Russia - the birthplace of pearls

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

Everyone is sure that pearls grow in beautiful shells at the bottom of the sea. They dive there, get them, split them, and that's it - here it is beauty. Unfortunately, this cartoon-inspired mermaid look is 90% false. Why 90? Because today only 10% of pearls grow naturally. The rest is a product of Japanese pearl farms.

But this is just the tip of the iceberg of our delusions. When we deal with everyone, the veil will subside, and we will find a fairy-tale world that was lost in childhood.

Russia - the birthplace of pearls

Let's start with credible events. Until 1921 Russia was the main supplier of pearls to the world market. And our fishermen did not have to dive after him into the freezing White Sea. The bulk of the world's commodities were river pearls. It forms in the shells of river molluscs called Margaritana and Dahurinaia.

Otherwise - pearl barley, from the word "pearl" (pearl) or simply "pearl oyster". They look like ordinary river shells, only larger in size - 12 cm. They live in clean rivers at a depth of only 0.5 … 1 meter. No need to dive, go and collect.

Pearls have always been one of the favorite adornments of the Russians. So, according to the testimony of the Byzantine chroniclers, Prince Svyatoslav "in one ear hung a gold earring, decorated with two pearls." And in the spiritual letter of the Grand Duke Ivan Kalita (1328), a belt is described "large, with pearls, with stones."

In Russia, pearls were divided by size into "large", "medium" and "small". There were also other, more original definitions. The Mineralogical Dictionary, published in 1790, says: "Pearls, which are the size of cherries, are called cherry". Again, we have an ingeniously simple and accurate method for determining the out-of-roundness of pearls, without the use of instrumental microscopes and micrometers. To determine marketability by shape, pearls were placed on a flat surface, inclined at a certain angle. If the pearl was round enough then rolled down … This was Pitched pearl.

Interestingly, this information is not at all secret. With a minimal curiosity, any historian or archaeologist can find out about it. However, generally accepted historical concepts support the image of dirty, wild Rus, whose only commodity was skins. Even today, you can read about this in the textbooks that teach our children in schools.

But in the Kama region, above the present Perm, merchants from India and Persia regularly arrived. Is it really only for skins? And what to do with these skins in India, sweat under the hot southern sun? No, for the sake of luxury and beauty, you can, of course, bring a couple of sables. But we are talking about regular trade a demanded product.

But pearls are another matter. Moreover, this is a very peculiar product. It does not apply to precious stones, and indeed to stones in general. A special term has been coined for him - "mineral of organic origin". You can trade it without even having a jewelry industry and processing skills. He mined immediately ready … Historians might notice such and such a moment.

The stages of the disappearance of pearl mussels

But all this was before. Why are we buying pearls today for big money, and not collecting this wealth with our bare hands along our rivers? Because today pearl oysters have become a great rarity in our country, and are listed in the Red Book. Officially, biologists have sinned on bad ecology and predatory prey from the 16th to the 19th century. It seems to be so, but not very much. To understand what is hidden here, you need to see the big picture, in chronology and in conjunction with key events.

We will not look into the gray-haired antiquity, it is enough to consider the period from the 15th to the 20th century. It is initially stated that pearl oysters were ubiquitous in the rivers of the northern hemisphere. To do this, they needed clean running water, with a low lime content, and the presence of salmon fish (salmon, trout, pink salmon, etc.). Red fish is necessary as a carrier of mollusk larvae for its distribution. Such reservoirs are still found today throughout Eurasia and North America, and before they were widespread.

However, already in the 15th and 16th centuries, artificial "Roman pearls" appeared in Europe. It was a glass bead filled with paraffin. Such a product is not at all cheap for the 15th century, but it was made. Means, pearls were in demandbut it was lacking. The demand had to be met by imitation. It turns out that already in the 15th century, Europe lost its own sources of production.

At this time in Russia everything was in order with pearls. For example, the mantle of Ivan the Terrible was "covered with pearls the size of a nut," and the tsar's hat was decorated with patterns of small river pearls. In 1678, Tsar Fyodor Alekseevich, receiving the Polish embassy, was dressed in a mantle so richly embroidered with pearls and diamonds that it seemed "garnished by the sun and stars." This is not quite the 15th century, but it is also significant. Pearls were not only worn by kings. They were used to decorate clothes and objects throughout Russia. Nobody argues with this either.

But already in 1712, Peter I, by a special decree banned private individuals to conduct this trade. It seems like predatory prey has depleted resources. This suggests that as soon as the Romanovs, oriented towards European civilization, ascended the throne, the ruin of pearl springs began, which over a hundred years has acquired rampant proportions. It is significant that in Europe the same thing happened 200 years earlier.

Another 150 years passed, the influence of the Moscow principality strengthened and spread to the east. Trouble and poverty followed … Zolotnitsky N. F. in his book "Amateur's Aquarium" writes:

So, in the middle of the 19th century already said that there are no pearls in Central Russia … It also stopped mining in other places around the world. Now the Prikamsky, "Vyatka" pearls are under threat. Here he still came across, but less and less. By the end of the 19th century, fishing ceased to exist both in the Kama region and in Siberia.

At the beginning of the 20th century, there were practically no commercial pearls, but in 1921 cultured pearls appeared from Japan. Throughout the 20th century, this situation persisted, and in 1952 commercial production of sea pearls was prohibited. We can also note the research of Soviet scientists who assessed the possibilities of resuming pearl fishing in the USSR:

The number of freshwater pearl mussels in the reservoirs of the North-West of the USSR was recognized as quite large, although in the 1920s they were estimated at only 3 million individuals. However, mass production was never organized.

Reasons for the impoverishment of nature

This is the picture I drew. Now we can clearly see that although poor ecology interferes with the prosperity of pearl mussels, it is not at all the main reason for their disappearance, as biologists are trying to present to us. Ecologically (in the sense of industrial pollution), the nature of Russia in the 19th century was still virgin, and the mollusks were dying out. And vice versa, after the industrialization of the 30s, the poisoning of nature with chemistry, dusting the forests, pearl mussels increased their number by one third.

Could it be the rampant fishing that stopped in the 20th century? This is partly true. But you need to understand that catching all pearl mussels in all the streams of the Kama region is like collecting all the mushrooms in the forests. There will not be enough strength, human resources, or time for this. However, Western civilization (the system of social parasites), which is spreading across our land like a cancerous tumor, is clearly responsible for that part of the misfortune that human greed brings.

All this is not enough for the extinction of pearl mussels on such a scale and at such a rate. There must be other reasons … And there is at least one such reason. This is a sharp climate change, a change in the flow of rivers, a change in vegetation. The entire ecological system, which included not only pearl mussels, but also animals such as mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, tur, parda, etc., has become scarce.

Where full-flowing rivers flowed, frail streams now ooze. Clean flowing reservoirs with a sandy-rocky bottom swamped and silted up. The age-old coniferous forests have turned into young aspen-birch thickets. You and I live practically in the overgrown garbage … And although even in this form, our nature is amazingly beautiful, it does not compare with what it was quite recently, no more than 400 years ago. Listen to what your ancestral memory says. What do you like better: walking barefoot along the transparent, sandy shallow water or along the muddy, chomping bottom of today's forest river? So think about where we come from, from a fairy tale or from a swamp.

Biologists, like the entire "scientific world", perceive the interaction of plants and animals within the ecological system, in principle, correctly, but they see only 10% of reality. Therefore, they are surprised like children, meeting the inexplicable rationality of relationships in a living and seemingly completely wild nature. They have only now begun to realize that plants transmit signals to each other, but they dare not go further than the fact that this happens through the release of odors. They poke a tomato bush with a pencil and are surprised: “Wow, look how it stinks. Yes, they smelled all over the greenhouse at the same time. A signal of danger, however! " …

Interestingly, if the signal is transmitted by aromatic molecules, then how long does it take for such a molecule, released by the plant, to reach the opposite end of the 100-meter greenhouse? Really in 1 second? What will get her there, the hurricane wind? There is no wind, which means that communication is going on in a different way. The line of reasoning is not difficult, but no one draws conclusions.

They also like to teach everyone that the wolf has a great sense of smell: "A trap that has retained the smell of rust, the wolf smells through a meter thick snow …". How is it? And rust, which is iron oxides, is apparently such a volatile substance, like acetone, that its molecules constantly evaporate, penetrating through a meter thick layer of snow. And this despite the fact that the air there practically does not move. But it's not so … It does not fit into the academic sense that a wolf can smell something else instead of smell.

No, the ecological system is not just about adaptation and survival. This much smarter organization of life … There is a place for feelings, love, and thoughts. Remember that Academician N. V. Levashov wrote about superorganisms in his book "Essence and Mind". Anthills, flocks of migratory birds, trees, etc., because they think. And most importantly, a person is an organically necessary part of such a system. There is a niche for him. He creates LAD (harmony) around him. And in that normal, fairy-tale world that remained in our memories, we were in our place. Therefore, in fairy tales, heroes talk with animals, birds and trees. There is no fiction in this. Any ecological system is the real Kingdom of nature, and Man is king in it.

The impoverishment of our nature was influenced by not only eventsthat changed the climate. The climate is gradually recovering, but Man has changed. Our ancient Vedic perception of reality has been reformatted. Remember the slogan: "You can't wait for favors from nature - our task is to take them!" We have become hostile to this world. Lad disappeared … Greed, poverty and pain came. Rooting out, breaking, distorting the Vedic worldview in people, the parasitic infection has seized the lands from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. Where things went hard, they burned everything up with hellish flames. The ecological system almost everywhere entered the mode of survival and savagery, retaining only a few particles of its former greatness.

The pearls are gone … Red fish disappeared in our rivers. Many species of animals and plants have disappeared. Everything has changed - the fairy tale is gone. Is it just pearls? The prosperity of pearl mussels is only an indicator of the state of nature, which is greatly influenced by Man. Affects even when he has no heavy equipment at his disposal. It influences with its consciousness and attitude, for no other creature living on earth is able to pass such streams of matter through itself.

Pearl watch

Pearls not only show us the state of nature, they are a chronometer of events. The fact is that the pearl itself consists of many layers that envelop the seed, which is usually a grain of sand trapped inside the shell. The enveloping substance is called mother-of-pearl (German Perlmutter - "mother of pearls"). It consists of two components - organic and inorganic. The inorganic component is chalk. Organic is a horny substance made of proteins. On average, pearls contain approximately 86% chalk, 12% protein and 2% water.

The horny substance is susceptible to drying out, therefore the life of pearls is only 50-150 years old! First, it fades, then cracks appear on it and peeling of the shells begins. Dry and too humid air, as well as exposure to fats, acids, perfumes, and human sweat, are harmful to pearls. If you want to extend the life of a pearl, you cannot wear it as a piece of jewelry. You can only store - protect from sunlight, keep wrapped in a soft cloth and from time to time immersed in a container of water for several hours, then dried in a cool place. They say that with proper care and no contact with air, pearls can be stored indefinitely. However, everyone understands that in real life these conditions are never met.

Nevertheless, relying on universal illiteracy, historians claim that “ancient” pearls have survived. You don't have to go far. The Kremlin Armory keeps the Monomakh Hat adorned with pearls.

According to the official version, she is about 600 years … The pearls, as you can see, are perfectly preserved. Was it periodically dipped in water for several hours and then dried in a cool place? And so for 600 years in a row? No, what are you! It is much easier to expose a fake or lie about age.

In the same place, in the Armory Chamber, you can see many other things, decorated with pearls, which, supposedly, more 400 years … And what is most interesting, pearl specialists, knowing full well that this is impossible, dont dare to object historians. Those, apparently of a higher rank, “protect” the humanities, while physicists, chemists, biologists prefer not to get involved with them. So you have to hear similar statements:

Well, yes. Chemistry claims that pearls under normal conditions cannot live longer than 150 years, but "history shows" that they can. Maybe 1000 years, and 2000, if really necessary. In fact, it does not show anything. These events mean only one thing - historians give incorrect dates … For example, it is now practically established that Pompeii did not die 2000 years ago, but only in 1631 … They also lied with Bulgaria in the 10th century. And when we understand this, then everything starts to take shape.

A pearl packed with a layer of ash could really have survived for 4 centuries. But the items in the armory, which were actively used, no - this is "linden" … Not just an error, but a real one forgery, because there is a distortion of the historical age. Accordingly, the deception and the history associated with these subjects.

What to do

Before, we did not know what to do when we saw that the whole earth was in hefty craters, as in scars, but we could not tie these tragic events to any specific time. But today a sufficient number of evidencepointing to dates … Now we will draw conclusions:

1. We live in a territory that has not completely recovered after a series of tragic events that continued in the 16th century, and in the 18th and 19th centuries, and even in the 60s of the 20th century.

2. These events have changed our nature beyond recognition, which is reflected in the oral traditions of all the peoples of the world, which cannot be older than several centuries, because the memory of people is short. The atmosphere has changed (before it was called - the world face, that is, the "world around", which once again confirms our stellar past). Obviously, it has become less dense and poor in oxygen composition. Legends say that the heavens were initially very low, and then rose sharply.

3. Unsurprisingly, the plants have changed as a result (trees used to grow like giant sequoias).

Insects have changed (paleontologists find dragonflies with a wingspan of about a meter, and giant spiders).

Many animals, which are now called fabulous, have disappeared.

4. All this, by inertia, continues to be considered prehistoric, according to the depth of occurrence of the remains, although many geophysicists today already say that some geological processes, perhaps, did not take millions of years, but very quickly, in months or days. For example, in the USA there is a whole canyon that was formed for one day … And the radiocarbon dating method is based on false postulates.

5. As the "pearl watches" show, the process went not only globally, but also stepwise, covering more and more new lands. Something like stripping … We finally lost this world quite recently, about 200 years ago. And if Arina Rodionovna had not told Pushkin our oral traditions, and he had not written it down, then, perhaps, today the memory of the people would no longer have preserved them, as much has been lost.

6. The most important thing that we need to do today is to remember who we are, what the world of our ancestors was like. Become worthy of your place in the reborn nature. Places of a king, not a petty plunderer.

Alexey Artemiev, Izhevsk

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