
In 1925, Igor Severyanin wrote: "Return to the house, Russia is looking for paths." Some emigrants who were launched back to the USSR accepted their return in the form of trophies of the Stalinist propaganda for Russia's return to human foundations and to the norms of the Russian Empire. And so these norms were good?
It is clear that the Evil empire is a black hole, anti -world, and let the stone on the stone do not remain from it. Just before our eyes, the Kremlin antimatter was united with the Crimean Colorado antimatter and destroyed Ukraine, and the number of deeply folk Colorado antimatter in Russia, expressing its Colorado delight about the annexation of the Crimea, went through one over 80 or 90%. And I really want to return somewhere.
Is there where? Remember 1991. How we rushed about, how we tried to break back through the horror of Soviet history, looking for at least some point of support, at least some bump in our swamp. We seriously knocked out the wedges to the remnants of the Romanov family, trying to restore even the monarchy until Count Kent said quite sharply that no one from the royal family would go to this work with a "golden parachute" in the form of an Ipatievsky basement. We agreed with the Patriotic Song "Glinka as a anthem, although we were always sick of" Ivan Susanin "and from" God, keep the king! " We dug up a tricolor, trying to forget that in 1905 the pogromers walked under it, remembering only that it was a Russian flag, from Peter I.
But, refreshing some features of the "prison of peoples" in the memory, after the Crimean tragedy you begin to understand that it is also not the case to return to the old ashes of the Russian Empire. The Russian Empire was tenacious for its "acquisitions": the Caucasus, Baltic countries, Ukraine, Central Asia, Poland, Belarus and Finland. And there was neither NATO, nor PACE, nor OSCE, nor the UN. And there was no one to make us comments. Moreover, not only the emperor, but also cultural Russian society showed outrageous indifference to the right of the conquered peoples for national independence.
At the end of the Soviet era, Anatoly Posnovkin became ashamed - and he contributed to the redemption of our guilt in front of the Chechen people (“Golden clouds spent the night”). Cinematographers brought their repentance to the same topic: Sergey Bodrov with the "Caucasian captive" and Abdrashitov and Mindadze with the "Time of the Dancer". Vladimir Makanin added his novel "Asan". There were no talents on the Polish theme. We will not consider what the Belarusians wrote with our repentance: Vasil Bykov and Vladimir Korotkevich. Leonid Borodin committed a heroic act, showing in one of his stories, if not the heroism of the OUN and UPA, then at least the abomination of the atrocities of the NKVD in Ukraine, which is now called its "liberation."
And in the Russian Empire, repentance was deaf. The most bold, honest and worthy Decembrist Mikhail Lunin served in the early 20s of the XIX century in Poland under the leadership of the Grand Duke Constantine and did not see anything reprehensible in this. Pushkin, regarding the suppression of the uprising of 1830-1831, wrote a terrible poem, because of which Lithuania removed his monument from Vilnius Boulevard into the literary museum. And there was nothing to object to it. "What are you making noise, folk vitia? Why are you threatening Russia with anathema?" - Just now, Putin's propagandists are responsible for the West. And then threats begin. I directly hear Dmitry Rogozin or Kiselev of the same name. "You are formidable in words - try in practice! Or the old hero, the deceased on the bed, unable to screw his Izmail bayonet? Or is the Russian king already powerless? Or do we have a new one from Europe? Or is there enough us? Or from Perm to Tavrida, from Finnish cliffs to a flame colchic, from a shocked Kremlin to the walls of a motion China, sparkling with steel bristles, will not stand the Russian land? ” And what is the difference between 1831 and the great poet from the year of 2014 and the pathetic scribbler who waved a lackey letter to Putin about the Anschluss of Crimea?
There and Tyutchev. Two great poets conspired. "So we made a fatal blow over a sorrowful Warsaw blow, but we will buy this cost of bloody Russia integrity and peace!" And the excuses are quite modern: "The thunderstorm of the saving example of the power to observe the integrity, the Slavs of the native generation under the banner of the Russian gather." And who gave this right to Moscow? Listen to Putin’s speech and the word Tyutchev: "This is our higher consciousness our valiant people-he boldly takes the ways of heavenly excuses." We can burn all in hell for such courage.
In 1863 the same picture. Herzen’s “bell” was read by the Russian liberal society (and even the throne) excitedly. The circulation was at least 2.5 thousand copies. But Herzen supported the Polish uprising - and the circulation fell to 500 copies. The liberals took the side of imperiality! Poland was supported only by nihilist students. And this was their first claim to Alexander the Liberator.
It was no better with the Caucasus. Many Decembrists produced forgiveness and officer rank there: Krivtsov, Golitsyn, Likharev, Nazimov, Odoevsky. It is clear that the unclenched do not choose, but they did not grumble, were not indignant at the attitude of the authorities towards the highlanders, did not leave poetry or prose in their defense. In the right of Russia, no one doubted the Caucasus - except Leo Tolstoy in Haji Murat. But in the "Caucasian captive" he is still on the side of the conquerors. Zhilin and Kostylin served in the Caucasus ... Okay.
A note of empathy is erupted by Lermontov: “Great, rich in aul jam, he does not pay Dani to anyone; his wall is a manual bulat, his mosque on the field of battle. His free sons in the fires of the war are hardened; their louds in the Caucasus, in the peoples of distant and strangers, and the hearts of Russian never passed their bullet!” If all the haruns, all the Circassians and Chechens, having read Lermontov, did not “fled in fear of the field of the battle, where the Circassian blood flowed”, but fought to the last, realizing that the Russian king was “soup”, then we would not see the Caucasus as our ears.
Alexander Liberation did not prevent the indisputable hero of Chechnya Baysangur Benoevsky in 1861, in 1864 he suppressed the Polish uprising, and the reforms did not go for the future, here the gendarmes and quarreled the tsar with youth, here liberalism and nihilism and communicated with the help of gislitz and bombs.
And the educated officers represented by Lermontovsky Pechorin was no better than Lermontovsky Grushnitsky. Neither Maxim Maksimovich nor Pechorin doubted his right to serve in the Caucasus, steal a minor Bel, seduce her, then think where to children (not to marry the savage), and if they had not killed the poor thing, she would have to drown. Such are the heroes of the Lermontov time, not at all superfluous people: all of them were.
Russia also died due to the fact that the White Army did not want to part with the empire on the edge of the grave: Kolchak rejected the help of Mannerheim (price-the independence of Finland), Yudenich was not missed to St. Petersburg (price-Estonian independence).
We will have to return to Novgorod before his conquering Moscow in 1478, to Novgorod, who never joined anyone by force. Our history has become malignant since the 15th century, when instead of the Golden Horde, Moscow arose. If we do not change our genetic code, we will end. It is better to live in the form of a genetically modified country than not to live at all. Ask the late Babylonian Empire.