A chosen precedent

Putin was not in vain recited in Borodino Luzhniki: despite the enormous voltage of the vertical, he had to hand over Moscow. His militarized trench consciousness received a new impulse. Now he will live with a constant sensation of a hostile environment.

The fact that this is how he perceives the results of the elections, we were convinced on March 5. In former times, as having ascended the throne, the sovereign revealed his mercy: he forgave the arrears, declared an amnesty. Our newly elected president made Vintilovo. The festival is over. In the "Dialogue with the opposition" a point is set.

For Putin, these elections were the most serious test in his political career, and he will not forgive us for this. Receptions of the struggle for power demonstrated by him during the campaign have nothing to do with the European democratic tradition. They are rooted in pre -Petrine Rus'.

After all, the kings in Rus' too, it happened, chose - for example, Boris Godunov, who was incapable of managing Tsar Fedor Ioannovich Shurin and performed the functions of the Prime Minister under him. Boris fully used the administrative resource to inherit the supreme power. When the king died in January 1598, and his widow Tsarina Irina was tonsured in the nun, Boris, as agreed, began to call for the kingdom. He broke for a long time, pretended that he had no thoughts on the throne in his thoughts, and he certainly wanted legitimacy - so that his zemstvo cathedral would be chosen. As long as this Uralvagonzavod got to Moscow, acted with promises and bribery, and enlisted his support.

The ally of Boris Patriarch Job used the most spectacular PR technologies of that era. He arranged regular processions of service people, that is, state employees, with their wives and children to the Novodevichy Monastery, where Boris left after the widowed sister, and publicly persuaded him to accept the royal crown. Boris, as it is said in an official source - an election literacy, shouted in a picture: "And it never came to my mind and will not be in the thought to reign; how can I think of such a height!"

The cathedral was convened, on which the Godunov party was the majority. The Patriarch called the only candidate to elected people and, as historian Nikolai Kostomarov writes , "did not allow them to reason or argue."

The whole further meeting was devoted to the “calculation” of Boris’s rights to the throne and praise his virtues and business qualities. The next three days were prayers in the Assumption Cathedral. The patriarch ordered the delegates to fast. On the third day, the Patriarch with the clergy, boyars and a “popular set” again went to the monastery, beat Boris, but he again abandoned the kingdom. Then the next day the Patriarch appointed the procession, and so that women with infants go, and at the head of the procession to carry the main Moscow shrine - the image of the Vladimir Mother of God. Before this action, Job announced that if Boris refuses this time, he will be excommunicated from the church, the hierarchs themselves will take off their sleds, they will put on monastic cassocks and will not serve in temples, "and the shrine will be made in the violation, Christianity will be ruined, and internecine abuse will be erected, and God will recover on Borisa Fedorovic."

In general, the revolution and civil war will be made without a national leader.

They did not pay money for participation in the procession, but "Boris’s accomplices went between the ink and announced that who would not go to ask Boris to the kingdom, two rubles would take a penalty." A huge crowd filled the monastery yard in anticipation of the resolution of the political crisis. “The bailiffs,” Kostomarov reports, “forced the people to bow, scream and cry ... Many Muscovites from servility and fear, behind the lack of tears, urinated their eyes with saliva, and those who were reluctant to scream and bowed, the Borisov accomplices forced the backs of kicks.”

The third painting "Boris Godunov": "Is there a bow? Sow his eyes." - "No, I will anoint the drool."

This time, Boris gave himself to persuade. Moreover, the whole action was furnished like a suddenly descended insight. Seeing the face of the Virgin, Boris portrayed religious ecstasy, fell in front of the icon and sobbed. Between him, the patriarch and the queen -foreign, there was a dialogue, from which it turned out that his calling to the kingdom was the will of God. “The Most Holy Theotokos with her eternal baby and great miracle workers loved you,” the Patriarch told Boris, “deigned to come to you the holy will of his son. Beaming her coming, obeying the will of God and disobeying the righteous anger of the Lord.”

There was no way to refuse further. “Is this to your philanthropy, Vladyko!” Exclaimed Boris. “And you, my great sovereign, what such a great burden on me put on me and betray me on such an exceeding tsarist throne, which I did not have on my mind?”

Cf. : When he finished speaking, I said: "You know, Boris Nikolaevich, to be honest, I don’t know if I am ready for this, if I want, because this is a rather difficult fate." I was not sure that I want such a fate ...

Patriarch Kirill, without waiting for an official declaration of voting results, already congratulated his Excellency on March 5: "May the Lord be with you and be accompanied by you, blessing the new period of your public service."

And here we are about some kind of "hired manager" dream ...