Thanksgiving Siberia

440 years ago, Muscovy began to become Russia, so far, without becoming it, if we proceed from the Constitution: in it the country is equated with the non -existent Russian Federation

Siberia - centuries - synonym for hard labor, inhuman ice space. There was no tragic final for real destinies and artistic novels than Siberia, freedom-thoughts scared it at the universities of the 19th century or, say, civilian Berliners in April 1945-not scorching and death, but it was worse.

In Siberia, there are really different degrees of risk behind the walls of the house; Not death, but next to her, this is a completely different life, not the most prosperous place for those who were not born here.

And Siberia became the salvation of millions. It’s good when there is where to leave, to hide. Thanks to Siberia, our country has become the largest. And the one she is. Its people specially increased so that there was where to escape and not participate. And the collective unconscious - it has long been not only ours, but also all this endless earth with its rivers under the ice, snow, Christmas trees, with its weather and gloomy sky.

Siberia covered the Old Believer branch (trunk?) Of Russians from repressions, leaving the east and north farther and farther. Or remember the eyes that open in Siberia Zuleikh and thousands of people like her - this is not a fiction of Yakhina. The commandant of Yeniseisk said that he could organize a branch of the Academy of Sciences from exiles. Researcher Alexei Babiy* added - and a branch of the Bolshoi Theater: in the Yenisei school No. 45 she worked as a technician and sang at night the soloist of the Bolshoi Theater Olga Mikhailova, the wife of Budyonny. And the “repeat” Ananiy Schwarzburg organized the city choir, in which up to 500 people participated (there were 10 thousand inhabitants in the whole of Yeniseisk). Professors and academics taught local children. The zones and ore mines were cultivated. The horrors are like miracles and miracles as horrors - in Siberia, as in quantum physics or Bible: another logic, another, sparkling algebra, nonlinear ties.

November 8 - Siberian Day. 440 years ago, a detachment of Ermaka entered a sparks, a khan headquarters left at night Kuchum. The flight was preceded by the defeat of his troops. From this day, Muscovy began to become Russia. So so far, without becoming it, if we proceed from the Constitution: in it, Russia is equated with the non -existent Russian Federation.

The countdown of the general history of Russia and Siberia from November 8, 1581 - the result of inaccurate knowledge (in the annals of disagreement, and they were not written immediately and not eyewitnesses), but agreements, general convenience - the crop by this time in the bins, it was time to score pigs. And, accordingly, pour. No wonder these numbers - the beginning of November - there are so many epoch -making events. Domestic history is cyclical, and then

That our ancestors guessed to defeat Genghisid, Poles, the Provisional Government to the seasonal end of their usual works is not surprising.

Alexander III is now remembered by a particularly kind word, and we are guided by it: he, having ascended the throne, decided to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the accession of Siberia, and he was celebrated two years since October 26, 1881. November 8 in a new style. The holiday was common until 1919, then completely disappeared, in recent decades it has been celebrated only in Siberia, and only at the local level, and, as a rule, purely on the initiative from below.

Would Muscovy become a European country if the ocean splashed behind the Ural ridge? Siberia, north - one of the points of the last main domestic discussion: A.D. Sakharov (he, in particular, did not believe in the possibility of effective development of northern spaces) and A.I. Solzhenitsyna (who saw in Siberia a reserve of development). And before that, D.L. Andreev, N.A. Berdyaev, P.A. Kropotkin, D.I. Mendeleev and others. The dispute of the soils and Westerners continues - hopes on the movement of progress, at historical times resting on hopes and aspirations of land and space: see, for example, Putin’s Valdai speech on October 21 and his own, on October 13, on the Russian Energy Week.

Siberia itself does not argue - it buries the debaters for centuries and saves. The one who was scared and afraid of the divisions settled near Leningrad and pushed the Germans from Moscow. This is her, her taiga and rivers, mountains and swamps, her eternal permafrost and her cold now cool the entire planet and support the natural balance.

She finally feeds the whole creative class now, which argues (completely fairly) about the curse of Siberia, about its hydrocarbons, corrupting the free country. About the priority of time over space. Well, yes, what spaces are now, the main thing is science, knowledge, creative. Everything is so, they only feed all the Siberian hydrocarbons and ores that are correctly reasoning so far, the “currency fund” - this is how Boris Pasternak called the Urals (apparently, anticipating that the Tyumen region with its wealthy oil and gas districts Ugra and Yamal under Putin will be written to the Ural Fedokrug).

It is noteworthy that today the day of thanksgiving Siberia is most consistently and widely celebrated in Tyumen and Tobolsk, divorced from Siberia. And this is a confirmation of the crossed Siberians that they remain themselves, it looks almost a front in today's times.

By the way, at the same time, when cutting the Fedokrugs, Yakutia went to the Far Eastern District. Later, the Trans -Baikal Territory and Buryatia with a half of Lake Baikal were taken away in his favor.

Not to say that artificial cutting of administrative borders affects the self -awareness of the Siberians, this is only evidence of the misunderstanding of Moscow, what wealth and problems left her, how to manage them, and her eternal fear of separatism. The deputies from Siberia tried, and more than once, to make Siberia the day of Siberia is nationwide: the rejection was their answer.

And now the Deputy Prime Minister and the head of the Cabinet of Cabinet, Grigorenko, refused deputy Smolin. To his initiative to change the law “On the days of military glory and commemorative dates”, entering it on November 8 - the day of Siberia, Grigorenko replied: this “does not correlate with the concept of a law that provides for the assignment of the status of commemorative dates that are directly related to the most important historical events in the life of the state and society.” That is, for example, on April 27, present in law as the day of Russian parliamentarism is “connected”, and Siberia did not come out with a snout.

And while the imperial festival of the conquest of Siberia, if not prohibited, do not encourage or just ignore Moscow, more and more voices are heard in the local press and network discussions that the era of imperialism and colonialism has ended and it would be necessary to celebrate the day of the declaration of Siberian independence. From Kama and Pechora, by the way, to the Pacific Ocean. It was, however, a very brief story in 1918-for four months. Until the November slaughter of cattle. Repeated Siberia conquered Kolchak.

For 440 years, Russia, its Asian outskirts, that it has many times more, absorbed, but did not digest or mastered.

I did not resolve the main issues. For example, what is better - to make it “suitable for living”, build roads in it and in it or leave everything as it is? After all, it is clear: there will be roads-there will be no forest, there will not be this huge land at all, in relation to which not only the numbers of pumped, mined, cut, shot, cured, issued, issued by mountains work. Not only tons and barrels, kilowatt hours and gigacalories, but also such concepts as “rarity”, “untouched”. Because today this is the same profit in the square. And even in Cuba.

*Chairman of the Krasnoyarsk Memorial, which is part of the Memorial International Organization, entered by the Ministry of Justice in the register of Foreign Agents.

In the nearest numbers, “New” will tell what the Siberians themselves think about their planet, her and their prospects.