Why was there an inscription from the Koran on Alexander Nevsky's helmet? Official version

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

Secrets love to surround not only living beings, but also inanimate objects. The helmet of Alexander Nevsky, which is kept in the Armory Chamber of the Moscow Kremlin, is one of this number. This, of course, is not the Holy Grail, but there are no less mysteries in it.

Such a dress could crown the head of Rurikovich, the true Chosen One. All to one: red iron, a shape in the form of a dome of a temple, the image of the Archangel Michael the Archangel on the bow arrow, designed to flinch the enemy's hand with an ascended sword, golden notch, diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls … And suddenly - Arabic script! On the helmet of an Orthodox prince! What's this? The 13th verse of the 61st sura of the Qur'an: "Please the faithful with the promise of help from Allah and a quick victory."

Historians and collectors will find an explanation for everything. In the horizon of their own erudition, experience, dreams, obsessions … They love logic. The logic of primary school teachers, explaining to schoolchildren the impossibility of the existence of ghosts.

According to legend, Nevsky's helmet was reforged in the 17th century especially for Mikhail Fedorovich, the first tsar from the Romanovs. The court master Nikita Danilov supplemented it with precious stones. The updated helmet was named "The Erichon cap of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich." There was no modernization here - helmets in Russia were called so, since Russian monarchs since the time of Ivan the Terrible liked to compare themselves with Joshua, the Old Testament king who took Jericho.

In the XX century, historians did not believe in the legend, doubting that the helmet once belonged to Alexander Nevsky. Having subjected the damask headdress to countless examinations and analyzes, scientists came to the conclusion that the "Erichon cap" was forged in the East (from where there are Arabic inscriptions) in the 17th century. Then, with an opportunity, the helmet turned out to be at Mikhail Fedorovich, where he underwent "Christian tuning".

True, no one explains why the tsar did not order to remove the "Basurman letter"? By negligence? Unlikely. Unknowingly? Hardly. There were always many Tatars at the royal court who were familiar with Arabic calligraphy.

It is interesting that the Arabic script also adorned the helmet of Ivan the Terrible, as well as other noble persons of medieval Russia. Of course, we can say that these were trophies. But it is difficult to imagine that the regulated Ivan IV would hoist a used helmet on his crowned head. Moreover, in the use of the "basurman" …

With a high degree of probability, the royal owners of the "Yerichon hats" knew the origin and translation of the "Arabic patterns". But at the same time, they showed tolerance to being on their own helmets. Perhaps, the engraved suras from the Koran were given some magical properties - a kind of "graphic" Jericho trumpet, destroying the walls of fortresses not with sound, but with letters.