Part 1
This article is a continuation of the topic of falsification of the history of Russia / Russia by German historians commissioned by the Holstein-Gottorp (Romanov) dynasty. Previous material (Comrade, believe: the history of the past is the door to the future!).
Official
This year, solemnly and with pomp, the 1030th anniversary of the date adopted in official history - the baptism of Rus by Prince Vladimir, was celebrated.
The legend of this event is widely known: illuminated by a sudden glimpse of consciousness, the pagan prince of Kiev - Vladimir, decided to eradicate polytheism in the territory under his jurisdiction and summoning representatives of different religions, he chose the most suitable (read: true). He was baptized himself, his squad and the "capital" city of Kiev, and then the whole of Kievan Rus, which stood in line (for more details about the myth of Kievan Rus, read the material: Kievan Rus. Fables.) …..
What is wrong here? And what does the alternative history have to do with it? The point is that it is not the specific year of the adoption of Christianity itself that is important, but the events accompanying this. These events, from at first glance secondary roles, are decisively shifted to the main ones, since they change the whole idea of peoples, FAITH and events in the greater territory of Asia and, naturally, Russia.
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Jesus and Christianity
What do we know about the Christian religion? Jerusalem, Pontius Pilate, crucifixion and resurrection of Christ, Catholics and Orthodox, Rome and Constantinople … did you miss anything? In general terms, as if everything.
All of His first followers were vegetarians until the moment when the Roman Emperor Constantine I in 325, decided to correct the teaching of Christ by convening the first Council of Nicaea. Among other things, references to vegetarianism were removed from the canonical Gospels (since the emperor's mother was very fond of meat). After the cathedral, praetorians stopped people on the streets of Rome and offered to eat a piece of meat (they checked for "lice") and those who refused were arrested. By this example, did you more understand the following of the original teaching of Christ, by the church and hierarchs in power?
So, a total of 72 Gospels about Jesus are known, but only 4 of them are recognized as canonical (apparently because they were the most suitable for the church and the authorities - they had to correct less). Each of the 12 Apostles wrote his Gospel, including Andrew, the most beloved and first of the Apostles called by Christ, but only the narratives of two of them were included in the New Testament (strange, isn't it?).
Christian teachings
To understand the further text, very briefly about the most important teachings of Christianity.
1) Arianism is one of the earliest trends in Christianity in the IV-VI centuries A. D. e., which asserted the initial creation of God the Son, his non-consubstantiality with God the Father (Wikipedia). Simply put, Jesus was considered only a man (recognized as a heresy in 325).
2) Nestorianism - recognizes the complete symmetry of the God-manhood of Christ: in the single God-human face of Christ, from the moment of conception, two hypostases and two natures - God and man - are unmercifully connected (Wikipedia). Simply put, he considers Jesus to be a person with a divine essence, in two different guises.
3) Monophysitism (Eutychianism) - Christological doctrine in Christianity, recognizing the presence of only one, unique Divine nature (nature) in Jesus Christ and rejecting His true humanity (Wikipedia). Simply put, he considers Jesus only God, who does not have a human essence (recognized as heresy in 451).
4) Chalcedonism is a Christological concept, according to which two natures are recognized in Jesus Christ - Divine and human, but the unity of natures is conditional, in contrast to Nestorianism, where the unity of natures is considered complete and real (Wikipedia). Simply put, he considers Jesus to be a person with a divine essence, in one hypostasis. It is practiced by all modern Christian religions.
The followers of each of these movements, considered the rest to be heretics, destroyed and hated in every possible way more than representatives of other religions (however, everything is exactly the same in Islam).
Apostle Andrew the First-Called - postcard.
When Christianity came to Russia
Here, everything is not as clear as the official version claims.
We must begin with the fact that Jesus, sending his Apostles to teach people, sent his beloved disciple - Apostle Andrew to Scythia:
"… holy people live in Scythia who do not need Faith, but with them you can raise Her to new heights …"
Andrew the First-Called, having sailed to the Crimea (Little Scythia), continued his journey north along the path "from the Varangians to the Greeks", along the Don, Volga, Volkhov, Ladoga, through Valaam (having founded a monastery there) and to the Solovetsky Islands (that is, through the whole Rus-Scythia).
Along the way, preaching the teachings of Christ, he found understanding of the local population, since their Vedic perception of life was very similar to what he was telling. According to legend, on the banks of one of the rivers, admiring the wonderful place, he put up a cross, announcing that there would be a mighty capital city to stand (according to the official version, this is Kiev, but there were no ships on the Dnieper, there were impassable rapids) - now the city Vladimir (according to the authors of the New Chronology - the capital of the Eurasian Empire of the Slavs / Rus).
Exaltation of the cross by Andrew the First-Called.
His sermons, apparently, had great success, since already starting from the 3rd century, the patriarch of the Scythian Diocese was present at world councils. Moreover, it was an autocratic Diocese, absolutely independent.
Herodotus wrote that the Scythians worship one God, unlike the Hellenes, the pyramids with a cross on top serve as a symbol of their faith and they offer Him prayers every morning. And we are told from the screens that they were pagans !!!
Church chroniclers in the 2-5 centuries firmly call the Scythians Christians: “The Huns study the Psalter, and the cold of Scythia is ablaze with the heat of Faith!” - Jerome of Stridonsky. And this is 7 centuries before the "official" baptism!
The Byzantine Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus knew and wrote about the existence of the Apostolic Christian Church of St. Andrew the First-Called (in Russia). And again they lie to us about our history - now the authorities and the priests together, at the same time.
Monument to Andrew the First-Called in Kherson.
Part 2
As it was already written, to Russia-Scythia, the Teachings of Jesus were brought by his beloved disciple and the first Apostle - Andrew the First-Called. At that time, in his presentation, it was a philosophy of life that was understandable to the Slavs, fully combined with the Vedic perception of the world.
Slavic Gods.
Why was the baptism of Russia shifted by 900 years?
Andrew the First-Called wrote his Gospel, where he told, among other things, about the baptism of Scythia, in which he essentially created the Apostolic Church. Note - not just the Apostolic (from one of the 12 Apostles of Jesus, practically from the original source, which in itself is revered), but His first and most beloved disciple! For example, Catholicism is considered the Apostolic Church, founded by Andrew's younger brother, Peter (Simon).
It is clear that the Apostolic Church of St. Andrew the First-Called should be considered the OLDER church. In Rome and Constantinople, this simply could not be allowed … Therefore, they preferred to forget about the Apostolic Church in Scythia, although the Scythian Diocese was endowed with the highest status of Autocratic.
The Gospel (the story of the life of Jesus and his Teachings) of St. Andrew the First-Called was preferred to be considered non-canonical and to pretend that it does not exist (just not to give another Scythian / Russian Church a reason for leadership in the Christian world).
Preacher.
Arian Christianity, which spread among the Germanic peoples, actively penetrated into Russia from the West and Northwest. His ideas, too, did not in any way contradict the pagan beliefs of the Slavs and therefore easily penetrated the general pantheon of Deities.
Needless to say, the free worldview that the beloved disciple of Christ carried to people did not suit religious hierarchs and the supreme secular power of the West? Both of them needed obedience and discipline based on fear, and not a peaceful consciousness in LOVE for all living things, as Jesus taught initially. Therefore, the Apostolic Church of St. Andrew the First-Called and Arianism were recognized as heresy and were not recognized as true.
After conversion to the "true" Christian Faith of the Chalcedonian persuasion of the states of Europe, it was the turn of Russia. From this point of view, the baptism of Princess Olga and Prince Vladimir seems to be quite logical. Together with them, the Constantinople archbishops were introduced to Russia, and the Scythian Autocratic Diocese ceased to exist. The Russian Orthodox Church, from then until 1686, was under the jurisdiction of Constantinople.
Lifetime parsuna (the only one) of Ivan the Terrible.
But the Russian people have always remembered that Christianity came to Russia in its first years and with His First Apostle. All Russian tsars from the Rurik clan referred to this. Ivan the Terrible, for example, directly pointed out the seniority (from the elder brother and the First Apostle) of the Russian Church to the Italian priest, in response to his arrogant speeches about the antiquity of the Roman Church (from the younger brother and one of the 12 Apostles).
The protégés of Constantinople at the head of the Russian Orthodox Church were forced to echo the Byzantine throne and repeat after them the nonsense about the absence of statehood in Russia before the “iconic” 10th century. Connecting thereby, the “acceptance” of baptism and “the acquisition of spiritual awareness by the“wild and dense Slavs - almost beasts”- a quote from Patriarch Kirill.
Church Cathedral. 1654 year. The beginning of the split. A. D. Kivshenko, 1880.
It is no coincidence that when the reigning dynasties of Rurikovich (Chingizids - Horde) were replaced by Holstein-Gottorp (Romanovs - Europeans), already under the second Romanov - Alexei Mikhailovich (Tishaish), Nikon's church reform was carried out, which put the final cross on the Old Russian version of Christianity. The Chalcedonian concept was proclaimed the only correct one at the state level. We know this time from textbooks as a church schism. Those who did not recognize the changes began to be called Old Believers.
It is interesting that the completely false concept of the acquisition of statehood by Russia only in the 10th century completely satisfied the godless Bolsheviks, who invented the myth of the popular Kievan Rus (read more - Kievan Rus. Fables.). For the class hegemon - the proletariat, an extremely simple and stupid legend was needed, showing not the longevity of tsarist power. Her ability to protect her people (from the Pechenegs, Polovtsy, "Mongol-Tatars", etc.) and the bloody essence (Ivan the Terrible).
However, we did not take into account one more force that at one time had a decisive role in the vastness of Asia - Great Tartary and its Great Khans of the Genghisids …
Part 3
Nestorianism
This concept of Christianity has become widespread in the East of Asia. In 434, in Persia, it was recognized as the dominant religion (yes, then in Iran the overwhelming majority of the inhabitants were Christians). From Persia, the Nestorians spread widely across East Asia. In the 6th century, Christians, not without success, preached their faith among the nomadic Turks. The Türks, captured by the Byzantines in the battle of Balyarat in 591, had a cross tattoo on their foreheads and explained that this was done on the advice of the Christians living in their midst to avoid a pestilence. This fact does not at all speak about the spread of Christianity among the nomadic Turks in the 6th century, but it allows us to state the presence of Christians in the Steppe.
In 635, Nestorianism infiltrated China and was well received by the government. The first emperors of the Tang Dynasty patronized Christians and allowed them to build churches.
And in 1007 the largest tribal nomadic union of tribes, the Kerait, was baptized, founding the Nestorian-Naiman Khanate. Around the same time, the Turkic-speaking Onguts, the Merkit forestry, the Guzes and the remnants of the Uighurs adopted Christianity. Even among the Kara-Kitai, who came to Semirechye from South-West Manchuria, there was "a certain Christian element", which gave rise to the legend of the high priest John (remember this name) in medieval Europe.
Equestrian warrior.
It turns out that all of Central and Northeast Asia, the Caucasus, partly the steppe people and the Chinese were real Christians - did you know about that? They explained to us all the time that these were purely Muslim countries … they just blatantly lie to us about Russia!
If Western Europe almost immediately learned about the triumph of Nestorianism over Islam, it would be incredible if information about this event did not penetrate into Russia. Indeed, the positions of the Nestorians in the Russian principalities were very strong, precisely because of the close connection with the nomadic East. By the 10th century, in the Kiev, Chernigov principalities and Tmutorakani, Nestorian Christians were in abundance.
The Genghisids, who ruled Great Tartary ("Tartary is the first great empire"), said about their faith that their primate was Saint John (remember, they heard about him even in Europe?) And they offer him prayers every morning. For all the tolerance of the Great Khans, the Nestorians in their environment were the majority. This was directly indicated by numerous travelers who visited the metropolis of Tartary - Catayo (Mongul and Tartarus are the union of two kingdoms.).
Death of Genghis Khan from the book of Marco Polo.
Crusades
On April 12, 1204, Constantinople was taken by storm, and the Byzantine Empire ceased to exist.
The knights-crusaders justified themselves by the fact that they had done a godly deed, because the Greeks were schismatics, heretics, perhaps worse than Muslims and pagans. Catholicism, failing to defeat Islam, declared war on Orthodoxy. Pope Innocent III, who at first was against the war with Christians and threatened the crusaders with excommunication, in 1207 stood (or was forced to stand) at the head of a new onslaught to the east. This year, Catholic diplomats managed to conclude an agreement with the Bulgarian Tsar, which saved the Latin Empire, and the Pope demanded from Poland, the Order, Sweden and Norway that they stop importing iron into Russia (in Russia, production was developed to such an extent that there were no enough!).
In 1212, the Livonian bishop Albert concluded an alliance with the Polotsk prince against the Estonians, and then married his brother to the daughter of the Pskov prince, after which in 1228 a pro-German boyar group appeared in Pskov. In 1231, Pope Gregory IX offered (with an ultimatum) Yuri II to Prince Vladimir and All Russia to convert to Catholicism, in response to which Yuri expelled the Dominican monks from Russia. After that, the offensive began on Novgorod and Pskov by the forces of the Swedes, Germans and Lithuanians.
Monument to Batu in Turkey.
Mogolo - Tartars
Do you think Alexander Nevsky would have had enough strength to defend all of Russia from the united troops of the crusaders of Europe? The Byzantine Empire could not resist. This is exactly the case when POWER IS BREAKING POWER.
The western campaign of the Mughal-Tartars, led by Khan Batu, took place under the Christian banners! The overwhelming majority of the motley Horde army were Russians - this is a historical fact, repeatedly reflected in the annals of that time. It was a campaign in defense of the Orthodox faith, designed to stop the expansion of Catholicism.
That is why Yaroslav Vsevolodovich (father of Alexander Nevsky), while Batu's troops were operating in the north-east of Russia, parallel to them (!) Reflected the ongoing raids of Catholic troops in the south-west of Russia. And after the Western knights, united by the Horde troops, were forced to peace, he was the first of the Russian princes to be drafted to the Batu headquarters, where he received from the hands of the Tartar emperor a label (ALL labels are written exclusively in RUSSIAN) in “old all prince in the Russian language”.
Prince Yaroslav Vsevolodovich.
He sat down in the CAPITAL of the Russian lands - Vladimir (and not in Kiev, as the followers of German historians like us to rub in: Kievan Rus. Fables.). As predicted by Andrew the First-Called, the first to bring Christian teachings to Russia.
It is quite logical that in the 13th century, there was a rapid development of the Orthodox Church in the Russian principalities. Under the protection of the Horde troops and the Great Tartar Khans, monasteries and churches were built, Christians became the majority in all cities. Do you know that in Russia, by a special decree of the Great Khan Batu, the church was exempted from paying tithes? This decree was reissued by all subsequent Khans, and Uzbek Khan generally freed the church from the khan's court!
The famous church historian E. E. Golubinsky wrote that in Sarai, at the request of the Great Khan, a Christian parish with a church was organized! And the famous split of the Golden Horde took place after the Muslim coup in its leadership …
Slavic warriors.
Duality
In conclusion, I consider it necessary to emphasize that Christianity in Russia, for a very long time, was revered along with the pagan Gods. "The Lay of Igor's Host" - 12th century, and written entirely in the pagan style. In the famous Tale of Bygone Years, it is stated that "Christianity is called by a word, but in fact we live by paganism." Up to the 15-16th centuries, in the Novgorod and Pskov provinces, priests complained about the dominance of pagan rituals and the administration of pagan services and holidays.
By the way, the Byzantine chroniclers had never heard of such an important seemingly event as the baptism of Kiev by Prince Vladimir (an appeal to the true faith of a vast country of pagans). Which is not surprising, because the city of Kiev (especially the capital city) simply did not exist in those days! And Prince Vladimir was raised a pagan, had 5 legal wives and more than a thousand concubines, for the sake of which he sometimes killed their relatives and cut out entire cities (he also spoke about him, for example, M. Lomonosov).
It is interesting that in Rome, his brother Yaropolk is considered to be the baptist of the Russians in the Chalcedonian sense. And the metropolitans of Kiev have always sat in the city of Pereyaslavl (imagine that Patriarch Kirill is sitting in Tver today - well, isn't it funny?), Kiev was just then a seedy border town.