An outfit in Russia was the name of a small squad guarding one of the borders of the state - a frontier detachment, in modern terms. In fact, in order to serve as the commander of the border detachment, the Russian prince Rurik was ordered to arrive with his brothers - the descendants of Prus (I hope that you know who we are talking about - a descendant of the tsar). Therefore, he settled not in the capital of a huge state, but on the outskirts - in Ladoga.
This is the story of the Radziwill Chronicle (L. 8v.):
“Our land is great and abundant, but there is no ORDER in it. Yes, you will come AT US (not by "us" - author) princes and volodets …
And cut down the city of Ladoga … From those "vyaryags" (they traded in salt - author) the Russian land was nicknamed (by the name of Prusa-Rus - author).
Novgorod tiy - solu Novgorodtsi (on the Volkhov - auth.) From the Varensk clan … nicknamed.
The Varangians themselves called themselves that, but since the etymology of the word VARYAG (Vyaryag) is Russian, the Varangians themselves are Russian. PRUS (RUS) - Russian name. Russia is a bright place (old age).
In those days, the coast of the Baltic Sea was Slavic. Only in the XVI century. from there, noble families began to move to Russia - "from the German land", "from the Prus" under the influence of German aggression.
Thus, the "Norman theory" (NT) bursts like a soap bubble. After all, both the Ipatiev and Laurentian Chronicles are only lists with RL made in the 18th century. with numerous additions and corrections that distort the image of the past of Russia (Dictionary of the Russian language XI-XVII centuries. - Moscow, Nauka, 1975. - S. 548).
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In many ways, the cause of NT is the misreading of the source text. For 2 centuries Russian scientists have NOT READ THE TEXT ON THIS SHEET (ill. 1).
Fig. 1. Sheet 8v. RL.
Russians in the Middle Ages, according to the statement of Bishop Liutprand, were called Normans (See: V. I. Karpets. Rus Miroweva. - M.: OLMA-PRESS, 2005. - P.24). It was these Normans - the descendants of the fair-haired Aryans - who sailed to America.
Prince Rurik was the grandson of the Obdorite king Vitislav. The Annales regni Francorum mentions that in 789 Charles made an expedition to protect the Mecklenburg obdorites from the Slavic tribe of Wilts.
The Franks built two bridges over the Elbe, crossed the river and, with the support of the allies (the Saxons, the Obdorites themselves, and the Lusatian Serbs), dealt a terrible blow to the Wilts.
According to the annals, they fought hard, but could not resist the huge forces of the allies. Karl drove the Wilts to the Pena River, destroying everything in his path. Their capital capitulated, and Prince Dragovit submitted and gave hostages.
King of the Obdorites Vitsin (Vitislav) is mentioned as an ally of Charlemagne. Defending him and his lands, Charlemagne decided to go on a campaign against the Wilts.
The lands of the Obdorites are extremely small in comparison with the lands of the vast empire led by Charlemagne. How could the ruler of several settlements be an ally of the ruler of all Western Europe? Who could this ally be, if not a relative? Charlemagne was related to the Merovingians: his great-grandmother was Bertrada, the daughter of King Theodoric the Third (see V. I. Karpets. Rus Miroveev). Undoubtedly, Vitislav was one of the Merovingians. He was not a descendant of the Vandal kings, etc., in which case, he would not be in a kinship with Charlemagne. It turns out that the name RURIK was worn by the Roman military leaders. There were several of them, and we will consider two.
1. Almost a hundred years before the fall of Roman power in the Apennines, Ruricus or Ruricius is mentioned, (Ruricius), the ruler of the African Roman province of Tripolis. This is the territory of today's Libya. In the second half of the 4th century, he was executed on false charges in the city of Citifis.
2. The beginning of the IV century. We are talking about the capture of the future Constantine the Great of the Apennines. One of the commanders who then tried to resist Constantine was a certain Ruricius or Ruricius, also known as Ruricius Pompeian, prefect of Verona, loyal to Maxentius, the enemy of Christians. This Ruric led the defense of Verona and died in a bloody battle with the troops of the Christian king in August 312.
The Obdorite lands were the outskirts of the Roman-Frankish world, so the name Rurik could have come to the Obdorites from the Frankish kings (but not the Carolingians).
One of the Obdorite kings crowned himself in the presence of Charlemagne. Why couldn't this obdorite king be of the Carolingian lineage? The fact is that the Carolingians are not Slavs. The obdorites could call ONLY a SLAVIAN to rule - a prince for whom the Slavic language would be native … They, as you know, were at enmity with their non-Slavic neighbors, who wanted to turn them into slaves … And why was the descendant of Frankish kings married, and not the usual cheat? The tradition in the Middle Ages was that none of the descendants of monarchs WAS NOT WEDDING. They became either elders or warlords! Gostomysl, for example, was an elder. It would not have occurred to him to put a princely crown on his forehead, because no one wants to be ridiculed in old age. Perhaps some Frankish Rurik from the Merovingian clan was the husband of the Obdorite princess - mother, grandmother,great-grandmothers or great-great-grandmothers of the obdorit king, who for this reason could be called Rurik.
There are two Byzantine sources claiming that the Russians are, in fact, subjects of the Frankish emperors.
According to the medieval international classification, peoples adopted the nationality (!) Of their rulers. So, for example, in the "Biographies of Kings" under the authorship of the Continuer Theophanes it is said: "On the 11th of June of the fourteenth indicta (year 941), on ten thousand ships, dews sailed to Constantinople, which are also called Dromites, they come from the Franks."
But the Frankish rulers are the Merovingians! When the Carolingians came to power, there were almost no francs in Western Europe. Rurik's relatives were the commanders of the dews, so one should confidently say: Rurik is a descendant of the Merovingians. The idea of the Romans about the Rus as Franks goes back to the long and close alliance of the Obdorite Rus and the Frankish emperors (or their descendants, already kings).
The Frankish crowned heads for a long time kept in touch with the Roman emperors - their relatives, and in Rome on the Bosphorus they knew very well in which of the monarchs of Europe the blood of the Kings of Rome flows. In Western Europe, they preferred to call the Merovingians "Vandal kings". It was safer this way, since the Merovingians were Orthodox emperors, and the Latin heresy reigned in Western Europe.
The Orthodox Merovingians were against the fact that the Rachdonites, with the help of large feudal lords, sent thousands of Western Europeans into slavery to the Mohammedan countries. Major feudal lords decided to change the ruling dynasty so as not to lose the profits from the slave trade, and enlisted the support of the popes. The popes decided that only they have the right to marry monarchs.
Over time, a regicide occurred: almost all the Merovingians were killed. After the regicide, a real genocide of the Slavic population of Western Europe began. The Orthodox Slavs were declared pagan popes, so crusades were organized against them. Alas, dear reader, the goal of the first crusades was the genocide of the Western European Slavs. One of the Slavs who was not killed had to become a slave to an African Mohammedan.
The world has long forgotten about the Orthodox Western European Slavs. In the 16th century, Lutheranism spread to northern Germany. Nobody wanted to hear about the Merovingians - Orthodox emperors of Western Europe!..
The only objective information about the Merovingians - the Orthodox rulers of the Franks - was left to us by Empress Catherine the Great.
Catherine the Great corresponded with F. Grimm. Grimm was a German scientist, writer and diplomat who lived in France. He was well known in the courts of Europe, and with his help Catherine could learn about what was happening in European intellectual circles. Following Grimm's recommendations, She bought books and works of art, and also placed orders for the architects he found.
Catherine the Great stated in one of her letters to Grimm: “I have collected a lot of information about the ancient Slavs and will soon be able to prove that they gave names to most rivers, mountains, valleys, districts and regions in France, Spain, Scotland and other places” (Letter dated 09.09.1784).
A week later, She wrote to him: “I tell you this alone, because it has not been sufficiently researched: the fact is that the Salians of the Salic law, the Frankish kings Childeric I, Clovis and the entire Merovingian family were Slavs, like the Vandal kings of Spain. They are given away by their names and also by their actions. Do not be surprised anymore that French kings take an oath of allegiance to the Slavic Gospel when they are crowned in Reims (we are talking about the famous Reims Gospel)”(Letter dated September 14, 1784). For example, the name Ludwig, according to Her interpretation, consisted of two Slavic roots: "people" from "people", and "move" from "move": "This name seems to mean - to control people, to set them in motion." Childeric I was deposed from the throne because he wanted the Gauls, who received the Latin alphabet from the Romans, to add three Slavic letters to it, namely Ch, Sh, Sh.
She knew perfectly well that a war was fought against the Slavs and continues to be fought: "Do not show these notes to either Bayly or Buffon, this is not for them, although they were the first to point out the existence of a people, which, perhaps, they were not going to open" (Letter to Grimm from 24.12.1788 / Letters of Catherine II to Grimm.-- SPb., TIAN, 1878.-- 478 p.).
Franks came to the territory of present-day France from Pannonia (Tours Gregory. History of the Franks; trans. V. D. Savukova. - M.: Science, 1987. - S. 39). Thus, we see that the Franks came to Western Europe from the West Slavic lands (the present West Slavic lands). That is, they actually came from Moravia. "Moore" is a STONE, a TEMPLE. A close word is IMMEDIATE. That is why their dynasty came to be called the Merovingians. The ancestor of the Merovingians was, according to Liber Historiae Francorum, Markomir. His father was the Pontic Tsar Paris (Priam, Best, Vyatshy). Can you guess who the capital of France was named after? When Princess Olga and Her son Svyatoslav arrived at the palace to see the basileus, They did not bow to anyone, but bowed only to Him. There was no violation of the court ceremony: They were the descendants of the Kings of Rome.
You can read about this in the Book of Degrees [PSRL. XXI. Part I - Book of the Degree of Tsarist Genealogy // Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles. T. 21. Part 1. St. Petersburg: Edition of the Imperial Archaeographic Commission, 1908. - P. 7]:
The same is said in the Legend about the princes of Vladimir: “At that time a certain Novgorod governor named Gostomysl, dying, called all the rulers of Novgorod and said to them:“O men of Novgorod! I give you advice: send a wise man to the Prussian land and call for yourself a ruler from the noble families there. They went to the Prussian land, and found there a certain prince named Rurik from the family of the Roman emperor Augustus, and begged his envoys from all Novgorodians to go to reign with them. Prince Rurik came to Novgorod with two brothers, one named Truvor, the other Sineus, and the third was his nephew, named Oleg. And since that time, having called Novgorod the Great, and the Grand Duke Rurik began to reign in it in 6375”.
“From the very beginning, a Slavic trace was discovered in our research in Iceland. We have already opened the third Slavic dwelling in this region - a square semi-dugout. Such dwellings in the 9-10th century were characteristic of the territories along the Elbe, Oder and Vistula rivers, as well as for Russia. They have no analogy with Scandinavian buildings. Exactly the same Slavic dwellings, different from the Scandinavian ones, I found earlier in Norway”, says the Polish professor P. Urbanczyk (1).
Here are some quotes from a Polish article on Slavic piracy in the Baltic: (Mariusz Zulawnik, PIRACTWO SLOWIANSKIE NA BALTYKU DO 1184 ROKU, 1999 TEKA HISTORYKA, 1999.– zeszyt 16. -S.5-18.):
“Pirates organized expeditions to capture prey or slaves. The rich were valuable prey, for these sea robbers could get a large ransom for them. The rest of the prisoners were sold at auction. A large number of prisoners after each expedition led to the fact that the prices for slaves in the Slavic markets dropped sharply.
Things were different, for example, in Denmark, where prices immediately skyrocketed. The reason for this was the shortage of slaves after the Slavic attacks. The prisoners captured in clashes with the Poles were sold either to Denmark or to Ruyan, and prisoners from the North (Danes) - mainly to the West and South of Europe. More valuable slaves, such as the wealthy, were treated better than others who were used, among other things, in heavy work, such as building ships. They were often bullied.
In Titmar we can read how we dealt with some of the hostages: “Their anger was passed on to the rest of the corsairs. In the morning they cut off the nose, ears and hands of the priest (Latin - a.) (…) and the rest of the hostages; then they threw them overboard into the bay … " The Saga of Hakone Good "reports on the attacks of the Vikings-Wends on the Scandinavian lands (together with the Danes). We quote: "Then Hakon the king sailed to the east along the banks of the Skane and ravaged the country, took ransoms and taxes and killed the VIKINGS, where he only found them, both Danes and VENDOV (RUSOV)."
The vast majority of the kings of Rome and the monarchs of Europe in the early Middle Ages were Slavs.
At the Merovingian court, the Greek, and not the Latin, liturgy was served, and the spiritual care was carried out by the Irish monasteries, the charter of which was precisely Eastern Orthodox, and not Latin. The English medievalist J.-M. Wallace-Hadrill pays special attention to this in his book The Long-Haired Kings. He also points out that the language of the court was somehow special, incomprehensible to both the Romans and the Gauls. What - he does not say (it would be too dangerous for the career of an Oxford professor!); Well, we will recall the remark of Yegor Klassen. Let us also remember that when visiting France, Peter I was shown the Gospel kept in Reims (destroyed during the revolution of 1789), which was read during the coronation of the ancient monarchs, the language of which no one understood. The language turned out to be … Slavic (See: V. I. Karpets. Rus Mirovoeva. - M.: OLMA-PRESS, 2005. - P.321. See: E. Klassen. The oldest history of the Slavs and Slavic-Russ. - M., 1854).
The Balkan Peninsula was colonized by the Slavs. This explains the predominance of the Basileus-Slavs on the throne of Rome. The German scientist J. F. Fallmerayer (1790-1861), following the Roman emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus, considered Romea "completely glorified" (See: Pichet V. I., Shuster W. A. Slavic studies in the USSR in 25 years // Twenty five years of historical science in the USSR / Ed. Volgin V. P. - M. - L.: Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1942. - S. 232.).
Fallmerayer also claimed that the Hellenes were completely destroyed by the Slavs. Due to his insistence on the Slavic origin of today's Greeks, Fallmerayer was somehow considered a Slavophile in Greece (Veloudis, "Fallmerayer", 65; Curta, "Dark-age Greece", 114).
Author: Evgeny Koparev