In the shadow of an eagle and the field marshal's guard

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

Accept, friends, a stranger under your roof;

But don't torment him with curiosity, There is much in nature, friend Horatio, That our sages never dreamed of.

(Shakespeare W. The Tragedy "Hamlet", Act I, Scene IV)

Heraldry, one of the least studied sciences in the world. Today there are only a few specialists in heraldry, and this instills horror - is it possible that humanity, having lost its knowledge, in a relatively short life path, will also lose these grains of truth, conveyed to us from our ancestors. Today the man in the street looks with indifference at the tombstones of those who have gone into another world, completely unaware that in front of him is a picture of days gone by. Knowing even the smallest basics of heraldry, people would learn to read the answers to many riddles of history. However, history is not a science, but only a look at world events, from the point of view of the Torah - a teaching that arose at the turn of the 13-14 centuries. ISTORIESI is a mythology that manipulates our consciousness and one of the elements of social governance. I am a writer, writing on the theme of the Russian epic, an independent researcher who is offended for my deceived Russian people. By this word I mean all peoples united by the idea of the Russian world, regardless of skin color, religion or eye shape.

This miniature, will be a continuation of the previous "Alexandria" and will fulfill my promise to the reader in it. And it consisted in the fact that I promised to deal with the funeral of Prince M. I. Kutuzov.

Therefore, let the reader follow the path of his mortal body, gone, like others in the dust, and at the same time we will understand these strange funerals.

And let's start as always with the official version.

On April 5, the commander-in-chief caught a cold and went to bed in the small Silesian town of Bunzlau (Prussia, now the territory of Poland). According to legend, refuted by historians, Alexander I arrived to say goodbye to a very weak field marshal. Behind the screens near the bed, on which Kutuzov lay, was the official Krupennikov who was with him. The last dialogue of Kutuzov, allegedly overheard by Krupennikov and transmitted by the chamberlain Tolstoy: "Forgive me, Mikhail Illarionovich!" - "I forgive, sir, but Russia will never forgive you for this." The reader should remember these words, I am inclined to believe that Krupennikov is not lying. But what they meant, you will find out further. This is the purpose of the miniature.

The next day, April 16 (28), 1813, Prince Kutuzov died. His body was embalmed and sent to St. Petersburg. The journey was long - through Poznan, Riga, Narva - and took more than a month. Despite such a reserve of time, it was not possible to bury the field marshal in the Russian capital immediately upon arrival: they did not have time to properly prepare everything necessary for burial in the Kazan Cathedral. Therefore, the renowned commander was sent "for temporary storage" - a coffin with a body (18 days), stood in the middle of the church in the Trinity - Sergius Hermitage, a few miles from St. Petersburg. There was no admission to the body, although the services were being performed, the coffin was closed Isn't it, such an action seems strange - is it really, in all of St. Petersburg, there was no church in which they could put a coffin with the commander, for the people to say goodbye to him? They could, but for some reason, they did nothing of the kind. And there were good reasons for that - they obviously wanted to hide something.

The funeral in the Kazan Cathedral took place on June 11, 1813.

They say that the people were dragging a cart with the remains of the national hero.

The Trinity-Sergius Hermitage was founded 19 versts from Petersburg, on the shores of the Gulf of Finland, on the lands transferred in 1734 by Empress Anna Ioannovna to her confessor, rector of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, Archimandrite Varlaam (in the world Vasily Vysotsky). In November of the same year, the Empress allowed to transport the wooden Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God from the country house of Queen Paraskeva Fedorovna on the Fontanka and ordered to consecrate it in the name of St. Sergius the Wonderworker of Radonezh. This choice is not accidental - according to the life of St. Sergius, FOR THE FIRST TIME in the history of Russia, the Mother of God appeared "with two apostles, Peter and John". Consecration took place on May 12, 1735. I ask the reader to remember this wooden church of the Assumption of the Mother of God.

Together with this church, some remains that were kept there for a long time also moved to the Hermitage. For now we will postpone their discussion, and I do not know much. One thing is certain - the relics were incorruptible.

And let's take a look at the family of Queen Paraskeva Fyodorovna?

Representative of the Saltykov family, daughter of the steward and governor Fyodor (Alexander) Petrovich Saltykov (died February 2, 1697) from his 1st marriage with Ekaterina Fyodorovna, whose maiden name is unknown.

If you look at the coat of arms of the Saltykovs, you can see a black imperial eagle or a Roman bird. Such a coat of arms is possible only for royal persons, and the Saltykovs were not like that. They are undoubtedly an ancient family and in my blood there is also a share of their blood (my great-grandfather's mother-in-law was from the Saltykovs), but they did not have royal blood and they were not entitled to a coat of arms with an eagle. But if Ekaterina Fedorovna with an unknown surname of the royal family, then she could well have brought the imperial eagle into the coat of arms. I will now make an assumption, which, of course, requires proof, but it is not essential for my narration, which deals with more serious matters. Ekaterina Fyodorovna was from a family of tsars, but not Ruriks, but Komnenos - who ruled in Byzantium. The black eagle is the Comnenus, and the diving falcon is Ruriki. However, they are relatives.

The eagle in heraldry is one of the most common emblem figures. Among natural figures, only the lion is the most common figure.

The eagle symbolizes power, domination, supremacy and foresight (state foresight). In pagan, ancient times, the eagle served as an attribute and symbol of a deity or monarch. So, in Greece and Rome, he was an attribute of Zeus and Jupiter, respectively, among the Persians (Cyrus) the image of a golden eagle was carried at the head of the advancing army or in front of the procession of the king-commander. Pharaoh Ptolemy VIII (116-107 BC) made the eagle a symbol of Egypt and ordered the image of the eagle to be stamped on Egyptian coins. Roman generals had the image of an eagle on their wands as a sign of superiority over an army in action (that is, an offensive, active force). Later, when the most successful generals became emperors, the eagle was turned into an exceptional imperial sign, a symbol of supreme power. Therefore, the eagle received the official name "Roman bird" in Roman legislation.

So, the Saltykov family had a representative of the royal family in its family. In no family of the noble family of Russia, there were so many boyars as among the Saltykovs. Despite their betrayal during the Great Troubles and acceptance of Poland's side, they all enjoyed the honor of the tsars. Tsarina Praskovya Fedorovna (Alexandrovna - her father changed his name by order of Princess Sophia from Alexander to Fedor) was the wife of Tsar Ivan the Fifth, co-ruler Peter Romanov the First. Obviously, the incorruptible relics preserved in her ancestral church were related to her family.

“In terms of his strategic and tactical talents … he is not equal to Suvorov and even more so not equal to Napoleon,” the historian E. Tarle described Kutuzov.

Suvorov said about Kutuzov: "Clever, clever, cunning, cunning … No one will deceive him."

The military talent of Kutuzov was questioned after the Austerlitz defeat. Even during the war of 1812, he was accused of trying to build a "golden bridge" for Napoleon to leave Russia with the remnants of the army. Contemporaries did not forgive him for the surrender of Moscow.

Critical reviews about Kutuzov-commander belong not only to his famous rival and ill-wisher Bennigsen, but also to other leaders of the Russian army in 1812 - N. N. Raevsky (also my ancestor, who gave his daughter to my family as a wife to my ancestor),. P. Ermolov, P. I. Bagration

“This goose, which is called both a prince and a leader, is good too! Now gossip and intrigues will go to our leader,”Bagration reacted to the news of Kutuzov’s appointment as commander-in-chief.

“I brought the chariot up the mountain, and it will roll down the mountain by itself with the slightest guidance,” Barclay de Tolly himself threw when leaving the army.

As for the personal qualities of Kutuzov, during his lifetime he was criticized for servility, manifested in a servile attitude towards the tsar's favorites, and for an excessive addiction to the female sex. They say that while the already seriously ill Kutuzov was in the Tarutino camp (October 1812), the chief of staff Bennigsen informed Alexander I that Kutuzov was doing nothing and was sleeping a lot, and not alone. He brought with him a Moldovan woman, disguised as a Cossack, who “makes his bed warm”. The letter ended up in the military department, where General Knorring imposed the following resolution on it: “Rumyantsev drove them four at a time. This is none of our business. And what sleeps, let him sleep. Every hour [of sleep] of this old man inexorably brings us closer to victory."

Agree that the opinion of contemporaries about Kutuzov is very different from the image created in our minds.

The oddities with Kutuzov's funeral continued as soon as I began to study this event. Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov died on April 16, 1813, while on a campaign in the Prussian town of Bunzlau (now Boleslawiec), located on the border of Poland with Germany. By order of Tsar Alexander I, Kutuzov's body was embalmed and delivered to St. Petersburg, and the internal organs remaining after embalming were buried in the cemetery near the village of Tillendorf, three kilometers from Bunzlau. Now on this grave there is a monument made in the form of a round column broken off like life. On the pedestal there is an inscription in German and Russian:

"Prince Kutuzov of Smolensk, moved from this life to sleep on April 16, 1813".

Tell me, reader, have you been jarred by such an epitaph? All right to eternal sleep, otherwise I'll sleep! Well, how not to remember the words of General Knorring: "Let him sleep."

You know, the Orthodox people have never had a craving for embalming, and such a burial clearly does not correspond to the canons of the Romanov or Nikonian Church. Tsrskoy Christianity yes, but not modern Orthodoxy adopted by the Romanovs. And then there was the heart, placed in a silver vessel and missing from no one knows where. Directly Egyptian affairs, and nothing more.

It's time to go to the Kazan Cathedral of St. Petersburg. Here is the grave of Kutuzov. I have been here many times, but there has always been a strange feeling that I can now embrace. But first, let's look at the grave (photo on the screen saver). The first thing that catches your eye is the inscription. It is even more amazing than the Prussian-Polish one on the monument above his remains.

“Prince Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov Smolensky. Born in 1745, died in 1813 in the city of Bunzlau."

I, of course, am not an expert on epitaphs, but I am also familiar with cemetery workers. Here is the answer of the director of a communal enterprise of funeral services: “This is not an epitaph, but an inscription that says that a person does not rest here. It's just a memorable place, a sign, perhaps a memorial plaque."

Let's believe an expert in his field, especially since I already know for sure Who rests in the crypt of the Kazan Cathedral.

But for now, let's look at the grave again.

Initially, in the design of the grave of M. I. Kutuzov included three icons, until now only the Smolensk icon of the Mother of God has survived, especially revered by the field marshal, which was at the tomb on June 11-13. The decoration of the grave also includes a painting by the famous Russian artist F. Ya. Alekseeva "Religious procession on Red Square after the liberation of Moscow from the Polish invaders in 1612". Although the painting was installed here back in 1810 (before the burial of Kutuzov), it organically blended into the figurative tombstone over the crypt of M. I. Kutuzov.

According to the artist's signature, the painting depicts "… a miracle from the icon of the Kazan Mother of God in Moscow … when, a few days after the cleansing of Moscow from adversaries, the Russian army took part in the great celebration of the glorification of the Miraculous Icon of the Kazan Mother of God."

Elements of heraldry were also introduced into the decorative design of the tombstone, for example, the images of the coats of arms of M. I. Kutuzov - ancestral, noble and princely. The coat of arms of the Kutuzov clan (common to all branches of the clan) represents in a blue shield a black one-headed eagle with outstretched wings, over his head is a noble's crown, in his right hand is a silver sword. The shield is crowned with a noble helmet with a crown and three ostrich feathers … A cast-in heraldic bas-relief, in which a three-dimensional coat of arms is laid on a low relief of unfolded banners, is a symbol of victory in the overall composition.

Here's your time! The eagle again. Kutuzov can also be seen of royal blood. I will not dwell on this, those who wish will find themselves his relationship with the Ruriks.

But my attention was attracted by an eagle holding a laurel wreath, and under it the Icon of Our Lady of Kazan. I first saw such a combination when the icon of Mary was lower than the heraldic figure. And the eagle with a wreath is a heraldic figure. I was taken aback when I realized in which case the eagle might be over the icon. Only in one, if the eagle is the family coat of arms of the bearer of the name. But Maria is a Russian princess (I wrote about this in other works) and she is Rurikovna. Although a relative of the Komnenos, but Rurikovna. And the black eagle is the coat of arms of the Comnenos. This is a completely different lineage into which she was given in marriage. In such cases, she is only the bearer of not a title of dignity, but a title of HONOR. That is, the wife of the count, although a countess, is not from his family and is called so, only out of respect for the family of the count. The Empress of Russia also has a title of reverence, but her family title is the one that is in the family of her father. So they said: "Countess Bruce, nee Princess Dashkova."

Mary's husband was not an emperor, but only a sevastocrator, and there was not a wreath, but a heraldic crown. They are then depicted on three coats of arms of Kutuzov, as a titled nobleman. A wreath for these coats of arms is not required, and a Roman eagle is enough, indicating that there is royal blood in the family.

Well, the exact science of heraldry, help !!!

VENOK - the most ancient symbol of reward, honor, the emblem of immortality, and, consequently, greatness (in state emblems - sovereign greatness); in WOMEN'S emblems - the emblem of the memory of the deceased knight (husband, father, brother - if they have no male offspring). If there is a conversation about the MOTHER of the deceased knight, then the wreath always belongs to her, regardless of the presence of grandchildren.

The laurel wreath became a sign of Caesar in imperial Rome and was used by priests on state celebrations, which gradually gave the wreaths the meaning of signs of honor. In other works, I wrote that Rome is one of the names of Byzantium. There were three Romes: Old or First Rome, with the capital in Alexandria, in the Nile delta, Second Rome or Kievan Rus, aka Byzantium, and finally the Third Rome - Moscow.

It should be noted that there was also a fourth Rome - the royal one, in the interfluve of the Oka and the Volga, where the Golden Ring of Russia is today. This is what it is called the Lord Veliky Novgorod.

In European heraldry, the wreath has taken on a different meaning since the Middle Ages. Since from ancient times it was considered by most European peoples as an emblem of immortality, then after the death of a knight who had no male offspring, the wreath was included in the coat of arms of his widow or daughter as an addition, which indicated that this coat of arms was female; thus, the wreath acquired in European heraldry the meaning of the emblem of the memory of the DEAD. In order to distinguish the wreaths of different genera, they were tied with ribbons corresponding in color to the coat of arms of this genus, usually the color of the shield of a deceased knight. This is how the final appearance of the coat of arms gradually took shape - the branches of the plant that make up it had to be necessarily intertwined with ribbons, the color of which would correspond to the national color (for the state) or the color of a given genus (in family coats of arms).

The wreath on the tombstone under discussion is golden and IMPERIAL, not entwined with any ribbons, and even more so with ribbons of the Kutuzov-Golenishchev-Morozov family. This imperial eagle wreath bears a person in a higher position than Kutuzov.

Since female coats of arms were preserved only for direct offspring, they very soon disappeared, and already in the 17th-18th centuries in Western Europe they practically did not exist or they became extremely rare. In Russia, there was no custom at all to create women's coats of arms, and therefore wreaths were found in the shield field of Russian coats of arms exclusively as emblems of honor and merit. But in Byzantium, women's coats of arms were in great circulation.

That's what the reader, I think you understand whose coat of arms is depicted on the crypt of "Kutuzov". This is the coat of arms of the VIRGIN MARY, THE MOTHER OF GOD, MOTHER OF JESUS CHRIST, EMPEROR OF BYZANTINE ANDRONICUS KOMNIN. She is the Mother of the Byzantine emperor Andronicus and has the right to both the Roman eagle and the wreath in memory of her son. This was portrayed by the sculptor, and for knowledgeable people they hung an icon of the Virgin Mary of Kazan, so that there was no doubt to whom the Roman bird bears a wreath of sorrow and posthumous glory.

Another proof of my innocence will be the star that is under the icon of Mary. In the photo, it is golden and striking.

A sixteen-pointed star, like a sixteen-pointed star, can be considered an image of the Sun, especially if it is found in isolation or as part of an ornament. At the same time, it was precisely as a sign of solar purity, clarity and impeccability that the image of the 16-pointed star from the time of Rome-Byzantium was considered an emblem of virginity, and hence, already in the era of early Christianity, it accompanied the images of the Holy Virgin, that is, the Mother of God, which was reflected in Byzantine icon painting. Since the virgin and the virgin are called Virgo in Latin, the 16-pointed star as the emblem of the Holy Virgin Mary later received the name of the Virginia star.

The creator of the crypt clearly depicted the coat of arms of the Virgin Mary and could not have hung the icon on the star, but he strengthened the hint or, on the contrary, hid the coat of arms of Mary from prying eyes.

However, this crypt has more than one star. At its foot lies another reminder of Mary - an eight-pointed star made of marble in a circle and with a circle in the middle. To this star, Kutuzov definitely could not have anything to do with it. What it is? Such a star is a schematic representation of an icon called "Burning Bush". This is a PERSONAL ICON OF THE MOTHER OF GOD, despite the fact that in the center of the star She is depicted with the baby Jesus. The circle in the center of the star at the crypt in the Kazan Cathedral is the image of the Mother of God, and the circle along the rays of the star is the saints and heavenly angels surrounding Mary. The Burning Bush is a sign that belongs only to Mary and no one else.

The eight-pointed star in Orthodoxy was used to depict the Star of Bethlehem. She is also the symbol of the Most Holy Theotokos.

However, there are also so-called krashans. An almost regular octagon formed by superimposing two squares diagonally on top of each other while preserving the lines of their intersections was used as a symbol accompanying the images of the god of hosts (god the father, more correctly, the god of forces, armies) in Russian icon painting and Christian Orthodox symbolism of pre-Nikonian times, especially from XIV to XVI century. This eight-pointed symbolic sign was depicted either at the top of the icons (most often in the upper right corner), or instead of a halo, or as a background over the head of the Sabaoth. Often, both quadrangles were painted (the upper one - in green and the underlying one - in red) or bordered by stripes of this color. Images of this kind are typical for the North of Russia and are (preserved) in the museums of Rostov the Great, Vologda, Perm. They mean (symbolize) eight millennia (“seven centuries of the Creator and the future age of the Father” *) and at the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th centuries were recognized as “heretical” from the point of view of the canons of official Orthodoxy. However, in our case, the location of the star at the foot of the crypt is out of the question. This is precisely the sign of the Mother of God, her personal symbol.

There is no Kutuzov in the cathedral, there is MARIA.

Now let's go back to the time when the commander died.

Kutuzov's body was embalmed and placed in a zinc coffin, on the left side of the head was placed a small vessel containing the embalmed heart.

On April 27, a funeral procession with a coffin mounted on a chariot, which was harnessed by six horses, set off for St. Petersburg. This mournful procession lasted for a month and a half.

On May 24, the procession arrived at the Trinity-Sergius Hermitage, located near Strelna - 15 versts from St. Petersburg. Here she was met by relatives and friends of the deceased and the clergy of the monastery. The ark with the body of M. I. Kutuzov was brought into the church and placed on the pulpit, after which the divine service began, and then the ark was placed in the prepared coffin and placed in the middle of the church - on the pulpit under a canopy. Orders and other insignia were placed on stools around the pulpit, which were awarded to M. I. Kutuzov. While the body of the field marshal was in the monastery, the psalter was read and the daily requiem for the deceased was served. It is in this monastery that Kutuzov is buried in an unknown grave, but I think that it can be installed. You just need to rummage through the archives of the monastery. At some point, the bodies were changed.

When the funeral procession departed from the Trinity-Sergius Hermitage, the coffin with the body of Mary, from the road carriage, was moved to the city chariot under a canopy, harnessed by six horses under mourning blankets, on the surface of which the coats of arms of His Serene Highness were sewn.

On June 11, the cortege moved to the capital of the Russian Empire, and again ordinary people, despite the protests of the authorities, unharnessed their horses, and two miles from the city "kind and pious citizens wished to carry the remains to their sad destination on their shoulders and arms." I think that people knew or guessed who exactly they were taking to the Kazan Cathedral.

In St. Petersburg, the procession proceeded through Nevsky Prospect to the almost completed Kazan Cathedral, where it was decided to bury “M. I. Kutuzov”, whose relatives tearfully asked Tsar Alexander that the body of the deceased be buried in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. What they were imperatively denied and even threatened. The relatives were aware of what was happening and were afraid of the people's anger and the condemnation of their descendants. I hope now you understand the last time the field marshal to the king? Kutuzov knew what would happen to his body after death.

In the Kazan Cathedral, the introduced coffin was installed on a lush high hearse, built according to the project of the architect A. N. Voronikhin, who did not build the cathedral, but perhaps only restored it. The hearse was conceived by him as a solemn construction without signs of sadness and tears (!!!). Steps led to a high platform with an arch on both sides, from the corners of the hearse trophy French and Turkish banners rose up and bent over the coffin, around there were huge candelabra in the form of cannons. Many candles cast glare at the guard of honor, which consisted of the field marshal's retinue.

For two days, residents of St. Petersburg went to the Kazan Cathedral to say goodbye to the "commander", and on June 13, the day of burial, the higher clergy gathered in the cathedral in mourning vestments. The Divine Liturgy was celebrated by the Metropolitan of Novgorod with the appointed clergy, the sermon was delivered by Archimandrite of the Yuriev Monastery Filaret - Rector of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy, professor of theological sciences. The coffin with the body of Mary was installed in the crypt, in the north aisle of the cathedral; when lowering the coffin into the grave, three cannon and rifle volleys were fired.

The grave was walled up with a granite slab and surrounded by an iron grating of the most skillful work. A red marble plaque was installed into the wall above the grave, on which the inscription was made in gilded letters: “Prince Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov Smolensky. Born in 1745, died in 1813 in the city of Bunzlau. Commemorative plaque about the commander.

In 1813, the grave of Mary with a marble slab was surrounded by a strict bronze fence, also made according to the project of the architect A. N. Voronikhin. For its design, he used the attributes characteristic of classical decor: on three sides the fence consists of verticals in the form of flagpoles topped with pikes. The strict rhythm of these verticals is echoed by the careful repetition of gilded laurel wreaths in double horizontal plans. The front corner posts are made in the form of cannons topped with a laurel wreath and a helmet. The grave of M. I. Kutuzov is flanked by two pilasters, on which 6 captured French banners and standards and 6 sets of keys from fortresses and cities taken by the Russian army are fixed. The banners were fixed in special brackets, and octagonal bronze gilded boards were made for the keys.

Thus, in the Kazan Cathedral of St. Petersburg, at the crypt of Mary theotokos, for eternity, a descendant of the Ruriks, field marshal of the Russian Empire, Prince M. I. Kutuzov. And Tsar Alexander put him on eternal guard as punishment for surrendering Moscow, which is directly hinted at by the painting of the famous Russian artist F. Ya. Alekseeva "Religious procession on Red Square after the liberation of Moscow from the Polish invaders in 1612".

It will be interesting for the reader to find out that the Kazan temple is just overloaded with Masonic symbols. In my opinion, this temple was used by them for a long time as the main temple of the empire.

The second fact that I tell the reader is that never before the "funeral of Kutuzov," in world heraldry, a wreath was never used as a designation of death. He was given alive. And only the monuments of the war of 1812 and the Foreign campaign have this symbol. For some reason, they immediately began to spread it across the territory of Russia, decorating monuments, monuments on graves and even tombstones with a wreath. But even there, the wreath is given to the person or persons to whom the monument is dedicated. If this is a grave, then it was customary to write on it in those days: "Here lies the dust …" or something like that.

It will also be surprising that for the first time in the history of Russia, after the death of Kutuzov, the practice of awarding posthumously will be introduced.

In my opinion, in this way the lodge tried to hide the true events that took place in the Kazan Cathedral of St. Petersburg in 1813.

You'd better read about how Maria got to Russia and what she did there from the unique scientists who now live next to us.

Here is this book: “Christ was born in the Crimea. The Mother of God died there. A. Fomenko, G. Nosovsky. 2015 year.

I fully admit that these authors may not agree with my narration, but respecting their merits in determining the real events of the world development of mankind, I nevertheless ventured to write this miniature. Perhaps I made a lot of inaccuracies, but too many facts point to my correctness. To solve this problem, only one way is possible - the exhumation of the body located in the Kazan Cathedral of St. Petersburg. However, I expect in the near future a few more interesting documents that have been unearthed by my colleagues from the virtual operational-investigative group I created in social networks, from retired operatives from more than 100 countries of the world. I suggested to them that they delve into the secrets of the past and reveal the "hangings" of centuries ago. We have already proved our consistency in this matter more than once. God and the Virgin Mary will give, we will reveal this secret. My colleagues have already warned me that what they read is a bomb. Steps are now being taken to obtain copies of these materials. It looks like Kutuzov was found where I predicted - in the Troitsko-Sergievskaya desert. This will give a new impetus to research. We intend to turn to the government of the Russian Federation with a statement and documents confirming our innocence.

We know a lot about the crimes of the Romanovs that destroyed the Horde clans and are sure that no amount of their burial under the spire of the Peter and Paul Cathedral will save us from responsibility before God, the Russian Land and the Russian People. What happened during the Great Troubles gave rise to massive deception of the people and confusion, which is still visible today. It is absolutely necessary to take biological analyzes from Peter the Great and his mother Natalia Naryshkina. Modern science will tell you exactly who is in Petropavlovka and whose head Madame Kolo attached to the Bronze Horseman. It is time for history to become a science, and it is already making steps in this direction.

Before the tomb of the saint

I stand with my head drooping …

Everything is asleep all around; some icon lamps

In the darkness of the temple gilded

Pillars of granite masses

And their banners are overhanging a row.

This lord sleeps under them, This idol of the northern squads, The venerable guardian of the sovereign country, The conciliator of all her enemies

This rest of the glorious pack

Catherine's eagles.

Delight lives in your coffin!

He gives us a Russian voice;

He repeats to us about that year

When the popular faith voice

He called out to your holy gray hair:

"Go, save!" You got up and saved …

Hearken, and today is our faithful voice, Stand up and save the king and us

O formidable old man! For a moment

Appear at the door of the coffin

Appear, breathe in delight and zeal

The shelves you left behind!

Appear to your hand

Show us in the crowd of leaders, Who is your heir, your chosen one!

But the temple is immersed in silence, And the quiet of your abusive grave

Unperturbed, eternal sleep …

1831

Pushkin A. S.

Continuation in miniature "Skeletons in the closet of Isaac and Kazan Cathedrals" © Copyright: Commissioner Qatar, 2016