Why did Repin's right hand dry out? The truth about Tsar Ivan the Terrible

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

The artist Myasoedov, who posed in the image of the tsar, almost finished off his little son, also Ivan, in an unreasonable rage. And the writer Vsevolod Garshin - Repin wrote the tsarevich from him - soon lost his mind and threw himself into a flight of stairs …

Everything that they tell us from school about Ivan the Terrible is a shameless lie. Tsar John did not kill his son, did not gouge out the eyes of architects and never arranged sex orgies.

Ivan the Terrible, without a doubt, is one of the most maligned heroes in our history. In the 16th century there was still no term "information war", but how else to call the stream of lies directed against the last Russian tsar from the RURIK family?

Researcher V. Manyagin explained why Grozny became enemy number 1 for Europe: he “could not agree with the world system, in which Russia had to give the North-West to Poland and Sweden, the Volga region to Turkey, to introduce the power of the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire on the rest of the territory. of the German people and subordinate the Russian Orthodox Church to the papal throne. This is precisely the goal that Europe set itself in the 16th century."

It is not surprising that the "memories" of Ivan IV are full of absurdities and outright lies. This lie continues to be replicated in our days, when the information war against us has flared up with renewed vigor.

After all, ditching Grozny means calling into question the legality of his territorial acquisitions and the desire of the current Russian authorities to protect sovereignty. That is why we still hear stories from Russophobes about his terrible moral character, bloody oprichnina, hundreds of thousands of those executed, etc., etc.

During the Livonian War, a huge number of leaflets were printed in Europe against the Russians and their tsar. Muscovites appeared to be bearded monsters that have no right to exist. Tracts were passed from hand to hand which, 400 years before Hitler and the Ost plan, explained what to do with Russia.

In 1578, surrounded by the Count of Alsace, a plan arose to turn Muscovy into an imperial province. It read: “One of the emperor’s brothers will govern the new imperial province of Russia. The main task will be to provide the German troops with everything they need at the expense of the population. It is necessary to attribute peasants and merchants to each fortification, so that they pay salaries to the military people and deliver everything they need … First of all, the Russians will have to take away the horses, and then all the available plows and boats …"

The Russians were supposed to be taken to work “in iron shackles, filled with lead at their feet. German stone churches should be built throughout the country, and only wooden ones should be left to the Muscovites. They will soon rot, and only German ones will remain in Russia. So a change of religion will naturally occur."

Foreigners also spread wild legends about the personal life of the sovereign. The Polish historian Waliszewski, claiming that the tsar was "a living example of debauchery," further refutes himself: "However, how can this licentiousness of the tsar be reconciled with his constant desire to enter into new marriages? Apparently, this completely contradicts the current legends about whole crowds of women, allegedly brought to the Aleksandrovskaya Sloboda, or about the harem that accompanied the tsar everywhere on his trips. If he aspired to possess a woman, it was only as a lawful husband."

In fact, the stories about his alleged seven, eight, and in some sources and 50 wives are complete nonsense. It is reliably known only about four marriages of Ivan the Terrible.

The tsar chose his first wife, Anastasia Zakharyina, at the brides show, where they brought girls from all over Russia. John and Anastasia lived in love for 13 years. Life was very difficult. The nanny dropped the first son into the river. Three daughters died at a young age. Only two sons survived, John and Fyodor. The Tsarina fell ill and died when she was not yet 30. Ivan the Terrible grieved so much for his wife that at the funeral he could hardly stand on his feet "from great groaning and pity of the heart." He had no doubt that his wife had been poisoned.

A year after her death, the tsar married Maria Temgryukovna (Kucheny) from a clan of Kabardian princes. But this marriage also ended tragically: the woman was poisoned.

More than 2 thousand brides were brought to the bride for Ivan's third marriage. The tsar chose Martha Sobakina. After the betrothal, the girl fell seriously ill, and died 15 days after the wedding. Ivan Vasilievich was very saddened. Upon learning that Prince Temgryuk was involved in death, he executed several boyars, and impaled the prince himself.

By the way, John was a convinced teetotaler and could not stand drunks.

According to the outstanding lexicographer V. I. Dal, "Terrible" means "courageous, majestic, keeping enemies in fear, and the people in obedience." Translated into English, the meaning is completely perverted. Ivan The Terrible is a bloody, terrible tsar, as the foreigners fooled by propaganda call John, considering him the founder of “totalitarian terror”.

Meanwhile, during the years of Grozny's rule, only 4 thousand people were executed, including robbers and murderers. The names of all the slain are recorded in the Synodik (memorial church list), which was compiled on the basis of zemstvo and oprichnina orders. Ivan the Terrible repented, entered the names of those sentenced to death in memorial lists and sent donations to monasteries: so that the souls of the dead "get rid of the devil's fire" and do not suffer in the next world.

Now compare. Only for vagrancy, the English king Henry VIII ordered the destruction of about 72 thousand people! And in those years when the age of the British monarch or the time of his reign was a multiple of seven, ritual human sacrifices took place throughout the country: in order to "wash away the sins of the kingdom" with innocent blood.

Here are some more examples. In 1572, during the St. Bartholomew's Night in France, over 30 thousand Protestants were killed. And in Germany, during the suppression of the peasant uprising of 1525, more than 100 thousand people were executed.

Church punishment

Before marrying Anna Koltovskaya, the tsar appealed to the church hierarchs in April 1572. He delivered a word of repentance, which made many people cry.

“My first wife, Anastasia, was poisoned by evil people; the second, Maria, was also poisoned after eight years of marriage; the third, Martha, was spoiled even before the crown, and although I married her in the hope of her recovery, she died two weeks later, keeping her virginity intact. In deep sorrow, I wanted to put on a monastic image, but seeing the calamities of the state and my children’s still underage age, I dared to join the fourth marriage. And now, tenderly, I ask the Prelate Council to allow me to marry and pray for my sin."

If Ivan was such a tyrant, as we were told, why would he ask the church's permission? On April 29, the Council passed a verdict: to allow the marriage, but to impose a three-year penance on the tsar. In the first year, he was forbidden even to enter the temple. In the second year, stand in the church with the catechumens. In the third year, you can stand in the church, but it will be possible to receive communion only when the third Easter comes. The punishment is very severe, and considering that the Christian monarch was subjected to such a punishment, it is unprecedented. This marriage did not last long. In 1575, a woman was imprisoned for treason in the Tikhvin monastery. The rest of the women of Grozny cannot be called wives. They were just favorites or concubines. By the way, King Henry VIII had six wives (he executed two), and his favorites were several hundred.

The prototype of the royal wife was Martha SOBAKINA, who died 15 days after the wedding.

The Jesuit Possevino was the first to voice the version of the king's murder of his son. She was picked up by Staden, Horsey and other foreigners who were not direct witnesses and most of them did not even speak Russian. The freemason Karamzin reproduced this story without hesitation in his famous work … Trusting these gentlemen is the same as allowing Jen Psaki and fugitive oligarchs to write today's history of Russia.

Metropolitan John of St. Petersburg and Ladoga completely refuted the slander in his book "The Autocracy of the Spirit." He proved that Tsarevich John died of a serious illness and that there is not even a hint of filicide in the surviving documents. And on that tragic day he was in the Aleksandrovskaya Sloboda - 150 hundred miles from his father.

In 1963, scientists opened the graves of Ivan the Terrible and his sons in the Kremlin's Archangel Cathedral. Here is what the historian A. Bokhanov writes: “Now about the blood, which, as some authors assure,“flowed like a stream”. In Repin's painting, there was a whole puddle of it. The prince's hair, bright yellow, is 5 - 6 centimeters long. The analysis showed that there were no signs of blood on the hair. The molecular structure of blood is such that it is impossible to wash hair from it without a trace."

By the way, after Repin painted his most famous painting "Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan", his right hand withered! The artist Myasoedov, who posed in the image of the tsar, almost finished off his little son, also Ivan, in an unreasonable rage. And the writer Vsevolod Garshin - Repin wrote the tsarevich from him - soon lost his mind and threw himself into a flight of stairs.

Another myth is that the tsar ordered to blind Barma and Postnik, the architects who built St. Basil's Cathedral. According to other sources, it was one person - Barma, nicknamed Postnik. He allegedly said that he could build a cathedral even more beautiful, and this infuriated the king.

The duck was launched by the English traveler Giles Fletcher in the book "On the Russian State". Only according to Fletcher's version it is not about Moscow and not about the cathedral, but about Ivangorod and the fortress there; the blinded architect is a Pole by nationality. A century later, the story was again brought to light by the Czech Bernhard Tanner, only according to his version it was not about St. Basil's Cathedral, but about one of the Moscow churches. In general, as in the joke: the spoons were found, but the sediment remained. About Barma, there is information recorded in the annals: he continued to work after the construction of the temple.

In 1936, Lazar Kaganovich proposed to demolish the cathedral. He made a model of Red Square with a removable Basil the Blessed and brought it to Stalin, showing how the cathedral was interfering with the demonstrations. "And if it were - p-times!" - and with these words jerked off the temple. The leader looked, thought, and slowly uttered the famous phrase: “Lazarus! Put it in place!"

You're lying, dog! The Englishman D. Horsey in his "Notes on Russia" claims that the guardsmen massacred 700 thousand people in Novgorod. Although at that time there were 40 thousand inhabitants. In fact, John ordered the arrest of about 1.5 thousand Novgorodians involved in high treason - local separatists tried to swear allegiance to the Polish king.

Myths about him were the first to be composed:

* Judas Kurbsky, who betrayed the Tsar and the Fatherland, abandoned his wife and 9-year-old son at home;

* Protestant Oderborn and Catholic Guanyino, who wrote their opuses far from Russia, in Poland and Germany;

* shameless English adventurer D. Horsey;

* Jesuit A. Possevino (it was he who launched the lie about filicide).

Each of them had personal reasons to hate Grozny and slander him.

Kazan took, Astrakhan took, Revel took

When Ivan Vasilievich came to the throne, the territory of Russia was 2, 8 million square meters. km. As a result of his reign, it almost doubled - up to 5.4 million square meters. km and became larger than the rest of Europe. During this time, the population has grown by almost 40 percent. By the end of Grozny's life, it reached 12 million.

What did he do for the country

* Reorganized the army. Under John, the first military uniform appeared - at the archers.

* Together with the allies-Tatars, freed the Kazan and Astrakhan khanates from the influence of Istanbul. Annexed Western Siberia, the Oblast of the Don troops, Bashkiria and the Nogai Horde.

* Defeated the Crimean-Turkish army, after which the devastating raids of the Krymchaks ceased forever.

* He stopped feudal strife, united the lands, turning Russia into a centralized European state.

* Introduced a jury trial.

* Banned slave labor.

* Organized free education, created a system of parish schools.

* Opened the first printing house in Moscow.

* Under Grozny, the Code of Law was adopted - a set of laws containing 100 articles. 13 types of crimes were punishable by death. The supreme authority in any case was the sovereign. Only after his verdict was the sentence carried out. The tsar could overturn the death sentence and often exercised his right.

Ivan the Terrible also wooed the English Queen Elizabeth I Tudor. But she refused him, like all other monarchs and princes. So she died a virgin!

Imagine what they would have done. Then the British Kingdom would extend to the Siberian taiga! Or vice versa - in foggy Albion soon everyone would speak Russian. And America would have been mastered by the Anglo-Slavs, with whom we would have no problems today …