Instead of a preface

I once posted this post in the community "Ukraine and Russia",
from where it was very quickly removed by the Great Russian moderators, suffering from
chronic chauvinism and pathological megalomania. Obviously they fear
how they do not want the Russians to know the truth about their history. However, I consider
its duty to convey to people the historical truth, which for
historians have hidden and continue to hide for centuries ...

Everyone knows that Russians trace their origins back to the medieval
states of Rus', and therefore have long called themselves "Russians". However
few people know that the names "Rus" and "Russian" have nothing to do with
to the Eastern Slavs. Don't believe? What, you really don't believe? well then
take the "Tale of Bygone Years" by Nestor the chronicler, and carefully read
the first few pages, which outlines the initial history of Rus'. For those, who
does not have this entertaining book, which can be quite seriously called
The Bible of both the Russian and Ukrainian people, I will give some quotes.

Everyone knows the famous legend about the calling of the Varangians, when the Eastern Slavs,
tired of civil strife, they decided to invite them to reign in their land
overseas ruler. Here is how Nestor the chronicler describes it: "And they followed
the sea to the Varangians, to Rus'. Those Varangians were called Rus, as others are called
Swedes, and other Normans and Angles, and still other Gotlanders - so are these. "From
this fragment shows that one of the peoples is called Rus, which the Slavs
called "Varangians". There is an opinion among anti-Normanists that the Varangians
were not Scandinavian Normans, but Slavs; they say, so the merchants were called,
and the very name "Varangian" comes from the word "goods". However, the above
example clearly indicates that Nestor classifies the Varangians as
Germanic peoples such as the Swedes, Normans and Angles. It's quite understandable
that if the Varangians had at least something to do with the Slavs, Nestor would not
I would compare them with the Germans.

Thus, the Rus were not originally Slavs, but, like the Vikings,
belonged to the Germanic language group. Only after Rurik
began to reign in Novgorod, Rus or Russians were also called
Slavic tribes. The chronicle clearly testifies to this:
"And from those Varangians the Russian land was nicknamed." If this is not enough for someone,
I give another quote from Nestor the chronicler: "And the Slavic people and
Russian is one, after all, they were nicknamed Rus from the Varangians, and before that there were Slavs.

Well, what do you say about this, gentlemen chauvinists? It's quite understandable
that these gentlemen simply have nothing to say here: "The Tale of Bygone Years"
fully proves that the state of Rus, whose history is so amused
Russian chauvinists, founded by no means Eastern Slavs, but foreigners -
representatives of one of the German peoples. Anti-Normanists can
you like to splash saliva and bang your head against the wall, but you can’t argue against the facts:
the book of Nestor the chronicler is the oldest document that tells
about the history of Rus', and we have no reason not to believe it.

The only exaggeration, in my opinion, is the fact
vocations of the Varangians: it is unlikely that the Slavs were so stupid as to turn
to people who were known throughout Europe as the most notorious marine
robbers. The Viking Varangians did not need to be called: they always came on their own.
Therefore, it seems to me that Nestor was slightly cunning when he wrote about calling
Varangians. In fact, it was about the banal capture of Novgorod by the Vikings
led by King Rurik. The tale of calling, obviously, was subsequently
invented by the princely chroniclers, so as not to remind the Slavs once again,
that they were conquered by foreign Normans. This eliminated the danger
Aboriginal uprisings against the invaders and legalized the right of the Rurikovich
to the princely throne.

However, the best proof that Rus or Russians originally
were strangers - newcomers from Scandinavia - says the attitude of the indigenous
residents of the Dnieper region to their past - to history Kievan Rus. This
period is almost completely absent in Ukrainian folklore. You do not
you will find no Ukrainian folk song, not a single fairy tale, not a single epic
in Ukrainian, dedicated to this period. It seems like
after the Tatar-Mongol invasion, the Ukrainian people were struck by a massive
amnesia. Doesn't this seem strange to you? After all, other peoples have preserved
quite a few works of oral folk art dating back to the era
Middle Ages. For example, in England, legends about the king were very popular.
Arthur and the ballads of Robin Hood. And in Ukraine, almost all folklore is dedicated to
much later period - XV-XVIII centuries, where the main character was a Cossack
(all sorts of literate people need not worry: the word "Cossack" is given in Ukrainian
transcription. These are Russian "Cossacks" written through the letter "a"; Ukrainian Cossacks
always and everywhere should be written through "o". If someone does not agree with this, let
will sue me ... Ho-ho-ho).

Of course, there are smart people who will say that, for example, Western Ukrainians
fairy tales about the prince (or king - as one likes) Danil Galitsky have been preserved.
But this is most likely the result of the work of later authors and collectors,
trying to protect the Galicians from the Polish cultural influence.

Be that as it may, traditional Ukrainian folklore has nothing to do with
era of Kievan Rus. What does this indicate? Only that for a simple
people it was a foreign power; the so-called "Russians" were the invaders
for the inhabitants of the Dnieper region. That is why the name "Rus" did not take root in
Ukraine: you will not find a single folk song where Ukraine is called
"Rus" or "Russian land". And the fact that the Poles during the time of the Commonwealth
called the Ukrainian lands "Russian Voivodeship" says only that
It was official name Dnieper, while the original was
"Ukraine". Pro-Russian chauvinists can scoff as much as they like about
this name, comparing it with the word "outskirts", but the name "Ukraine"
mentioned in ancient Russian chronicles from the 11th century. Therefore, Ukraine
already existed in those distant times, which means that the Ukrainian
people. For Ukrainians, Russian princes and all those who came with them were occupiers.
Obviously, the Old Russian language was the language of the northern Slavs, who came from
Novgorod together with Oleg, so he did not get distribution among
the local population, who spoke Ukrainian from time immemorial. After that,
how the Russian principalities were actually destroyed by the invasion of the Tatars
Mongols, everything Russian was very quickly forgotten and practically erased from
memory of Ukrainians. Isn't it a strange attitude to "own" history?
Such forgetfulness is shown by the people only in relation to strangers and
invaders, which were the notorious Russians ...

Why, in this case, the ancestors of the Russians, unlike the Ukrainians, not only
preserved memories of Rus' in the form of epics that have survived to this day only
thanks to popular memory, but also adopted the name from the invaders of the Normans
"Russians"? Obviously, the reason is that at the time of the arrival of the Varangians, the ancestors
Ukrainians and Russians were at different stages of development. By this time
Kyiv has been standing on the banks of the Dnieper for several centuries and has been a center of trade
throughout Eastern Europe. By the beginning of the 9th century, the glades had already formed if
not a state, then at least a powerful tribal union. Completely different
the situation was with the ancestors of the Russians: "and there was no truth among them, and a clan arose
people, and they had strife, and began to fight with each other," writes Nestor
chronicler. That is, the northern tribes were divided and did not represent
any ethnic or territorial association. Therefore, the arrival
Varangians had only a beneficial effect on them, putting an end to strife and
contributed to the formation of the state.

Another reason why the Russians kept the memory of Rus' is that
after the Tatar-Mongol invasion, the Norman Rurik dynasty
continued to rule the territory modern Russia up to the 17th century.
It is quite understandable that thanks to them, the memory of past times continued
persist both at the level of the political elite and among the people. However
with the accession of the Romanov dynasty, who belonged to the ancient boyar
genus and, obviously, having purely Slavic roots, the name "Rus" begins
to be replaced by a new one - Russia. With the formation of the Russian Empire, the name
"Rus" and "Russian" began to be withdrawn from circulation altogether. Yes, Karamzin
in his famous work "History of the Russian State" instead of the word
"Rus" uses the word "Russia" even where it refers to the most ancient
times, and only occasionally resorts to the epithet "Russian".

Obviously, such a strange attitude towards the ancient name was due to the fact that
that the Russian authorities were already aware that the history of Rus' did not fit
into the concept great empire: the ancient Russian state was founded by the invaders
Scandinavians, and this went against the idea of ​​\u200b\u200bthe "greatness" of the Russian people.
It turned out that the Russians were unable to govern themselves and invited
(or they themselves came) strangers. However, there is nothing shameful or
humiliating: the Normans influenced the history of many European
states, for example, England, and there no one is ashamed of this, and even more so
doesn't try to hide.

All these theories of the anti-Normanists, who categorically reject the Norman
version, have no basis. It's nothing more than a whim and
a whim of people who do not want to admit the obvious facts. Their arguments
revolve around one thing: we don't like it, therefore it's not true.

Finally, it should be noted that the history of Rus' is one of the few
examples in history where foreign occupation has had a beneficial effect
on the conquered population: the Eastern Slavs, who were constantly subjected to
attacks of neighboring peoples, not only defended their freedom (thanks to
Normans, of course), but over time they were able to create a powerful state,
which could not be ignored. Looking at how the current rulers
Ukraine and Russia rule their countries, you involuntarily think: maybe
you should use the experience of the Eastern Slavs and again "call" the Varangians
(that is, the Scandinavians) to restore order? Moreover, the Scandinavian
states Lately confidently occupy the highest positions in
ratings of the most developed and prosperous countries. And what do you think?..

For many centuries, scientists have been breaking spears, trying to understand the origin of the Russian people. And if the studies of the past were based on archaeological and linguistic data, today even geneticists have taken up the matter.

From the Danube

Of all the theories of Russian ethnogenesis, the most famous is the Danube one. We owe its appearance to the chronicle "The Tale of Bygone Years", or rather the centuries-old love for this source of domestic academicians.

The chronicler Nestor determined the initial territory of the settlement of the Slavs by the territories along the lower reaches of the Danube and the Vistula. The theory of the Danube "ancestral home" of the Slavs was developed by such historians as Sergei Solovyov and Vasily Klyuchevsky.
Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky believed that the Slavs moved from the Danube to the Carpathian region, where an extensive military alliance of tribes arose, led by the Duleb-Volhynian tribe.

From the Carpathian region, according to Klyuchevsky, in the 7th-8th centuries, the Eastern Slavs settled in the East and Northeast to Ilmen Lake. The Danubian theory of Russian ethnogenesis is still adhered to by many historians and linguists. A great contribution to its development was made at the end of the 20th century by the Russian linguist Oleg Nikolaevich Trubachev.

Yes, we are Scythians!

One of the most fierce opponents of the Norman theory of the formation of Russian statehood, Mikhail Lomonosov, leaned towards the Scythian-Sarmatian theory of Russian ethnogenesis, which he wrote about in his Ancient Russian History. According to Lomonosov, the ethnogenesis of the Russians occurred as a result of the mixing of the Slavs and the Chudi tribe (Lomonosov's term is Finno-Ugric), and he named the interfluve of the Vistula and the Oder as the place of origin of the ethnic history of the Russians.

Supporters of the Sarmatian theory rely on ancient sources, as did Lomonosov. He compared Russian history with the history of the Roman Empire and ancient beliefs with the pagan beliefs of the Eastern Slavs, finding a large number of matches. The fierce struggle with the adherents of the Norman theory is quite understandable: the people-tribe Rus, according to Lomonosov, could not come from Scandinavia under the influence of the expansion of the Norman Vikings. First of all, Lomonosov opposed the thesis about the backwardness of the Slavs and their inability to independently form a state.

Hellenthal theory

The hypothesis about the origin of the Russians, published this year by the Oxford scholar Garrett Hellenthal, seems interesting. Having done a lot of work on the study of the DNA of various peoples, he and a group of scientists compiled a genetic atlas of the migration of peoples.
According to the scientist, two significant milestones can be distinguished in the ethnogenesis of the Russian people. In 2054 B.C. e., according to Hellenthal, the trans-Baltic peoples and peoples from the territories of modern Germany and Poland migrated to the northwestern regions of modern Russia. The second milestone is 1306, when the migration of the Altai peoples began, which actively interbred with representatives of the Slavic branches.
Hellenthal's study is also interesting in that genetic analysis proved that the time of the Mongol-Tatar invasion had practically no effect on Russian ethnogenesis.

Two ancestral homes

Another interesting migration theory was proposed in late XIX century Russian linguist Alexei Shakhmatov. His theory of "two ancestral homelands" is also sometimes called the Baltic one. The scientist believed that initially the Balto-Slavic community stood out from the Indo-European group, which became autochthonous on the territory of the Baltic states. After its collapse, the Slavs settled in the territory between the lower reaches of the Neman and the Western Dvina. This territory became the so-called "first ancestral home". Here, according to Shakhmatov, the Proto-Slavic language was formed, from which all Slavic languages ​​originated.

The further migration of the Slavs was associated with the great migration of peoples, during which, at the end of the second century AD, the Germans went south, freeing the Vistula River basin, where the Slavs came. Here, in the lower basin of the Vistula, Shakhmatov defines the second ancestral home of the Slavs. Already from here, according to the scientist, the division of the Slavs into branches began. The western one went to the Elbe region, the southern one was divided into two groups, one of which settled the Balkans and the Danube, the other - the Dnieper and the Dniester. The latter became the basis of the East Slavic peoples, which include the Russians.

We are local

Finally, another theory that is different from migration is the autochthonous theory. According to it, the Slavs were an indigenous people inhabiting eastern, central and even part of southern Europe. According to the theory of Slavic autochthonism, the Slavic tribes were the indigenous ethnic group of a vast territory - from the Urals to the Atlantic Ocean. This theory has rather ancient roots and many supporters and opponents. The Soviet linguist Nikolai Marr adhered to this theory. He believed that the Slavs did not come from anywhere, but were formed from tribal communities that lived in vast territories from the Middle Dnieper to Laba in the West and from the Baltic to the Carpathians in the south.
Polish scientists also adhered to the autochthonous theory - Klechevsky, Pototsky and Sestrentsevich. They even led the genealogy of the Slavs from the Vandals, basing their hypothesis, among other things, on the similarity of the words "Vendals" and "Vandals". Of the Russians, the origin of the Slavs Rybakov, Mavrodin and Grekov was explained by autochthonous theory.

Who are we Russians? What kind of people? How did it come about? Virtually no one knows anything about it. No wonder the Russians are called: Ivans, who do not remember kinship. Psychologists are convinced that most of the troubles of modern Russia are due to the fact that the consciousness of the titular nation, that is, Russians, is, as it were, covered with a veil. Sometimes it seems that some universal demiurge clouded our reason for the time being. But the time for clearing the mind is already coming. Recently, a new book by Gennady Klimov "Russian Vedas" has been published, which tells in detail about the ancient history of Rus', the archaic civilizations of Eastern Europe, where, as it turned out, the evolution of mankind took place. It turned out that from school textbooks we approximately know the history of only 5 thousand years, and then with great distortions, and the history of the civilization of Rus' has at least 50 thousand years, that is, 10 times more. Gennady Klimov is a professional researcher of ancient religions and epics. In the last book there is a fragment that tells about the birth of the peoples who became the progenitors of the Slavs. Today we asked Gennady Klimov to tell about the origin of the Russian people.


- Let's discard some of the myths that haunt us from the very beginning. Russians can be considered Slavs with a certain stretch. The Slavs are one of the peoples that separated from Rus' and nothing more. For example, in the Voronezh, Rostov, Kharkov regions, the population consists of 60 percent of the descendants of the Aryans, who later formed the Sarmatian-Scythian world. And in Novgorod. Tver, Pskov also 40 percent of the descendants of the Scandinavians. The lower Volga region is populated in a certain proportion by a people, from which the Jews emerged in two waves. Russians are a praethnos from which other peoples emerged. In the Russian language, in the Russian mentality, two codes are combined, as it were - Sarmatia, the world of female matriarchal foundations, and Scythia, the world of male sichs and Cossack hordes. Russians have a very complex archetype, which is why Russian civilization has so many problems so far. But soon the consciousness of Russian-speaking people will be cleansed, a transformation will come. That's when the true dawn of the Russian world will come. This process has already begun.
The question is often asked: where did the Russians come from? Russians have always lived in their place in Eastern Europe, even during the glaciation and the flood. The continuous history of Russia observes from a depth of 50-70 thousand years. For example, China is barely 5,000 years old. And the Egyptian pyramids were built only 4,000 years ago. But of course the Slavs played a significant role in the entosogenesis of the Russian nation. In figurative form, the ancient authors of the Aryan books preserved for us the message about the birth of the peoples of the Northern Black Sea region, including the Slavs. It can be considered to a certain extent the ancestors of the Russian people - the Wends. Aryan ancient books tell the following.
Kadru and Vinata were sisters. Their father was Daksha - the lord of creatures. He had 13 daughters, whom he gave in marriage to the sage Kashyapa. Kadru gave birth to a thousand sons, and Vinata only two. Kadru brought a lot of eggs, but Vinata brought only two eggs. Five hundred years later, a thousand mighty snakes - nagas - hatched from Kadru's eggs. By this time, no one had yet been born to another sister, Vinata. In her impatience, Vinata broke one egg and saw her son, who was only half developed. She named him Aruna. Aryan texts contain many secrets. The name Arun means "runes of the stone Alatyr". This is a system of signs used by the priests of Valdai as secret writing. For his ugliness, the angry Arun cursed his impatient mother Vinata, and predicted her to be a slave for five hundred years. From the name of Vinat comes the Russian word "wine" and the name of the ancient Slavic families of the Wends. This word was used at different times in relation to different peoples, sometimes to all Slavs in general, and is also sometimes associated with vandals. During the Middle Ages, the Germans generally called all the neighboring Slavic peoples Wends (except for the Czechs and Poles, who descend from another branch of settlers from Rus'): Lusatians, Lutichs, Bodrichs (who lived on the territory of modern Germany) and Pomeranians. In Germany during the Weimar Republic, a special Wendian Department still existed in the internal affairs bodies, which was engaged in work with the Slavic population of Germany. Today, to a large extent, modern Germans are the genetic descendants of the Baltic Slavs. A large number of words with the root “vend” were found in the lands of eastern Germany: vendhaus, vendberg, vendgraben (grave), windenheim (homeland), windischland (land of the Wends), etc. On the territory of modern Latvia in the XII-XIII centuries. AD inhabited by a people known as the "Vendi". It is not difficult to assume that they come from the clans that laid two sons of the matriarchal commune of Vinata, mentioned in the Aryan Vedas. The word "Russia" in Finnish and Estonian sounds, respectively, "Venaja" and "Vene". It is assumed that the Finnish and Estonian names of the Russians are also associated with the name "Venedi".
The story that has been preserved in the Aryan Vedas says that the Slavs at the beginning of time appeared in the form of the son of Vinata, who was born prematurely, but received the name Arun, which means "possessing secret knowledge." Cursing his mother (having left the matriarchal commune that gave birth to him), he said: "In five hundred years, another son will deliver you from slavery if you do not break the second egg ahead of time."
This was shortly before the start of the Trojan War. At this time, the gods and asuras were in the world. The unified Aryan empire mobilized all forces to build a giant wall that separated the north from the south. So the ancients tried to protect themselves from diseases that were approaching Rus' from the south. At this time, the sisters Kadru and Vinata saw the wonderful horse Uchchaihshravasa emerging from the waters of the sea. A dispute arose between them - what color is the tail of that horse. Vinata said that she was white (as she really was). Her sister Kadru is the same - that of black. According to the condition of the dispute - the one that loses must become a slave.
At night, Kadru sent a thousand of her sons - "black kites" to hang on the tail of a white horse, and thus hide its natural color. So the insidious Kadru tricked her sister into slavery. And so the curse of the first Slavs of the Arun came true. Most likely, this is one of the tribes of the Scythians or Sarmatians, who moved to the Balkans after the Trojan War. Here the descendants of Arun began to be called Kolovyans - southern Slavs. They formed 12 Etruscan clans that created the ancient Etruscan state and Rome.
In the Russian epic, the history of the migrations of this people is preserved in the fairy tale about the kolobok. Actually, the bun is the Kolovyans. It was approximately 1200 BC. After 2200 years, some of them will return to Rus' in Kyiv and Novgorod, after Moravia was conquered by the Hungarians. When they returned, they brought with them many tales and tales about their ancient history. So in Rus' there was a fairy tale about a kolobok.

But this is only half of the history of the Slavs. Vinata gave birth to a gigantic eagle from the second egg. He was destined to become a naga slayer in revenge for his mother's servitude. When he was born, all living beings and the gods of Mount Alatyr themselves were in turmoil. The circumstances of the life and struggle of the giant eagle are very reminiscent of the circumstances of the history of modern Russia, although the Aryan Vedas were written several thousand years earlier. The peoples descended from the gigantic eagle Garuda are the Baltic Slavs, Germans and modern Russians. The eagle Garuda, at birth, broke the egg shell with its beak and, barely born, soared into the skies in search of prey. The place of his birth, apparently, was the river Don. In slavery, the matriarchal commune of Vineta was among the steppe nomads of the Nagas. Nagas formed numerous southern peoples.
At that time, Surya, the god of the sun, began to threaten that he would burn the world. Drought began in the steppes. Then the eagle Garuda took on his back his older brother, the one who was born prematurely, and placed him on the chariot of the Sun, so that with his body he shielded the world from the destructive rays. From then on, Vinata's eldest son became Surya's charioteer and deity of the dawn.
Apparently, the Garuda tribe, whose coat of arms was an eagle, was born 500 years after the Trojan War and after the first expedition of immigrants from Rus' to the Balkans and the settlement of Sicily. That is, it was about 750 BC. It was at this time that another religious crisis occurred in Rus'. At this time, a new Jerusalem temple will be built in Rus', which continues the religious reforms begun in the middle of the 2nd millennium BC by the Aryan king Melchisidek on the transition to Monotheism. In addition, the reason that prompted the huge masses of the people of Eurasia to move was the drought.
Waves of people of “free will” appear at the mouth of the Don, a naval base of the southern Varangians appears on the Sea of ​​\u200b\u200bAzov. These "people of the sea" are called Hellenes. They attack the shores of all inland seas, destroying the remnants of the Cretan-Mycenaean civilization. The dark ages are coming. The city of Panticapaeum (the modern city of Kerch) arises in the Crimea. This is a transshipment naval base, from which thousands of ships sail across the seas. At the shipyards near the modern city of Voronezh, thousands of thousands more ships are being built from ship pines. The maritime expansion of Rus' ends with the emergence of many independent cities along the banks of the Black and mediterranean seas. It was these settlers who became the nutrient medium on which ancient culture grew.
And Garuda, having delivered his brother to the south, returned to Rus'. Dejected, he asked his mother: "Why should I serve snakes?" And his mother Vinata told him about how she fell into slavery to her sister. Garuda then asked the snakes: "What can I do to free myself and my mother from slavery?" And the snakes said to him: “Get us amrita from the gods. Then we will deliver you from slavery.” Amrita is the drink of immortality. The concept of "amrita" in the Aryan texts corresponds to Ayurveda - the science of the laws of life. It was the creation by the priests of the foundations of ancient medicine that made it possible to begin a less safe development of the territory outside of Rus'. Man is not well adapted to live far from glaciers - in southern world he is haunted by exotic diseases. After the foundation of Ayurveda was created, people began to populate the southern countries. There they met people from primitive eras, who also somehow adapted to live in the south. But these were already other people, unlike the northerners. The sun changed them appearance, and their habits, worldview, ethical standards were from archaic eras. Their archetype of consciousness corresponded to eras long gone. This is how the mechanism of evolution on planet Earth works. Evolution in the south is slower than in the north.
Garuda flew north, where the gods kept the amrita. On the way, he passed the Gandhamadana mountain, where he saw his meditating father, the wise Kashyapa. On the advice of his father, Garuda got himself an elephant and a giant tortoise to eat and sat down on a tree to eat his prey. But the branch gave way under his weight. Garuda picked her up with his beak and saw on her a lot of tiny sages - Valakhilyas, hanging upside down. Valakhilyas - mythical sages, sixty thousand in number, each the size of a finger; in the Aryan books they are called the sons of Kratu, the sixth son of Brahma.

With a branch in its beak and with an elephant and a tortoise in its claws, Garuda flew on. When he again flew past the Gandhamadana mountain, Kashyapa said: “Beware of harming the Valakhilyas! Fear their wrath!" Kashyapa told Garuda how powerful these tiny creatures were. Then Garuda carefully lowered the Valakhilyas to the ground, and he himself flew to a mountain covered with snow, and, sitting on a glacier, ate an elephant and a tortoise. Then he continued his flight.

The father of the Valakhilyas is one of the Sapta Rishis, Kratu. From the name of this rishi (sage) comes the Russian word "mole". Why? Understand a little later. The Valakhilyas drink the sun's rays and are the guardians of the sun's chariot. In fact, their place of residence is Valdai and the Riphean mountains, the mountains of sages. They study Vedas and Shastras. One of the main features of the Valakhilyas is their purity, virtue and chastity; they are constantly praying. Elders usually live in dugouts and are indifferent to wealth. Sometimes they are called "siddhis" in books.
These are the holy hermits of Rus'. They settled in the upper reaches of the Volga, Beloozerye and the shores of the White Sea. The sketes of the holy elders can be found even far on the Kola Peninsula beyond the Arctic Circle. The Mahabharata tells how the leader of the gods Indra, together with the Valakhilyas, were responsible for kindling the fire. Indra, having collected a whole mountain of firewood, laughed at the Valakhilyas, each of which was barely pulling a stalk of grass. The wise men were offended and began to pray that another leader of the gods Indra, much more powerful, would appear. Indra, learning about this, was frightened and asked for help from the sage Kashyapa. The powerful priest was able to pacify the Valakhilyas, but so that their efforts would not be in vain, he decided that Indra should be born in the form of an eagle.
Not far from my house near Tver, in 2009, the relics of St. Savvaty, an old man who lived here at the end of the 14th century AD, were opened. His relics were found on 19 August. This is very symbolic. On this day Orthodox Church celebrates the Transfiguration. This concept is a reflection of the philosophical concept of "smart doing" or the vision of the Light of Tabor. In the forest hermitages, hermit monks brought themselves to a state of religious ecstasy, which began directly, on Earth, to see the Light of Tabor and communicate directly with God.

The tradition of building hermitages in Rus' has its roots in the era of Cancer (7-6 thousand years BC) - a sign addressed to the world of the soul, and maybe even more ancient times. In the 4th-2nd millennium, the era of Taurus begins - the Valakhily populate the lands that have been released again from under the glacier. 60,000 hermit monks “weave” the Vedas here, which still determine consciousness modern man. It was they who created the archetype of consciousness that underlies world culture. The Valakhilyas persisted throughout the millennia. They exist today. In relatively recent history, the Valakhilis, who in the Russian Church are called Trans-Volga elders, have become most famous. These are the monks of the Belozersky, Vologda and Tver small monasteries and forest monasteries. The external, ritual side of religion did not play any role for them. Their monasteries differed sharply in their poor, simple furnishings from rich churches. They were not afraid to tell the kings the truth. The divorce of the Russian Tsar Vasily III from his wife and his new marriage caused condemnation from the Volga people. In 1523, one of the Zavolzhets, hegumen Porfiry, was even imprisoned for standing up for Prince Vasily Shemyachich, who was summoned to Moscow and imprisoned, despite the oaths of the Grand Duke and Metropolitan Daniel. Nil Sorsky was at the head of the Trans-Volga elders.
Today, in the village of Savvatyevo near Tver, Father Andrei Yegorov (the archpriest was once a well-known Tver rocker) revives and builds a small monastery on the banks of the Orsha River and preserves the forest monastery of the Monk Savvaty Orshinsky, a hermit who, according to legend, came to Russian soil together with Metropolitan Cyprian, and who brought the teachings of the Hesychasts to Rus'. It was at the end of the 14th century.
Many names of the rivers, descriptions of the climate and the starry sky in the Aryan books indicate that the famous seven wise men, who gave people all the knowledge, in whose honor the seven stars of the Ursa Major constellation shine, lived in these places along the banks of the rivers Medveditsa, Orsha, Mologa. And at the end of the 14th century, Orthodox monks settled here in sketes, the keepers of the doctrine of the Light of Tabor. Already at the beginning of the 15th century, in just a few decades, sketes and small monasteries spread from Tver to the very Arctic Ocean.
Father Andrei during our meeting was surprised at the speed with which the teaching of the Hesychasts spread throughout Rus'. I think that it is God's Providence. This is the Tabor Light of the Transfiguration - it spreads at the same speed as the Holy Fire from the Holy Sepulcher.
Many Orthodox monks settled in sketes in the very places where the rishis indicated in the Vedas lived. But there are at least 2500 years between these events. Seems like history repeats itself. The fact that the rishis from the Aryan epic and the hesychasts from relatively recent history appeared in one place on the planet is amazing fact. It seems that events not only repeat themselves, but also happen in the same place.
Valakhily and Orthodox hermit monks of the northwest of Rus' and Karelia are a continuous tradition of one phenomenon. It has been here for thousands of years. I know several monks who live in the forests even today.
And while Garuda was approaching Valdai, the abode of the gods, terrible signs appeared in the sky. The wind rose, thunder roared, ominous clouds shrouded the peaks. The gods were alarmed. But they have not yet seen who is going to attack them. Then the wise Brihaspati said to them: “A mighty bird is coming here to steal the amrita. Now the prophecy of the Balakhilyas is being fulfilled.”
Hearing this, the gods, led by Indra, dressed in shining armor and armed with swords and spears, says the epic of the Aryans. Surrounding the vessel with the drink of immortality amrita, they prepared for battle. And then a huge bird appeared, sparkling like the sun. She fell on the celestials and scattered them in different directions. Recovering from this onslaught, the gods, led by Indra, rushed to Garuda, showering him from all sides with spears, darts and war discs. The bird flew up, and attacked the gods from above, and overwhelmed many with blows of claws and beak. Unable to withstand the battle with the invincible bird, the gods retreated, and Garuda penetrated to where the amrita was kept. So the Proto-Slavs became the owners of the secret knowledge of the sages from Valdai.
Garuda grabbed the vessel of amrita and set off on his return journey.
The leader of the Valdai gods Indra rushed in pursuit and, having overtaken him in the air, dealt a terrible blow with his vajra. But Garuda did not flinch. He said to Indra: “Great is my strength, and I can carry away on my wings all this land with mountains and forests, and you along with it. If you want, be my friend. Don't worry, I won't give the amrita to the snakes. You will have her back when I free myself and my mother from slavery." Indra is, among other things, a religion that was in Rus' 6-4 thousand years BC. This was the first manifestation of monotheism cults. Indra was the harbinger of the coming of Krishna. The Aryan Vedas believe that in the form of Krishna, the Almighty once again descended to earth in about 3100 BC. At the same time, Krishna, as it were, is a harbinger of the coming of Jesus Christ, and Indra, respectively, is Andrew the First-Called. The descendants of the second son of the slave Vinata brought the cult of monotheism to the south of Rus'. Together with new religion new knowledge about hygiene and methods of healing also spread, which made it possible to move further south.
Hearing these words, Indra said, “I accept your friendship, O mighty one. Demand whatever gift you want from me!” And Garuda said: "Let snakes be my food." From that time on, snakes are doomed to be food for Garuda and his offspring, the suparna birds. Since then, Russia has been absorbing many immigrants from the south and melting them down into the Russian ethnic group.

Garuda and his mother Vinata were freed from slavery. But in the meantime, Indra took the amrita and took it back to Valdai, to his kingdom. The snakes did not get the drink of immortality. Then they began to lick the kusha grass, on which stood a vessel with amrita. And the kusha grass, which was touched by amrita, has since become a sacred grass. That is, some knowledge of ancient medicine nevertheless fell into the environment of nomads - and this saved them in the process of evolution.
The great eagle Garuda - a solar bird - is one of the most popular images of Aryan mythology. In ancient books, the Most High (Vishnu) is often depicted flying in the sky riding on the eagle Garuda. That is, the northern Slavs were the force that in ancient times spread the faith in the one God around the world. Hence the expression among the Russians - God is with us!

The story of Gennady Klimov was recorded by Marina Gavrishenko

For many centuries, scientists have been breaking spears, trying to understand the origin of the Russian people. And if the studies of the past were based on archaeological and linguistic data, today even geneticists have taken up the matter.

From the Danube

Of all the theories of Russian ethnogenesis, the most famous is the Danube one. We owe its appearance to the chronicle "The Tale of Bygone Years", or rather the centuries-old love for this source of domestic academicians.

The chronicler Nestor determined the initial territory of the settlement of the Slavs by the territories along the lower reaches of the Danube and the Vistula. The theory of the Danube "ancestral home" of the Slavs was developed by such historians as Sergei Solovyov and Vasily Klyuchevsky.
Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky believed that the Slavs moved from the Danube to the Carpathian region, where an extensive military alliance of tribes arose, led by the Duleb-Volhynian tribe.

From the Carpathian region, according to Klyuchevsky, in the 7th-8th centuries, the Eastern Slavs settled in the East and Northeast to Ilmen Lake. The Danubian theory of Russian ethnogenesis is still adhered to by many historians and linguists. A great contribution to its development was made at the end of the 20th century by the Russian linguist Oleg Nikolaevich Trubachev.

Yes, we are Scythians!

One of the most fierce opponents of the Norman theory of the formation of Russian statehood, Mikhail Lomonosov, leaned towards the Scythian-Sarmatian theory of Russian ethnogenesis, which he wrote about in his Ancient Russian History. According to Lomonosov, the ethnogenesis of the Russians occurred as a result of the mixing of the Slavs and the Chudi tribe (Lomonosov's term is Finno-Ugric), and he named the interfluve of the Vistula and the Oder as the place of origin of the ethnic history of the Russians.

Supporters of the Sarmatian theory rely on ancient sources, as did Lomonosov. He compared Russian history with the history of the Roman Empire and ancient beliefs with the pagan beliefs of the Eastern Slavs, finding a large number of coincidences. The fierce struggle with the adherents of the Norman theory is quite understandable: the people-tribe Rus, according to Lomonosov, could not come from Scandinavia under the influence of the expansion of the Norman Vikings. First of all, Lomonosov opposed the thesis about the backwardness of the Slavs and their inability to independently form a state.

Hellenthal theory

The hypothesis about the origin of the Russians, published this year by the Oxford scholar Garrett Hellenthal, seems interesting. Having done a lot of work on the study of the DNA of various peoples, he and a group of scientists compiled a genetic atlas of the migration of peoples.
According to the scientist, two significant milestones can be distinguished in the ethnogenesis of the Russian people. In 2054 B.C. e., according to Hellenthal, the trans-Baltic peoples and peoples from the territories of modern Germany and Poland migrated to the northwestern regions of modern Russia. The second milestone is 1306, when the migration of the Altai peoples began, which actively interbred with representatives of the Slavic branches.
Hellenthal's study is also interesting in that genetic analysis proved that the time of the Mongol-Tatar invasion had practically no effect on Russian ethnogenesis.

Two ancestral homes

Another interesting migration theory was proposed at the end of the 19th century by the Russian linguist Aleksey Shakhmatov. His theory of "two ancestral homelands" is also sometimes called the Baltic one. The scientist believed that initially the Balto-Slavic community stood out from the Indo-European group, which became autochthonous on the territory of the Baltic states. After its collapse, the Slavs settled in the territory between the lower reaches of the Neman and the Western Dvina. This territory became the so-called "first ancestral home". Here, according to Shakhmatov, the Proto-Slavic language was formed, from which all Slavic languages ​​originated.

The further migration of the Slavs was associated with the great migration of peoples, during which, at the end of the second century AD, the Germans went south, freeing the Vistula River basin, where the Slavs came. Here, in the lower basin of the Vistula, Shakhmatov defines the second ancestral home of the Slavs. Already from here, according to the scientist, the division of the Slavs into branches began. The western one went to the Elbe region, the southern one was divided into two groups, one of which settled the Balkans and the Danube, the other - the Dnieper and the Dniester. The latter became the basis of the East Slavic peoples, which include the Russians.

We are local

Finally, another theory that is different from migration is the autochthonous theory. According to it, the Slavs were an indigenous people inhabiting eastern, central and even part of southern Europe. According to the theory of Slavic autochthonism, the Slavic tribes were the indigenous ethnic group of a vast territory - from the Urals to the Atlantic Ocean. This theory has rather ancient roots and many supporters and opponents. The Soviet linguist Nikolai Marr adhered to this theory. He believed that the Slavs did not come from anywhere, but were formed from tribal communities that lived in vast territories from the Middle Dnieper to Laba in the West and from the Baltic to the Carpathians in the south.
Polish scientists also adhered to the autochthonous theory - Klechevsky, Pototsky and Sestrentsevich. They even led the genealogy of the Slavs from the Vandals, basing their hypothesis, among other things, on the similarity of the words "Vendals" and "Vandals". Of the Russians, the origin of the Slavs Rybakov, Mavrodin and Grekov was explained by autochthonous theory.

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Dear people who are not indifferent to their history!

I present to your attention the Khorasan theory of the origin of Rus', in which the trace of the Jurgens - Jujans - Chechings is clearly traced, whose habitat was for a long time the basin of the Argun River on Far East.

I'll be happy to drop full text my theory with pictures and maps for later reproduction within this forum. Ready to send your material to the administration of the forum - specify the address where.

Once upon a time, the great Russian writer L.N. Tolstoy said: “People live peacefully among themselves and act in harmony only when they are united by the same worldview: they equally understand the purpose and purpose of their activities. So it is for families, so it is also for various circles of people, so it is for political parties, so it is for entire estates, and so it is, in particular, for peoples united in states. People of one people live more or less peacefully among themselves and defend their common interests together only as long as they live by the same worldview, assimilated and recognized by all people of the people.

Unfortunately, in Russian society, there is a tendency instead of the idea of ​​SPIRITUAL ASSOCIATION TO TRANSLATE THE PRINCIPLE "DIVIDE AND CONQUER" - let me remind you that today in ACADEMIC SCIENTIFIC TURNOVER THERE ARE 46 THEORIES OF THE ORIGIN OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE, moreover, NONE OF THEM ARE RECOGNIZED ERRORS NOY.

I hope my theory will contribute to the ideological unification of the Russian world.

I can’t cite a very important thought again: “... We are interested in and we need not to increase the number of fairy tales - we already have enough of them, but to remove the veil from our initial history. We need to see it without embellishment and distortion in order to know who we are and where we come from, and what goals and paths to them were destined by our distant ancestors who gave birth to us. The dust rising around this does nothing to clear the horizon, it only clogs the eyes and makes breathing difficult for those who remove these veils over Slavic history.

Sincerely, Ivan Streltsov.

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Https://www.gazeta.ru/science/2015/09/03_a_7734953.shtml Russians are not Slavs at the core and "change" their nation by their genetic predisposition, therefore Russians are outside former USSR have not created a single stable diaspora anywhere and are assimilated extremely quickly, and this despite their huge numbers, in contrast to much smaller peoples who have created their own diasporas. Vladimir Dal 1852: "
Korels, Zyryans, Permyaks, Voguls, Votyaks, Cheremis, Russ, alter several of our languages. The Chud tribes in general easily lose their language and nationality and are completely Russian; ... more than half of Russia or its subjects still bear the signs of a Chud tribe. "As a result, if we completely simplify it in the form of a version, Finnish peoples lived in the territory of the middle zone of present-day Russia and to the north, who at a certain stage were colonized from the south in the form of Christianization with the imposition of the Church Slavonic (Old Bulgarian) language close to the Serbian language, this is how the state of Muscovy was formed.When the German dynasty of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanovs took power, this colony was named after Russia from the German word Russiya, which then meant Serbia, and the language practically brought to the current state of the Russian language, including by borrowing words from other languages ​​​​and inventing new words.The vast majority of the population artificially became Slavs, and the root Slav is a SLAB in many European languages, respectively, many fell into SLAVERY, which is now given out under the guise of a serf right Someone will ask, since the language is close to Old Bulgarian, then why they didn’t call it Bulgaria, but the answer was already in the presence of two Bulgaria by that time, the Slavic-speaking Danube Bulgaria, where the foundations of the Russian language came from and the Turkic-speaking Volga Bulgaria, where the Tatars live, i.e. Bulgars . For your information, there are practically no ancient manuscripts more than 300 years old, everything else is allegedly a copy, so the current traditional history before the 17th century is not far from fairy tales and legends in fact! As an example, the Mordovians (Moksha, Erzya), despite the terrible living conditions, even in the middle of the 20th century, according to statistics, outnumbered the Kirghiz and there were often families with 8 or more children, some 70 years passed and officially the Kyrgyz became 7 times more than the Mordovians (Moksha, Erzya), and most of the Mordovians (Moksha, Erzya) turned into Russians!

Russian blood in global politics

Recently, the “Russian theme”, actively used in the political plane, has become very relevant. The press and television are full of speeches on this subject, as a rule, muddy and contradictory. Who says that the Russian people does not exist at all, who considers only the Orthodox to be Russian, who includes in this concept all those who speak Russian, and so on. Meanwhile, science has already given completely definite answer to this question.

The scientific data below is a terrible secret. Formally, these data are not classified, since they were obtained by American scientists outside the field of defense research, and even published in some places, but organized around them CONSPIRACY silence is unprecedented. nuclear project at its initial stage, it doesn’t even compare, then something still leaked into the press, and in this case, nothing at all.

What is this terrible secret, the mention of which is a worldwide taboo?

This the mystery of the origin and historical path of the Russian people.

Why information is hidden, more on that later. First, briefly about the essence of the discovery of American geneticists. Human DNA has 46 chromosomes, half inherited from father and half from mother. Of the 23 chromosomes received from the father, the only one - the male Y chromosome - contains a set of nucleotides that has been passed from generation to generation without any changes for thousands of years. Geneticists call this set haplogroup. Every man living now has exactly the same haplogroup in his DNA as his father, grandfather, great-grandfather, great-great-grandfather, and so on for many generations.

Our ancestors migrated from the ethnic home not only to the east, to the Urals, and to the south, to India and Iran, but also to the west, where European countries are now located. In the western direction, geneticists have complete statistics: in Poland, the owners of the Russian (Aryan) haplogroup R1a1 constitute 57% the male population, in Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic and Slovakia - 40% , in Germany , Norway and Sweden - 18% , In Bulgaria - 12% , and in England the least - 3% .

Unfortunately, there is no ethnogenetic information on the European tribal aristocracy yet, and therefore it is impossible to determine whether the share of ethnic Russians is evenly distributed over all social strata of the population or, as in India and, presumably, in Iran, the Aryans were nobility in those lands where they came . The only reliable evidence for latest version was a by-product of a genetic examination to establish the authenticity of the remains of the family of Nicholas II. The Y-chromosomes of the tsar and heir Alexei were identical to samples taken from their relatives from the English royal family. And this means that at least one royal house of Europe, namely the house of the German Hohenzollern, of which the English Windsors are a branch, has Aryan roots.

However, Western Europeans (haplogroup R1b) in any case are our closest relatives, oddly enough, much closer than the northern Slavs (haplogroup N) and southern Slavs (haplogroup I1b). Our common ancestor with Western Europeans lived about 13 thousand years ago, at the end of the ice age, thousands of five years before the gathering began to develop into crop production, and hunting into cattle breeding. That is, in a very gray-haired Kamennovoe antiquity. And the Slavs by blood are even further away from us.

The settlement of Russian-Aryans to the east, south and west (there was simply nowhere to go further north, and so, according to the Indian Vedas, before coming to India they lived near the Arctic Circle) became the biological prerequisite for the formation of a special language group, Indo-European. These are almost all European languages, some languages ​​of modern Iran and India, and, of course, the Russian language and ancient Sanskrit, which are closest to each other for an obvious reason - in time (Sanskrit) and in space (Russian) they are next to the original source, the Aryan parent language from which all other Indo-European languages ​​grew.

The foregoing is irrefutable natural-science facts, moreover, obtained by independent American scientists. Challenging them is like disagreeing with the results of a blood test in a clinic. They are not disputed. They are just hushed up. They are hushing up together and stubbornly, they are hushing up, one might say, totally. And there are reasons for that.

The first such reason is quite trivial and comes down to scientific pseudo-solidarity. Too many theories, concepts and scientific reputations will have to be refuted if they are revised in the light of the latest discoveries of ethnogenetics.

For example, you will have to rethink everything that is known about the Tatar-Mongol invasion of Rus'. The armed conquest of peoples and lands was always and everywhere accompanied at that time mass rape local women. Traces in the form of Mongolian and Turkic haplogroups should have remained in the blood of the male part of the Russian population. But they are not! Solid R1a1 and nothing else amazing purity of blood. This means that the Horde that came to Rus' was not at all what it is customary to think about it, if the Mongols were present there, then in a statistically insignificant number, and who was called "Tatars" is not at all clear. Well, which of the scientists will refute the scientific foundations, supported by mountains of literature and great authorities?!

No one wants to spoil relations with colleagues and be branded as an extremist, destroying established myths. In academia, this happens all the time - if the facts do not match the theory, so much the worse for the facts.

The second reason, which is incomparably more weighty, belongs to the sphere of geopolitics. The history of human civilization appears in a new and completely unexpected light, and this cannot but have serious political consequences.

Throughout modern history, the pillars of European scientific and political thought proceeded from the idea of ​​Russians as barbarians who had recently climbed down from the Christmas trees, backward by nature and incapable of constructive work. And suddenly it turns out that Russians are the same arias, which had a decisive influence on the formation of great civilizations in India, Iran and in Europe itself. What exactly Europeans owe Russians very many in their prosperous life, starting with the languages ​​they speak. It is no coincidence that in recent history, a third of the most important discoveries and inventions belong to ethnic Russians in Russia itself and abroad. It is no coincidence that the Russian people were able to repel the invasions of the united forces of continental Europe led by Napoleon and then Hitler. And so on.

It is no coincidence that behind all this there is a great historical tradition, thoroughly forgotten over many centuries, but remaining in the collective subconscious of the Russian people and manifesting itself whenever the nation faces new challenges. Manifested with iron inevitability due to the fact that it has grown on a material, biological basis in the form Russian blood, which has remained unchanged for four and a half millennia.

Western politicians and ideologists have something to think about in order to make their policy towards Russia more adequate in the light of the historical circumstances discovered by geneticists. But they do not want to think and change anything, hence the conspiracy of silence around the Russian-Aryan theme. However, the Lord is with them and with their ostrich policy. Much more important for us is the fact that ethnogenetics brings a lot of new things to the Russian situation proper.

In this regard, the main thing lies in the very statement of the existence of the Russian people as a biologically integral and genetically homogeneous entity. The main thesis of the Russophobic propaganda of the Bolsheviks and the current liberals lies precisely in the denial of this fact. The scientific community is dominated by the idea formulated Lev Gumilyov in his theory of ethnogenesis: "from a mixture of Alans, Ugrians, Slavs and Turks, the Great Russian nationality developed". "National leader" repeats the commonplace "scratch a Russian - you will find a Tatar." And so on.

Why do the enemies of the Russian nation need this?

The answer is obvious. If the Russian people as such do not exist, but there is some kind of amorphous "mixture", then anyone can manage this "mixture" - even the Germans, even the African pygmies, even the Martians. The denial of the biological existence of the Russian people is an ideological substantiation of the domination of the non-Russian "elite" in Russia, earlier Soviet, now liberal.

But here the Americans intervene with their genetics, and it turns out that there is no “mixture”, that the Russian people have existed unchanged for four and a half thousand years, that the Alans with the Turks and many others also live in Russia, but these are separate original peoples and etc. And the question immediately arises: why, then, have non-Russians ruled Russia for almost a century? Illogical and wrong Russians should be ruled by Russians.

Similarly, the Czech Jan Hus, a professor at the University of Prague, argued six hundred years ago: "... Czechs in the Kingdom of Bohemia, by law and by the demand of nature, should be the first in positions, just like the French in France and the Germans in their lands". His statement was considered politically incorrect, intolerant, inciting ethnic hatred, and the professor was burned at the stake.

Now morals have softened, professors are not burned, but so that people do not have the temptation to succumb to the Hussite logic, in Russia non-Russian authorities simply “cancelled” the Russian people- a mixture, they say. And everything would be fine, but the Americans jumped out from somewhere with their analyzes and ruined the whole thing. There is nothing to cover them, it remains only to hush up scientific results, which is done to the hoarse sounds of an old and hackneyed Russophobic propaganda record.

A highly developed civilization 6000 years ago! Falsification of Russian history

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