Land and build

Again in Russia, a stormy discussion launched on the sacramental theme "time to blame." The interview with those who dwells or gathering to dump on the “Colt” began, continued with the text of Ilya Milstein on the “Snob”, followed by the dialogue between Maria (from the dumpers) and Vladislav (from the remaining). Finally, Leonid Burshid published on Facebook his “ last sorry ” before leaving for Europe, and Zoya Svetova in The New Times opposed the “heroization of departure”, which is almost equivalent in her eyes.

The previous surge of this discussion was in December 2010. He was initiated by Olga Romanova. She unequivocally stated then that she would leave as soon as her husband was released. But they did not leave. Olga entered the Constitutional Court of the opposition and became one of the organizers of the Swamp-Sakharov protests, created the public movement "Sitting Rus'", and is now elected to the Moscow City Duma as an independent non-partisan candidate. But Olga Romanova is still a special case.

Well, when, in fact, it was not time to bring from Russia? If you figure it out, this is a Russian national idea.

“The intelligentsia? Do you know who the first Russian intellectuals?” Writes philosopher George Fedotov. “Under Tsar Boris, they were sent abroad - to Germany, France, to England - eighteen young people ...” The matter was unheard of. Relatives escorted young men in Nemetchin, as if to the next world, sobbed, as if the dead. It almost happened: not one returned to Muscovy. “Undoubtedly, the return to Moscow meant martyrdom,” Fedotov continues. “Having breathled by air of spiritual freedom, it is difficult to voluntarily return to jail, at least a native, warm prison. But we are still amazed at this ease of national departure: to dissolve in a foreign element, without a struggle, without a crowd, it is silently drowning, as if with a stone on the neck! The culture that gave rise to him and menacingly warns of the future. "

Under Demetria, the first king-west in Rus', sharply went uphill to the mountain of the young prince Ivan Hvorostinin. He owned Latin and suffered European scholarship through it, respected the Catholic faith, for which Tsar Vasily Shuisky was exiled as a heretic in the Joseph-Volokolamsk Monastery. After the overthrow of Shuisky, he came out of the opal not repented. Under Mikhail Fedorovich, he was exiled for the second time, now to the far Kirillo-Belozersky monastery. The tsarist decree said that the prince "fell into heresy, and in the faith staggered, the Orthodox faith was blasphemed, the customs and Christian custom did not keep the image of the Roman letter on a par with the images of Greek letters ... He said that there would be nothing to pray for and the resurrection of the dead."

The prince was in Moscow something like an internal emigrant - he definitely had no one to share his thoughts with his thoughts. However, those who should, carried out that he called the sovereign “a despot Russians” and “traded, as it were ... to drive to Lithuania ... He said in conversations that there were no people in Moscow, all the people are stupid, there is no one to live with ... as if Moscow people have a mug, but they live all the lies.” Going to flee to Lithuania or Rome (the legal departure for permanent residence was impossible in those days), Hvorostinin sold his estates and the Moscow house.

Vasily Klyuchevsky calls Ivan Hvorostinin "a remote spiritual ancestor of Chaadaev," and Georgy Fedotov draws the line: "From King Demetrius (False Dmitry) to the prince Ivan Andreyevich Hvorostinin ... to Kotoshikhin, who was hated by his hated Moscow life from Sweden, through the entire 17th century, a thin chain of heretics stretches and stretches The apostates along with the careful fans of the West, the Matveevs, Golitsyn, Ordin-Nashchokins. "

Then the time of the European King struck: "In the atmosphere of the civilian war (" Streletsky riots ") the great apostate was brought up in the atmosphere of the civic warfare, which broke Russia from its circular orbit in order to throw a comet into space." It seemed that the ruling class of Russia forever connected its fate - “integrated”, we would say today - with European civilization, and in the 21st century we are rapidly returning to pre -Petrine Rus', again “Orthodoxy or death”, again to the crop failure, and in the epidemic, and in dissent the damned heretic of a stranger, and double citizenship and a double citizenship and abundance for The line is equal to state treason.

It seems to me that the bacillus of this dense medieval soilism penetrated the brain and departing, inspired them with a subconscious complex of guilt - otherwise Leonid Berschid would not have been dramatized by his departure, he would not have written a “new wave emigration manifesto,” as Zoya Svetova was expressed. The drama was with an iron curtain, but now there is no drama. All over the world, people live in two or three countries and simply do not represent any other existence. In the age of global communications, this is not a problem at all. The "bad tragedy of impaired papersi" - this is how Boris Pasternak put it on this subject. Changing the usual way of life is not easy. But do not turn ahead of time into a cut off. Ultimately, it all depends on your own internal monologue.

I do not want to discuss fictions like a "cultural environment" or "cultural roots." The roots of Russian culture were and are in the West. In the twentieth century, Russian culture was preserved, survived and increased only thanks to abroad.

“A new wave of emigration,” writes Leonid Burshid, “the fifth, it turns out - not forced and not political, like the first three, and not economic, like the fourth (the one that swept in the 90s). How to call this wave? Perhaps, emigration of disappointment.”

Perhaps. Nevertheless, now we need to do not wallow and justify yourself and not even explain your decision, but to think about how to create new significant Russian cultural projects abroad in order to survive the current in a fever.

By the way, about those young Muscovites sent to the teaching Boris Godunov. During the years of unrest, it was not up to them, but ten years later they remembered. The Embassy of Alexei Zyuzin, sent to London, was instructed to raise the question of defectors. They ordered this: “And they pose in the Aglin state because in the Moscow state in sins from evil people there was trouble and disorder: now, by the grace of God and the great sovereign of our Tsar’s Majesty ... the Moscow state of the builder and all the good are relaxing. And now they are needed by the Tsar’s Majesty.“ But neither this nor of this or from this, nor from this or from this, nor from this or from this.