Freedom and bonaparthy

Can Borodino become the reason for political denunciation today? There would be a desire, but there is a reason.

The user of LJ with a characteristic nickname Vladimir_kreml posted in his blog a note under the heading "The 200th anniversary of the Battle of Borodino will be spoiled by Bonapartists?"

My good acquaintance of St. Petersburg historian Oleg Sokolov is a world -famous scientist, a specialist in the history of Napoleonic wars. It turns out that a foreign agent and a vile Russophobe was hidden under a noble object, awarded for his subversive activities "to the detriment of Russia" of the Order of the Honorary Legion:

He and his entourage are trying to infiltrate the leadership of a large-scale reconstruction of the Battle of Borodino, which can lead to a distortion of historical truth and disruption of this one of the most important military-patriotic events of Russia. Oleg Sokolov author of a number of books dedicated to the army of Napoleon and his campaigns against Russia. In his works and public statements, he repeatedly expressed anti -Russian views on the historical past of the country, instilled the cult of Napoleon and used any opportunity to promote the greatness of France to the detriment of Russia.

The cavalry noun of Patriot Sokolov was easily reflected, not without reason he has been reconstructing the Battle of Borodino for 20 years. But how indestructible the passion for the politicization of history! And what a harsh invectate it sounds in the performance of the author of a miserable gloom "Bonapartist"!

Then you need to write to Bonapartists and Pushkin, who created amazing epitaph Napoleon:

*Praise! He is the Russian people

The high lot indicated

And the world of eternal freedom

From the darkness of the link bequeathed.*

Sending these stanzas from Odessa Alexander Turgenev, Pushkin added not without bitter sarcasm:

*This is my last liberal nonsense, I scattered and wrote the other day an imitation of the fable of the moderate democrat Jesus Christ:

Freedom Sower Service ...*

Yes, the "peaceful peoples" did not appreciate the gifts of freedom, returned to the yoke of absolutism, to the Spitzuten, Arakcheevschina and serfs.

The war of 1812 to this day remains an official myth created by the royal and then the Stalinist agitprop.

Many smart and independent Russian people believed that Russia had no need to fight with France. Historian Nikolai Ulyanov wrote that the war with Napoleon (understanding more than only the 1812 campaign, but all the wars in the anti -Napoleon coalitions) is “the most unnecessary, most bloody, most devastating for Russia from the war of the 19th century ... According to the plan, in unnecessary, in terms of neglect of national interests, this war is one of the most unjustified.”

Both Ulyanov and another outstanding historian Sergei Melgunov considered the only reason for the war the personal ambitions of Alexander I, his indefatigable envy of Napoleon’s military glory. Melgunov resembles the mocking lines of the X chapter "Onegin":

*We knew it very humble,

When not our cooks

The eagle of the two -headed pinched

Bonapartov tent.*

Both quote Alexander the phrase, said after Borodin: "Napoleon or I, I or He, but together we cannot reign." And Ulyanov [that the dignity of the state is not in the military victories: having become a European power in Petra, she learned in many ways a false look at her Europeanism - I did not understand that her victories should not be observed under Kulm and Leipzig, but in the fields of the lyceum ... no capture of Berlin and Paris was able to make it a European country, until its own chulym was taken.

In the 20s of the last century, Soviet historians depicted the war as a fight of reactionary tsarism with democratic France. The mythology of the Patriotic War was required by Stalin to justify the catastrophic retreat of summer and autumn of 1941. In the “combat film storage” number 1 before Hitler, the Teutonic knight, who surfaced from the bottom of the lake of Lake, and then embraced by a cold Napoleon, telling the Fuhrer about the never existing old -faced Vasilisa Kozhina, who would be captured by the Grenadiers of the Great Army, appear.

All this has nothing to do with history.

The theme of Bonapartism is one of the most complex and deeper topics of European and Russian culture of the XIX century. Bonapartist Pierre Bezukhov does not want to fight "against the greatest man in the world." Bonapartist Andrei Bolkonsky goes to war, because he dreams of his Toulon. And Raskolnikov!

Here's what: I wanted to become Napoleon, which is why I killed ... Well, now now?

Dostoevsky deliberately put his most unpleasant character into the mouth of his most unpleasant and vulnerable reasoning, which received the shameful stigma of the "Smerdyakovshchina":

In the twelfth year, there was a great invasion of the emperor Napoleon of the French first, the current father, and well, if these very Frenchmen conquered us then: a smart nation would conquer a very stupid thing and annex to itself. There would even be other orders.

“Order-s” would definitely be different. The winners who returned from Europe, who eventually came to Senate Square, dreamed of starting these orders in Russia. However, the Decembrists are now not in honor - something like a "swamp opposition", a creative class of the empire. Today, General Ivolgin with his fantastic stories about Napoleon would be successful:

Suddenly, Napoleon’s gaze accidentally falls on me, a strange thought flashes in his eyes. “Child!” He suddenly tells me, “what do you think: if I accept Orthodoxy and free your slaves, will Russians follow me or not?” - "Never!" I cried out in indignation.

The campaign of 1812 remained in the memory of the French in the form of the word la Bérézina, denoting a catastrophe, and Parisian boulevards, called the names of the Napoleonic marshals - Lanna, Murat, Soc. In Russia - Borodino bread, Napoleon cake and folk song "noise, Moscow Fire buzzed." In Moscow and in St. Petersburg there is still a restaurant "Lieutenant Rzhevsky", and in it they are served by the Bonaparte veal and pork chopping Marshal Dava. Well, this is an amateur. It seems like a herring "Bismarck" in the Paris beer Lip, where Prime Minister Eduar Errio loved her so much.] (Http://www.imwerden.info/books/lyanynov_n/ulyanov_Skripty.htm#11)