Once again I am convinced: how harmful it is to read books. You live like everyone else, you don’t think of anything like that, and suddenly something like that from a monograph falls upon you, and then you lose sleep. And it is especially harmful to read a lot of and at the same time different authors, because information from their different books in some incomprehensible way begins to cling to each other and create some kind of fantastic picture. I began to form such a phantasmagoria after almost simultaneous reading of Herberstein, Rashid ad-Din, Marco Polo, Hennig, Tizengauzen, Avesta, Ferdowsi and Iranian myths in the retelling of I. V. Rak.
And the most unpleasant thing is that this phantasmagoria concerns treasures. I do not like this topic for the greedy and unhealthy interest that it arouses in the public. Why is this evil and ridiculous path to me? Continuous treasures and one more enormous than the other: the treasure of Frangrasion (Afrasiyab), the treasure of Alexander the Great, the treasure of some khan, or a gurkhan, or Basandai … Isn't it too much for Tomsk and the surrounding area?
It all started with Rashid ad-Din's "Chronicle". This Rashid was the vizier of the ilkhan from the descendants of Genghis Khan. The Ilkhans ruled over a shard of the Mongol Empire in Iran and adjacent territories. Rashid ad-Din lived in 1247-1318, was almost a grand vizier and wrote a three-volume history of the Turks. This book has become one of the most important sources on the era of the formation of the Mongol Empire, the history of Genghis Khan, his children and grandchildren.
So, in the second volume of Rashid ad-Din, on page 52, I read: “(Some people, Tatars) found a storeroom record that in the vicinity of their yurt, in such and such a place, there is a treasure that Afrasiyab buried. It is written in the pantry that the animals in the area will not be able to lift it. " The discovery was immediately reported to the Great Khan Ogedei, the son of Genghis Khan. He reacted quite adequately: "We do not need to see other people's treasures, but what we have, we will all donate to people and our subjects."
It is difficult to judge the size of this treasure. Maybe there was only one lame donkey in that area? However, if you look at the Book of Marco Polo, in which he says that the inhabitants gave a hundred thousand white horses to the Great Khan for the New Year, the size of the treasure seems to be completely different. We will mentally load fifty kilograms on each horse and be horrified: all together they can take out five thousand tons of jewelry! And this is just one year, and in ten years there will be a million horses, and precious metals, or worse, precious stones - fifty thousand tons. Of course, it’s hard to believe in such a size of the treasure, but I’m talking about a phantasmagoria: these are hundreds of cubic meters of gold, how much earth had to be dug in order to reliably bury these cubic meters. I think the size of the Afrasiyab treasure should be divided by at least 16. But even after the division, there remains an unacceptable amount - 3125 thousand tons.,twenty gold cubic meters. At this point, it's time to grunt and ask yourself: where did this Afrasiyab live and live and how could it be that Ogedei had a stake there?
The situation regarding Afrasiyab's place of residence is clarified by Rashidaddin's page 41: “In ancient times, Afrasiyab's falconers were located in the Karchagan area from Karakorum”. The Karakorum is considered to have been founded by Ogedei (1228-1241) and was located south of Lake Baikal on the Orkhon River. But Afrasiyab never lived in those places. However, Rashid ad-Din emphasizes that Karakorum was not alone. In this text, he talks about a completely different Karakorum. He mentions the Karakorum three times and all the time in connection with the Naiman tribe, which lived in the Altai mountains and to the north of them on the Karakorum plain, "where Ogedei-kaan, in the plain there, built a magnificent palace."
The plain north of Altai is already much warmer. But soon it will be very hot.
The medieval Persians called their worst enemy, the leader of the Turanians, Frangrasion, Afrasiyab. Frangrasion (Terrible) it was called in more ancient Iranian myths dating back to the Avesta. It is logical to assume that the capital city of the Terrible Tsar was named after the sovereign - Gración. The city with this name is known to historians. An unnamed Spanish monk in the middle of the 14th century in the "Book of Knowledge" wrote that the legendary presbyter John, Russian by nationality, ruled in the city of Gración. He allegedly sent letters to European kings and popes. According to Marco Polo, Tsar-Pop Ivan died in the battle with Genghis Khan in 1204. In the era of Christianization, the city of Graciona was renamed the city of the cross to Sadin (from the German crust - "cross"). Tatars and Russians lived together in Sadino (this is how medieval Western European cartographers wrote on their maps),and the coordinates of Sadina on medieval maps to the degree correspond to the current smart city of Tomsk. Herberstein wrote that from the mouth of the Irtysh to the city of Gustina two months' journey, and the Cossacks in fifty years climbed from the Irtysh to Tomsk for 59 days. So it started to bake!
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According to Avestan mythology, the Turanians were the older brothers of the Iranians. Some scholars believe that they were the distant ancestors of the Slavs. Common ancestor Feridun, he is old Perdun, excuse me, (in ancient times the Indo-Europeans pronounced "p", not "f", they did not have the last letter at all), dying, he divided his possessions: he gave the Turanian land to the elder Tur, and gave the middle Salma Sarmatia, and the youngest Arius - Iran. The Turanian land inherited the sacred land of the ancestors of Aryan-Weijo, which had an extremely important geographic characteristic: in it, the two shortest days were equal to one longest - this is latitude 56 degrees (latitude of Tomsk is 56 degrees 30 minutes). But notice how beautifully Feridun is etymologized from the Russian language. Doesn't this serve as indirect proof that the Turanians were the ancestors of the Slavs?
Frangracion cleared salinized lakes, laid canals, built underground palaces and was generally known as a cultural hero. He set up his royal palace, fulfilling the behests of Yima, deep underground in the valley of Mount Bakir. There, most likely, he hid his giant treasures. Everyone knows that there is a giant underground city near Tomsk, and that is where it would be necessary to look for the described treasures, if not for the special services and Tamerlane.
The younger brother Arius, according to Iranian mythology, paid tribute to the elder, and, undoubtedly, Frangrasion, at least thanks to this, could accumulate great wealth. Later, the prophet Zarathushtra persuaded the Iranian king Vishtaspa to accept the new religion of Zoroastrianism. The Iranians stopped paying tribute to the Turanians and a long and bloody war broke out between them, which left the most noticeable mark in Iranian mythology. According to the Pahlavi tradition, Zarathushtra experienced enlightenment 258 years before the conquest of Iran by Alexander the Great (330 BC), and 12 years later, the king of Iran, Vishtaspa, adopted his religion. Hence, the war of the Turanians with the Iranians began in 576 BC, and Frangrasion could hide his treasure in his dungeons no later than 564 BC.
The Turanians were commanded by the formidable king Frangrasion. At first he won victories, captured Iran and reigned in it for 12 years. Perhaps due to the robbery of Iran, its wealth has again increased significantly. But later luck smiled at the Iranians and they defeated Frangracion. They say that the blacksmith Kaviy overtook Frangracion in his underground palace and, in modern terms, soaked it there. Perhaps at the same time he dug out all the Frangrasion reserves, but in that case, there would not be a record pantry found by the Tatars. And if she still exists, Kaviy, most likely, limited himself only to personal revenge, and did not commit robbery.
So the treasure lies underground, waiting in the wings? I don’t know, I don’t know … Then another robber came running. They called him Timur, Tamerlane or the Iron Lame. He was a very fierce man, he mowed people like grass. And he disliked the Great Golden Horde Khan Tokhtamysh. He, however, gave cause for discontent. One way or another, in 1390 Timur left Samarkand and moved north for four months. Here, across the Uzi River (toponymists believe that this is most likely the Ob River), on the banks of the Tan River, he plundered the Russian city of Karasu and its surroundings. By the way, they still have the settlement of Takhtamyshevo, a possible residence of the same Tokhtamysh, according to the local Tatar legends. Why not believe them?
In the Tang River, the Tom River is easily recognizable, because the Türks in pronunciation replaced “M” with “H” and vice versa: kumpara - kunpara - “piggy bank”, kanbak - kambak - “kind of grass”. And the Russian city of Karasu, which historians cannot find in European Russia, is nothing more than our now dear city of Gración. The Türks not only changed “M” to “N”, they pronounced all words with letters “G” or “X” through “K”, for example, Khatanga became Katanga, Kheta Ketyu, Angara Ankara among the Turks. The incomprehensible Kra turned into the understandable Kara - "black, black", the even more incomprehensible Siona turned into the su - "water" understandable to the Turks. So Graciona became Karasu, but did not cease to be a Russian city.
And the Treasure of Afrasiyab, most likely, was tidied up by Tamerlane. He robbed, robbed, extorted this secret from some weak person, entered the dungeons and took everything away. It is strange, however, that he did not carry these thousands of tons straight to Samarkand, but moved through Tobol and Yaik to the Volga, where, near the mouth of Samara, he caught up with Tokhtamysh and utterly defeated him. And only after that he returned to Samarkand. In a word, it is possible that the Iron Lame man left here light, otherwise he would not have caught up with Tokhtamysh.
This version that the Great Treasure is still under Tomsk has one more, albeit indirect and very weak, but still confirmation. One person told me that he had a conversation with a special forces soldier who, in the spring of 2001, was sitting in a Tomsk restaurant with some archaeologists from Moscow, four men and three women. I, of course, began to laugh: in the snow, what did they do excavations? No, says my informant, they went down into the dungeons, carried out a lot of treasures and weapons. This story, similar to misinformation, aroused great distrust in me, but I decided to act like Herodotus: I do not believe it at all, but what I heard I heard. And you judge for yourself.
Nikolay Novgorodov