kamenskaya became a concubine at the age of 13, Akulina Gorokhova at 14, Avdotya Chernyshova at the age of 16.

One of the general’s hermits, Afrosinya Khomyakova, taken to the manor’s house at the age of thirteen, told how two lackeys in broad daylight took her from the rooms where she served Izmailov’s daughters, and almost dragged her to the general, covering her mouth and beating her along the way. so as not to resist. From that time on, the girl was Izmailov’s concubine for several years. But when she dared to ask permission to see her relatives, she was punished for such “insolence” with fifty lashes.

The maintenance of the inhabitants of the general's harem was extremely strict. For a walk, they were given the opportunity only for a short time and under watchful supervision to go into the garden adjacent to the outbuilding, never leaving its territory. If it happened to accompany their master on trips, then the girls were transported in tightly closed vans. They did not have the right to see even their parents, and all peasants and servants in general were strictly forbidden to pass near the harem building. Those who not only dared to pass under the windows of the slaves, but also simply bow to them from afar, were severely punished.

The life of the general's estate is not just strict and morally corrupt - it is defiantly, militantly depraved. The landowner takes advantage of the physical availability of forced women, but first of all tries to corrupt them internally, trample and destroy spiritual barriers, and does this with demonic persistence. Taking two peasant women—his own sisters—into his harem, Izmailov forces them to “endure their shame” together, in front of each other. And he punishes his concubines not for actual misconduct, not even for resistance to his advances, but for attempts to resist spiritual violence. He personally beats Avdotya Konopleva for “reluctance to go to the master’s table when the master spoke obscene speeches here.” Olga Shelupenkova was also pulled by the hair because she did not want to listen to the master’s “indecent speeches.” And Marya Khomyakova was flogged only because she “blushed from the master’s shameful words”...

Izmailov subjected his concubines to more serious punishments. They were brutally flogged with a whip, had a slingshot tied around their necks, were sent to hard labor, and so on.

He molested Nymphodora Khoroshevskaya, or, as Izmailov called her, Nymph, when she was less than 14 years old. Moreover, being angry for something, he subjected the girl to a number of cruel punishments:

“First they flogged her with a whip, then with a whip, and over the course of two days they flogged her seven times. After these punishments, she was still in the locked harem of the estate for three months, and during all this time she was the master’s concubine...”

Finally, half of her head was shaved and she was sent to a potash factory, where she spent seven years in hard labor.

But investigators discovered a circumstance that completely shocked them: Nymphodora was born while her mother herself was a concubine and kept locked up in the general’s harem. Thus, this unfortunate girl also turns out to be Izmailov’s illegitimate daughter! And her brother, also the illegitimate son of a general, Lev Khoroshevsky, served in the “Cossacks” in the master’s household.

How many children Izmailov actually had has not been established. Some of them immediately after birth were lost among the faceless servants. In other cases, a woman pregnant by a landowner was given in marriage to some peasant.

Since the second half of the 18th century, theater has become one of the most common entertainments of noble society.

Having begun as fun, very soon the passion for theatrical performances takes on the character of a real passion. However, as in all noble life of the era of serfdom, here too the concept of property, the definition of “one’s own” is of decisive importance. The theater, of course, is good, but the most prestigious thing is to have your own theater, your own actors.

A home theater was started so that it served primarily as entertainment for the owner himself. Some were looking for honor, others wanted to amaze guests with generous meals and rich decorations, a large troupe, and some owners satisfied an unrealized desire for literary fame. Others were simply fooling around for the amusement of themselves and everyone else. Field Marshal Count Kamensky personally sold tickets for the performances of his theater, without entrusting this responsible business to anyone and keeping strict records of income to the box office, as well as the names of those to whom the tickets were donated. The jokers paid the count, who was sitting in the ticket office in a ceremonial uniform, and the St. George Cross with copper change. But the stingy nobleman was not lazy to carefully count the pennies, which took him up to half an hour. At the same time, he spent about 30,000 rubles on costumes for one production of “The Caliph of Baghdad” alone. The rich landowner Ganin, “almost a half-idiot,” according to the impartial definition of M. Pylyaev, staged performances on his estate exclusively based on plays of his own composition and himself took part in them. One of his favorite roles and, as they said, he was great at, was “the role of a lioness on all fours.”

All this is an almost endless gallery of absurd images and a collection funny stories, from which, if desired, you can easily put together an amusing comedy plot on the theme of “the good old days.” But in reality, behind these anecdotes about eccentric landowners lies the extremely gloomy reality of the backstage of the serf theater, where modern writers of everyday life in Russian life of the 18th–19th centuries do not like to look.

In the theater hall, whips hung on the wall of the personal box of the eccentric Count Kamensky. During the performance, Kamensky wrote down the mistakes he noted that were made by the performers, and during the intermission he went backstage, taking with him one of the whips. The reprisal against the perpetrators took place right there, immediately, and the cries of the flogged artists were heard by the spectators, who were greatly amused by this additional entertainment.

Prince N.G. Shakhovskoy is even more inventive in the measures he uses to physically influence his artists. They are flogged with rods, flogged with whips, their necks are locked in a slingshot, or they are put on a chair secured in the wall with an iron chain, and a collar is put on their necks, forcing them to sit like that for several days with almost no movement, without food or sleep.

Mister doesn't like the game main character, and without hesitation, right in his dressing gown and nightcap, he jumps out from behind the scenes and hits the woman in the face with a hysterical triumphant cry:

“I told you I would catch you doing this! After the performance, go to the stables for your well-deserved reward."

And the actress, wincing for a moment, immediately takes on her former proud look, required by the role, and continues the game...

Another gentleman enters backstage during intermission and makes a remark in a delicate, fatherly tone:

“You, Sasha, did not quite deftly carry out your role: the Countess must behave with great dignity.” And Sasha’s 15–20 minutes of intermission came at a price, the memoirist writes, “the coachman flogged her with all his dignity. Then the same Sasha had to either play in vaudeville or dance in ballet.”

Many of our landowners are quite serious debauchees...
Serf actress Praskovya Zhemchugova

Rods, slaps, kicks, slingshots and iron collars - these are the usual measures of punishment and at the same time means for nurturing talents in the noble landowner theaters. The life of serf artists there was not much different from the situation of animated dolls. They were used, they were supposed to entertain and give pleasure. But they could, if desired, be broken, maimed, or even destroyed with impunity. However, there is a point of view that it was there, in these reserves of humiliation of the human person, tyranny and cruelty, that Russian theatrical art was born, and for this alone one can forgive all the shortcomings of “growth”. But is it possible?!

An eyewitness to the life of serf-owners and their serf “dolls” wrote in bitter surprise: “No matter how hard you try, you just can’t imagine that people, and even girls, after the rods, and even the coachman’s rods, forgetting both pain and shame, could instantly turn into important countesses, or jump, laugh with all their hearts, be kind, fly in the ballet, and yet they had to do and did, because they learned from experience that if they did not immediately spin from under the rods, have fun, laugh , jump, then the coachman again... They know from bitter experience that for the slightest sign of coercion they will be flogged again and flogged terribly. It is impossible to clearly imagine such a situation, but nevertheless it all happened... Just as organ grinders make dogs dance with sticks and whips, so landowners used rods and whips to make people laugh and dance...”

Physical punishment did not exhaust the circle of humiliation and torment of serf artists. Generalissimo A.V. Suvorov, an inveterate lover of performances, music and the owner of a serf troupe himself, once said that theatrical performances are useful and needed “for exercise and innocent pleasure.” Most of the generalissimo's contemporaries, who owned serf actresses, did not fully follow his idealistic view, turning their home theaters into real centers of the most barbaric debauchery.

De Passenance describes the life of a Russian theater landowner as follows:

“His cooks, his footmen, grooms became musicians when necessary... his maids and maids became actresses. They are at the same time his concubines, wet nurses and nannies of the children born to them from the master...”

Serf actresses are almost always the unwitting mistresses of their master. In fact, this is another harem, only public, a source of obvious pride for the owner. The good-natured owner “treats” his friends with actresses. In a house where a home theater is set up, the performance often ends with a feast, and the feast ends with an orgy.

A correspondent of Voltaire, a man of “European education,” in his private life Yusupov had the habits of an Asian despot, which art critics do not like to mention. In his mansion in Moscow, he kept a theater and a group of dancers - fifteen to twenty of the most beautiful girls selected from among the actresses of the home theater, to whom the famous dance master Yogel gave lessons for huge money. These slaves were prepared in the princely mansion for purposes far from pure art. I.A. Arsenyev wrote about this in his “Living Word about the Inanimate”:

“During Lent, when performances at the imperial theaters stopped, Yusupov invited his bosom friends and acquaintances to a performance of his serf corps de ballet. The dancers, when Yusupov gave the famous sign, immediately lowered their costumes and appeared before the audience in their natural form, which delighted the old people, lovers of everything elegant.”

But if for elderly gentlemen such sinful entertainment, especially during Lent, was a conscious free choice, then for the involuntary participants in these princely “parties” the situation was completely different. By order of the landowner, young girls were torn from patriarchal peasant families living by extremely conservative religious beliefs and forcibly taught vice. What did these unfortunate Arishi and Feni endure, what physical and spiritual torment did they endure before they learned to laugh and expose themselves before the eyes of lustful nobles, while for their mothers it was an unacceptable sin to prostitute themselves in front of strangers? What pain is hidden behind their smiles?! And could any foreign conquerors really cause them greater humiliation, and at the same time the entire people, their traditions, honor and dignity, than these “natural” gentlemen?

At that time in Europe there was a custom called the “right of the first night.” Its essence is that the feudal lord had the right to deflower any girl from his possessions who got married. That is why, after marriage, the bride spent her wedding night not with her newly-made husband, but with the feudal lord. If he did not like the bride, he had the right to refuse the first night, or sell this right to the groom. In some countries this tradition continued until the end of the 19th century.

How did this tradition begin? According to one hypothesis, in this way the feudal lord confirmed his right of ownership.

According to another version, the gentleman took on this “difficult” role so that the husband would get a “proven” wife. Some historians see elements of sacrifice in this tradition (virginity was sacrificed to a deity, while the role of the deity in some countries was played by a priest).

Some peoples believed that the blood that appears during deflowering brings evil and disease. Therefore, the ritual was entrusted to a tribal elder or a sorcerer - that is, a strong person capable of resisting the machinations of evil spells. And only after this “purification” ritual was the newlywed given to the groom.

There was such a custom in Scandinavian pagan cults. With the onset of darkness before the first wedding night, the priest of the god of fertility Frey took the bride (of course, a stranger) into the forest, lit a fire and sacrificed a pig. After this, he performed the ritual, and then brought the bride to the groom. It was believed that after this mystery, a woman would be able to give birth to many healthy sons.

Among some tribes in Africa and South America, the act of deprivation of virginity was even performed by women (healers or the wife of the tribal leader).

“Byzantium is our everything! »

(Archpriest Avvakum )

I often have to talk with the reader on various sensitive topics. In my opinion, in the conversation of well-mannered people, there should be no prohibitions on discussion; it’s another matter when the author indulges in obvious obscenities. It is the ability to stay on the edge of what is permitted, not to cross the threshold of decency, that distinguishes a writer from a scribbler. Still, the writer is responsible for those whom he taught.

I foresee despondency on the faces of the readers, they say, Commissioner Qatar launched into a sermon about the observance and protection of chastity. This is not so, the author himself is far from ideal in this matter, having simply lived for more than half a century, he has revised his views on life, which he happily informs the reader about.

Of course, I didn’t become a schema monk or a clique. The world is much more interesting than these extremes, especially if you look at it with your own eyes and feel like a part of it.

I will not bore the reader with my reasoning, I understand that my reader is smart, but I want to remind you: despite the title of this miniature, everyone who has read my other works knows that in the end we will talk about a crime. For those who have encountered me for the first time, I hasten to inform you that the author is just the tip of the iceberg consisting of more than 3,000 army of retired law enforcement officers who are carefully disguised in social networks and represent the OSG - the operational investigative group. When creating a virtual Interpol, I proposed the idea of ​​​​investigating crimes of the past. Our first works showed that we are interesting to the reader. Today the group unites detectives from more than 100 countries. These are real rexes of detectives who held serious positions in law enforcement agencies many countries of the world. Sometimes it is very difficult for a historian to get into the Vatican archives. However, this statement does not apply to the Carabinieri of Italy or the security officer of the Papal Guard. And so on in all countries of the world. Retired veterans jumped at the opportunity to stretch their bones and air out their attics while investigating the mysteries of the past. And given that we have students who currently occupy high positions in the authorities, the reader receives truly good material. I will say right away that everything is documented in a certain number of copies of the criminal case, compiled according to Interpol standards, and stored in different places. I can happily say that the first courts have finally taken place, to which readers who disagree with our research have turned. This is exactly what we offer to those who are trying to prove our inconsistency by reading the author’s miniatures, which are artistically processed information from these cases. I would like to note that the first “buyers” of our materials also appeared. For example, for the case of T.G. Shevchenko, we were offered a fairly large sum of money. I hasten to inform such businessmen that the materials are not for sale, it’s a shame for our country. Therefore, do not strain your abilities, everything that is collected through the efforts of detectives will definitely see the light of day. And with our old age and pensions, the kefir state is as natural as memories of the dashing operational youth. Keep your money, gentlemen. We love our game and you won't be able to stop it.

However, to the point! The subject of today's investigation will be the right of the first wedding night. It may seem to many that the question is not the most pressing in these times of universal permissiveness and decline in morals. This is not so, our times are no different from the times of the past - people always remain people and the author does not know an hour on planet Earth when the world would live in complete harmony. Therefore, when starting to present the material, I want to remind the reader that the states of Europe are not ancient and were formed as a result of the collapse of the great Slavic empire called Great Tartary in the West and Russia-Horde in Rus' itself. The entire history of Western countries is a complete fiction and human chronology is not as long as it is drawn by historians who are in charge of mythology called “Is Torah Ya”.

Before the 9th century, there were no cities yet, people did not know how to build brick houses, and this time should be understood as a tribal-communal state. Today's date of birth of Christ was determined by the medieval monk Dionysius the Small and is erroneous by more than 1000 years. This is the assigned millennium. The current dates of the birth and death of the Savior are different: 1153-1185. ad.

Therefore, it should be imagined that the great Slavic conquest of the world, which began in the 10th century AD, in the European part of the continent of Asia, did not meet any resistance from the wild tribes inhabiting this part of the continent. Livonia (that’s what Europe was previously called) was colonized in a short time and its modern countries appeared as a result of the wars of the Reformation (the Great Troubles in Rus' at the beginning of the 17th century) in Europe. It was precisely these countries that led separatism with the papacy in the Vatican that needed a new history. Having no other examples before our eyes other than the Slavic empire, numerous reflections of the lives of real kings of the empire were invented, when their lives were passed off as the exploits of antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Moreover, numerous reflections of Jesus Christ (Buddha, Osiris, Pythagoras, Hercules and others) were replicated in the religions of different nations with the sole purpose of confusing humanity by feeding it myths invented in the Vatican.

However, history is not the only falsification of this Judeo-Christian church. The struggle that began in the 14th century for separation from Kievan Rus (which is actually the Byzantine Empire of the Slavs) affected all aspects of human life, including law.

Now you can hear many discussions about the right of the first wedding night of the PPBN, ranging from priestly law to the primitive possession of all women of the tribe. Nonsense! Since their appearance on Earth (approximately 8,000 years from the creation of Adam), people have been monogamous. True, there were more than one wives. There are good reasons for this - numerous wars have killed men.

Considering the PPBN, we will correlate with the materials of the Russian Pravda - the first document regulating legal relations among the Russian tribe. Please note that in Rus' they used Pravda, but in Europe they used laws. That is, Rus' lived according to the truth of God (his teachings), and Europe lived according to the laws invented by the people themselves.

Therefore, I will first talk about Europe, and then finish with Russian truth.

Since the 14th century, the law of the first night in Western Europe has acquired the status of customary legal law. In other words, it becomes something like a tax that can be ceded, transferred, and transformed. The point is that the birthplace of Judaism, Khazaria, defeated by the Slavic princes, was abandoned en masse by its peoples and rushed to Europe and the Caucasus, as the only places where shelter was possible. No ancient Jews ever existed. This is how the tribe of Jews of Khazaria (the state-forming people) began to be called after the decree of Empress Catherine the Great. While traveling around Russia, she was presented with a petition from the Jewish elders of Little Russia, in which the latter asked to replace the word Jew with the word Jew. By the way, Jew is a Slavic word meaning awaiting, awaiting (the Messiah).

European Jews, based on the legend of Joseph (pharaoh's caretaker), gained access to the money of Europe and were considered the best accountants. It was the fleeing Khazars who invented bank interest, which made the producer dependent on the creditor - a clear distortion of any society.

An act of the city of Bigorra, dated 1538, prescribes: “Those who wish to give their daughters in marriage must present them on the first night to their lord, so that he may please himself...”

Subsequently, in return for his girlish innocence, Señor Bigorra receives a chicken, a lamb shoulder and three bowls of porridge. As you can see, virginity was not particularly valuable in Livonia. I understand Señor Bigorre and I will say frankly: if I have to choose between a friendly drinking session with a Lucullus feast and love pleasures, I will choose the first, that is, a chicken, a lamb shoulder and three bowls of porridge. With such wealth, my friends and I, after good libations, will catch more than a dozen ladies, fortunately they do not particularly resist. Of course, this is a joke by the author, but there is some truth in it.

One day, the monks of the monastery of Saint-Feobart inherited the rights of one feudal lord, among which was the right of the first night in relation to the girls of the village of Montoriol. The inhabitants of Montoriol opposed this and asked the Count of Toulouse for protection from the monks. It should be noted that the count whipped the monks and castrated some, rightly believing that Catholic prayer sounds most beautifully from the lips of castrati. By the way, the Count of Toulouse himself was not a Catholic. He is a Cathar, that is, an Orthodox Old Believer or, more simply, an Old Believer.

Article 17 of the legislative code of the city of Amiens from 1507 prescribes: “The husband has no right to lie with his wife on the first wedding night without the permission of the lord, before the said lord lies with the said wife.” At the same time, in the same code a specific price was named in specie - there was no talk of any chickens.

The canons of the Lyon Cathedral demanded that they be given the right to lie down on their wedding night with the wives of their serfs. As you can see, no one was interested in celibacy (celibacy) of the Catholic fathers. It is now more than 70% of papal priests who are fertile homosexuals. The percentage of this offspring in the Middle Ages was much lower, because the essence of this right was not only the material well-being of the church.

It has long been known that a woman stores the type of her first man at the genetic level. Regardless of the father of her children, this is the type that will be inherent in her descendants. Thus, Catholic Church tried to instill her presence in society at the genetic level of the peoples she conquered.

The right of the first night was replaced for the Augustinian monks by one crown, and for the Bishop of Abbeville - by the sum of 30 francs. I understand the bishop! At his age, a woman's consent looks more threatening than her refusal. Therefore, the prelate had to pay for the peace.

In general, the Catholic Church has always supported debauchery. Needless to say, all the fashionable brothels in Rome belong to the Vatican through dummies. Making money from the vices of society is the everyday reality of this den.

I think that the reader has received the correct idea of ​​the European law of the first wedding night. Enough! Now let's move on to Rus', where this right actually came from.

To search for documents speaking about such a right, I had to turn over tons of manuscripts from different times. For clarity, I will give a small list of the material studied.

Byzantine law

Nomocanon

Judgment law for people

Helmsman's book

Righteous Measure

Russian law

Row (agreement)

Treaties between Rus' and Byzantium

Russian Law

The most ancient truth

Pokon Virny

Charter on cuts

Church Charter of Vladimir

Church charter of Yaroslav

Judicial duel

Local church statutes

Statutory charters

Smolenskaya trading truth

Novgorod treaties

Metropolitan Justice

Novgorod court charter

Pskov judicial charter

Code of laws of 1497

Statutes of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Code of Law of Ivan IV

Stoglav

Cathedral Code of 1607

Cathedral Code of 1649

Vira

Headiness

Flow and plunder

I will not torture the reader, anywhere similar right not mentioned. Therefore, I can safely say that there was nothing like European law in Rus'. Without delving into the aspects of this problem, I will say the following: I managed to find a document establishing such a right in Rus'. This will happen during the time of the second Romanov, Tsar Alexei, who will pass a law on the “Fortress” in Rus', that is, on the enslavement of the peasants. Before the Romanovs came to the throne of Russia, there was no serfdom. I wrote in other works that the Romanovs of the Great Troubles are Gorbachevs of the Perestroika times. It was the Romanovs who organized the coup in Rus', denigrated their predecessors and changed the epic, replacing it with European history. True, their reign will end very soon, with Peter the Great, after he is kidnapped in the Grand Embassy. I have already written that Peter the Great and Peter the Great are different people. Peter, who is Romanov, is the famous Iron Mask kept in the Bastille and Fort Boyard in France. And Peter the Great is a scion of the Anhalt family, replaced by the real Peter. The word Great is one of the surnames of the Anhalt family. He, too, would not rule for long: Peter the Great, his daughter Elizabeth and his niece Federica-Sophia-Charlotte, better known as Ekaterina the Second the Great, princess of the House of Anhalt. By the way, anhalt is translated from German as giant.

With the onset of serfdom in Rus', this aspect of the law under discussion appeared.

However, I found traces of this right in early Rus'. He ascends to Byzantine law. It is now believed that an unknown people lived in Byzantium. Slave! Still like a wingman! These are Slavs! And the alphabet there is Slavic and our speech. It is now believed that Yaroslav the Wise sat on the Dnieper. Liars! Kievan Rus is Byzantium and Yaroslav in the crown of the sevastocrator, in many images the ruler of Byzantium, and not the Khazar town of Sambat. Yaroslav the Wise mentions this right. Coming from Great Rus', Yaroslav knew very well what the lack of a bloody sheet on their wedding night would entail for a young family. Modern Russians, greeting each other with the words “Good morning,” do not understand that this is not a wish, but a question from the groom’s mother, “Good morning or not good?” And the mother asked about the bride’s virginity. The chaste Russian village did not a priori allow a violation of its foundations.

We are all human and sinners. You shouldn’t think that our ancestors were different from us in this way. Love is not yet capable of such things as the hayloft before the wedding night. Let us, following the example of Yaroslav, not condemn the young? Let’s just understand the hopelessness of the situation for a young woman who covered herself with shame on a bad morning. This custom was not the best among our ancestors and led to tragedy. It could only be solved by the cunning of the ruler. So the prince cheated. He ordered the girl and her betrothed, who had repented of their secret sin to him or his boyars, to be put to bed on the first night in the prince's or boyar's upper rooms. In this case, the word of the prince was higher than the evidence of the sheet, and the night in the sovereign's mansion was considered honorable, because the prince or boyar was considered a father to his subjects. This decree was written by him personally and was of a secret nature, fortunately the matter was very sensitive. Judge for yourself the reader how much maiden honor the wise ruler saved.

This fact was distorted in Europe by the Vatican prelates and lords of the Catholic monarchs, who were in fact ordinary governors of the Horde Russian tsar in the lands of Livonia conquered by Russia. It was they who accepted the separatist movement of the Vatican to separate from Rus', which ended with the Peace of Tilset, which established many borders modern states Europe. Having lied once, the Vatican continued the lie, transforming it into the canon of Catholicism, instilling immorality and indulgence of sin in the peoples of Europe.

There was nothing like this in Rus' before the Romanovs (proteges of the Vatican). It will be later, from the time of Catherine the Great, when the complete enslavement of Rus' occurs, the destruction of its ancient foundations, a “European democratic law” will appear that has nothing to do with the TRUTH.

The nobles of Europe, which poured in after the first Germans, would demand for themselves the “ancient” right of the first wedding night; fortunately, in Europe itself at that time, this right would be almost universally abolished in the 18th century. In Russia (no longer Rus') an orgy of democracy will begin, the desire to change the Russian world not only in foundations and faith, but also in the genotype of the people themselves.

I am a descendant of an ancient family of Russian noble nobility. I am from the Cathars of Albigensian Montsegur and my ancestors, the same Russian-Horde warriors who conquered Livonia-Europe. Our estates occupied entire districts modern Russia. Since ancient times, we have been Old Believers and have not accepted Nikonianism in Orthodoxy. My kind of families are strong. One of the readers wrote me a letter telling me about the amazing similarity between my photograph and his. cousin and says that he is my namesake. He tells a story about a certain gentleman who loved serf girls and gave them his last name. He asked if we were related. I have to disappoint him: Old Believers are monogamous and marriages in case of widowhood were allowed no more than three. Talking about flirting on the side in relation to an Old Believer means telling a lie. There are many nobles with the same last name, and my family is no exception. However, my ancestors considered their peasants given to them in a fortress with estates for their service as their children. One of them, according to his spiritual will, gave one million rubles to buy out the land plots of the peasants of the Novgorod lands. And this is the budget of a state like modern Lithuania, only from that time. The second set his peasants free, for which he was exiled to hard labor in the mines of Akatuy. My ancestors did not consider it possible to own their own kind, but they could not fight the state machine of the new Russian (not Russian, but Russian) empire. That is why, knowing the epic of their people, serving them in military labor, they tried in every possible way to make the life of their peasants easier. There are no women in my family who came as wives from serfs. The most ancient clans of Rus' gave us their best daughters as wives, and we gave ours in return. It was thanks to them that the genotype of tall, fair-haired, brave men, ready for self-sacrifice, hereditary warriors known since 1244 as close boyars of their princes, was created in Rus'. The Silver Swan on the family's coat of arms represents its motto: FROM LOYALTY TO GLORY.

Now tell me, reader, do you perceive this family as one that can afford to betray its own foundations, for example, by applying the European law of the first wedding night?

Concluding the miniature, I want to say that after the violent overthrow of the Horde Russian tsars by the Romanovs, their distortion of the epics of the Russian people, mockery of their Faith, foundations, truth, and the commission of other crimes against the Russian people, confusion set in in society, which continues to this day. Subsequent troubles that befell the Russian state, starting from the Great Troubles, all the wars of the Romanov dynasty and their heirs from other dynasties, revolutions of all years, the destruction of the latter royal family, the confusion in the official church is precisely the consequence of a crime against their people and their rulers from the Russian-Horde dynasty of the Rurik-Comnenos.

Only a return to the origins of Rus' will return it to its greatness

Take a look at the Encyclopedia Britannica, the cutting edge of 17th century scholarship. There you will see huge state, lying on 4 continents - Great Tartaria. Take a look at the modern world atlas and evaluate the damage to Russian territory, its losses from the wars with Livonia, understand all the lies of the Russian rulers regarding their own epic and evaluate the meanness of Jewish history.

Look and wake up, Russian man! Is it your business to believe the Torah, even dressed in a toga? Old Testament. Maybe you can take and read the books given in this miniature?

They are online and accessible.

And further. There is such a book called the Facial Chronicle Code. It was written for the royal house, for the son of the undeservedly slandered Tsar Ivan the Terrible. So in it the history of Rus' begins with Vladimir Monomakh and there is not a word of mention of Kievan Rus. That is, at the tsar’s court they simply did not know about the state with its capital on the Dnieper. Moreover, among the titles of the Russian Tsar there is no word Kiev, and of all the modern cities of Ukraine, only Chernigov is mentioned. But in ancient Russian chronicles there is the word KIUV. And it is written with an addition as KIUV-GRAD.. This word means TSAR or the same TSARGRAD, or more simply BYZANTIUS. This is Kievan Rus.

It remains to add that none of the archaeological excavations in modern Kyiv they do not give a picture of an ancient Russian settlement. Kyiv on the Dnieper is the same myth as Europe itself with its right to the first wedding night.