Golden Gate. Krivda about Russian architecture

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

We laugh at the stereotypes about Russia and about Russians that exist in the Western mind, but at the same time we ourselves are in captivity of similar cliches about ourselves. For example, what picture is drawn in your mind when you say "Vladimir Rus"? Horse versus rooster, what exactly do you see in your mind's eye:

Remember the lines of the song: - "My joy lives in a high tower …"

Right? Does joy live in a rich wooden cottage? It is true only in a small part of this statement, yes, in a wooden one. It is only necessary to clearly realize that we are building, this is not a villa, not a cottage, we are a home prison for a boyar's daughter who is ready for marriage.

A fragment of the engraving "Moscow" from the book of Adam Olearius

The word "terem" itself contains a hint. Vowels are not needed to convey meaning. They were omitted when writing texts to save writing material. TPM this and TYu Rb mand and Te Re m, and … Don't be surprised, the Latin word " te rma "this too" TPM". But, more on that later.

So, here we are, this is not a popular wooden castle. This is a real tower - a prison. Maiden's Tower. And there is no time for frills. A square in cross-section, a rough tower, chopped from logs, with holes for ventilation and lighting of the room under the very roof, where the bride was kept in captivity, ready to be sold into slavery for her husband, in exchange for a decent ransom. And no romance.

But the myth of an all-wooden Russia is so deeply rooted in our minds that even while reconstructing buildings and structures of medieval Russia, restorers cannot, so as not to add "Russianness" where there was no smell of it. Everyone knows that Izborsk was originally built entirely of stone. Even sheds and chicken coops are built of stone there to this day.

Everyone knows perfectly well that Moscow has always been white-stone at all times. Uglich, Rostov, Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod, Vladimir, Kostroma, and all the cities of Muscovy were also built of white stone, which is almost not preserved today. It is found during excavations, and the uchion people are puzzling over where the Rusichi mined this stone. The version about the artificial origin of the stone is not even on the agenda, but meanwhile, everything suggests that this stone is not a stone at all, but concrete, among the components of which are lime and chalk. Thanks to them, blocks of white color were obtained.

I. Weiss. Moscow 1852

So why is everyone fixated on the fact that all of Russia before the Revolution was made of wood? Yes, there were many wooden buildings, and you can see it in the photographs, but was it any different in Europe? Have you seen enough movies about the Musketeers? Is it okay that these films were filmed yesterday?

In general, the truth is that there was no difference between Rome and Kiev. Both there and there were both stone buildings and wood. True, there was a stone laurel in Kiev, but this is a laurel … Aha … But what about Golden Gate?

Golden Gate. Kiev. Monument of Russian defensive architecture

Funny? Nooo !? And I choked on this wording. Pay attention to the extension. It's just some kind of holiday! Reconstructors are building a brick building from the times of Yaroslav the Wise, and so it stuck in their minds that everything at that time was only wooden, that they could not help but attach a log wing. Why!!!?

Why, I ask, was it done! ??? And what is the tower in the center in the form of a church nave? What hryumzik had the idea to "stick" this building into a defensive structure? And who, in general, said that it was defensive? What do our writers know about him? Absolutely nothing! This is what this "defensive" structure looked like in 1861.

Iii …? What kind of fantasy do you need to have in order to reconstruct from these three stones to what now stands in Kiev, and is called "a monument of defensive architecture"? Why not assume that this is a public toilet? Or thermal baths?

There is still a bit of truth. It really is a gate, but … Where is the gate? Before us is a small surviving fragment of some kind of gigantic structure. Yes. It really is a gate. But the gate is for us. And if you draw in your imagination the missing building, in which there was once such a door, you get a picture in the style of Hollywood fantasy. Where these gates led, we will never know. But the idea of "rewarding" the surviving opening of a completely absent building with the title of a defensive structure is too much, even for a complete idiot. Well, at least they called it a "triumphal arch", and no one would have doubts for a very long time.

And in our case, I clearly state that back in the middle of the nineteenth century in Kiev there were traces of not our, antediluvian civilization. The one that Ivan, the son of Vasily, nicknamed Fiery, portrayed in his "paintings" an inhabitant of the "disappeared Slavic city" of Veneta. In latin transcription

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

For some reason, he is considered a science fiction painter depicting fantastic ruins. But … At the same time, no one denies that he documented the excavation of Roman ruins! It turns out that where it is convenient - an architect, and where it is inconvenient - a fantastic artist. And the truth is, he wasn't fantasizing. He "worked" as a camera. Yes, the photo had not yet been invented, and during the excavation it was necessary to document everything thoroughly, in order to then recreate what was possible taking into account the level of technology of the 18th century. He is not a genius of fantastic painting. He is an artist who documented the reconstruction of antediluvian structures with photographic accuracy. And those buildings that could not be restored are considered to be fantastic. And here is what Ivan Vasilievich Ognev was actually doing:

M ??? How does it feel?

That is that !!! Piranesi created dozens of volumes of drawings and sketches, and in the overwhelming majority these are purely technical documents. They are unknown to the general public. The crowd is demanding a show. Here! Get it!

The Uchions called it "Baths of Titus"

Strikingly reminiscent of the Golden Gate in Kiev, right? I mean by style, and by the same degree of destruction. There, out of three stones, the "gate-fortress" was born (they could not think of anything more stupid how to unite the incompatible - the gate, and the fortress), and in Rome three stones were called "terms". Why not a "prison", actually? After all, Piranesi was not Italian, he was a Venetian. And Venice is the city of Veneta, which, according to legend, was swallowed up by the sea. Yes, partially absorbed. I had to ride boats through the streets not on horses. And the Veneti are a Russian tribe, and they most likely spoke in a language that would be understandable to us now without a translator. And since Piranesi called it "TheRMs", it means that he meant something else, not baths at all. "Terms" could be born as a result of translation into Latin from the word "TeReM".

The Latin language was invented precisely so that different tribes could understand each other, and most importantly, interpret written documents unambiguously, without distorting the meaning, and without the help of translators. They did not speak Latin. This is a purely written language, and it was thanks to him, this dead language, that Ivan Vasilyevich turned into Giovanni Battista.

How! I said everything …