Everything is clear and understandable for children. They run to themselves, jump. The adults said, so it is. And only in adulthood do you really begin to understand that not everything is so simple, and that the land on which you were born is ancient, the places are reserved and keep many secrets. And neither the people nor the historians know anything about them.
That's how I ran, or rather, flew on a bicycle as a boy to swim on the Semislavka River near the place called Five Crosses. And everything was simple and clear to me.
Five crosses
What I knew: Five crosses - an old churchyard. For some reason, this large cemetery was given for building, and houses along the river stand on the site of old burials and, they say, old bones are still found in the gardens today. And quite a long time ago there were still five crosses on the graves of the princes who laid down their heads in the battle with the Tatar-Mongols. And Semislavka is a river of seven glories. The Tatars tried to take the river seven times, but they could not cross to the other side. Seven times they gave them a fitting rebuff. Those places are just 100 kilometers from Moscow towards the city of Kolomna in the Voskresensky district.
But did you remember the stories about the Semislavka River and the Five Crosses heard in childhood correctly?
Ivanchin-Pisarev - writer, poet (1794-1849):
Promotional video:
The author gives the dimensions of five crosses and describes their appearance:
From the book of V. I. Smirnova "We are Yegoryevtsy", Moscow, 2003:
Further, the author informs that, while working in the Ryazan archive, he was interested in the book of the local author-ethnographer A. I. Tsepkov "And there were Olga's shelves", where he was struck by the text of the Resurrection Chronicle, he writes:
A. I. Tsepkov indicates the place where Tatishchev V. N. this event is described:
That is, they were afraid of the revenge of the belated Igor Igorevich and other princes.
Indeed, if they had not fled to the Polovtsians, this would have happened. But the question arose of where to bury the murdered.
IN AND. Smirnov writes on this occasion that the relatives were afraid to bury the murdered in their possessions, as they were afraid of the murderers, and the inheritance of the brothers in the south of Ryazan came into contact with the lands of the Polovtsi. Therefore, they decided to bury Igor Igorevich in the inheritance, located to the west of Ryazan, on the left banks of the Oka and Moscow rivers, the borders of which reached the left bank of the Merskaya River. This inheritance was the most protected and was located west of Kolomna and our city. We know that later here on our land in the 16th century the Ust-Mersk Stan (at the mouth of the Merskaya River) of the Moscow principality was formed.
Here, on its left bank, there was an ancient churchyard with the Church of the Nativity of Christ, the seat of the appanage prince. Half a verst from here, the author of the narrative says, there was a camp of guards, hired warriors - Berendey (a village with the name Berendino still exists on this place).
The eastern border of the inheritance ran along the present Semislavka River. On the right bank of the river, at its mouth, there was also the Nikolsky churchyard and half a mile away - the camp of the mercenary warriors of Kolberg, from the Varangian junior ranks.
In those years, explains the local historian, Russian princes often hired warriors from other nations: Berendeys, Polovtsians, later Tatars, to guard their borders and campaigns against their neighbors. From here the incomprehensible name of the place Kolyberevo has been preserved. So it was decided to bury the cousins at the Nikolsky churchyard. And the sixth brother of his own Izyaslav in Ryazan, where he had a family and his own destiny.
Here's a version. There is little here from the stories told in childhood. Yes, nothing at all.
Strange as it may seem, the story with five crosses and the name of the Semislavka River is somehow mysteriously intertwined in different versions.
Semislavka
IN AND. Smirnov:
It is not clear what the six murdered brothers were "glorious". How did it happen that Igor did not avenge their death … Question!
But, suppose that everything was so, and providence brought everything together in one place. Heroic feat of Igor and the burial place of his six brothers. But this is a big stretch and an understatement. There are five burials, not six. Even 4 with one cross attached. And Semislavka is still seven glories. And what was glorious in the fact that they killed the brothers near Ryazan is not clear.
The Museum "Regional Studies" gives the following version:
According to historians, Prince of Vladimir Yuri Vsevolodovich was completely unprepared to repel the enemy. He began to take military measures only when the Tatars descended on his principality. In a hurry, a guard detachment was sent to help Kolomna.
The chronicle reports that the Vladimir detachment met with the Tatars near Kolomna. A battle took place in which the Vladimir squad was defeated and destroyed, only a few managed to escape. The chronicle does not say exactly where this event took place, but there are good reasons to believe that the battle of the Vladimir squad took place on the territory of the city of Voskresensk, on the Semislavka River.
By the way, it takes half an hour to go by train from Kolomna to Semislavka, for a change I will give such a distance measure. It is difficult to imagine that a place so remote could be called “near Kolomna”.
The place of death of the Vladimir squad is reported by two chronicles - Ipatievskaya and Novgorodskaya. In the Ipatiev Chronicle it is said that the Vladimir squad met with the Tatars "on Kolodna", and in Novgorod - "near Kolomna".
Even now, the language does not dare to say "near Kolomna" or "near Kolomna"
Wiki about Voskresensk:
And this is not counting the fact that besides Voskresensk there are plenty of other villages.
How historians imagine the events of that time:
As you can see, the battle was fierce and stubborn. This is evidenced by the chronicle:
Our imagination paints a terrible picture of the battle: pressed against the gaps, doomed to death, Russian soldiers courageously repulse enemy attacks, soldiers fall one after another and, in the end, five remain, led by the Vladimir hero Eremey Glebovich. Five heroes are fighting with countless enemies, and together they fell on the battlefield. After the Tatars fled from these places, the surviving princes of Vladimir and Ryazan followed the trail of the massacres and buried the Russian soldiers.
Inconsistencies
Sources
So, really, what "imagination draws to us." If you look about Kulkan and Toropka, you will see that the source of this information is the writer Vasily Grigorievich Yan, author of the Invasion of the Mongols trilogy.
I'm not going to question everything and everyone and "roll the barrel" also on Jan, but listen - a writer!
An interesting fact is given on the author's Wikipedia page:
Time
The date 1688 was on the plate with the crosses. The event pointed out by Smirnov is in 1216. The difference, for a moment, is 472 years. Is it possible that in almost 500 years the graves will not only be preserved, but a new monument will be erected in their place? Indeed, according to the work "The Code of the Old Chronology Hacked", 15 years was already considered a period of generational change. And although more than 200 years have passed since the baptism of Rus, there are still mentions of burial mounds. Crosses and churchyards? With 99% probability - unlikely. A remake.
Okay, that's another 300 years.
And we no longer know what actually happened, and the monument to the five crosses was miraculously preserved in the garden of a private house No. 7 on Semislavskaya Street. And even then, only one plate on which the inscriptions have worn off. No hill, no temple, no church, nothing. So, on the bank of an inconspicuous, overgrown and muddy rivulet.
Distances
From Ryazan to Semislavka in a straight line 100 kilometers. And from Isad and Staraya Ryazan it is even farther ~ 150. It is difficult to imagine that the bodies of the princes were decided to be taken away so far and buried in such a little-known place. There were no cities and fortresses there. Wilderness.
We have to rely on history as it is in this matter. Wonderful things, but 1216? How can you say something with certainty about such antiquity?
Yoke
The legends of antiquity are deep - and one could give up. If not for the ubiquitous Mongol-Tatars, about whom we will write a lot more on the pages of our community tart-aria.info. Now I will just say: in fact, if any hordes took part in these events, it was Moguls and Tartars. Whoever has never heard of this can read a little in this article "Who built the dam of Gog and Magog" believe me, it's worth it.
Somehow magically, Batu Khan and Subudai-Bagatur arrive from Moscow (!) To seize Kolomna, which they fail, and return back to the Voskresensk lands, which are between Kolomna and Moscow, which for some reason turn out to be untouched, and there you can, they say, profit. Miracles, and more!
Cities and graveyards
There are too many things to be turned upside down. Allegedly, the old Ryazan was burned, which can be written about separately. I also have my own "phi" in this regard.
The huge city was burned down, so much so that they did not restore it, but Ryazan was "appointed" to another city, located quite far away.
Interestingly, and someone thought that the location of the city and any settlement is not just "poked a finger"? Here is the logistics! Even to list it somehow ashamed. Are there many such cases in history? And it happens, you know, and oddly enough, in Russia. Cities are jumping from their familiar places. I wonder why? Historians are ready to answer: Ryazan Tatars, they say, burned, and that's it.
So I remember the story about "give me matches, I'll go set fire to the Kremlin wall."
Stone temples have been turned to ashes! No, well, seriously !? It's a pity that there was no aviation at that time, otherwise they would have written that the Boeings crashed into Ryazan, led by suicide bombers.
Be that as it may, but cities are usually rebuilt in the same places, even after constant floods and hurricanes. Roads, waterways, piers, train stations (well, well, pits), fields, the same ancestral churchyards, yes, well, it's clear what to continue here. Read the article On Medieval Logistics. However, I was distracted or not distracted, and all these are links of one chain?
And then another question arises - why are cemeteries being demolished? This was common in Russia. For example, in the same Voskresensky district, near the village of Achkasovo on the bank of the Moskva River, an old cemetery with white stone tombstones near the Intercession Church was bulldozed into the river. There are still many human bones scattered on the steep bank.
As teenagers, we often ran there, played with these dice, and white stone gravestones lay right in the river. The question is, why? What reason? To whom did the old cemetery disturb? The place is deserted, not suitable for crops. Nothing was ever built there, away from the road … Well, how can you not come to the version that something was hidden here?
And the bank of Semislavka with the Five Crosses churchyard? We gave it to the private sector for building, as it is called.
Numbers
What kind of river is this Semislavka? The mythical number seven - read it, follow the link, I will not repeat it here. Number seven … Number five … How are they interconnected with each other? At this point he will turn to Kabbalism, but we will refrain.
What years can we talk about 1216-1218, if only under Peter the Great the use of "Arabic numerals" was introduced in Russia instead of alphabet letters? Hence it should be deduced that all numeral names are not older than the 18th century.
So you dig, and nowhere is there a word of truth. But what cheating textbooks and gold-embossed "historical" books are being printed, what films are being made, what "games" are being arranged for the amusement of the public - I believe! And so it was!
Is it funny? But kids watch such "historical" "epoch-making scenes", remember. The adults said, so it is!
Isn't it time to put an end to this?
Author: Sil2