For your information: Bœuf Stroganoff (Stroganoff beef) is a popular Russian dish made from finely chopped slices of beef (Stroganoff) stewed with hot sour cream sauce. There may also be the names "Bef-Stroganov", "Bef a la Stroganov", "Stroganoff meat".
The orthodox story of the birth of this dish is known, perhaps, to everyone. Even people far from cooking. However, upon closer examination, the assumption inevitably arises that this is the same myth as the history of the salad "Olivier" and the sauce "tartar", which are traditionally attributed to the achievements of French cuisine, although they are primordially Russian. Well, or tartar, if you like. But the article is not about food, of course. I started with cooking because the method of falsifying historical data was just as vividly reflected in it, as in history, as in science as a whole.
So, stroganina is a traditional dish for the Russian north. Delicious, nutritious, and ready to cook in minutes. What could be simpler and more pleasant than on a frosty day to bring a piece of moose meat or a cod carcass from the barn, cut them into thin slices in a bowl, add wild garlic, season with salt and aromatic herbs, sprinkle with vinegar or cranberry juice and enjoy the harmonious taste.
Note: "Sarepta mustard" was previously called Russian mustard, after the name of the village of Sarepta (Volgograd region), which is considered the capital of Russian mustard "vyrviglaz", which, unlike European, is very spicy. The toponym Zarepta is mentioned in the Old Testament.
It is quite logical to assume that someone from the family of a generation of famous Russian nobles modernized this dish, starting to cook it using hot processing, with the addition of Russian mustard and creamy sauce. This innovation, which made the usual dish very popular, quite logically, could become a nickname, and then the official name of the entire ancient family of Novgorod boyars, who later became counts and barons. By the way, the title "Baron" is nothing more than the Europeanized title "Boyar".
But our scientists "proved irrefutably" that:
The ancestor of the Stroganovs is a Tatar murza, in baptism he received the name Spiridon and the surname Stroganov, since in one of the campaigns he was taken by the "yoke" Tatars to the full and for refusing to return to the Mohammedan faith and renounce Orthodoxy by order of the Tatar khan he was tied to a post and "Isstrogan" on stroganin.
Promotional video:
Agree, the legend is only suitable for the script of a low-budget pseudo-historical film. A sane person risks dying from a fit of laughter upon hearing this version. Strange, but the majority do not notice all the absurdity of this tale. Moreover, the story of the "Stroganin from Spiridon" was ridiculed even by such a zealous adherent of the Norman theory as N. M. Karmazin. Nevertheless, the stupidity voiced by Nicholas Witsen continues to be replicated to this day by quite serious people who have authority in the scientific world, degrees, titles and other regalia that distinguish a "real historian" from an "apologist for Fomenkovism."
But God will judge them all. Despite the fact that I could not find the facts of the connection between the origin of the Stroganovs' surname and the name of the culinary masterpiece of Russian cuisine, known all over the world and being the same “visiting card” of Russia as borscht, pie and Tula gingerbread, the sounded version is much more likely, than the official one. The surname is just a nickname, and we are primarily interested in living people who have left a noticeable mark in the history of Russia.
So, historians, who did not squander the ability to think critically, argue that the Stroganov family originates from the moment of the marriage of the hitherto unknown Novgorod boyar son Spiridon to the daughter of Dmitry Donskoy. Unlike the source of the "OBS" (one grandmother said), information about this is contained in the personal archive of Countess S. V. Stroganova. And it also says that Spiridon's grandson, Luka Kozmich, became famous thanks to his civil feat, when he bought out the Moscow prince Vasily the Dark from the polo at his own expense.
Further, the glory of the Stroganov family did not subside throughout the history of Muscovy and the Russian Empire. After its disintegration, the heirs of the family settled in Grozny, and nothing was heard about them until they were forced to flee during ethnic cleansing in Chechnya in the mid-nineties of the twentieth century. And the last celebrity from the Stroganov dynasty was a French citizen Elena Andreevna Stroganova-Lyudinhausen (Elena Andreevna's father is a Russian baron with German roots Andrei Lyudinhausen-Wolf, and her mother is Ksenia Alexandrovna Stroganova). For over thirty years she headed the Yves Saint Laurent Trading House in Paris.
Helen Lyudinhausen.
The history of the Stroganov dynasty is replete with absolutely mind-blowing events and deeds of its members. This cannot but raise doubts about the authenticity of many episodes, as in the case of the biographies of Peter the Great, Peter Martos, the father and son of Bove and the stone cutter Sukhankin. One gets the feeling that some of their achievements were attributed to them by mistake or deliberately, in order to hide the true heroes who became inconvenient for historians due to the political trends of their time.
However, we have what we have. The Stroganovs not only invented beef stroganoff, but also became prominent in the formation of the oprichnina, and then were actually monarchs of Great Perm (Biarmia), owning territories comparable in area to Europe.
The land of the Stroganovs.
The school of icon painting named after themselves beloved was founded. And they sent Ermak Timofeev to the "conquest" of Siberia (Anik Stroganov). And they owned the salt mines, by analogy with Tsar Solomon and Suleiman the Magnificent. And they created the entire industry of the Urals in collaboration with the Demidovs, and many, many things were noted, including in diplomacy, architecture and fortification. Probably, they considered themselves the main "key keepers" or quartermasters of the imperial court, judging by the motto on the family coat of arms:
"Ferram, opes patriac, sibi nomen", which can be translated from Latin as "The preservation of the wealth of the country is a matter of our kind."
Moreover, the Stroganovs preserved and multiplied not only material values, but also spiritual, and most importantly, historical ones. Here is what Yuri Golitsyn writes about them:
It is not even clear how, in the absence of developed communications, they managed to be ubiquitous, having estates in various parts of the Russian Empire. Having a fiefdom in Solvychegodsk, for some reason they built a seating area in Pechory and an estate near Porkhov in the Pskov province. Gostiny Dvor has survived and is used for its intended purpose to this day, but has no special architectural or cultural value.
Gostiny dvor of the Stroganovs * Rows * in Pechory, Pskov region.
But the Stroganovs' estate in the village of Volyshevo (now Volyshovo) is a stunning monument, a real masterpiece, a pearl of Russia, which for some reason today is in complete desolation. A few more years of criminal inaction on the part of the authorities, and our culture will be deprived of this priceless cultural heritage left to us by our ancestors, whom we, it turns out, were unworthy of. Although … A thorough examination of the estate led me to the idea that this does not apply to those cases that are usually attributed to negligence and mismanagement.
It may well be that the estate was deliberately sentenced to death. The fact is that an inquiring mind and a meaningful look will instantly create an uncomfortable situation in which historians will not have reasonable answers to some questions of those who are used to trusting their own eyes, and not the interpretations of candidates and doctors.
The official version of the appearance of the palace
The fact that we are not facing a dacha, but a palace, you understand immediately when you find yourself in the midst of this splendor, which amazes with its grandeur and monumentality, even being in a state bordering on ruins. But let's listen to local historians:
Everything … A similar state of affairs, in which the history of the construction of the palace is simply absent, cannot but plunge into shock and leaves no chance for not to suspect intent. Especially in connection with the fact that a huge number of such objects have been destroyed in the last two decades finally and irrevocably. So, the estate of Count Apraksin Khalakhalnya near Novy Izborsk in the Pskov region, which is heard by everyone because the Apraksin yard in St. Petersburg was also built by him, by a tragic "accident" burned down immediately after the territory of the estate was transferred to a long-term lease to an entrepreneur who set up a nursery there for breeding red deer.
Now the perimeter of Halakhalni is fenced and guarded by armed men in the form of a private security company. Unauthorized entry is prohibited there, and there is no chance of keeping at least what survived the fire. And there is undoubtedly a lot of interesting things that survived. When the estate was still in good condition and people even lived there, I personally saw red granite blocks and slabs there, polished to a mirror-like state. But by some mystical coincidence, the photographs of these objects, which cast doubt on the official version of the origin of Halakhalni, "burned" along with the hard drive of my computer shortly after they were transferred there from a digital camera's memory card.
I am afraid that the same sad fate awaits Volyshevo. There is something to hide. There are structural elements that do not fit into the official version of the palace's origin.
The winged lion is considered to be the "lion of St. Mark", but this is already a modern interpretation, behind which hides more ancient, pre-Christian symbolism, originating from Babylon, or Atlantis. There are references to these creatures in the book of Daniel's Prophecies. “The first is like a lion, but he has eagle's wings; I watched until his wings were torn out, and he was lifted up from the earth, and stood on his feet like a man, and a human heart was given to him. " This beast represented the Babylonian world power (607-539 BC). Like a bloodthirsty lion, Babylon mercilessly devoured nations.
“Behold,” exclaims Daniel, “the four winds of heaven fought on the great sea, and four great beasts came out of the sea, unlike one another.” The winged lion comes out first. This "lion" led his aggressive campaigns so swiftly, as if he had the wings of an eagle.
Over time, this extraordinary lion's wings were "ripped out". By the end of the reign of King Belshazzar, Babylon was no longer such a swift invader and had lost its lion-like dominion over the nations. Babylon has become as slow as a man walking. Having received a "human heart", he weakened. Having lost "the lion's heart", Babylon could no longer act like a king "among the beasts of the forest."
In general, it is clear that nothing is clear, except that winged lions are inextricably linked with the mass death of peoples. What are they doing on the porch of the Stroganovs palace? After all, symbols do not appear randomly, where and when they need to. On September 20, 2017, thanks to my friend from Pskov, Alexander Burtsev, we visited the site and studied in detail everything that remains today of the estate in Volyshevo. And we both have a strong opinion that all the symbolism of the estate contains many references to Zoroastrianism and memories of the flood.
The Stroganovs' estate in Volyshovo in the 80s of the 20th century.
The first mention of the estate dates back to 1784. Its owner was General-Lieutenant Tatyana Danilovna Ovtsyna (nee Putilova).
In 1800, the estate passed to her daughter Ekaterina Illarionovna Vasilchikova, who, in turn, thirty years later passed it on to her middle son Dmitry Vasilievich (1778 - 1859) Vasilchikov. However, everything that we see in the estate today, according to the local historian OV Emelina, was built precisely by the efforts of Ekaterina Illarionova. But … One can argue with this statement, and further I will tell you why.
Then Dmitry Vasilievich appointed the estate as a dowry to his daughter Tatyana Dmitrievna Vasilchikova, who married the Count of the Holy Roman Empire Alexander Sergeevich Stroganov. So the Stroganov family became the last private owner of the estate.
Sergei Alexandrovich Stroganov. The last owner of the estate.
According to Emelina, shortly before his death in 1864, Alexander Sergeevich started renovating the palace, for which he invited the famous St. Petersburg architect Mikhail Alekseevich Makarov, a student of A. I. Stakenshneider himself, the master of architecture in the style of eclectic classicism with elements of the baroque of the 18th century. This moment in history is of particular importance, because it is very similar that historians are thus trying to anticipate the bewildered questions of tourists, who will certainly start asking them, trying to understand where such a miracle appeared in the deep forest of the Pskov hinterland.
But there is one more question that should also arise in the heads of contemporaries. This is the question of why to attract the luminary of architecture, if we are talking about a banal renovation! In addition, not only design and estimate documentation, but even a single receipt or invoice has not been found in the archives to this day. Apparently, if we are not dealing with the usual loss of documents during wars and revolutions, then this fact can be considered as a deliberate concealment of information so as not to explain to contemporaries the reasons for the appearance of the palace where there were not sufficient opportunities for its appearance.
Most likely, we are not dealing with repairs, but with the reconstruction of the existing structure, which was built using technologies that were absent on the officially announced date of "repair". So what we have:
Expedition materials 2017
First, a general plan of the estate, indicating the main buildings and structures:
- Count's house
- Home church
- Main stables (Russian and English)
- English house (18th century)
- Wing. House. (18th century)
- Wing. Buffet, kitchen, butler's apartment (19th century)
- Wing. House of the Countess. (18th century)
- Dovecote, well. (19th century)
- Manege. (19th century)
- Pharmacy and living quarters. (19th century)
- Working stable. (19th century)
- Kennel. (19th century)
- Menagerie. (19th century)
- Psarny yard.
- Farm. (19th century)
- Hunting stable "Cossack"
- Stock. (19th century)
- Residential house for hunting. (19th century)
- Large cart. (19th century)
- Mechanic's house. Workshop. (19th century)
- Poultry house. (19th century)
- Cast iron gates. (19th century)
- Dam abutments. (19th century)
- Mail. (19th century)
- Manager's house. Office. (19th century)
- Gatehouse (destroyed)
- Boundary pole (destroyed)
- Burial ground
- Mill (destroyed)
- Hunt manager's house
- Bath and pond with her
- Gardener's house (destroyed)
- Wooden shelter buildings (destroyed)
- Clerk's garden
- Steward's garden
- "Fermochka" (for the game)
- "Grotik"
- Chestnut "giant" at the house of the countess
- Lilac alley
- Flower beds
- Front garden near the house with a pharmacy
- Greenhouses
- Poultry raft
- Workshops and other outbuildings
- Griffins on pedestals
- School.
- Vegetable gardens
- Barn
- Swing
- Linden Alley
- Entry and run for horses
- Dressage road
- Larch alley
- Birch alley
- Willow cattle run on summer pasture
- Kindergarten
- Nursery (running)
- Hazel
- Orchard
- Rose garden
- Dubki
- Sticky
- Pines
- Cricket meadow
- Slide
- Ice rink location
No. 5 on the plan:
Residential wing of the 1840s the buildings. During the Soviet era, it housed the management of a stud farm.
An absolutely charming building. Several families still live in it, only one apartment is empty, on the ground floor, in the right wing of the building.
Under the modern plaster, you can see the old one imitating large building blocks.
Fire of Varakhran.
Above the front door, we unexpectedly find the Fire of Varahran (Bahram). At the time of the Sassanids, he was considered a protector of everyday needs, a keeper of travelers. Bahram became a symbol of righteousness, a source of strength for people in the struggle against the forces of evil and darkness, led by the spirit-destroyer Anhra Mainyu. Confuses nothing? I was simply struck by the abundance of Zoroastrian symbolism and the complete absence of Christianity. Everything is exactly the same as in St. Petersburg. Do you continue to believe that Orthodoxy is the primordial Russian universal faith that has dominated since the time of Prince Vladimir the Red Sun?
And on the arch of the walled window, we see ancient symbols of wealth and prosperity.
No. 6 on the plan:
Buffet, kitchen, butler's apartment.
The middle of the three wings is completely ruined, and it is no longer possible to restore it.
No. 7 on the plan:
This wing is the most elegant of the three in terms of decor. Locals call it "Countess's House". The name, apparently, is due to the fact that the sister of the last owner of the estate, Countess Maria Alexandrovna Stroganova, lived here for a long time. The "Countess's House" is one of the earliest buildings of the estate. His image is already on the drawing of the general plan of 1784.
* House of the Countess *.
Again, solid "antiquity".
I don’t know who and why it took to date two wings to the eighteenth century, and one to the nineteenth. Even a layman is struck by the unity of the preservation of the brickwork, which suggests that all three outbuildings were built simultaneously, from the same brick, by the same masons. Moreover, the skill of these masons was of such a level that today such people are still to be looked for. The dimensions of the bricks suggest that they were made in the second half of the nineteenth century. At that time, standards were adopted that are slightly different from those of today. Modern brick measures 250 x 120 x 65 mm, and one of the older brick standards was 260 x 130 x 62 mm. Of these, the Stroganovs' estate in Volyshov was built.
The quality of the bricks from which the entire complex is built is striking. There are no deviations from the standard at all, which is unattainable even for modern computerized production. The strength and wear-resistance characteristics of nineteenth-century fired bricks are absolutely stupid. A similar brick, produced in Soviet factories in the post-war period, today crumbles into dust with your fingers without much difficulty. And brick of the nineteenth century has traces of erosion only on the outside, in places left without the protection of plaster.
The quality of the mortar is also exorbitant. And I think that chicken eggs have nothing to do with it. There was no need to add eggs to the mortar used to hold the brickwork together. This solution is so strong that it surpasses the strength characteristics of the brick itself. If this were not the case, the estate would have long been dismantled by the locals for their own needs, as they had dismantled all the Dutch ovens that were installed in the twentieth century. None of the walls, built in the nineteenth century, can be disassembled so as not to completely destroy the brick from which these walls were made. Here is the true "high-tech" that we have lost …
No. 1 on the plan:
The count's house.
This is the back of the palace, or the courtyard, where organizational events were held in the days when the Volyshov secondary school was located here from 1944 to the early eighties of the twentieth century.
The left wing of the palace.
The right wing of the palace.
The steps of the staircase are clearly not carved out of stone, but cast from geopolymer concrete, which will be "discovered" only at the end of the twentieth century.
The porch slabs bear traces of a relatively recent renovation with modern cement-based mortar. But under them we see "antediluvian" slabs with traces of significant wear, but which are clearly of artificial origin, similar to the steps.
The basement floor has windows with arches, clearly indicating that the building was built on top of an antediluvian structure, the first floor of which was completely covered by sedimentary rocks in the form of clay, sand and silt. This means that the architect M. A. Makarov was not engaged in repairs, but rebuilt the estate anew, making the most of what was left of the antediluvian ruins. So, the first floor of the building turned into a "basement". And the windows about two meters high, which were available before, were bricked and plastered from the inside. It is clear that when constructing a building from scratch, basement openings are constructed in a completely different way. But if you have to adapt to the existing project what was built before, then you simply adjust the dimensions of the existing opening to the conditions of reality. This is what we see in the photo.
Back door
But let's go inside, from the side of the yard. Those. from the back door:
Rosette on the ceiling of the hall.
* Masonic * marble checkerboard on the floor of the hall.
Scientists claim that it is Italian marble. However, it is not possible to determine whether this is really so. It is quite possible that this is artificial marble, and it is glued so firmly that even looters have not been able to pull off some of the tiles to this day.
The marble staircase has lost its balustered railings, but the steps are fairly well preserved.
Dormer windows in the rear hall.
Second floor
The monumentality of the hall and the entire first floor contrasts sharply with the second floor. Return to the photo, which shows the entire palace from the side, and you will see how the "first" floor, which was probably similar to what is now underground, with the second, attic, where the windows are tiny, and the height of the ceilings corresponds to the current standard, and it will become clear that, in fact, Makarov built only the attic floor. The "basement" sunk in clay and the current first, which was most likely the second, actually differ sharply from the wretched "second" floor of today.
The openings here correspond rather to those in the Hermitage. They are adapted for tall people, but they do not at all meet the requirements for buildings erected in areas with a cold northern climate. For the Mediterranean, such standards are the very thing. In hot climates, it cannot be otherwise. But in winter conditions, during which the temperature drops to -40 degrees Celsius, a building with such openings cannot be heated using the means known in the nineteenth century.
Echo of War. * Hello *, left by the European * civilizers of barbarian Russia * during the Great Patriotic War.
Filmed in a room that, during its existence in the building of a secondary school, was most likely part of a catering unit. Why this notch in the wall was made in the nineteenth century, we can only guess.
The design of the floors between the "antediluvian" floor and the modern one absolutely corresponds to our notions of resistance materials. It is not clear only at which factory the channels were manufactured, how they were delivered and, moreover, how they were mounted in the presence of primitive lifting mechanisms. Only one thing is not in doubt: this is not a remake. Channels were actually manufactured in a factory way in the second half of the nineteenth century.
And here is the first brick with the markings found:
Leningrad fireclay brick.
From the very beginning of the expedition, I was looking for bricks with markings. Historians-"brick experts" will understand me, because bricks are one of the most reliable witnesses of historical events and cannot lie. And, in general, this thesis has been confirmed in practice again, and very convincingly.
This copy confirms the version that the entire system of traditional, familiar to us heating of buildings appeared in Volyshovo quite recently. Previously, there was another, pneumatic …
Continued: Part 2
Author: kadykchanskiy