Today it is already possible to assert with a high degree of certainty that we know the reasons and the exact date of the Great Tartary's departure from the world arena. From this, the understanding of subsequent events, as well as the reasons for forgetting the true history of our country, logically follows. History is written by the winner, as everyone knows, so it is natural that the invaders, who called themselves the Romanovs, did everything possible and impossible to write a new history. Such as we know from textbooks. The Romanovs were Russophobes by definition, although they diligently posed as Orthodox Russians.
It was they who attributed to themselves all the achievements of the occupied country. They figured out that Russia came from the "Viking" Rurik, and the Greeks taught the Russians to read and write. Now we understand that in reality everything was exactly the opposite. The West brought serfdom and ignorance to our land. The conquered population needed to be convinced that it had existed in slavery at all times, for this the "Mongol-Tatar yoke" was invented. In fact, the yoke came to Russia along with the Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp. And they finally defeated Tartary only with the help of the troops of a united Europe in 1812.
You can now grieve about this, of course, but you can find positive aspects in everything. What happened happened. We can't fix anything. However, it is impossible not to recognize the paradoxical fact that if it were not for the Germans, then we would not know anything about our ancestors now. They would speak English or French today, and like most of the peoples of Africa, we would be fully confident that before the arrival of the "benefactors" we sat on trees and ate fruits and roots.
What was Napoleon's main mistake
The great commander, in fact, turns out to be not so great. The brilliant tactician could not see what arrogance and belief in his own exclusivity would be fraught with for him. He helped the Romanovs to defeat the remnants of Tartary, and decided that now there were no competitors for him. He did not take into account the fact that the Russian Empire, having become the heir to Tartaria, automatically becomes the greatest power in the world. And this power, without hesitation or hesitation, immediately crushed its recent ally and rival.
The British could not but take advantage of this, and on all fronts began to press the Gauls, and the result of this war was the "soft" colonization of France. From now on, Paris has become a loyal vassal of Great Britain. And having mastered such resources, London decided not to delay the declaration of war and Russia itself. In order not to give time for the restoration of Tartary as a qualitatively new superpower, already under the name of the Russian Empire, immediately after the defeat of Napoleon, the British began preparations for war. To this end, a coalition of dissatisfied people in Europe was again assembled, with the involvement of the old rival of the new Russia - the Ottoman Empire.
The British could not indifferently watch the successful development of all territories of Tartary in Eurasia by Russia. Their scouts, who were whaling and fishing vessels, spent several years mapping and collecting intelligence along the entire coast of the Arctic Ocean, in the Bering Strait, Kamchatka, the Kuril Islands and the Far East. The pace with which the Russians settled in Siberia inspired the British with great anxiety, because they had views on these territories, were confident that, like North America, they would easily add the Far East to their empire.
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The trigger for the start of a new war was the peace treaty (Treaty of Aygun) between Russia and China, concluded by the Governor-General of Eastern Siberia Nikolai Nikolaevich Muravyov. Now, when the coveted territories were literally “floating away” from under the noses of the British, they decided that they could no longer hesitate. This is how the first war of the Russian Empire with the Western world began after it “killed the dragon” - Great Tartary, and thus itself turned into this dragon. I will make a reservation right away that this process has not been completed to this day. Everything that we get from the media today is a reflection of processes that have been going on for centuries. This is a war of civilizations in which the west is trying to destroy the east.
I have already written that I cannot find an explanation for the reasons for the fact that it is precisely Russian historians who, with persistence worthy of better application, zealously call the two wars "domestic": 1812 and 1941. Probably, only because both of these wars took place on a large part of the territory of Russia. And at the same time they are modestly silent that the wars were not with the French, not with the Germans, but with all of Europe! The turn has come to give a fair assessment of the Crimean War.
What do we know about her? We immediately remember Sevastopol, Leo Tolstoy, schoolgirls - sisters of mercy and Napoleon III. We open any textbook and read what was written, in black and white: - "Against Russia came out: the French Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the British Empire, the Sardinian kingdom." Stop … Ie the power of the two most powerful empires in the world (I do not consider the Ottoman one, at that time it could no longer compete on an equal footing with its neighbors) fell on a small peninsula in Russia's internal sea, in fact! It doesn't work out like that … We were told that everything was due to the Turks. They, allegedly the Ottoman Empire, wanted something there. Well, firstly, only in Russia it is called Ottoman, in the rest of the world it is Ottoman, why? Yes, for the same reason that some common names of countries have been changed only in Russian. For example, calling China China,Russians were “corked” in their consciousness for a long time so that they would think that Kathai and China are one and the same.
Secondly, after a series of Russian-Turkish wars, the Ottoman Empire was significantly weakened. Then what claims could she have? It would be better to say thanks that the Russian soldier has weapons for defense, and not for the capture of colonies. The British soldier, on the contrary, at this time was brought up as the master of the world. Half of the Earth already belonged to Britain. In terms of population, there is still no such country, I mean in relation to the total population of the entire Earth, of course.
Further more interesting. We look at the theaters of military operations, the so-called "Crimean" war: - "Balkans, Oltenitsa, Akhaltsikh, Sinop, Kyuryuk-Dara, Alma, Sevastopol, Balaklava, Inkerman, Taganrog, Caucasus, Evpatoria, Kars, St. Petersburg, Arkhangelsk, Petropavlovsk ".
These are the times! You can't do that! St. Petersburg and Petropavlovsk in Kamchatka! And this is called "Crimean War" ?! I do not understand why the same textbooks do not write anything about the battle for St. Petersburg? But there were fierce hostilities there. Probably, the city needs to be plundered first to make it into history.
Battle of St. Petersburg
At the beginning of 1854, even before Britain officially declared war on Russia, the English fleet under the command of Admiral Sir Charles Napier attacked St. Petersburg. A full-scale landing operation was carried out. The British coalition included a French squadron sent by Napoleon III under the command of Admiral Parseaval-Deschenes and Admiral Penot, and the Marine Corps under the command of General Louis Baraguet d'Hillier, who lost his arm at Borodino, and the Scandinavian forces were also in the coalition: Danes, Dutch, Swedes, and mercenaries from various parts of Europe.
Admiral Napier blocked all Russian ports in the Baltic, so that not a single Russian ship could even go to sea, and carried out constant shelling.
But the capital was not surrendered to the British only because the defense of the city was organized at the highest level. It was reliably covered by Kronstadt, Sveaborg and Bomarsund. And the "masters of the seas" were powerless against the force of Russian weapons. They were able to take only one fortress - Bomarsund. And even then, at the cost of huge losses of the amphibious assault. And then they suffered such a crushing defeat that they vowed to meddle in the Gulf of Finland. Russian forts were too tough for the strongest navy in the world.
In addition, historians for some reason are ashamed to say that all the forts on the Baltic Sea coast at that time already had an electrical telegraph connection, and were controlled centrally from the General Staff in St. Petersburg. Let me remind you that this is 1854, i.e. Twenty years before the “invention” of the electric telegraph by the Swiss Lesage, we already had telegraph networks.
Historians do not like to recall that the Russian fleet, during the St. Petersburg battles, already had several types of submarines, rocket artillery in service (the British also had it, but due to the imperfection of the design and the limited range of action, it was not used in the fleet) … But our missiles were already launched from submarines at that time. There were also sea minefields controlled by underwater electric cables in the Russian fleet. One can only guess what the invaders experienced when they felt their effect on themselves.
It is obvious that the technological level of the Russian army and navy at that time was what we call "advanced technologies" today. Yes, in our Baltic fleet at that time there were only 16 steamers, against several dozen British ones. But here's the piquancy of the moment. Almost the entire British fleet that attacked Russia consisted of Russian steamships. That is, they were laid down at the UK shipyards by order of the Russian Government, and partially paid. The British simply did not give up our ships, and put them into operation in their own royal fleet.
HMS Cossack - a wooden screw corvette of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, originally "Vityaz".
Surprisingly, these amazing facts are practically not covered in the educational literature of our country.
Defeat of Murmansk
The situation was much worse in the north. Unlike the Baltic and the Black Sea, where there were quite combat-ready fleets of the Russian Empire, the Northern Fleet did not yet exist at that time. Peter I, during his reign, deliberately created difficulties for the development of the Arkhangelsk port, so that it did not create competition for the ports in the Baltic. And as it is now becoming clear, the main motive for this policy was an attempt to isolate Moscow Tartary from the outside world, bypassing St. Petersburg. That is, in this way, he created a situation in which Moscow was forced to use the Baltic, and not Arkhangelsk, for communication with northern Europe, and all transit flowed through St. Petersburg, Revel and Riga, thereby depriving the means for the development of the Russian north.
This led to the impoverishment, once well-to-do, pomors and the decline of the existing ports. One of these ports was the city of Kola. The once prosperous seaport began to wither after the opening of the ports of St. Petersburg, and in the middle of the nineteenth century was the northernmost harbor of the Russian Empire. On March 2, 1854, the Kola mayor Shishelov sent a report to the Arkhangelsk military governor Boil:
“… For real military circumstances, if the enemy decides to send part of his fleet to the northern shores of Russia, then in this case the city of Kola … may also not escape his attention by the ease of capture and the spread of the echo of victories in Europe. To achieve this goal, the enemy at the present time, due to the defenseless position of the city of Kola, does not face any difficulty, because there are no weapons or troops to resist, except for the local disabled team in the smallest number with only guns, of which only 40, with the smallest number of live rounds; there are no guns at all."
Shishelov, speaking about the natural accuracy and courage of local residents - Sami and Kolyan, asked only for a company of rangers and eight guns. The geographical position of Kola is so advantageous that with minimal forces it was possible to shoot any fleet that entered the fjords of the sea like in a shooting range. And if you do not destroy it completely, then the city could be protected without much effort. However, in response to his request, he received … One hundred flintlock guns.
On August 9, at 10 o'clock in the morning, the three-masted British steam corvette "Miranda", armed with two two-pound bomb cannons and 14 guns of a 36-pound caliber, entered the Kola Bay. After anchoring, a boat with parliamentarians set off from the corvette to the pier to the commandant of the Kola garrison, a young naval officer, Lieutenant Andrei Martyanovich Brunner. The British offered the city to surrender in exchange for the inviolability of the private property of the inhabitants, but at the same time "nobly" warned that the state institutions and the garrison would be ruined.
But the Russians do not surrender, as you know, and Lieutenant Brunner did not deign to even give the British a written answer, declaring verbally that they refused to surrender the city without a fight. On August 11, the Miranda began “bombarding the city with bombs, grenades, hardened cannonballs and conical rifle bullets with a fuel compound attached to them. The only Russian gun made one shot at the enemy, after which it was knocked off the machine by an English shell, and soon it was completely disabled by a new hit.
As a result of the twenty-hour bombardment, the enemy burned down 92 houses of Kola residents, 4 church buildings, including the old Resurrection Cathedral - the main architectural landmark of Kola, state warehouses (salt, wine and grain). The attempt to land the landing was unsuccessful, and the boats with the marines, numbering up to 60 people, disgracefully retreated. The next day the shelling was repeated, but without achieving military success, having lost several dozen sailors killed and wounded, "Miranda" fled from the battlefield. This episode very accurately characterizes the military tactics of all Anglo-Saxons, including the current NATO fighters, who are capable of fighting only remotely, from a safe place for themselves.
None of the hundred armed defenders of the city and the townspeople themselves were not killed or seriously wounded. The city suffered only material damage. However, here, too, the British acted in strict accordance with the rule of the Anglo-Saxons known to the whole world: - any defeat can always be turned into a victory if the first to trumpet about it to the whole world. All English newspapers trumpeted the “glorious victory of the British fleet over the Russian port of Kola. And this barbaric shelling of a practically unarmed peaceful city is still regarded in the British chronicle as one of the greatest victories over the Russians.
But in Kolya, at least there was some kind of garrison. Most of the Pomeranian villages have never seen any guns or rifles. While defending the villages of Kandalaksha, Umba, Chapoma, Tetrino, Kuzomen and Pona, local Pomors, fishermen and hunters, showed miracles of heroism, courage, and sharpness. Nowhere did the British manage to get food or water from the Russians. Wherever they appeared, the invaders would certainly meet fierce resistance from the local population. Each time they suffered losses in manpower even when trying to land a landing. Nevertheless, in revenge for their failures, they managed to ravage several villages.
Siege of Solovki
On July 6, two three-masted sixty-gun frigates "Brisk" and "Miranda" appeared on the roadstead near Blagopoluchiya Bay near the Solovetsky Monastery. The ships raised negotiating flags, but the monks, who did not understand anything in the language of signal flags, simply could not answer them. Then the British fired three cannons. The monks fired twice in response. Then parliamentarians arrived on the island with an ultimatum to surrender the garrison. The monks shrugged their shoulders, they say we have no garrison, so there is no one to surrender.
Then the British opened a hurricane of fire on the walls of the monastery. In response, the bells rang, the procession began, and the return fire from ten old cannons, forgotten by someone on the island, two hundred years ago. After nine hours of shelling, the British were amazed to find that the monastery was completely intact. All their bombs bounced off the granite walls like peas against the wall, and those that flew inside ended up in a small lake, where the fuses were extinguished and the charges were not detonated.
With their tail between their legs, not eating salty, the "valiant warriors" were forced to abandon the idea of seizing the fortress, and retreated ingloriously.
Arkhangelsk "battle"
The apotheosis of the failures of the Franco-British fleet in the White Sea was the attempt to capture the main port of Arkhangelsk. When the 26-gun frigate Eurydice and two steam sloops Miranda (15 guns) and Brisk (16 guns) were joined by the French 40-gun frigate Psyche, Captain Gilbert and 20-gun brig Bomanoir Squadron commander, Admiral Erasmus Rommaney developed a "brilliant" plan for the capture of Arkhangelsk, and in August 11, 1854 began to put it into execution.
The failed invaders were opposed by the Arkhangelsk garrison under the command of the Governor Roman Petrovich Boyle. At his disposal were 6,000 rangers, a large number of batteries, the well-fortified Novodvinsk fortress, the 16-gun brig Novaya Zemlya, which was decommissioned from the fleet in 1853 and used as a guardhouse, and a flotilla of 20 gunboats (each boat carried two 18- or 24-pounder guns). But all this army was not needed, by and large. The "glorious sea wolves" from Europe turned out to be as unprofessional as they were cowardly.
Not only did it not occur to anyone from the very beginning that ship supplies should be regularly replenished (after all, sailors must eat and drink, and steam engines need coal), but also no one has stocked up on elementary nautical charts showing the depths. Although British traders have been sailing to Arkhangelsk for a long time, none of the military has bothered to consult them about the hydrography of the area. Indeed, even the deepest channel leading to Arkhangelsk is less than 6 feet deep, while the smallest of the invaders' ships had a total draft of 15 feet. One of the members of parliament, later bluntly said that the sending of such ships to Arkhangelsk is: - "an act of exceptional stupidity and stupidity of both the Admiralty and the First Lord."
It was necessary to urgently organize depth measurements, thanks to which it was found out that neither the Brisk, nor the Miranda, let alone the Evredik, would be able to enter the channel. In addition, English boats were soon discovered by the defenders of the fortress. Russian horse artillery drove up and began shelling, and from the port side, Russian gunboats moved into the attack. As a result, the English boats got out of the canal as hastily as possible. On this, the "victorious" war of 1854 of a united Europe in the Russian north was "triumphantly" completed, the British navy added another "glorious victory" to its assets, and sailors, officers and admirals who distinguished themselves in the campaign received "well-deserved" medals and orders.
It's a pity only in our schools the teachers keep repeating about the “lost Crimean War”.
Peter and Paul massacre
The same disappointment awaited the united Anglo-French squadron in Kamchatka. The commander of the Petropavlovsk garrison, Major General Zavoiko, received a secret dispatch from … Believe it or not, not from the General Staff, but from the Hawaiian Islands, and was warned of the approach of the British squadron led by the real steamer Virago.
When approaching Petropavlovsk, the pilots of the enemy, according to the already established tradition, began to make depth measurements, and the watchmen on the masts began to reconnoitre the coast. In the port of Petropavlovsk there was only one large ship - "Aurora", but seeing the boat coming out to meet, the allies hastily left for neutral waters, where they anchored. Squadron Commander Admiral David Price analyzed the intelligence data and clearly realized that he could not carry out the order of the British Admiralty. Then, the old sea wolf locked himself in his cabin and shot himself.
However, the enemy nevertheless attempted to land a landing and a battle ensued. The small Russian garrison organized the defense very competently. Even the elderly, women and children took up arms. This fact indicates that the basics of combat training were known to all residents of Petropavlovsk. It is impossible to teach children how to use firearms in a few days. Today, few people know about the feat of the defenders of Petropavlovsk, but in vain. On such examples, it is necessary to educate the younger generation, and not to tell fairy tales about the struggle against the "Horde yoke", or "national unity".
Petropavlovsk - Kamchatsky.
This is a monument to the heroic battery at the Black Sopka, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean. Her fighters gave their lives for the independence of the Motherland. And the Motherland bashfully calls the large-scale aggression of the British Empire the "Crimean War".
Well, judge for yourself, where is Petersburg, where is Arkhangelsk and Kamchatka, and where are the Balkans, the Caucasus, Azov and the Crimea. From all sides, except for Afghanistan, the British surrounded Russia. They took in pincers and hit from all sides. And this is the Crimean war? And the Turks, it turns out, generally played a secondary role, they were used as cannon fodder, waving a carrot in front of their noses in the form of the coveted Crimea.
Historians say: - Russia lost the Crimean War, lost some of its advantages in the Black Sea, which it then more than returned bloodlessly, diplomatically. Lost? Yes, fullness! Russia won the greatest battle for the country's independence and integrity. If we had lost then, Crimea would have been destined for the fate of Hong Kong, at best. Chukotka, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk Territory and Primorye would be US states. And if the Petersburg landing of the Anglo-Franks had succeeded, Russia would not exist at all. This is clear? So what kind of "Crimean" war is this? So it turns out - if betrayal and defeat, then it is "domestic", "great", "people's", and if Russia has conducted a successful, relatively bloodless, and extremely effective and significant war, then this is so … Local battles.
However, this war showed the whole world that the hopes for the destruction of Great Tartaria were not destined to come true. The defeat of Tartary by the Holy Roman Empire resulted in the fact that the backward archaic country, at first destroyed by a cataclysm of a planetary scale, and later, torn apart by internal contradictions, was revived in a new quality. The winner turned out to be defeated because it was not the Western civilization that swallowed the Eastern, but vice versa. It would be more accurate to say that the fusion of the achievements of the West and the East gave birth to a new type of civilization - the Eurasian one. Why is there no chance of defeating the Two-Headed Eagle? Because a war between the left hand and the right is impossible.
The only chance to permanently get rid of Great Tartary, whatever it is called, is to blow it up from the inside. Perhaps Otto von Bismarck was the first to understand this. He, like no one else, clearly realized that the newly created German nation, genetically and spiritually, is closer than all other Europeans to Russia. And as a bearer of the Russian worldview, he could not help but understand where the real danger comes from for the tribes and peoples inhabiting the German Empire. Looking at the map of Eurasia, he sensibly assessed the balance of power, and as a genius politician he could not help but understand that France after the defeat of Napoleon is just an instrument in the hands of the Anglo-Saxons directed against Russia.
In this situation, Germany became the first obstacle to the advance of the British eastward. And he decided not to wait for France, urged on by the British, to strike first. This is how the Franco-Prussian War began. This war, although it postponed another great war between the West and the East, but did not prevent it completely.
Author: kadykchanskiy
