Аннотация: Lenya Bobrov remembers Peter the Great and Semyon Dezhnev during approaching Tsaritsyn (Volgograd). A story.
Lenya Bobrov remembers Peter the Great and Semyon Dezhnev during approaching Tsaritsyn (Volgograd). A story.
The ship was moving towards Tsaritsyn (Volgograd).
Lenya Bobrov was thinking: what to write and post on the Internet about the 350th anniversary of Peter the Great?
According to the new style, Peter the Great was born on June 9, 1672.
A huge amount of merits belongs to Peter the Great. The 350th anniversary of his birth was widely celebrated and covered.
What can Lenya Bobrov add to this topic?
Lenya recalls Semyon Dezhnev.
Semyon Ivanovich Dezhnev was born around 1605, died at the beginning of 1673.
Thus, Semyon Dezhnev could witness the celebrations in honor of the birth of Peter the Great.
One of the merits of Peter the Great is the return of the Baltic coast to Russia.
Part of the Baltic coast belonged to the Novgorod Republic, passed to the Russian state, and then was lost during the war of Russia against almost all of Europe - during the Livonian War (started by the Moscow kingdom).
Even before the birth of Peter the Great, in 1648, Semyon Dezhnev discovered the strait between Asia and America (later called The Bering Strait).
Even before the birth of Peter the Great, in 1637-1642, the Don Cossacks took and occupied Azov.
Thanks to Peter the Great for many achievements.
But, in fairness, it must be said that free - not serf, not tsarist Russia - developed very successfully.
Tsarist, imperial Russia found a relatively comfortable place for the Cossacks in the empire, screwed a sign "military class" [military social stratum, layer] on them.
In a country with a Table of Ranks, the enormous creative potential of free, not serf, Russia remained unclaimed.
For about 75 years - from 1721 to 1795, the empire lived relatively successfully.
But already in 1795, the partition of the Commonwealth followed - and until 1917 the empire lived in conditions of open or hidden confrontation with all of Europe. Europe has never agreed to this partition.
And Vladimir Lenin, in the one of the first decrees (dated August 29, 1918, number 698 "On the rejection of agreements between the government of the former Russian Empire and governments: The German and Austro-Hungarian Empires, the Kingdoms of Prussia and Bavaria, the duchies of Hesse, Oldenburg and Saxe-Menningen and the city of Lubeck." Article 3.) irrevocably cancelled all treaties and acts concluded by the Government of the former Russian Empire with the Governments of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire concerning the partitions of Poland.
The partition of the Commonwealth in 1795 outwardly looked like a great achievement.
But in 1868 the Russian Empire sold Alaska. It no longer looked like an achievement, and this action was carried out with the utmost confidentiality.
The declining level of efficiency of the organization based on the Table of Ranks became more and more obvious.
The Peace of Portsmouth (1905) ushered in a new era - Russia obviously based its security on an alliance with the United States (in addition to an alliance with France and Great Britain).
The creative potential of the Cossacks did not disappear after the adoption of the Table of Ranks.
This can be evidenced by the entrepreneurial and creative success of Alexander Khanzhonkov.
However, it should be noted that this success followed after 1905 - after the publication of the October Manifesto.
So Khanzhonkov's success is his personal success, the success of the new political conditions.
The imperial bureaucratic structure has never been able to effectively use the potential of free people. Perhaps the development of the Far East was an exception?
A relatively comfortable life in the conditions of imperial Russia turned into great bitterness for the Cossacks after the disappearance of the Empire. In comfort (according to the version of Empire) there were pluses and minuses. For example, some cultural and ideological limitations were as if conserved.
Ataman Kaledin saw no prospects and shot himself. It can be compared with Dönitz - Karl Dönitz did not forget to transfer his "authorities" to the government of Germany. It would seem - what kind of "authorities"? And why to transfer them? The other political history... Other historical traditions...
The subjects of the Empire, who safely - by the will of events - found themselves in Western Europe after 1917, suddenly found that they were little adapted to normal European life.
Why were they worse than other Europeans? A good education, an outstanding Russian culture... Some political habits "stuck into the skin"... Or maybe these "political habits" were an objective necessity?
In general, the Table of Ranks had its negative side.
The Bulavin uprising, which took place during the reign of Peter the Great (during the Northern War), was brutally suppressed.
Many Cossack towns on the upper Don were destroyed.
Don lost relative independence and gradually got his place in the empire - he became a source of armed people for the Empire.
The participants of the Bulavin uprising captured Tsaritsyn (now Volgograd) for some time.Hardly any memorable places associated with the uprising exist - places that Lenya could visit and photograph.
To write about the achievements of Peter the Great - what can he, Lenya Bobrov, add to what everyone knows?
Write about the Bulavin uprising? From the point of view of its geography, this is an interesting historical event. But will there be a positive response from influential people and from the public?
What can Lenya do in such a situation? To sing a few words preserved in his memory?
Lenya strained his voice and sang as loudly as possible:
- Ouch! Yes, I had a dream with this vision!.. [words of a Russian folk song, also known as "The Cossack's Parable" (Казачья Притча) or as "Stepan Razin's Dream" (Сон Степана Разина); "Oy, to ne vecher" (Ой, то не вечер) ]
The sailors and passengers looked at Lenya with surprise.
Lenya did not almost remember other words, so Lenya's singing in connection with the 350th anniversary of the birth of Peter the Great ended there.
Lenya took a photo of the Volga coast from the ship and posted the photo on the Internet. Next to the photo, he made an explanatory inscription: "We are sailing to Volgograd (Tsaritsyn). Here the participants of the Bulavin uprising and soldiers of Peter the Great watered their horses!
June 10, 2022 11:34
Translation from Russian into English: June 9, 2022 21:33.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский "Лёня Бобров вспоминает о Петре Великом и о Семёне Дежневе, приближаясь к Царицыну (Волгограду). Рассказ".
{ 3045. Лёня Бобров вспоминает о Петре Великом и о Семёне Дежневе, приближаясь к Царицыну (Волгограду). Рассказ.
MMMXVI. Lenya Bobrov remembers Peter the Great and Semyon Dezhnev during approaching Tsaritsyn (Volgograd). A story. }