Over the centuries-old history of Russia, many things were predicted for her: from complete collapse to endless prosperity. Predictions were given by professional soothsayers, politicians, and monks.
Nostradamus
Nostradamus has never been to Russia, but he began to make predictions about Russia almost in sync. So, he managed to predict some events from the time of the reign of Ivan the Terrible.
First of all, concerning the reforms and changes that were promoted by Archpriest Sylvester (79th quatrain of the 5th Century):
Russian faith will be streamlined
With the advent of the great legislator.
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The meek priest will ascend and disturb the strong.
However, the monarch will not use his advice for long.
In 1560, Queen Anastasia died, which caused a deep psychological change in the Tsar's soul. The Livonian War was lost, Ivan IV married again. Nostradamus writes:
Seven wives and son died or killed by a cruel monarch, There is bloodshed all around, there is no limit to great atrocities.
The fifth wife will be thrown into the lake
But the eighth will give birth to a son and miraculously survive.
Nostradamus predicted the events of the church schism of the 17th century. In Quatrain 96 of the 1st Century, he wrote:
The one who will be entrusted to remake
Temples and ceremonies, altered by whim, It will hurt both priests and laity.
Then he himself will be in disgrace.
Peter I not only reformed the entire system of government, Peter's reforms became a kind of apocalypse for the "Russian antiquity". Michel Nostradamus predicted in Quatrain 59 of the 1st Century:
Exiles driven from the island
With the arrival of a more ruthless sovereign
Will be killed and burned in flames
The insurgent city by the sea is destroyed.
The youngest daughter of Peter I, Elizabeth, arrested the baby Ivan VI and his mother Anna Leopoldovna. For the royal family, a walk in torment began, which ended in death. Nostradamus foresaw the fall of the power of the infant Ivan Antonovich and dedicated the 52nd quatrain of the 6th century to this event:
Instead of the great who was doomed, His daughter, who escaped from prison, will appear, The infant will rule for twelve months.
Then he will fall into the fortress, where he will be stabbed to death.
According to researchers, Nostradamus predicted the events of the middle of the 20th century. Quatrain 80, Century 4 speaks about the beginning of World War II:
The big river has a big ditch, the earth is thrown away, Fifteen parts divided by water
The city is taken, fire, blood, screams, battle,
Most of the population in a skirmish.
Only in 1940 did the war, started by Hitler, become world war. This year, German troops broke through the Maginot defense line in 15 places - "divided into fifteen parts by water" - and captured not only Paris ("the city was taken"), but the whole country.
Paracelsus
Physician, alchemist and astrologer Philip Aureol Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, known to the whole world as Paracelsus, in one of his books "Oracles", containing 300 pages and many prophecies for the whole world until the end of the III millennium, made several sensational predictions about Russia.
Paracelsus traveled a lot in the East, visited Tibet (this is what biographers think - there is a ten-year period in his life, information about which is missing).
Returning from Tibet, he uttered the first prophecy about Muscovy, as we were then called in the world: “A new huge state will appear on the big continent. It will occupy almost half of the Earth. This state will exist for a century and it will happen in 400 years”.
Presumably he wrote this in 1522. If we add 400 to 1522, we get 1922 - the year of the creation of the USSR.
At the beginning of the 16th century, Paracelsus traveled through Russia to Constantinople. He walked through the Don, because then this path was considered the shortest. No facts have survived about what he saw and heard, but after his stay in our country, the soothsayer entrusted Russia with a great mission - the salvation of all mankind. “Muscovy will rise above all states. Not with her hand, but with her soul, she will save the world."
True, this salvation will happen at the end of the XXII century. It was then, according to Paracelsus, that terrible events will take place on earth: “The East will rise up against the West, and hundreds of fiery arrows will be released in the East. They will fall and a column of fire will rise. He will burn everything in his path."
Researchers of ancient texts are sure that Paracelsus foreshadowed the Third World War between the countries of the West and the East, during which missiles with nuclear warheads will be used: “People will be covered with deep ulcers and scabs. Their souls will rise up. The third part will die."
Paracelsus seemed to know what the consequences of atomic explosions were: he wrote colorfully and terribly that food and water on Earth would be poisoned.
But Russia will save itself and help the whole world to be reborn: “However, some people will manage to be saved. And the ancient people who live in Muscovy will help them in this. In Muscovy, which no one has ever thought of as a country in which something great could happen, great prosperity will shine over the humiliated and rejected. They will conquer the sun."
Paracelsus wrote: “There is one people, which Herodotus calls Hyperboreans. The current name of this people is Muscovy. Their terrible decline, which will last for many centuries, cannot be trusted. Hyperboreans will experience strong decline and great prosperity (…) The Banner of the Cross will be erected on one of the mountain peaks of this country”.
In addition to what Paracelsus says here about difficult times for Russia associated with territorial disputes, there is another version of this prediction of Paracelsus: perhaps the second coming of the Savior will occur in the Urals.
"In that very country of Hyperboreans, which no one ever thought of as a country in which something great could happen, the Great Cross, the Divine light from the mountain of the country of Hyperboreans, will shine over the humiliated and rejected, and all the inhabitants of the earth will see it."
Paracelsus believed that this should happen 500 years after his death. Why? After all, Christianity came to Russia much earlier. The golden age, which will bring happiness to all living, according to the ancient predictor, will last from 2041 to 2091. What it will be - many of us have a chance to see with our own eyes.
Abel
During the reign of Catherine II, a seer monk lived in the Solovetsky monastery, his name was Abel. Abel began to prophesy about the death of the empress. For his predictions, Abel was imprisoned in the Shlisselburg fortress "under the strongest guard."
After the death of Catherine, who died in exact accordance with the prophecy of Abel, the monk was amnestied by Paul I.
The emperor wished to meet with the elder and hear new predictions from him. Abel described in detail the death of the emperor, and at the same time the unenviable future of the Romanov dynasty.
“Your reign will be short, and I see, sinful, fierce end of yours. You will accept a martyr's death against Sophronius of Jerusalem from the unfaithful servants, in your bedchamber you will be strangled by the villains whom you warm on your royal bosom. On Holy Saturday they will bury you … They, these villains, striving to justify their great sin of regicide, will proclaim you insane, they will vilify your good memory … But the Russian people will understand and appreciate you with their truthful soul and will bear their sorrows to your tomb, asking for your intercession and the softening of the hearts of the unrighteous and cruel. The number of your years is like counting letters."
The prediction that the Russian people will appreciate Paul I has not yet come true. If today they conducted a survey about the attitude of Russians to the past autocrats, then Pavel would certainly be one of the outsiders.
Abel was released in peace to the Nevsky Monastery for a new monastic tonsure. It was there, during the second tonsure, that he received the name Abel. But the prophet did not sit in the capital monastery. A year after talking with Pavel, he appears in Moscow, where for money he gives predictions to local aristocrats and wealthy merchants.
After earning some money, the monk goes to the Valaam monastery. But Abel does not live peacefully there either: he again takes up his pen and writes books of predictions, where he reveals the imminent death of the emperor.
Abel in shackles is brought to St. Petersburg and locked up in the Peter and Paul Fortress - "for the indignation of the peace of mind of his majesty."
Immediately after the death of Paul I, Abel is released from prison again. This time Alexander I became the liberator. The new emperor cautiously sends the monk to the Solovetsky monastery, without the right to leave the walls of the monastery. There Abel writes another book in which he predicts the capture of Moscow by Napoleon in 1812 and the burning of the city.
The prediction reaches the tsar and he orders to calm Abel's imagination in the Solovetsky prison. “The Frenchman will burn Moscow with Him, and He will take Paris from him and be called the Blessed. But the secret grief will become unbearable for Him, and the crown of the Royal Feat of the Royal service will seem heavy to Him He will replace with the feat of fasting and prayer. He will be righteous in the eyes of God: he will be a white monk in the world. I saw above the Russian land the star of the great saint of God. It burns, flares up. This ascetic will fulfill Aleksandrov's entire destiny …”.
According to legend, Alexander I did not die in Taganrog, but turned into the elder Fyodor Kuzmich and went to wander around Russia.
When in 1812 the Russian army surrenders Moscow to the French, and Belokamennaya, as the monk predicted, almost burns to ashes, the impressed Alexander I orders: “To release Abel from the Solovetsky Monastery, give him a passport to all Russian cities and monasteries, provide him with money and clothing.
Once free, Abel decided not to annoy the royal family anymore, but went on a journey to the Holy Places: he visited Athos, Jerusalem, Constantinople. Then he settles in the Trinity-Sergeeva Lavra. For some time it behaves quietly, until, after the accession of Nicholas I, it breaks through again.
The new emperor did not like to stand on ceremony, so "for humility" he sent the monk to prison in the Suzdal Spaso-Efimovsky Monastery, where in 1841 Abel died to the Lord. “The beginning of the reign of your son Nicholas will begin with a fight, a Voltairean rebellion. This will be a evil seed, a harmful seed for Russia. If not the grace of God covering Russia, then … About a hundred years after that, the House of the Most Holy Theotokos will become impoverished, the Russian State will turn into an abomination of desolation”.
Grigory Rasputin
Grigory Rasputin was one of the most mysterious personalities in Russian history, and his insight became the talk of the town during the life of the "elder". He had a presentiment of the death of the royal family long before it happened. Here is what he wrote: “Every time I embrace the tsar and mother, and the girls, and the tsarevich, I shudder with horror, as if embracing the dead … And then I pray for these people, for in Russia they are most in need. And I pray for the Romanov family, because the shadow of a long eclipse falls on them."
Rasputin predicted the coming of a new power in Russia: “Darkness will fall on St. Petersburg. When his name is changed, then the empire will end."
He foresaw the "elder" and his own death. He said that if he was killed not by “ordinary robbers”, but by the nobles - “relatives of the tsar,” then the future of Russia and the royal family would be terrible. "The nobles will flee the country, but the king's relatives will not survive in two years and the brothers will rise up against the brothers and will kill each other."
Rasputin also had man-made predictions. For example this. Researchers believe that here Rasputin is talking about nuclear power plants.
“Towers will be built all over the world … they will be castles of death. Some of these castles will collapse, and rotten blood will flow from these wounds, which will infect the earth and the sky. As clots of infected blood, like predators, will fall on our heads. And many clots will fall to the ground, and the ground where they fall will become deserted for seven generations."
Death of the empire
I must say that the fall of the monarchy in Russia and the death of the Romanov dynasty were predicted more than once. When Alexandra Feodorovna (wife of Nicholas II) in 1916 visited the Tithe Monastery in Novgorod, Elder Maria, holding out her hands to her, said: “Here comes the Martyr - Tsarina Alexandra”.
The already mentioned Rasputin also spoke about the tragic end of the last royal family, but even earlier such predictions were made by the Monk Seraphim of Sarov.
It is known that the wife of Alexander II, Maria Alexandrovna, on March 2, 1855, retold the prophecy of Seraphim of Sarov about the death of the last emperor and his family to her maid of honor Anna Tyutcheva.
The empress herself learned about the prediction from the Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, to whom the elder told his revelations.
Nicholas II, apparently, knew the prophecy of Abel, since, according to the testimony of those close to him, he repeatedly said: "Until 1918, I am not afraid of anything."
The collapse of the USSR
The disappearance from the political map of the Soviet Union was predicted by a variety of people - clairvoyants, holy elders, politicians and scientists. For example, Academician A. D. Sakharov warned in 1989 that if the situation in the country is not corrected, it is fraught with separatism and the collapse of the Union. Earlier in 1985, Academician Viktor Gelovani predicted the situation of the country's development for the coming years using computer modeling.
The analysis data identified two main paths - a technological one that promises a powerful industrial and economic breakthrough, and a losing model that could lead to the collapse of the USSR by 1991. It turned out as always.
Edgar Cayce predicted the fall of the USSR in a somewhat veiled form in 1944. “Before the twentieth century ends, the collapse of communism will come,” said the soothsayer. "The communists will lose their power there."
Edgar Cayce
Let's stop at Casey. He can be called one of the most successful predictors of the 20th century.
Being an excellent healer, a great predictor and a person known throughout the world, Edgar gave all his advice, diagnoses and methods of treatment in a trance state, but he himself did not remember anything from what was said.
Cayce gave many prophecies, he predicted both world wars, the rise of China, the findings of the Qumran scrolls, and much more. He planned his reincarnation in 2100.
Many of Cayce's predictions were about Russia. According to Casey, our country has a great mission: “From Russia will come hope for the world; but not from communism or Bolshevism, no, but from free Russia. Each person will then live for his brother."
Casey said: (reading 3976-10, February 8, 1932). “There is great hope for the world in the religious development of Russia. The people or group of nations that will be the closest in relations with Russia will be able to live better, gradually changing living conditions around the world."
On November 29, 1932, Casey said: “Changes are coming, you can be sure there will be an evolution or a revolution in the ideas of religious thought. The foundations for this for the whole world will eventually come from Russia; it will not be communism, but what Christ taught - his kind of communism."
Casey argued that Russia would be the new center of the world. Moreover, the Americans and Russia will be friends: “From Russia there will again come hope for the world. Guided by what? Friendship with the people, on whose money it is written: "We believe in God."