Surprisingly, the official history completely ignores the fact that such a famous ancient commander as Alexander the Great was a fairly popular person in Russia and in Russia. There are many legends that this king of the ancient world himself visited the territory of our country. And apparently, it is no coincidence that these legends are attributed to him the foundation of one of the most ancient settlements near Elabuga.
Here's what you can read about this in volume 8 of the pre-revolutionary encyclopedic publication "Picturesque Russia" of the late 19th - early 20th centuries, which describes the Urals and Vyatka region:
Why was the name of this ancient commander-king heard on the territory of our country? Maybe, after all, the era of antiquity itself was unreasonably sent by Scalliger and Petavius a thousand or more years into the past from the real time of those events? By the way, the version of the foundation of this settlement by A. Makedonsky is confirmed by another pre-revolutionary source - the book of K. I. Nevostruyev. "On the settlements of the ancient Volga-Bulgarian and Kazan kingdoms", published in 1871 in Moscow. And here's what he writes about it:
As we can see, two sources of the 19th century, at least two, testify to the antiquity of the settlement near Elabuga. And if in the middle of the 19th century it was simply called an ancient "settlement", then by the end of this and the beginning of the next century the term "devil's settlement", widely known in the Urals, appeared, which apparently Orthodox historians began to call all the ancient Vedic (and not pagan) settlements and temples. By the way, the tower of the "devil's settlement" near Yelabuga has survived to this day, albeit in a restored form. In 1867, the last tower, which had almost completely collapsed, was rebuilt on the old foundation and covered with iron.
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So this very name "devil's settlement" clearly indicates that it was founded in pre-Muslim Vedic times. And of course, if the version of the founding of this settlement by A. Macedonian is correct, then only an ancient settlement or city could found an ancient king-commander. I wonder what could have destroyed it so that only one tower remained of it in the second half of the 19th century? A powerful cataclysm or an equally powerful destructive weapon? Obviously it was not destroyed by the troops of Andrei Bogolyubsky in the XII century. In this regard, K. I. Novostruev writes:
What can be seen from this excerpt of the text of the book of K. I. Novostruev? And the fact that this city, near Elabuga, is known in the Old Russian chronicles as Bryakhimov. And although it was taken by the troops of Andrei Bogolyubsky during the campaign of 1164, it was not destroyed. But in the sources already in 1616, the Trinity Monastery is mentioned here, which was also written as "a desert in a stone settlement." By the way, it was founded in 1614, as it is said, "on the foundations of a former fortress." Consequently, by this time the city of Bryakhimov had already been turned into a "stone desert" by some catastrophic destructive event. Surprisingly, it was around the same period that numerous ancient cities of Tartary in Siberia were destroyed. Could this be just a coincidence? I think no. For there is a very high probability that the ancient city near Yelabuga,and the ancient cities of Siberia and the Urals were destroyed by the same event.
So maybe, in addition to Russian chronicles, not Tatar, but "Tartar" sources mention him. It is not for nothing that in "Picturesque Russia", which I quoted at the very beginning of the post, in addition to the Russian, Tatar (Tartar) and Mongolian (Mongul) cultures are mentioned. I also hope that those who are interested in alternative history are already well aware that no real confirmation of the "Mongol-Tatar yoke" invented in the second half of the 19th century has not been found. And the present Tatars in those days were called the Volga Bulgars (Bulgarians), just like the current Mongols - Oirats. Therefore, the mythical "Mongolo-Tatars" are actually two peoples of Great Tartary - Monguls and Tartars, who lived in the provinces of the same name of this Siberian confederation, which are plotted on detailed maps of Tartary. So,and the ancient settlement near Yelabuga, too, most likely, was one of the cities of Tartary, which also suffered from some destructive force, presumably in the 16th century.
By the way, the Russian traveler N. P. Rychkov, who visited these places in 1769, found three more towers of four corner round towers, as well as a fragment of the wall, on the site of the settlement. This is how he described what came before his eyes:
So, it turns out that the original walls of the settlement and even its towers were built of "wild white stone". But just this building material is a kind of "visiting card" of ancient civilization. But what then happened to the remains of the white-stone buildings of the ancient city? It is alleged that in 1834, Professor of Kazan University F. I. Erdman found only one tower at the "Devil's Settlement", the rest of the building was dismantled by local residents to the foundations. And exactly 10 years later, in 1844, the last fortress tower collapsed, leaving only its northern section with an arched doorway and a window above it to stand. And in 1855 the young Yelabuga artist Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin, who later became a famous landscape painter, made sketches of the ruins and drew a plan of the settlement.
How accurate the dating of these events is is unknown. But be that as it may, but in the next catastrophic event of the middle of the 19th century, this tower was clearly destroyed. And in 1867, the artist's father, the Elabuga merchant I. V. Shishkin, organized work to restore it. By the way, it is clearly seen that in the course of these works red brick was already used, which became a very common building material, after the abundant fall from the heavens of the so-called "red clay". But still, on the ruins of the destroyed settlement, there was apparently also enough white stone. That is why the white-stone masonry of the modern tower, with the exception of its northern part, is already a restoration "remake" of the second half of the 19th century.
By the way, I will open to those who are "not in the know" yet another interesting thing, already known to many alternative people. If you look closely at the "Bronze Horseman" in St. Petersburg, you will understand that the one whom the official history calls "the Russian Emperor Peter I" could not have ridden a horse instead of his beloved mare, and even barefoot, without a saddle, in antique clothes and with an antique sword. By the way, if you compare the "bronze horseman" with the famous sculptures of A. Macedon, you will understand that only his war horse Bucephalus, who used his front hooves as a weapon in battle, is always depicted with both of these hooves raised. And the figure of the rider himself is identical to the famous sculptures of A. Makedoensky with his war horse.
Well, the story of how in the time of the Romanovs the head was changed on this monument was very intelligibly and with his inherent humor told in one of his videos by the Russian alternative artist I. Gerasimov, who is known as the "Chairman of SNT". So Alexander the Great was not a stranger to our land, since a monument to him was once erected even in the city on the Neva. But the official version of history makes me more and more doubtful about the adequacy of those figures who together wrote it at the behest of the Vatican, in whose underground storage the truth about our true history is now hidden.
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