How they lived in Russia before the arrival of Christians

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Under this heading, an article was published in the newspaper "Pensioner and Society" (No. 7 for July 2010). This article presents a map of the world from 1030 on which Russia covers the territory from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean. The map was compiled at the time of the initial stage of the Christianization of Rus in 988. Prince Vladimir. Let us recall that in the times preceding Christianization, in Russia they revered pagan gods, honored ancestors, lived in Lada with nature as a single state. The most important of the surviving monuments of those times is considered the "Veles book", about which we have repeatedly written on the pages of our site.

Currently, many have studied the history, archaeologists say that in pre-Christian times Russia had its own high original culture, as evidenced by numerous artifacts found in recent decades in the excavation sites of ancient settlements. But the reasons why it was lost deserve special attention. These circumstances pose uncomfortable questions for representatives of modern academic historical science, which denies the existence of a high culture in Russia in pre-baptismal times, because "something needs to be done about this."

"What to do?"

Official historians have no clear answer to this question. And the Russian Orthodox Church pretends that the artifacts found simply do not exist. In addition, she is still trying in every possible way to present our ancestors - pagans as semi-literate ignoramuses who believe in "some" incomprehensible gods who made bloody sacrifices. And he is trying to convince us that it was the church that brought the beacon of enlightenment and universal literacy to Russia.

The material below proves once again that none of this happened. And there was a great culture in Russia. It was thanks to her that, over time, the concept of RUSSIAN SPIRIT appeared, which is inherent only in Russian people in the broad sense of the word.

How they lived in Russia before the arrival of Christians

Several hundred years have passed, soaked through and through with the false chronicle history of the Russian people. The time has come for true knowledge about their great ancestors. The main help in this is provided by archeology, which, regardless of the will of the church and its individual ministers, obtains accurate data about the life of people of a particular period. And not everyone can even immediately realize how right Patriarch Kirill is, saying that "today Russia, having gone through the bitter experience of being rejected from its own civilizational foundations and roots, is returning to its historical path."

Since the second half of the 20th century, researchers began to receive new written sources - birch bark letters. The first birch bark letters were found in 1951 during archaeological excavations in Novgorod. About 1000 letters have already been discovered. The total volume of the dictionary of birch bark letters is more than 3200 words. The geography of finds covers 11 cities: Novgorod, Staraya Russa, Torzhok, Pskov, Smolensk, Vitebsk, Mstislavl, Tver, Moscow, Staraya Ryazan, Zvenigorod Galitsky.

The earliest letters date back to the 11th century (1020), when the indicated territory was not yet Christianized. Thirty letters found in Novgorod and one in Staraya Russa belong to this period. Until the 12th century, neither Novgorod nor Staraya Russa had yet been baptized, therefore the names of people found in the letters of the 11th century are pagan, that is, real Russians. By the beginning of the 11th century, the population of Novgorod corresponded not only with addressees located inside the city, but also with those who were far beyond its borders - in villages, in other cities. Even the villagers from the most distant villages wrote household orders and simple letters on birch bark.

That is why, the outstanding linguist and researcher of Novgorod letters, the Academy A. A. Zaliznyak, claims that “this ancient writing system was very widespread. This writing was widespread throughout Russia. Reading the birch bark letters refuted the existing opinion that in Ancient Russia only noble people and clergy were literate. Among the authors and addressees of letters there are many representatives of the lower strata of the population, in the texts found there is evidence of the practice of teaching writing - alphabet, formulas, numerical tables, “pen tests”."

Six-year-old children wrote - “there is one letter, where, it seems, a certain year is indicated. It was written by a six-year-old boy. " Almost all Russian women wrote - “now we know for sure that a significant part of women could both read and write. Letters from the 12th century. in general, in various respects, they reflect a more free society, with greater development, in particular, of female participation, than a society closer to our time. This fact follows from the birch bark letters quite clearly”. Literacy in Russia is eloquently indicated by the fact that “the picture of Novgorod in the 14th century. and Florence of the 14th century, according to the degree of female literacy - in favor of Novgorod."

Experts know that Cyril and Methodius invented the verb for Bulgarians and spent the rest of their lives in Bulgaria. The letter called "Cyrillic", although it has a similarity in its name, has nothing to do with Cyril. The name "Cyrillic" comes from the designation of the letter - Russian "doodle", or, for example, the French "ecrire". And the plaque found during the excavations of Novgorod, on which they wrote in antiquity, is called "kera" (sera).

In the "Tale of Bygone Years", a monument of the early 12th century, there is no information about the baptism of Novgorod. Consequently, Novgorodians and residents of neighboring villages wrote 100 years before the baptism of this city, and the writing of the Novgorodians did not come from Christians. Writing in Russia existed long before the Christian invasion. The share of non-ecclesiastical texts at the very beginning of the 11th century is 95 percent of all letters found.

Nevertheless, for the academic falsifiers of history, for a long time, the fundamental version was that the Russian people learned to read and write from newcomer priests. Aliens!

But in his unique scientific work “The Craft of Ancient Rus”, published back in 1948, the archaeologist academician BA Rybakov published the following data: “There is a deep-rooted opinion that the church was a monopolist in the creation and distribution of books; this opinion was strongly supported by the churchmen themselves. It is only true here that monasteries and episcopal or metropolitan courts were the organizers and censors of book copying, often acting as intermediaries between the customer and the scribe, but the executors were often not monks, but people who had nothing to do with the church.

We have calculated the scribes according to their position. For the pre-Mongol era, the result was this: half of the book scribes were laymen; for the 14th - 15th centuries. the calculations gave the following results: metropolitans - 1; deacons - 8; monks - 28; clerks - 19; priests - 10; "Slaves of God" -35; priests-4; parobkov-5. Popovichs cannot be considered in the category of churchmen, since literacy, almost obligatory for them (“the priest’s son does not know how to read, is an outcast”) did not predetermine their spiritual career. Under vague names like "servant of God", "sinner", "dull servant of God", "sinful and daring for evil, but lazy for good", etc., without indicating belonging to the church, we must understand secular artisans. Sometimes there are more definite indications "Eustathius wrote, a worldly man, and his nickname is Shepel", "Ovsey raspop", "Thomas the scribe". In such cases, we no longer have any doubts about the "worldly" character of the scribes.

In total, according to our count, there are 63 laymen and 47 clergymen, i.e. 57% of the artisan scribes did not belong to church organizations. The main forms in the studied era were the same as in the pre-Mongol era: work to order and work on the market; between them there were various intermediate stages that characterized the degree of development of a particular craft. Bespoke work is typical for some types of patrimonial craft and for industries associated with expensive raw materials, such as jewelry or bell casting."

The academician cited these figures for the 14th - 15th centuries, when, according to the stories of the church, she served almost as a helm for the multimillion Russian people. It would be interesting to look at the busy, one and only metropolitan who, together with an absolutely insignificant handful of literate deacons and monks, served the postage needs of the multimillion Russian people from several tens of thousands of Russian villages. In addition, this Metropolitan and Co. were supposed to possess many truly wonderful qualities: the lightning speed of writing and movement in space and time, the ability to simultaneously be in thousands of places at once, and so on.

But not a joke, but a real conclusion from the data given by B. A. Rybakov, it follows that the church has never been in Russia a place from which knowledge and enlightenment flowed. Therefore, we repeat, another academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences A. A. Zaliznyak states that “the picture of Novgorod from the 14th century. and Florence 14th century. according to the degree of female literacy - in favor of Novgorod”. But by the 18th century the church had brought the Russian people into the bosom of illiterate darkness.

Consider the other side of the life of ancient Russian society before the arrival of Christians in our lands. She touches the clothes. Historians are used to us drawing Russian people dressed exclusively in simple white shirts, sometimes, however, allowing ourselves to say that these shirts were decorated with embroidery. Russians appear to be such beggars, barely able to dress at all. This is another lie spread by historians about the life of our people.

To begin with, let us recall that the world's first clothing was created more than 40 thousand years ago in Russia, in Kostenki. And, for example, at the Sungir parking lot in Vladimir, already 30 thousand years ago, people wore a leather jacket made of suede, trimmed with fur, a hat with earflaps, leather pants, and leather boots. Everything was decorated with various objects and several rows of beads. The ability to make clothes in Russia, of course, was preserved and developed to a high level. And silk became one of the important materials of clothing for the ancient Rus.

Archaeological finds of silk on the territory of Ancient Russia of the 9th - 12th centuries were found in more than two hundred points. The maximum concentration of finds is Moscow, Vladimir, Ivanovo and Yaroslavl regions. Just in those in which at this time there was an increase in population. But these territories were not part of Kievan Rus, on the territory of which, on the contrary, the finds of silk fabrics are very few. As the distance from Moscow - Vladimir - Yaroslavl increases, the density of silk finds generally decreases rapidly, and already in the European part they are sporadic.

At the end of the 1st millennium A. D. Vyatichi and Krivichi lived in the Moscow Territory, as evidenced by groups of mounds (at the Yauza station, in Tsaritsyn, Chertanovo, Konkov. Derealev, Zyuzin, Cheryomushki, Matveyevsky, Filyakh, Tushin, etc.). Vyatichi also made up the initial core of the population of Moscow. At the same time, excavations allegedly indicate that at the end of the 11th century. Moscow was a small town located at the mouth of the Neglinnaya River with a feudal center and handicraft and trade suburbs. And already in 1147 Moscow “for the first time” was mentioned in the annals as the confluence of the Suzdal prince Yuri Dolgoruky. Historians write the same about Vladimir, who was allegedly founded only in 1108 by Prince Vladimir Vsevolodovich Mo but at a stroke, moreover, to defend Rostov-Suedal Rus from the southeast. And absolutely the same - nondescript - historians write about Yaroslavl: it was founded only around 1010.