About life in pre-revolutionary Russia. Why was it impossible to do without revolution?

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

In pre-revolutionary Russia, there was such a monstrous stratification of society in terms of living standards and status (some are gods, others are shit) that even the modern post-Maidan Banderoukropi is still far from the “Russia we have lost”. I will not philosophize, I will just give some examples.

Liberals love to be sad about the construction of the White Sea Canals by the communists "on the bones of prisoners." And what about the construction of St. Isaac's Cathedral in the capital of liberal tsarist Russia in the middle of the 19th century? All official sources known to me state that about 100,000 workers died during the construction of Isaac.

The same figure is included in Wikipedia:

In total, 400,000 workers - state and serfs - took part in the construction of the cathedral. Judging by the documents of that time, about a quarter of them diedfrom disease or died as a result of accidents [29]

For comparison. During the war with Napoleon, 200,000 Russians were killed. And in peacetime, at a construction site at one point in a liberal country with the good tsar-father 100,000!

Free Americans dropped 2 peaceful atomic bombs on Japan. One bomb, a liberal one, was dropped on Hiroshima, and the second, a democratic one, was dropped on Nagasaki. About 100,000 died from the first, and even less from the second - "only" 60-80,000 (I didn't count, as Wikipedia says).

What is this going on, comrades! The construction of only one cathedral in liberal Russia, which was spoiled by the bloody Bolsheviks, is worse than an atomic bomb! But they built the Cathedral for Christ's sake! Here Christ was delighted with such sacrifices

What does such a number of victims at the construction site of just one object say? About the fact that people in tsarist Russia are not even cattle, but shit. Do not spend money on basic safety techniques. Well it costs money. Let them die. The women are still giving birth.

Although I wanted to talk only about tsarist Russia, I have to mention one moment about Soviet repressions, since such a booze with the construction projects of the country has begun. Everything is relative. What nonsense the anti-Stalinists did not come up with. But, it seems, have finally reached the pinnacle of paranoia:

For the survivors, Belomor is a camp where one could meet the former Minister of the Provisional Government Nekrasov and a simple baker who was arrested for resemblance to Nicholas II

Poor poor pro-American baker! My only fault is that it looks like Nicholas II! Under Stalin, it was impossible to be like those whom the bloody executioner does not like! Can you imagine? Medvedev would already be in jail!

I wonder how, in the opinion of the anti-Stalinists, they did with those who outwardly resemble Stalin or Lenin? Awarded the Stalin Prize and appointed a minister?

It seems that they get their ideas in a madhouse. Probably, they force patients in mental hospitals to write essays about Stalin. This was an example of how the liberal lovers of the tsarbatyushka were denigrating Soviet reality.

We can learn about the lifestyle of the highest caste of Russian society from the book of M. I. "Old life". "Count Stroganov's gastronomic table"

“… Count Alexander Sergeevich Stroganov was distinguished by a magnificent gastronomic table in the Catherine and Pavlovsk times. This hospitable nobleman loved to unite the best representatives of the Russian intelligentsia.

Count Stroganov, like a Roman grocery store, had a triclinium - a kind of dining room, where, like the pampered Greeks or Romans, the guests were lying on the bed at the table, leaning against the pillow.

The decoration here resembled the splendor and luxury of ancient Rome.; the floors were covered with soft expensive carpets, the walls were covered with paintings depicting satyrs picking grapes, hunting animals, fruits, bunches of grapes, all kinds of animals, fish, etc. were visible.

The pillows and mattresses were stuffed with swan's down and had gorgeous purple and gold bedspreads. The tables were not inferior in luxury: they were marble with mosaics or some expensive scent wood, incense was smoking in the corners; tables bent under the weight of gold, silver and crystal dishes.

Boys, all of the same age, young and handsome, attended to each of the guests;

the first - an appetizer, which consisted of dishes that whet the appetite: caviar, radishes, even fruits like plums and pomegranates were also part of it; the most valuable of the snack dishes were cheeks of herrings, for one plate of such a dish there were more than a thousand herrings.

During the second break, savory dishes were also served: moose lips, boiled paws of a bear, roast lynx.

Then came the cuckoos fried in honey and butter, burbot milk and fresh halibut liver;

the third change was oysters, game stuffed with nuts, fresh fig berries.

As salads, salted peaches were served here, then very rare pineapples in vinegar and so on.

If the guest felt full, then he, like an ancient Epicurean, tickled his throat with a feather, produced nausea and made room for new food

This custom at dinner was repeated more than once, even after each change of dishes, and was not considered at all indecent.

After supper there was a drinking party. Our Russian roosters, to arouse thirst, even went to the bathhouse and ate pressed caviar there. Among the ancients, in this case, the matter went further, and some wine lovers took hemlock, so that the fear of death made them drink more; others drank crushed pumice and even lay in the mud …"

And here are photos of the ordinary life of the common people who fed these rygones:

The sight of rags on children is striking. Modern shabby doormats look so much better!

All are barefoot, even the girls. Only one of the 7 in some kind of shoe, either from rags, or from straw. Child labor, which was banned in the USSR, was used in tsarist Russia. Children and adults not only worked, but also lived right in the smelly workshops. Including in the chemical industry. Pregnant women worked without any maternity leave. Unsanitary conditions. The working day in most cases exceeded 12 hours. And after work, the cattle does not go home to rest, but sleeps right there in the workshops. Without any beds. Because there is no money for the way home. You can go on foot for free, but there is no time and energy.

Why? Because the division of society into castes - legalized!In Russia it was called not castes, but estates. A soldier can be beaten with sticks for wrongdoing - according to the law, not secretly. Legalized humiliation - caused a feeling of despair and hopelessness.

And these are women barge haulers - they haul ships against the stream of the river as draft animals. Because a woman eats less than a horse.

And in this picture you can see that the young woman is forced to boil barefoot. Taken from here

"Well, okay," the liberals would say. "For that was freedom! They said what they thought!"

Here is a small quote from Wikipedia with links to primary sources about the construction of St. Isaac's Cathedral:

Paul I, who ascended the throne, instructed the architect Vincenzo Brenna to urgently complete the work. Fulfilling the desire of the king, the architect was forced to distort Rinaldi's project - to reduce the size of the upper part of the building and the main dome and abandon the construction of four small domes. The marble for facing the upper part of the cathedral was transferred to the construction of the residence of Paul I - the Mikhailovsky Castle. The cathedral turned out to be squat, and artistically even ridiculous - ugly brick walls towered on a luxurious marble base [20].

This building caused ridicule and bitter irony of contemporaries. For example, naval officer Akimov who came to Russia after a long stay in England wrote an epigram:

Behold a monument of two kingdoms, Both are so decent

On the marble bottom

A brick top was erected [21]

While trying to attach a sheet with this quatrain to the facade of the cathedral, Akimov was arrested. His tongue was cut off and exiled to Siberia[21][22].

In general, freedom of speech was like in Saudi Arabia. It was impossible to live like this in any way. This system of violence had to be "destroyed to the ground", because there was no strength to endure such a LEGAL lawlessness, poverty and hopelessness."

Please note that the language was democratically cut off not to an ordinary muzhik-cattle, but to an officer, a representative of a high "caste". Now imagine how you treated the commoners? Like shit. What did they do with the lower caste in the event of a fault?

In addition to other joys of life in tsarist Russia, there was a prohibitively high mortality rate, especially children. Take the "Arithmetic problem book for primary schools and preparatory grades of gymnasiums and real schools. Publishing 31st. - M., ed. Bashmakovs, 1911" Although the book of problems was published in 1911, it reflects the life of Russia earlier, because … this is the 31st edition. Occurs in problems in 1889 as one of the latest dates. All tasks are based on applied material: calculate the crop, product, distance, etc. Some tasks are amazing with their terrible routine:

The child was born on May 12 at 9 o'clock in the morning, and died on June 11 of the same year at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. How long did the child live?

The boy was born on January 17, 1873 When he died, if he lived for 3 years 4 months

Taken from here

All the classics of that time known to me did not write anything enthusiastic about the life of the common people in Russia. Here is a fragment of Alexander Blok's poem "Yes, this is how inspiration dictates" (1911-1914):

Yes. This is how the inspiration dictates:

My free dream

Everything clings to where humiliation is, Where there is dirt and darkness and poverty.

There, there, more humble, below, -

From there, see the other world …

Have you seen children in Paris

Or beggars on the bridge in winter?

To the impenetrable horror of life

Open quickly, open your eyes

While the great thunderstorm

I didn’t dare in your homeland …

On the Internet you can find a book by S. A. Novoselsky. "Mortality and Life Expectancy in Russia", Petrograd, Printing House of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 1916.

SA Novoselsky headed the sanitary-statistical unit in the Office of the Chief Medical Inspector. At the same time, he worked as a research assistant at the Bureau of International Bibliography in Natural Science and Mathematics (including Mathematical Statistics) at the Academy of Sciences. In 1907 he was elected professor of health and demographic statistics at the Statistical courses of the Central Statistical Committee and taught at these courses.

Novoselsky published detailed statistics on the mortality of citizens of tsarist Russia and compared mortality and life expectancy with those of European countries.

I marked with a red line the age to which half of the men in different countries live. In Russia this age was 15-20 years, while in other countries half of them lived to a much later age - 35-50 years. All other countries much exceeded life expectancy in Russia.

I took the table and other data from here there is a similar table for women.

Two tables - for men and women show that the mortality rate of children under 5 years of age in tsarist Russia in 1896-1897 was 45% for boys, 41% for girls. It is clear that these were times when there was no advanced medicine, there were no antibiotics, etc. Therefore, in other countries, infant mortality was much higher than the current one. However, statistics show that according to this indicator, Russia was the most disadvantaged of the twelve countries taken for comparison, noticeably lagging behind even the then disadvantaged Hungary and Austria. If we talk about the leading countries, then the infant mortality rate there was already 15-20% at that time.

Not only infant mortality, but also mortality among young people of working age was very high.

Novoselsky himself comments on the high mortality rates as follows:

"Russian mortality is generally typical for agricultural and backward countries in sanitary, cultural and economic terms"

This is what he writes directly, the printing house of the Ministry of Internal Affairs prints it, and the tsarist officials let it circulate.

Do you know why everything was so bad? It's not so much about disgusting medicine as about elementary education! The people were treated not by doctors, but by priests. They were treated with prayers, not medical procedures. The Bolsheviks in each village created reading huts and literally taught the peasants the basics of sanitation: that water must be boiled before use, that in case of a child's illness you need to see a doctor, not a priest etc.

Here are the propaganda posters from those times:

With the literacy of the population, the situation was even worse. The Bolsheviks made a literate country out of a literate country in the shortest possible time. Almost ALL the youth of the country of the Soviets received free compulsory education. Peasant children in the USSR could become scientists, engineers and cosmonauts. Yuri Gagarin, for example, was from the countryside.

I am especially surprised by the hatred of the Jews for the Bolsheviks. In Tsarist Russia, within the line, nothing good shone for them at all, except for the pogroms personally approved by the Black Hundred Tsar.

Alexander Artemyevich Voznitsyn (1701-1738) - a retired officer of the navy of the Russian Empire, who renounced Orthodoxy and converted to Judaism. The Jew Borokh Leibov helped him in this. For this insolence, Voznitsyn and Leibov were publicly burned on July 15, 1738 on the Admiralty Island in St. Petersburg by order of Tsarina Anna Ioannovna.

In short, tsarist Russia is the same ISIS (banned in the Russian Federation). And the queen is the head of the Orthodox ISIL.

On the other hand, Comrade Stalin, hated by many Jews more than anyone else in the world, not only saved the Jews from complete destruction by the Nazis, but, in fact, created the state of Israel. This is who the main Zionist is, not in words, but in deeds.

It was under Soviet rule that Jews not only left the Pale of Settlement and escaped pogroms, but also became at the top of the pyramid of success and prosperity of Soviet society. Almost all pop, cinema and theater stars are Jews, almost all doctors, academicians, heads of various levels in all spheres of the national economy and culture are Jews. In my opinion, this is better than burning at the stake like Borokh Leibov.

It is worth reminding the anti-communist Jewish gentlemen that the Russian word "Pogrom" entered all languages without translation, because the biggest pogroms took place in Russia, in Tsarist Russia. And the pogroms stopped during the establishment of Soviet power. But, as soon as the Soviet power was ousted at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War from the western regions of Ukraine, the Lvov pogrom of 1941 took place at once. And the most affected were the anti-communist Jews, who considered the Germans liberators from the "communist yoke", and therefore did not run away with the retreating Red Army.

By the way, in 1918, in the same place, in Lvov, there was also a Jewish pogrom and also in the absence of Soviet power there. The only difference is that the pogrom was of a lesser scale, therefore it is less known, and was perpetrated not by the Ukrainians and Germans, as in 1941, but by the Poles after the Ukrainians were expelled from Lvov. The Jews did not participate in the Polish-Ukrainian conflict, but they still turned out to be guilty of everything in front of everyone.

With a knitted topic at this point:

Why are some Jews for Bandera?

About life in pre-revolutionary Russia. Why was it impossible to do without revolution?

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