The past can also be stolen and hidden, can be appropriated and distorted. But the truth always finds its way to people. The past of our Motherland is so amazing, great and amazing that one can only dream of something like that …
The past of our Fatherland is fraught with many mysteries, despite the seemingly huge amount of historical research. More or less studied can be considered the period from the end of the 17th century - the time of Peter I. The history of pre-Roman Russia is largely mythologized due to the lack of reliable written sources. Copies of ancient manuscripts under each new ruler were rewritten and edited, and it is difficult to vouch for their reliability. It is no secret for historians that almost all sources dating back to the period before the beginning of the 17th century are in fact available today only in editions of the 17th-18th centuries. Many ancient documents perished in the fire of fires and during the period of military conflicts, which abound in domestic history. The Romanovs made their "contribution" to the preservation of historical memory. Already the first of the kings of this dynasty - Michael (due to his young age, hardly according to his own understanding) ordered to collect the existing old books in order to "correct" them. So, in 1616, the brethren of the Trinity Monastery received a tsarist letter: "By our decree, Elder Arseny, the canorhist, Elder Arseny, and the village of Klement'ev priest, were taken to us in Moscow, from the Trinity Sergius Monastery, to correct printed books and the Consumer …"
Subsequent Romanovs also more than once showed a peculiar interest in book depositories and ancient manuscripts. The elder brother of Peter I, Fyodor Alekseevich, for example, ordered to collect all the category books and burn them in the hallway of the front royal chamber. The categories, let us explain, were the names of appointments to senior positions. They stored a lot of valuable information about the deeds of our ancestors. The most fragmentary picture of the national history of the period before the emergence of a centralized state with the capital in Moscow. Here is the space for the artistic invention of the writer, artist, cinematographer, which we see today in the cultural sphere. Scientists also sin with "writing", easily reconstructing battles and other events of the distant past, having, in fact, only scattered grains of genuine historical knowledge. However, it's not all badand the historical memory of our people is not completely erased. As it turns out now, information about the past of Russia has been preserved, possibly even more than it was assumed twenty years ago. And even if the surviving information is not always supported by written sources, but in a mythologized form, they deserve attention as a basis for new working hypotheses.
In various regions of modern Russia, in particular in the Omsk Region and Krasnodar Territory, there are communities of adherents of the Old Russian faith (which existed long before the advent of Christianity), who call themselves Orthodox Old Believers-Inglings. Their representatives claim that they managed to keep chronicles in secret hiding places containing information about many distant events on the territory of ancient Russia. According to them, the available historical knowledge covers a period that goes back at least 600 thousand years. The old rovers call their sources the Vedas, which are divided according to the material on which they were originally recorded, into three main groups: santii - plates of gold and other noble metal that does not lend itself to corrosion, on which texts are applied by chasing signs and filling them with paint (these plates are held together by three rings in the form of books,or decorated in an oak frame); haratyas - sheets or scrolls of high-quality parchment with texts (it is logical to assume that haratyas are periodically rewritten, because parchment becomes dilapidated over the years); Magi - wooden tablets with written or cut out texts. The oldest documents are the Santii. Initially, the Vedas were called "Santii Vedas of Perun", but they contain references to other Vedas, which are now either lost or, for some reason, are not read out by their keepers. The Indian Vedas are considered, by the way, to be derived from the Slavic-Aryan Vedas, transmitted by the Aryans in India about 5000 years ago. The haratyas were, as a rule, copies of the santias or, perhaps, extracts from them intended for wider use. The most ancient haratyas are "Charatyas of Light" (Book of Wisdom), which, according to the Old Believers,were recorded over 28 thousand years ago.
Of course, the mentioned figures are at first glance doubtful - the Old Believers are too far away from the origins of our civilization. But in principle, it is impossible to exclude the possibility of preserving some arch-ancient texts, since such finds from time to time take place in other countries. So, in the Russian magazine "Vedic Culture" (September 2007) it was reported that in Romania in 1875, during the construction of outbuildings for a monastery built in the 17th century on the site of an ancient Vedic temple, about four hundred gold plates with ancient letters were found, which received the name Santii Dacians. The then Romanian king Charles I ordered to remelt most of these plates - the find made it possible to fill up the empty treasury. Fortunately, he ordered lead copies of the gold pages to be made before melting. These copies (as well as several gold plates that escaped melting) have survived to our days. It is noteworthy that the records were made, apparently, by the ancient Aryan runes …
Perhaps, the author of the article “Kon Assy” (the rules of war), or the True Description of the Battle of Kulikovo, sent to the editorial office of “Krasnaya Zvezda” from the Kuban, is also based on some unpublished sources. In it, the events of the period of the Battle of Kulikovo (1380) are set out from the position of the surviving adherents of the Old Slavic faith. The textbook description of the Battle of Kulikovo, as stated in this material, does not allow the modern reader to create a fully valuable idea of the events of 600 years ago. The chroniclers of that time worked under the influence of the dominant worldview, and therefore distorted, willingly or unwillingly, the essence of many events of that time. The ancient Slavic doctrine of war - "Kon Ass-sy" turned out to be consigned to oblivion …
Dmitry Baida