Well, now, let's summarize in order to determine our attitude to the "Genealogical history of the Tatars, translated into French from a handwritten Tatar book, the work of Abulgachi-Bayadur-Khan, and supplemented by a great number of notes …".
The first vague suspicions of the reader arise already when studying the first chapters of the book, and they are caused by the obvious bias of the presentation, which is motivated by the author's ardent religiosity, which looks very doubtful, since, as we know from other sources, in Tartary, the locals in the bulk were far from teachings of the Abrahamic religions. Much later, a larger number of Tatars adopted Mohammedanism, which in general became the main reason for the division of peoples into Tatars and Orthodox. The Russians called all those who professed Mohammedanism Tatars. There were no nationalities, but each tribe knew its ancestor and called itself by his name.
So the Uzbeks called themselves Uzbeks because the founder of their clan was a descendant of Ogus Khan, Uzbek Khan. And when the descendants of Uzbek adopted the Mohammedan faith, the Russians began to call them Uzbek Tatars, and in Europe they called them “uzbek tartary”. Hence the great number of "tartarii" on the cards. These are not countries in the understanding that is accepted in our time. The maps indicated the lands in which the Cherkasy Tatars, Nogai Tatars, Kyrgyz Tatars, Siberian, Kazan, etc. live. It is important to understand this so as not to be mistaken yourself and not to mislead others about who the Tatars and Moguls are, as well as who the Tartars and Mughals are.
Today we all divide each other into Russians, Tatars, Bashkirs, Chuvash, Estonians and further down the list. However, ask the average American or Brazilian about who lives in the area, pointing to the map, what will he say? Right. He will say one word: - "Russians". All who live within the former USSR are still Russians for the rest of the world.
Exactly the same picture was in the past. The whole world called those who live east of the Danube tartars. Indiscriminately. Even when the actual tartar was no longer left, when all the khans were from the Mogul clan, and the princes were from the Russians. But both the Russians and the Moghulls, themselves being pagans, were very tolerant of the emerging Mohammedans and Christians. Their worldview did not even allow the thought that religion could turn out to be a hostile and dangerous thing. Underestimation of this danger has led to what we now have - religious enmity.
Therefore, the Mohammedan interpretation of the events described is immediately alarming and makes one critical of all the author's assessments. But then we see details that already force us to talk about direct falsification of the original text. I say “primordial” because I am inclined to believe that it did exist in reality, and was not written from the first to the last page already in our time, as it was, for example, with the Kraledvor Chronicle, which was created for the sake of one the goal is to create a nation of Czechs with their own ancient history, European, not Slavic.
Initially, the ancient manuscript existed, but was subjected to very serious revisions. "Leapfrog" in chronology leaves no doubt that this is a side effect left after some parts of the chronicle were completely removed, and some were changed. After removal, the fragments were rather carelessly glued together, without worrying about the chronology. But the first chapters telling about the legends, according to which the peoples of the Mogul and Tartar were born, have a very slender, scrupulous chronological ruler with dates.
What happened to the author when he came to the events of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries? Why from that moment on, everything went haywire, and the events were not described in the order in which they occurred? Why are they presented as if they were shuffled like a deck of cards? The answer is obvious. This is the result of a later revision.
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The next moment, which causes extreme bewilderment, is the sudden transfer of the scene of events. If at first the geography of the chronicle was very extensive, and events took place throughout the continent, from Taimyr to India and from the Crimea to the Sea of Okhotsk, then later, starting from the end of the fifteenth century, everything that does not happen occurs only south of the fiftieth latitude.
The reasons for this phenomenon could not remain ignored by the author, since from the very beginning he showed unprecedented thoroughness in describing events. It is difficult to suspect him that, up to a certain point, he presented events with exceptional reliability, describing the smallest details, and then suddenly changed in character and slipped into frank hack. This is not usually the case. This happens when a book has more than one author. One wrote half, and the other finished for him.
And this, most likely, is the main reason that the manuscript was rewritten. A description of the events that influenced the exodus of the Moguls from Siberia to the south and southeast was removed from it. And the subsequent events were completely rewritten anew, albeit on the basis of the previously available ones. However, as I indicated above, some moments that the scribe did not pay attention to, still survived, and they unequivocally make it clear about the catastrophe of a continental scale that took place when the lands moved to the north.
That is why the further course of the history of Kathai, Tangut, Tenduk, Naimann and all Turan was interrupted. That is why the Great Khan, who was the only head of all Tartary, did not become, and on its fragments a whole bunch of small khanates grew up, vying with each other for the right to become the heir of the entire Great Tartary. This process is repeated in history on a regular basis, and you and I are witnessing a similar situation when the USSR did not become, and its subjects began to stubbornly strive for their own greatness, in every possible way proving to the world that they were under the yoke of the Soviet Union for seventy years.
But you need to learn from the example of Tartaria. If the newly-minted Presidents knew history, they would also know what is inevitably ahead of them. Anyone who does not remember the parable of how Genghis Khan taught his sons, letting them break first one arrow at a time, and then one fascine, is doomed to perish alone and to be completely forgotten by their descendants.
A lamp post of one of the embankments of St. Petersburg, made in the form of a fascine.
The voids formed in the annals had to be filled somehow, so a very widespread technique was used, when relatively recent events of the past are artificially pushed back into the distant past. Probably, this is exactly what happened with the episode with the death of the detachment of Ataman Begovich. Today we know that this happened in 1714-1717. How, then, could this story be described by an author who died forty years before the events described?
One of the explanations is this: the one who falsified the chronicle did not think that information about the Khiva campaign would be preserved in history, and its date would be documented. Therefore, being sure that the little-known, in his opinion, event can be painlessly attributed to an earlier period in order to fill the space formed after the removal of a chapter.
However, one cannot exclude the fact that many events in history are repeated with such precision that it is later difficult to distinguish one from another. The Ural Cossacks could go to Khiva dozens of times, and several times their units could be destroyed. And historians later could easily think that all these legends, similar in meaning, narrate about the same event.
One of the striking examples of this is the story of the Young Guard. Most of the inhabitants of the USSR are fully confident that the Komsomol resistance in the territory occupied by the Wehrmacht was the only and unique phenomenon during the Great Patriotic War. And few people know that the Krasnodon organization became generally known only because Alexander Faddeev wrote about it in his book.
But there were many such organizations. For example, in the city of Ostrov, Pskov region, there was its own Young Guard, which exactly repeated the fate of its peers from Donbass. If you do not know that we are talking about two unrelated episodes, then you can easily fall into error and think that the narrator is telling about the same event.
Well, in conclusion. Only after reaching the last chapter of the second volume of the Chronicle History … does the reader begin to understand that the manuscript was not written by Abulgachi-Bayadur-Khan at all, because it describes in detail his entire biography from the date of birth to the date of death. He couldn't write this about himself. And everything falls into place in the afterword.
It turns out that he corrected and committed this very book Anush-Mohammed-Bayadur-Khan. And the main word here is CORRECTED. This is who is responsible for the census of the present chronicle of Tartary. But we must remember that this book was subsequently translated first into French, and then from French back into Russian, but much later by another author. And without a doubt, from each of the translators, something was lost in the text, and something was added or distorted.
And yet, even in this form, the book is an invaluable source of information about our past. If we consider it separately, without taking into account other sources, then there is not much sense in it. That is why the censorship missed it. Both tsarist and Soviet. According to the censors, there is nothing in it that does not correspond to the generally established canons. But they were wrong. They themselves did not know how much this boring, tedious book can tell someone who knows where and what to look for to reconstruct a true story.
And then we will talk about absolutely amazing things that seem common to us. The whole world is convinced that it is customary for all nations on all continents to greet each other with a handshake. But it turns out that shaking hands was originally a purely Tartar tradition. Foreigners described this ritual with great surprise and considered it a wild barbaric habit. But I'll start in order.
Author: kadykchanskiy
