As strange as it may sound, there is only one stone Kremlin in Siberia - Tobolsk. For its architectural beauty, he earned the title "Pearl of Siberia", for special descending grace - the title of the spiritual center of the Russian North, and for the secrets and legends that thickened around him - the stamp "anomalous zone".
SPARKS IN THE SKY
Most of the spiritual centers of Russia are located at sacred points. The Tobolsk Kremlin is no exception. In relation to these places, scientists even use the phrase "Tobolsk continent", as if it were some special part of the world.
The city of Tobolsk itself is spread over five mountains. The mountains of Tobolsk are not just mountains. Some scientists believe that they are the steep banks of an ancient Siberian river, because prehistoric hooks and sinkers, as well as fish scales, are constantly discovered near the Kremlin.
Siberian Tatars called these mountains "Alygafly", that is, crown mountains, and the one on which the Kremlin was erected - "a mountain throwing out golden sparks", or "Altyr-aginak", and revered as sacred.
By the way, it was the Tatars who became the first witnesses of the anomalous phenomena of this mountain. The old Kungur chronicle mentions cases of visions that happened to the Tatars in these places for as long as 30 years “… where nowadays the city of Tobolesk and the cathedral church, up to the bell tower, saw a Christian city with light in the air, and the churches ringing great, as if they were astonished and terrible wondering what will happen. This vision will begin to be seen by them, as an example of the Basurman historian, from 7060 (1552) at all dawns and holidays to them and before the arrival of Ermakov."
In addition, the locals have repeatedly seen on the sacred mountain gold and silver sparks, pillars of fire, beating with light into the sky. So the name Altyr-aginak fully justifies itself.
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The history of the Tobolsk Kremlin is closely intertwined with the history of the Russian state, so that many of its secrets are of a historical nature. And the main one among these "historical" secrets is the legends about underground passages and undergrounds of the Tobolsk Kremlin.
UNDERGROUND INFRASTRUCTURE
Perhaps they would not have been a secret, these dungeons with their secret passages, if there were documents in the archives that would confirm their existence and location plans. However, there are no such documents, because, firstly, few owned the secrets of the dungeons, and secondly, these secrets were passed exclusively from mouth to mouth. As a result, only legends and guesses have survived to this day, some of which, however, have now found or are finding real confirmation. Enthusiasts began to take an interest in the underground passages of the Tobolsk Kremlin back in the 19th century. In particular, then there were rumors that in the depths of the lower floor of the stone courtyard, located on the territory of the Kremlin, there was an iron door with very large hooks, locked with “heavy iron locks. On this door, a full-length Cossack is depicted in a blue uniform jacket with a pike in his hand,and as if there was an underground passage behind the door. " Now researchers argue that it makes sense to talk not about some single underground passage on | the territory of the Tobolsk Kremlin, but about a real underground hub, whose sleeves stretched in different directions and ran under the altar parts, in the powerful supports of the lower floors, under the chambers, and God knows where in the now lost basements. So the Tobolsk Kremlin probably had a much more powerful underground "infrastructure" than above ground.probably much more powerful underground "infrastructure" than above ground.probably much more powerful underground "infrastructure" than above ground.
In connection with the underground passages, a legend is told: when the Red Army men occupied Tobolsk and came to arrest the Supreme Lord Hermogenes in the bishop's house located on the territory of the Kremlin, the house was cordoned off. But they failed to arrest Vladyka because he … disappeared. Moreover, everything indicated that Vladyka was at home and was even going to drink tea: there was a smoking samovar on the table, and the sun reflected the dust that had soared from the fall of the chair. In search of the fugitive, they climbed the whole house, but it was useless: Vladyka seemed to have evaporated from the cordoned off building. Most likely, Hermogenes took advantage of a kind of underground passage that led away from the Kremlin far beyond the city.
As you know, Bishop Hermogenes of Tobolsk and Siberia still did not escape arrest and martyrdom: in 1919 he was drowned in the river with a stone around his neck. The waters carried the bishop's body to the shore, where the peasants found it, and after that the grave of the martyr was lost. The relics and crypt of the now holy Bishop Hermogenes were discovered suddenly, in 1991, during the restoration of the Sophia-Assumption Cathedral from the ensemble and all the same Tobolsk Kremlin.
FINE ART
In 1947, the Mother of God Church was blown up (by the way, the first stone church in Tobolsk), which was located outside the Kremlin. This powerful explosion disturbed the ground, and suddenly gaps were discovered in many places, clearly indicating the direction of the ancient underground paths and the location of the caches leading to the Kremlin and beyond.
Nowadays, such characteristic failures on the territory of the Kremlin happen by themselves, also indicating the direction of the underground galleries. In particular, they were clearly marked at the Gostiny Dvor, the Bishop's Palace, and at the consistory building.
A logical question arises: how could such a subtle and tricky engineering art of laying underground passages lined with brick, withdrawing vertical pipes and other ingenious undertakings appear in the remote Siberian lands?
Probably from Khan Kuchum, historians answer, who, as you know, before the arrival of Yermak, was the sovereign ruler of the Siberian Khanate.
Kuchum himself came from the Bukhara dynasty of Sheibanids. The khan maintained strong ties with his distant homeland, and from there flowed the masters who owned the art of engineering and materials to the distant desert Siberia. It has now been proven that in Isker, the capital of the Siberian Khanate, there was a developed network of underground galleries. Until now, there are legends about the underground palace of Kuchum, weapons workshops, mysterious wells and untold treasures deeply hidden.
The thousand-year underground "Central Asian engineering" subsequently served for the benefit of the Christian shrine, since the workers who laid secret passages for Khan Kuchum were local residents, who then passed on "Asian secrets", so to speak, "inherited" to new generations.
BASEMENT OF THE SIBERIAN INVISION
Speaking about the underground passages of the Tobolsk Kremlin, one special institution from its ensemble should be mentioned - the consistory building. In 1990, underground passages were found leading from the consistory to the diocesan hotel. These passages were a long corridor with small rooms on the sides. The researchers were very interested in these rooms. What did they serve? The answer is not very pleasant.
The fact is that at one time (in the 18th century) the Tobolsk spiritual consistory was engaged in the persecution of schismatics, heretics, sectarians and sorcerers. It was a kind of Siberian Inquisition. People who got into the consistory usually did not return. There are still legends that heretics and sorcerers were tortured in these rooms and that torture instruments survived until the 20th century. These tools were later taken away by representatives of the almighty and no less terrible than the Inquisition, the KGB. Is it for their infamous cellars?
GHOSTS MONAKHIN
Other mysterious sights of the Tobolsk Kremlin include the bishop's palace. It is also called the "wandering" house, as it has changed several locations. The bishop's house is known primarily not for its underground passages, but for its … ghosts.
In 1920, it was decided to establish an orphanage here. However, the children could not live normally within these walls: at night they woke up and cried. And they claimed that someone was walking around the house. The orphanage was eventually moved to another location, and the Museum of the Tobolsk North was located here. And the meetings with the paranormal continued - now museum workers have become witnesses.
In particular, they argue that ghosts usually appear in front of any big trouble to warn. So, in June 1941, phantoms of two nuns were noticed, who came to tell about the impending terrible war.
The anomaly continues to this day. In 2002, an employee on duty witnessed strange sounds, as if tables and chairs were moving, but the furniture remained in place. Guards and guards often hear footsteps, floorboards creak and furniture coming to life. In 2005, a woman watchman discovered at night that a woman in a black monastic robe was looking at her from an ancient mirror …
In 2007, the crew of the First TV Channel encountered the paranormal. In the hall of the Decembrists-TV men, a wave of chilling horror suddenly covered. Some felt dizzy and showed signs of nausea. In the same year, the building of the bishop's palace was closed for restoration. How the ghosts reacted to this is unknown.
Author: Aventina Rossi