… And it was in the summer of 1204 … In 1198, the Pope announced a new, IV Crusade, which took place in 1202-1204. Since the crusaders did not even have enough money to pay for ships for the expedition, the Republic of Venice, which possessed the most powerful fleet in the Mediterranean, demanded in payment for help from the Crusaders - to attack and plunder Christian Byzantium, Venice's main trading rival, under the pretext of uniting the Orthodox and Catholic churches under under the auspices of the Pope. On April 13, 1204, Constantinople was taken and plundered.
In this campaign, the Crusader Host, among other Christian relics, captured the Lid of the Holy Sepulcher, which was taken to Rome, but the ship carrying the shrine was attacked by Algerian Muslim pirates, who sunk it together with the crew and seized the relic. A Varangian (tentatively speaking) merchant, originally from Novgorod, by the name of Dobrynya, who had some business with them, bought the shrine, and “then Dobrynya Yadrikovich came and brought the Holy Sepulcher from Tsesaryagrad with him, and he himself tonsured Khutin at Saint Spas; and by the will of God, love Prince Mstislav and all Novgorodians, and when you send it to Russia, it is put; and Archbishop Anthony was appointed. (First Novgorod Chronicle, entry for 1211).
Dobrynya-Anthony is not at all some fictional character by the priests, he is well known to science under the name of Anthony Novgorodsky. The "Book of the Pilgrim", written by him himself, has come down to us, which, in particular, contains a description of the shrines of Constantinople before it was captured by the crusaders, which proves his long stay in the region from which the shrine came to Russia. Many people probably remember the battle that took place at the confluence of the Izhora and the Neva, after which the secondary young prince, who had never glorified himself before, suddenly became a universal favorite and received the nickname Nevsky …
But for some reason, Soviet and Russian textbooks also say absolutely nothing about the purpose of Jarl Birger's expedition. Well, one cannot accept as such "an attempt to seize Russian and Izhora lands along the banks of the Neva." All Birger's forces would not have been enough to place one person at a distance of half a mile from each other along these shores! No, those brought by Birger were kind of medieval "commandos" - a special detachment, consisting exclusively of knights hardened in campaigns, even without the usual servants and bollards, and they went to carry out a very special mission, authorized by the Pope himself - "to take away from schismatics Cover of the Holy Sepulcher. However, it did not work out …
Until 1492 the Cover remained in Novgorod, and after … And after the Battle on the Ice, the following story happened to it. With the knowledge of the prince, 2 detailed copies were removed from the shrine, one of which was taken to Moscow, and the second remained in the Church of St. Anthony, which was laid by Dobryneya in honor of his heavenly patron. The very same holy relic was sent by Alexander to … the monastery, where it stayed almost until the time of the Schism.
This "Board" will play a key role in the occult history of Russia. The events of the Schism, the uprisings of Razin and Pugachev, the Illuminism of the glorious Golden Age of Catherine, the occult revival of the 1900s, followed by three Revolutions … Ultimately, she ended up in the hands of one ancient boyar clan, with which this whole story is connected, just like the occult history of France is associated with the family of Merovey and the lifetime sculptural image of Magdala, whose profile even in the most recent times adorned the coins of the sovereign French nation …
Now let's talk about something else … As you know, world Freemasonry was formed by the merger of a certain "Underground River" with the construction corporations of the Middle Ages, which kept the secrets of stone craftsmanship in their boxes. Usually indicated - by European construction corporations. Gothic and all that … But a reasonable question should have arisen in any conscientious person, if his eyes are not obscured by the usual tale about the "Jewish-Masonic" conspiracy: is Novgorod not Europe?
Having conquered the greatest City of the North, weren't the unmongolized Muscovites indignant at the "German dress and disposition of the Novgorodians", their shaved beards, not fully recognizing them as "Orthodox"? Wasn't the Lord Sovereign Veliky Novgorod a full member of the Hansa? Was not the European culture the culture of Novgorod, was there no stone building in this city? And were the French bricklayers' lodges closed, for example, for the "brothers" from Germany, Albion, for Italian, Bulgarian workers … For heretics - pataren, bohumil, Albigensian … Why should they refuse their Novgorod brothers in the craft?..
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Yes, they did not refuse, of course. Take a look at the seals of the Novgorod masons: does it resemble anything? But these are not scratches and not names - these are whole doctrines set forth in symbolic language. And the strigolniks of Novgorod did not invent anything particularly new, although they were somewhat ahead of their European colleagues in the "merry craft" … But the Novgorod-Pskov heresy was brutally crushed by Muscovy, which had taken over the skills and habits of Muscovy with blood from the Golden Horde, and only therefore it did not end with the Russian Reformation …
The Horde region strangled Russian Europe. And it was then, in those distant years, that all today's events were predetermined - the current paradigm of the slow and final historical death of the Russian people in the New disgusting Horde … The attempts of Peter-Catherine to wrest the European people from the grip of Asiopian slavery ended in failure and were finally suppressed by Bolshevism, and today we can only sadly observe the final and inglorious death of the once great people, which had its own half-thousand-year republican, veche history and the highest culture in Europe before its Muscovite conquest …
Well, come on, what now. Now it remains only to tell what was kept in the very core of the extinguishing flame of the Russian spirit, now extinguished forever by the dirty diarrhea slurry of the Nashist tolerant plague, dying forever under the rubber cudgel of vile mankurt, who quickly forgot how they themselves had just taken their cut off from the mouths of their colleagues eggs inserted there with a politically correct Wahhabi hand.
Each nation deserves its own history. But you need to at least tell this story - for the edification of others, those who will have fun tomorrow and walk fat dogs on the bones of our ancestors, and ourselves, and our children.
… The second Shrine, with which the Underground River of Northern Russia is connected, is the Belt of the Lord. Here's what is known about this relic. In the opening lines of the Kiev-Pechersk Patericon there is a well-known "story about Shimon the Varangian": there was a de Varangian prince African, the brother of Yakun Slepago, who had a large miraculous crucifix with relics. This African had two sons - Fryand and Shimon … After the death of African Yakun expelled Shimon from his possessions, who, going into exile, took with him the Belt of the Lord, which hung among the relics on the mentioned cross.
This belt was a kind of universal measure, later used in church building, as well as in the geomantic architectonics of Ancient Russia. Further investigations made it possible to establish that the African Patericon is none other than Harald the Severe, who had the nickname "African", because he, as Snorri Sturluson narrates, "spent many years in Africa, seized enormous wealth, gold and all kinds of jewelry …". Shimon, who became Simon - Samund when he was baptized into Orthodoxy, Sigurd's nephew, to whom “in Jerusalem the king Baldwini (King Baldwin) gave Sigurd many relics to the king,” in particular - the Cross with relics, about which the following agreement was concluded:
"Let the Cross be kept where Saint Olav the Konung rests." Sigurd violated this agreement and placed the Cross with relics in Konunghella, the ruler of which after the death of Sigurd became the mentioned Samund. Further, the saga describes in detail the capture and complete plunder of Konunghell by the Wends, which happened five years after Sigurd's death: “They took all the good that was in the fortress. They went to the Church of the Cross and robbed it and took over all its decorations. They took the holy cross and took it with them. They also took the throne, which stood in front of the altar and which was made by Sigurd the king in the Land of the Greeks and brought to him from there. They, however, left him on the steps in front of the altar …
The pagans burned down the church and all the houses that were in the fortress. During the destruction of Konunghella, Samund fled to Russia along with the Belt of the Lord.
We will not dwell on why the pagans of the Vendians needed the Cross, which they immediately threw away … An intelligent person has any ideas for this simple two-step move …
Later, in the 11th century, when designing the cathedral of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, the length of the Savior's belt served as the main unit of measurement and became an all-Russian module of temple building. The belt of the Lord, brought by Shimon, with great accuracy is equal to 3.5 feet, and the two "belts" are the oblique Old Russian sazhen, the main unit of measurements of Ancient Rus.
What do both relics have in common, you ask … Almost nothing. Unless they belonged to the famous Vorontsov family, one of the most ancient Russian noble families, originating from that very "Simon Afrikanovich", "who left the Varangian land for Kiev in 1027" …
We will definitely talk about the further wanderings of these relics in connection with the secret history of our Fatherland … And about the secret that the Vorontsov-Dashkov palace hides … Someday …