Conversation on the air of the Orthodox TV channel "Soyuz".

- Hello, dear friends! The program "Spiritual Revival of Russia" is on the air, hosted by Polina Mitrofanova in the studio. Today we have a guest from Moscow in our studio, Petr Valentinovich Multatuli - historian, researcher of the fate and era of the reign of Nicholas II .

Hello, Peter Valentinovich!

- Hello.

– Pyotr Valentinovich, when did you become interested in the topic of the reign of Emperor Nicholas II? Perhaps it is wrong to say that these are purely personal motives? I will tell our viewers that you are the great-grandson of Ivan Mikhailovich Kharitonov, the cook of the Royal Family. But I don't think that was the only motive?

- Of course not. But first I want to greet the people of Yekaterinburg; I have not been here for nine years - in 2000 we were here for the last time. The city is changing beyond recognition - of course, for the better, and every year, and it seems to me that the main role in this is played by the fact that it is, after all, the city of the Holy Royal Passion-Bearers. And of course, Yekaterinburg has every opportunity to gradually become the spiritual capital of Russia. These are not loud words - such is the feeling when you come to Yekaterinburg. Again, because the feat of the Royal Family, the feat of God's anointed one, took place here.

As for my personal study of the life of Emperor Nicholas II, I always like to remember: in my childhood we had the Niva magazine for 1904. We loved to look at it with my brother, especially me - I always liked the story, since childhood; I really liked looking at the pictures, I loved to draw. I remember I opened this "Niva" and saw a face of some unearthly beauty, his eyes looked at me. It was a portrait of the Sovereign in 1904, a well-known portrait now, but I remember what impression it had on me, a child. It was a feeling of something pure, native, so close. And then, meeting with other people, I began to notice: very often they say that it was their images, their photographs, portraits that led them to the Royal Martyrs - this purity of the last Royal Family, Emperor, Empress, children, she certainly appeared, probably the first latent, spiritual beginning, the spiritual reason that I became interested in the personality of Nicholas II. But even then, when I began to study this at a more mature age, when I began to read books, I was more and more amazed at first by the spiritual beauty of this man, and then by the grandiose achievements that took place during his reign. Gradually, this developed into a certain view, an opinion about Emperor Nicholas II as an exceptional personality in the history of Russia. The second such person, where both political will, and huge transformations, and at the same time moral purity, would be combined, I do not know in Russian history, namely state history. This is indeed not only the history of the state, but also of the Russian Church, of Russian spirituality.

As for my great-grandfather, whom I deeply revere, as well as everyone who died along with the Holy Royal Family - of course, this was not the reason for my interest in Nicholas II. The feat of those who died with the Tsar, of course, is enormous, and for them, perhaps, it was the highest feat in life - but anyway, to compare it with the feat of the Royal Family, in my opinion, is incorrect, because the Royal Family died for the whole Russia, and in general for the people.

Sovereign Nicholas II and the Life Guards Hussar Regiment in Tsarskoye Selo, 1907.

- But nevertheless, probably, nevertheless, in your family there was some special interest at that time, to your great-grandfather and, undoubtedly, to Nicholas II ...

- Of course, but it is not decisive, because our family has a complicated history. One of my grandfather's brothers died in Katyn: he was drafted into the Polish army and died in Katyn. We have always known that this was the work of the Germans, and not (as is now commonly believed) the Soviet NKVD. But Katyn interests me, in general, at an average level.

- So, after all, childhood impressions played a very important role?

- And childhood impressions, and that knowledge, and most importantly - Orthodoxy, because Nicholas II can only be understood by being in faith.

- Perhaps, because there are so many contradictions around the personality of Nicholas II today, because there are very different views on the era of his reign?

- Undoubtedly. I would like to say that Nicholas II is a unifying figure; this is a figure that must be considered today not only from a historical and spiritual point of view, but also from a political point of view. When we were creating, which will be shown in the near future, it included an interview with the head of all Buddhists in Russia, who said an absolutely amazing phrase: “You know, for us Buddhists, Emperor Nicholas II and Tsarevich Alexy Nikolaevich are saints.” The “White Tsar” unites all peoples, because the peoples of Russia did not serve Russia in the first place, they served the “White Tsar”. Both for Buddhists and Muslims, the idea of ​​Holy Russia, you understand, is not very relevant. And the idea of ​​a “white king, white padishah” in their beliefs, in their religions, corresponded to their understanding of the Deity.

– Why do you call the personality of Nicholas II the key to understanding Russian history? The period of his reign is very ambiguous and contradictory, but nevertheless ...

- In the Akathist to the Holy Royal Passion-Bearers there is a stunning phrase: "Rejoice, adornment of Russian tsars." Nicholas II is an adornment of the Russian tsars: he embodies the best features of the Russian monarchy. The Russian monarchy has always been selfless, Christian, and the Christian feat has always stood above not only personal interests, but even above the interests of the earthly Fatherland. A wonderful example of Emperor Alexander I, who defeated Napoleon, liberated Europe - Russia received very little materially from this victory, but its spiritual significance was colossal. Alexander I considered it precisely as God's mercy and followed God's providence, like Nicholas II. In Nicholas II, the Christian feat of the Russian monarchy was embodied most strongly. And at the same time, Nicholas II was a person of exceptional personal interest as a statesman. They simply slandered him, and the responsibility for the cataclysms that occurred under him lies not with him, but with society, which, with some kind of stupid determination, did everything so that the Tsar did not make great undertakings that he wanted. But look: in the reign of Nicholas II there was just a population explosion. We now want to achieve something, to double something, to stimulate population growth. Under Nicholas II, during the 22 years of his reign, the population of the Russian Empire grew by 50 million people. We are now talking about doubling GDP - during the reign of Emperor Nicholas II, Russia was not even in the top five, in the top three of the most economically powerful states in the world.

- But at the same time they say that he ruined the monarchy - there is such an opinion now, one of the myths of history ...

Now we're moving on to. Already during his reign, a number of false myths were created, which were called upon to destroy not only Nicholas II, not only the monarchy, but also Russia itself. And now the myth of Nicholas II, like the myth of the Great Patriotic War, is false. As myths about Russian history, they are called upon to play a role in the collapse of Russia - there is an ideological war with Russia, so when we are told that he ruined the country, we must look at historical facts: he did everything to make the country great, and he did not ruin the country , and Messrs. Rodzyanka, who sat behind his back and plotted, Messrs. Guchkovs, who conspired with British politicians, Messrs. General Alekseevs, who, instead of serving their Tsar and carrying out his orders, hobnobbed with the Duma oppositionists and, in fact, then surrounded , arrested the Tsar in Pskov. That's who is responsible, not the Emperor Nicholas II. You see, there is another very important aspect here that we forget: the Orthodox Tsar is God's anointed one; he can reign only over a loyal people. An elected president can rule any nation - that's a different system. In the monarchy system, there must be a dialogue between the people and the monarch. When this dialogue exists, there is also an Orthodox monarchy.

- But there is an oath, everyone took it ...

- Of course, this oath was violated. Violated the generals, officers, who began to swear allegiance to the Provisional Government. We are now being told: “What could they do?”. They could do everything. Or they start saying that they wanted the best... But we know that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. They are traitors - the top of society betrayed their Tsar. Naturally, I am not saying that all traitors are many faithful, but those on whom the freedom of the Tsar, his direct movement, the ability to act depended at that time, they betrayed him, in fact blockaded him, therefore the Russian Empire, which was on the rise of all possibilities , as Churchill wrote, "fell like a tree eaten by worms."

- Probably, one can say that one of the myths is that everyone turned away from the Tsar then, that only those who were shot in the Ipatiev House literally remained with the Tsar. After all, perhaps it was not so?

- Of course not; now, you see, a myth appears again: all were traitors, the whole Church was traitors, all the Cossacks were traitors - of course not. We know hundreds, thousands of martyrs, new martyrs, who testified their loyalty, including to the Tsar, with their blood. This, for example, who refused to even talk about the oath to the Provisional Government. We remember Metropolitan Macarius Nevsky, we remember hundreds of thousands of priests, laity, officers, soldiers, soldiers of the Emperor’s personal escort... The Colonel-Tsar rips off the Sovereign’s cypher and says to the soldier: “Help me,” and the soldier answers him: “I am in such a sin I will not participate, Your Excellency. Hundreds, hundreds of thousands of faithful who understood: “How is it that, without asking the people, they overthrew the anointed of God.” And this understanding of horror was among the people; another thing that did not happen, as in 1564, when Ivan the Terrible refused to reign non-autocratic, he said: “I will not reign non-autocratic,” and the people went, led by the metropolitan, on their knees to Alexander Sloboda: “Come back, Sovereign!” . On March 2, the same thing happened - and the people responded with general silence.

- What was the historical situation like? Why did it happen? Indeed, in general, not such a large historical period separates us ...

– There was a fall into sin, a retreat of the people from understanding the meaning of the Orthodox monarchy. But first of all, the elite is responsible for this. Because the elite must explain to the people; she, the aristocracy, was called upon to preserve the monarchy. If the people saw that the aristocracy behaved treacherously towards the Tsar, then, naturally, “if the gentlemen behave this way, why shouldn’t we?”

- Indeed, the people were subject to their masters, because people have such a perception of power: once they said, it means they know better ...

Pyotr Valentinovich, you said that Emperor Nicholas II was very unloved by the imperialist powers. What was it about?

- By 1915, Emperor Nicholas II became the head of the retreating army. There was a shortage of shells, caused primarily by non-deliveries of weapons from the Entente countries - they actually sabotaged all the deliveries of shells to the Russian army. In 1915, Nicholas II became the head of the army, and the army began to win: we stopped the enemy's advance. In 1916 - a great offensive in the Lutsk direction, which went down in history under the name "Brusilovsky breakthrough". The army is rising, a chemical industry has been created in Russia... Such rates were only during the Great Patriotic War - we created five chemical plants for the production of poisonous gases. The entire chemical industry was put on a defensive footing. By the way, it was led by Ipatiev's brother, in whose house the Royal Family was killed.

And what happens in 1915? Nicholas II demanded that the allies recognize her rights for Russia, this was recognized by a secret agreement. After the victory, we were supposed to withdraw the Black Sea straits, Constantinople, the entire Mediterranean coast, and most importantly, Palestine.

- Holy of holies...

- Absolutely right. Even Napoleon said: "Who owns Palestine, he owns the whole world." Naturally, the allies could not allow this! Among other things, the allies understood very well that as soon as tsarist Russia won the war, it would become the number one power in the world. Nothing could have been done without Russia's decision - the only country that could have been at war with Russia was Germany. If Germany were defeated, of course, no France, England or the United States of America could resist Russia. And this meant that the whole plan for a new world order, which was already being imposed on the world at that time (this was the main secret goal of the First World War), would collapse. Nicholas II would never have allowed to do what was done to the German people after the First World War - that means there would be no Hitler. This means that if Nicholas II had won, there would never have been a humiliation of other states, bandit regimes would never have arisen, like Pilsudski's regime, those monstrous structures would never have arisen that later gave fascism not only in Germany and Italy, but in all border states with Russia, in the future - with the Soviet Union. And we must not forget: the entire Baltic was fascist, Poland, Romania - these were fascist states, in the classical sense. In Poland, an Orthodox person could not get into any higher institution. If the Russia of Nicholas II had won, then the world would have been completely different - this was not allowed by the so-called allies. That is why they not only supported, but led a conspiracy against the Emperor.

- The so-called "conspiracy of the generals", about which one of your first books. It turns out that this is another confirmation of how powerful Russia, our state, was then, if it was so terrible for countries that were strong enough at that time! And it was the Christianity of our Emperor that played an important role. Today, when we talk about the glorification of Nicholas II, we pay more attention to his intra-family relations, to his personal, moral qualities, virtues. And little attention is paid to his qualities as a ruler. By the way, now in Moscow there is an exhibition dedicated to the reign of Nicholas II; there are documents telling about the methods and forms of government of Emperor Nicholas II. Of course, “history does not tolerate the subjunctive mood”, but nevertheless, if it were not for the betrayal, which in many ways prompted the Tsar to abdicate, the path of development of our country would probably be very favorable, promising ...

- Undoubtedly.

March 2 (N.S. 15), 1917, Art. "Bottom"

– Pyotr Valentinovich, but if we talk about the abdication of the Emperor (I think this is your third book), there are also a lot of myths around the abdication. What led him to what happened? A conspiracy of generals, we say, betrayal, resignations, imperialist powers that did not want to see a strong Russia ... By the way, as you noticed, you do not like this word ...

– Yes, this is a disgusting word, because they renounce Christ, they renounce the truth, their Motherland, their parents, and so on. - this is another vile myth launched by the enemies of Russia.

What was this myth for? I never tire of repeating that the Russian Empire was a legitimate state. Emperor Nicholas II was the legitimate head of the great state. After 1917, when the so-called renunciation was concocted, revolutions took place - first the February revolution, then the October coup. The Russian Empire was dismembered, quite illegally, in violation of all existing international laws, and it is taken for granted that some state formations arose on the territory of the Russian Empire: Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and they arose mostly in the occupied territories. Poland was occupied by the Germans, the Baltics were occupied by the Germans, and so on. These territories entered into a criminal conspiracy with the Bolsheviks, many of whom were proteges of the Germans, and received their independence from the hands of the criminal regime. Now these countries are making demands on Russia: they are demanding the Pytalovsky district, Ukraine is demanding some kind of repentance for the Holodomor, and so on and so forth. Russia has not yet declared that it is the legal successor of the Russian Empire; she did not understand the so-called renunciation. And as soon as everything falls into place with both of them, you can immediately declare to all these countries that you are absolutely legally illegal; no one is going to join you tomorrow to the Russian Empire, but you are illegal.

– That is, such consequences can be?

- No, there may be consequences of a legal nature: as soon as you stutter about some requirements, you know, gentlemen: you received Vilnius from the hands of Stalin, he gave you Vilnius, - give Vilnius. You received Klaipeda from Stalin's hands - give Klaipeda back, it's illegal, you generally appeared as a result of a conspiracy of your elites, not peoples. If you ask the peoples of Lithuania or Latvia (which did not exist) - Courland and Livonia: “where do you want to live - with the Germans in independence, or with us, in the Russian Empire”, I doubt very much that they would choose Germany and independent rule. They were very happy in the Tsar's empire, so "renunciation" has a very great political significance, not only historical. As for the so-called abdication itself, no manifesto about the abdication of Nicholas II exists in sight.

- There is only a telegram to the Chief of Staff ...

- This is not even a telegram - a piece of paper on which it is written - "To the Chief of Staff ..." Nicholas II never wrote like that. Typewritten, for some reason at the very bottom of the sheet is the pencil signature of Nicholas II. Nearby is the signature of Fredericks, in pencil, circled in ink, and now a number of studies say that this signature of the Sovereign was simply translated through the glass from his orders for taking command. This is not a manifesto, this is a piece of paper!

What is a manifest? The Manifesto is an official document of the Emperor, which begins: “God, who hastens with mercy, We, Nicholas II ...” and so on with a list of titles. Then comes the text of the manifesto, it is done in the presence of witnesses, certified by the imperial seal and must be confirmed by the Senate of the Russian Empire.

- Sorry, Pyotr Valentinovich, I will interrupt - we have a call from Moscow; listen - let's continue. Hello, we are listening!

– Hello, my name is Svetlana Vasilievna, I have the following question: “What were the obstacles to the restoration of the Patriarchate in Russia during the reign of Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich?”

– The fact is that Emperor Nicholas II, as we know, was a very big supporter of church reform, the restoration of the Patriarchate in Russia. It was under Nicholas II that a preparatory Council was convened - a preparatory meeting that was supposed to work out a reform in the Church, the restoration of the Patriarchate. The fact is that in 1906, when attempts were made to hold this Council Meeting, it was a time of revolution, of great turmoil. And there is no need to think that this turmoil, the wavering of minds did not touch the Church either: certainly, it was - there was great instability within the Church. We know that very many hierarchs who were active then, bishops, clergymen, later found themselves in renovationism. We know that at that time among a certain part of the hierarchs there was not a sufficient understanding of the value of autocratic power. For the Russian monarchy, the Russian empire, the Russian kingdom was built on a symphony of power - the power of the First Hierarch and the autocratic Tsar. Therefore, Emperor Nicholas II, under such conditions, at a meeting, declared his disagreement with the introduction of the Patriarchate. Could he have acted differently when the majority did not consider it possible to introduce the Russian language instead of Church Slavonic, when there was no understanding at all of where the Church should go, when there was a strong liberal wing within the Church? Moreover, remember the famous letter of thirty-two? The priests were Marxists! How was it possible to restore the Patriarchate under such conditions? And Nicholas II did not go for it, because specific historical circumstances, in his opinion, prevented the normal election of the Patriarch. Because the election of the Patriarch as an end in itself, as many now see the restoration of the monarchy as an end in itself, is a false goal. You see, to restore by any means, to imprison the Patriarch, as now by any means to restore the monarchy, these are doomed paths. Because the Patriarch had to understand very well and work together with the Tsar. The king did not see a representative among the hierarchs of that time who would be worthy to become a Patriarch. And as the legend says, he offered the only possible, in his opinion, option - he offered himself to the Patriarchs. As we know, this path was rejected, and the Patriarchate in Russia was restored when the monarchy fell. And the Lord Himself then found our great Patriarch, St. Tikhon, who became the Patriarch of the new time, an apostasy time for Russia, when she first rejected the Tsar, and then collapsed into theomachism. And the great feat of Patriarch Tikhon is that he saved the Church... The Tsar saved the Church in his own way, Patriarch Tikhon saved in his own.

- Another call from Moscow. Hello, we are listening!

– Good afternoon, my name is George. Petr Valentinovich, where can I buy your books?

- What happened in Moscow, the first editions are now sold out, except for the second edition of the book "Emperor Nicholas II at the head of the army." The book "God bless my decision" is now in the store of the Sretensky Monastery, but the last book, "Christ's Testimony of Death", is now reprinted in Yekaterinburg and Moscow through the efforts of the Russian Entrepreneur Foundation. And, I think, it will already go on sale both in Moscow and here.

- Pyotr Valentinovich, we will return to the conversation about the manifesto ...

“And we know that he did not hand over the throne to Aleksy Nikolayevich, as Kerensky thought…

Yes, it's a very interesting story. A very interesting note was written in the journal Clio, published by the historian Nikolaev. It says that Kerensky in 1919, in an interview with one of the Tbilisi magazines, said that “we knew about the coup at the end of 1916, and according to our plans, Nicholas II had to abdicate in favor of Alexy. When we learned that the throne had passed to Mikhail Alexandrovich, it was a shock for us, for us it was an absolutely unacceptable situation ... ". Why - it is clear: if Emperor Nicholas II had transferred the throne to Alexy Nikolayevich, there would have been a visible legality of the transfer of power - this is the first thing. Second - Alexy Nikolaevich was sick with hemophilia; Rasputin, the only person who could effectively cure this disease with the power of prayer, had been killed by that time. And what worked? The throne would have passed to a sick underage child who could have died at any moment, and his death would not have raised any questions - "he received another wound, died of blood loss." And Nicholas II, of course, broke the plans of the conspirators, he fought and fought to the last. This, by the way, was very well understood, including by the enemies of Nicholas II. Mikhail Koltsov, a well-known Bolshevik journalist and publicist, wrote that he defended the monarchy, only the Tsar fought for it.

- That is, in fact, there was a spiritual feat before God ...

- Of course, a spiritual feat, and then - how much did it cost him physical and moral strength? Liliden writes that after the events of March 1917, the Tsar looked like a very old man, and he was not even forty-eight years old.

- Petr Valentinovich, since you are dealing with this topic, how realistic is it to find true documents relating to that period, to restore the picture? How do you manage to do this, because your third book has come out ...

- You understand, of course, the most terrible thing is when a researcher, historian believes that he has found something, established something - that's all, the end of the historian.

A person should always understand that, firstly, some of his merits are minimal, and in general, when we touch on the Royal theme and the work of serving Christ, the less we think about our merits, the better. Our merits have absolutely nothing to do with it: the Lord gave us the opportunity to do something - thank God that we can realize it. As for documents, it is not enough to find a document - now there are a lot of documents open in Garf, you can look, study as much as you like: in Garf, in Garsp, in the Russian State Historical Archive in St. Petersburg. But it’s not enough to look at the document: it needs to be analyzed - the document is different. For example, when I wrote about the mission of Commissar Yakovlev (he took the Royal Family to Tobolsk), I immediately got the impression that it was all a game - as if the Urals wanted to recapture the Tsar on the road. But in order to bring the reader to this thought, I had to spend six or seven pages, because the reader must understand with you. Then in Garf there is only one note by Zaslavsky, the head of these Ural detachments, who allegedly wanted to recapture the Tsar from Yakovlev. He writes: "Comrade Yakovlev, I went to carry out your order, everything will happen as we agreed." All! No more five or six pages are needed - this paper is enough. It is necessary to compare documents, and when we analyze the document, it turns out: there is simply an incredible amount of lies of the actors! Here, for example, again is Yakovlev's note, which is presented to everyone. In it, he describes his meeting with Sverdlov: “When I arrived at Sverdlov, Sverdlov asked me in his joking tone: “Well, Anton, did you shoot a lot of people?” ... And then he goes on to the Royal Family. And the reader gets the impression that Sverdlov deliberately jokes so bloody.

We take another document of Yakovlev - "draft notes"; he writes that he transported grain from Ufa to Petrograd and during the transport of grain there were constant attacks on trains - there was a civil war. And he very often used executions, and when he came to Sverdlov, he thought it would be about this. And when Sverdlov asked him sternly: “Well, why did you shoot a lot of people there when you were transporting bread?”, He writes: “I was afraid that now I would have to give an account.” But Sverdlov moved on to another topic of conversation.

Everything disappears when you take two documents - small nuances, but they determine a lot. Why did they talk about this bloody joking tone? To prove: allegedly Sverdlov wanted to destroy the Royal Family on the way. This is not true, he did not want it, it had to be brought to Yekaterinburg and destroyed here. But "on the way" Sverdlov played his subtle game, deceiving the Germans and, according to some information, in my opinion, including Lenin. This is a separate issue. Sverdlov led his own line: he deceived the Urals, in addition to his confidants, Goloshchekin, and the Bolsheviks in Moscow, some part, and the Germans, who demanded the removal of the Tsar. Yakovlev later needed this subtle game for some kind of justification for his actions. But we must look at the first documents, primary sources, and by analyzing different sources we will come to some discoveries, which, of course, will also need to be confirmed.

- Yes, I would not want the truth to remain somewhere nearby ... Of course, we will not dot all the i's now. It's probably not possible, and probably not necessary. But still, I would like to see at least a more or less objective, balanced view of that period of history. By the way, you question the fact of the execution of the Royal Family in your book Testimony of Christ to Death. Why? I know that there were very contradictory statements of Yurovsky himself - he contradicted himself when he wrote about this event ...

- You understand, I am speaking more carefully: the fact of the execution of the Royal Family, as stated by the main executioners, real or imaginary, could not have happened. In a 25-meter room, it is impossible to shoot eleven people with Mausers, Brownings, rifles, firing for some reason an incredible number of bullets in a small, enclosed space.

- Everyone will die...

- There will be such ricochets that the bullets will fly into the heads of the shooters! So it's kind of a lie. Then, there are a lot of questions - there were huge contradictions between the testimony of Medvedev, the head of security, Ekimov, other accomplices and their memories. There are testimonies of the accused, who were arrested and interrogated. And there are memoirs of Yurovsky and all the others - in no case can this be evidence in a criminal case. Because evidence in a criminal case can only be an interrogation: you were summoned, interrogated as a suspect, accused or witness - this is evidence and a fact for a criminal case. And everything that Yurovsky wrote after the revolution, while sitting in Moscow, and everything that other people wrote abroad, cannot be evidence: we can only take note of this as a historical document. So, there are big inconsistencies between the testimonies of the accused, and, unfortunately, for some reason, there is not a single confrontation in Sokolov's investigation. And not only with Sokolov, because there was more than one investigator there. Why is unclear. But it is quite clear that there are contradictions, and since there are contradictions, we cannot but wonder what actually happened there, if it could not happen. This means that either it was a different execution, carried out in a different way, or it was a murder in a different way. And we know about the murder in another way - the same Medvedev, Kudrin and so on spoke about this: the option was discussed - to kill them all with daggers. It is known that edged weapons were also used. Sokolov talks about the found traces of bayonet strikes, as he believed ...

“But we saw photographs of a wooden wall riddled with bullets…

- Undoubtedly; only it is very interesting that basically all the bullets that were fired were at the level of the belt, or almost all of them were fired at the floor. And then, who even prevented them from shooting this wall to simulate execution? Again, I am not saying that this was the case, but I want to say that there is a question: this is how the execution could not have happened. Yurovsky, in his endless notes and memoirs, gives various information about the wall where they shot. Now he writes that the wall was wooden and did not give ricochets, then it was stone and gave ricochets, then it was wooden, covered with plaster, and the ricochets were not strong. The man led the murder, he is a direct participant - how is it, you don't know what kind of wall was there?

Killed in the Ipatiev house. Clockwise: Nicholas II with his family. (From left to right: Olga, Maria, Nikolai, Alexandra, Anastasia, Alexei and Tatyana), life doctor E. S. Botkin, life chef I. M. Kharitonov, room girl A. S. Demidova, valet colonel A. E .troupe

- We have a call from Yekaterinburg. We listen to you, hello!

Hello, Peter Valentinovich! Thank you very much for your speech, explanation, we have never even been shown what you are talking about. Can you tell me where you can buy your books?

- Now my last book has come out in the third edition - "The Testimony of Christ to Death." In the near future it will go on sale here, in Yekaterinburg, and in Moscow too.

- Yes, now I generally have an idea to write a book about Nicholas II with the conditional title "The Renunciation, which was not." This topic is very important for Russia. We must finally understand the main thing: the knowledge of the truth is our weapon against what is happening now in the war that is being waged against us. Because in the West the history of Russia is presented as a history of endless murders, robberies, violence, a constant desire to attack the West, and the people - as some kind of idiots who know nothing. And allegedly all regions of the country fought for freedom - that's why there are new state formations: allegedly because different nations took an active part in their "liberation". But why should we talk about this, because we are unpleasant when Estonian representatives begin to talk about the Pytalovsky region, or Latvians and Lithuanians begin to put forward some kind of territorial claims, or the Poles demand compensation for Katyn. We are silent, that's what's scary. And we are silent in the first place because we do not have a clear understanding of what was happening. Even our highest state power does not always own these weapons - it cannot always adequately respond to these impudent claims, including those of Ukraine. What was Ukraine in 1918? An integral part of the Russian Empire, there was a fraternal people, which the German elite forcibly tore off and dragged into a fratricidal war, flooded with blood - these endless Skoropadskys, Petliuras and all the others. Then Ukraine had its bloody party leaders - Kosiory, Khrushchev ... And today the Ukrainian state makes some demands for the Holodomor. And we do not see a normal, adequate answer now. And the answer is that we are the legal successors of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Great Victory in 1945. But at the same time, we are the legal successors of the Russian Empire and the victory that would certainly have taken place in 1917… A completely different story. You see, we are a different state, we are still counting from 1917, while the Soviet government still recognized the old ideology, they said: “Yes, we are counting from the seventeenth year ...”. Now another power; we have turned away from the Bolshevik ideology, but our history still goes back to 1917. This is madness!

- In general, any step, probably any event in history, always matters for future generations: they can very strongly experience the results of previous events. There is an opinion that history develops in a spiral... How do you feel about this - can something similar happen in our history today?

– I don’t really like this “spiral”, because in general I think that history develops according to its own laws, it is not created by Nicholas II, not Stalin, not Hitler, not Lenin, but the Lord God builds it. And it is the Lord God who sends this or that country either trials or glory to the extent that it is faithful to Him. And when Russia was faithful to Christ, to the precepts of her native antiquity, she was always invincible. She crushed Napoleon, the Swedes, Poles, Germans. As soon as Russia began to renounce itself - because without Orthodoxy there is no Russia - when she began to renounce, betraying herself, we saw what happened ... You see, it is very wrong to think that a crime will not entail material retribution - it goes just automatically. From the murder of the Royal Family begins insane blood: the murder of revolutionary terror - endless blood. And when now they start shouting about the 1930s, we, Orthodox people, must understand that this was retribution for the whole people. There were innocent martyrs, but these martyrs only confirmed that lawlessness had taken place. And the priests killed at the Butovo training ground, and innocent people ... Imagine this Levashovsky training ground near St. Petersburg - there are ordinary non-party people of different nationalities. But these are the sacrifices that followed the fall, the betrayal, the betrayal of 1917. Therefore, we must understand: if we want our Russia to develop progressively, calmly, so that it becomes a great and rich country in material terms, we must do everything to make it spiritually rich. And until now, when we start talking about Nicholas II, we are repeated these learned, stupid talk about Khodynka, about January 9, 1905. It has already been proven twenty times: January 9 is a tragedy; no one disputes this. But what was it? It was the first "orange revolution" in the history of Russia, the first "color" revolution. It was made with Japanese money, carried out with the help of the Social Revolutionaries, the first shots were fired at the army, the first killed were policemen and soldiers.

But nevertheless, they still remember how

“The king had nothing to do with it; after he found out what happened, each affected family was given 50 thousand rubles - this was a fortune.

- We have a call from Smolensk, I'll interrupt, sorry. We hear you, hello!

Hello, I would like to ask questions.

- We listen.

- Why is Nicholas II innocently murdered? After all, before him there were also tsars - Paul I, Peter III - innocently murdered. Why were they not recognized as saints?

– Firstly, this is not a question for me, but for the Council of Bishops and the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church – I do not decide whom to glorify and canonize. As for Paul I, you know, work on his glorification was going on even before the revolution, materials were collected about the miracles that happened at the grave of Pavel Petrovich. But this is a question... All the saints who have been glorified by God, if God wills, will be glorified on earth as well. They should, of course, be treated with great respect.

- But, probably, after all, not only in connection with the fact of the innocent murder of a person, he is glorified as a saint ...

- Certainly.

– Pyotr Valentinovich, are the myths that exist in large numbers around our history the fate of only Russia and its long-suffering history, or is the history of the development of any country in general always surrounded by myths?

– Again, this depends on the loyalty of the country to God. In France, for example, the brightest figures in French history are, of course, Jeanne d, Arc and Louis XVI. - the same thing: slander, lies, absolutely brutal murder of the royal family, with the exception of one princess. They mocked the king, he was locked in the Temple, just as in the Ipatiev house of the Russian Tsar, he was completely fenced off from Paris so that no one could see him, he was not allowed to communicate with his son. They held a mocking trial over him and killed him brutally, then they killed his wife and tortured his son. And they lie about Louis XVI for more than 200 years - that he was a weak, short-sighted politician ... But in Russia, nevertheless, understanding has come, albeit not at the highest level. More than the Church has done cannot be glorified: one cannot say more good things about Nicholas II than to say that he is a saint. In France, this did not happen in any form - neither on the part of the Church, nor on the part of society. Even, perhaps, there are more people on the part of society who revere Louis XVI than on the part of the Catholic Church. We see: no repentance took place in France, but France and its history were once mocked just like Russia, but to a lesser extent, because Russia is more significant. This is where the collapse of any country begins - with a mockery of power, especially of the supreme power, and especially of God's Anointed One. In the same way, they mocked the kings, the Church. At the beginning of the 20th century, few people know about it, a terrible compromise was carried out against the Catholic Church in France; moreover, there were murders of priests, robberies of temples. And Nicholas II, by the way, stood up for the Church, his harsh letters to the leadership of the Third Republic on this matter are known. This is a fight between good and evil.

– What is the attitude towards our Emperor Nicholas II in Western countries today? It is clear that the Slavic people of Serbia always respected and revered Nicholas II, but how are other countries - is there any interest in the personality of the Sovereign, or is it only ours, dear?

– You know, according to my estimates, the West is in a state of total brainwashing, the West is in a totalitarian system. Although they are trying to say that we had a totalitarian system, but in the West the system is no better. They cannot tell the truth about Nicholas II, and not only about Nicholas II - they have a veto on a number of issues. If you start saying that Louis XVI was a great king, they will call you a royalist, if you suddenly start praising Joan of Arc too much, they will say that you are a nationalist, and so on and so forth ...

– But we are talking about the pluralism of opinions, about the democracy of these countries…

- Really; but where is it, this democracy? Why is it necessary to constantly talk about Stalinism, about how terrible Russia is, about some kind of totalitarianism of Putin and not notice that today's Russia is millions of times freer than the West? Neither by the difference of opinions, nor by the fact that we can speak with you, nor by the degree of openness of society can we compare the current West. Therefore, they speak of Nicholas II (Louis XVI - he is, as it were, his own) only as the personification of barbarian Russia. Of course, there are people among the French who understand a lot, but even they cannot fully understand the feat of Nicholas II, absolutely. You will start talking to them about the Christ-imitating feat - they will look at you as a person "with a bunny in his head."

– Even if not everyone in our country can understand this feat…

But still there are people who are against it...

Pyotr Valentinovich, the Tsar's Days, which are now taking place in Yekaterinburg, the festival of Orthodox culture - in your opinion, how important are they today? How important is it for us to atone for the sin that our ancestors committed at the beginning of the 20th century?

– I am deeply against popular repentance in the sense that they are trying to offer us: to walk in crowds, processions of the cross, or come to Confession and say: “You know, I killed the Royal Family,” as the priests told me. This, of course, is not repentance; it is a substitute for repentance.

- Repentance in the heart of everyone ...

“The most important repentance before the Royal Family is not to repeat lies about it, to tell the truth about it, not to lie against the Church, not to lead to a split in your own Church, not to slander the history of your country! Not only the truth about Nicholas II has been distorted, you can imagine what is being done with the history of the Great Patriotic War - streams of lies, slander, "Germany is a great country", "Stalin and Hitler are one and the same." This is the same ideological war with Russia as the war against the memory of Nicholas II. We must perform church repentance of our sins if we opposed the Tsar, repeated some nasty things, slandered him - this is understandable, this is personal repentance during the sacrament of Confession. But first of all, our repentance as a people should be to honor the Royal Family. Let it be the Tsar-Martyr for the Orthodox, the “white king” for the Buddhists, and the head of state for the unbelievers, whom you must respect. Unfortunately, this is not the case, and first of all, repentance should consist in this. Because now there is a very big danger, certain sectarians who replace the concept of honoring the Royal Family with an intra-church schism - this is unacceptable. You can’t use the bright name of the Royal Family for unrighteous purposes ... I always say that Emperor Nicholas II, from whom, in general, many hierarchs turned their backs - with what reverence he treated the holy dignity! Look at how he received the blessing of Father John Storozhev in Yekaterinburg!

- Yes, indeed, it is very important for us now to find some grains of truth, evidence - thanks to your books as well - which we have the opportunity, thank God, to read now. At least something is beginning to open up a little, because until recently we could only read Yurovsky's books. Thank you very much, Peter Valentinovich!

Let me remind you that Pyotr Valentinovich Multatuli, a historian, researcher of the fate and era of the reign of Nicholas II, was in our studio. Thank you very much and see you soon.

- Thanks, good luck!

We have entered 2013 - the year of the 400th anniversary of the calling of the Romanov dynasty to the kingdom. If we lived in a normal society, then this date would be the occasion for the greatest national celebration. After all, under the scepter of the Romanov Dynasty, our country achieved unprecedented power, grew in vast territories, gained access to the Baltic, the Black Sea and the Pacific Ocean, defeated the Ottoman Empire, defeated the “invincible” Frederick, crushed the “invincible” Napoleon, liberated fraternal Bulgaria, managed to achieve a turning point in the World War, received guarantees for the possession of Constantinople, the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles. In the XIX and XX centuries. not a single European issue could be resolved without taking into account the opinion of Russia. The Romanov Empire became famous for the world names of Pushkin, Lermontov, Pirogov, Sechenov, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Pavlov, Surikov, Mendeleev. In Romanov Russia, such luminaries of Orthodoxy shone as Blessed Xenia of Petersburg, St. Seraphim of Sarov, St. Ignatius Brianchaninov, Righteous John of Kronstadt. At the peak of the development of the Empire under Emperor Nicholas II in 1913, the prosperity of the people, science, art, industry and economy fell. Of course, there were social problems, complex and deep, but in no way could they cause such a social upheaval as happened in February, and then in October 1917. The solution of these problems was never carried out in autocratic Russia through concentration camps and millions of victims, on the contrary, a policy of saving people was pursued. In short, there is an excellent occasion to remember with a kind word our late sovereigns, remembering the words of the great Pushkin:

They remember their great kings

For their labors, for glory, for good -

Azasins, dark deeds

The Savior is humbly begged

But it wasn't there. Not even two months have passed since the beginning of the year, and bookstores, and especially the Internet, have become the arena of rabid anti-Roman propaganda, filled with juggling of facts, demagogy, and even low slander. At the same time, the organization, unbridledness and mass character with which this slanderous propaganda falls upon the heads of our people cannot but strike. One gets the impression that the detractors were waiting for exactly 2013 to launch their attack. From the last: on February 26, an “article” by Mr. S. F. Chernyakhovsky appears on the KM.ru website, “ The Romanov dynasty signed its own death warrant» . It should be noted that Mr. Chernyakhovsky is Doctor of Political Science, Professor of the Department of Culture of Peace and Democracy (UNESCO-RSUH), member of the Public Council of the Ministry of Culture, one of the co-authors and founders of the Izborsk Club, a participant in the theoretical seminars of the S. Kurginyan Center and the Carnegie Center. Wikipedia reports that, according to his convictions, Mr. Chernyakhovsky is an atheist, a supporter of the ideas of Hegel, Marx and Lenin. After listing all the above "titles" and "ideologems" of the author, it becomes not surprising that his article resembles a sour vinaigrette in which grains of truth are abundantly mixed with masses of the most unbridled lies and slander. In the article, the author comes to amazing conclusions: it turns out, “ The Romanovs as a family were not called to the throne", but called" one Michael". It is strange, of course, that Chernyakhovsky does not have elementary historical knowledge and did not bother to read the “Charter of the Great All-Russian Council in Moscow, Church and Zemstvo” of 1613, in which it is written in black and white: “ We kissed the life-giving Cross, and we made a vow and now we give it to the Lord God, and to the Most Pure Theotokos, and to the Heavenly Powers, and to the great miracle worker Peter and Oleksiy and Jonah, and to all the saints, and you saints and the whole Consecrated Ecumenical Council, as a witness, we represent that for the Great Sovereign, honored by God, and chosen by God and beloved by God, Tsar and Grand Duke Mikhail Fedorovich, Autocrat of all Russia, and for his blessed Tsarina and Grand Duchess, and for their Royal children, whom God will give them, Sovereign, forward, their souls and lay your head and serve them, our Sovereign, faithfully and truthfully, with all your souls and heads ".

However, Chernyakhovsky's goals are far from establishing historical truth. Its purpose is to slander the House of Romanov. This slander is frankly delusional. So, Chernyakhovsky says: “The Romanovs, like tsars after Mikhail, were always a little impostors. The Romanovs as emperors were no longer the Romanov dynasty, but the Petrovich dynasty. They came to the throne not by virtue of kinship with Mikhail Fedorovich, but by virtue of kinship with Peter the Great. Board of another branch in 1730-40. was not only short-lived, but also unsuccessful and unpopular. Yes, and it was based on the relationship of Anna Ioannovna with Peter as his niece. The logic is amazing! Why, the granddaughter of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich Anna and the great-grandson of John V, the young Emperor John Antonovich, who were not direct descendants of Peter the Great, turned into the mythical "Petrovichs" is known only to Mr. Chernyakhovsky. But, it turns out, according to his "discoveries", the metamorphoses of the "Petrovichi" do not stop there. Under Alexander III, they again “turn into” the Romanovs: “ The turn from Peter is carried out by Alexander III. And he ceases to be Petrovich: he turns out to be just a Romanov, but, on top of everything else, with a tiny fraction of the actual Romanov blood. Both he and Nicholas II are no longer Petrovichs, no longer emperors: they are simply Moscow tsars". However, if the morbid delirium is excusable and evokes sympathy, then Mr. Chernyakhovsky's delusions are conscious and evoke nothing but disgust. Especially when the author of the article begins to calculate the percentage of Russian blood in the veins of the Romanov Tsars. By the way, the definition of a person's nationality by blood is inherent in only one ideology: the National Socialist Zmu, and everyone knows well what this led to.

The amazing article ends with another demagogic fit. Shuddering from “righteous” anger, Mr. Chernyakhovsky told that the Romanovs executed in 1614 the young son of the Tushinsky thief “Vorenok”. In fact, most of the documents of that time indicate that Vorenok was strangled in Moscow. The stories that the noose could not be tightened on the boy's thin neck, etc., belong almost entirely to Polish and Dutch chroniclers, the same lovers of Russian Tsars as Mr. Chernyakhovsky. The age of the child also varies: sometimes 4 years old, sometimes 7 years old, and in one document it is reported that he was still in the womb of his mother, Marina Mnishek. But no matter what happens to this boy in the distant, barbaric and extremely cruel Time of Troubles, it is completely incomprehensible, what does the Romanov Dynasty, which reigned on the Russian throne for 300 years, have to do with it? In his final passage, Mr. Chernyakhovsky clearly explains "moreover": " Then who are the Romanovs? Not only cowardly sadists and usurpers, but also regicides. One way or another, they began with the murder of a small child, who had been dying for several hours in the cold in an unstretched noose. And finished accordingly".The last passage, of course, is quite worthy of an admirer of the ideas of Marx and Lenin. It is characteristic that in it, speaking of "Vorenok", about the unfortunate fate of which Chernyakhovsky so lamented, the expression "kissed in the cold" is used. cats and people are dying. Of course, Chernyakhovsky doesn’t give a damn about Vorenok, he has a different goal: to throw another clod of dirt at the Great Dynasty, for which he feels an insurmountable hatred. Behind the words “they ended accordingly,” said about the Holy Royal Martyrs, one can hear the malicious joy of the spiritual heir to the regicides. At the same time, Chernyakhovsky knows that the blasphemy against the Romanovs is unpunished, they died or were killed long ago, they lost power, and we don’t have articles for insulting the dead. So a member of the Izborsk Club and the Carnegie Center scribbles whatever he wants. And the Izborsk Club calls it a "reconciliation" of whites and reds.

Hatred of the Romanov Dynasty is especially focused on the personality of the Holy Tsar-Martyr Nicholas II. For almost a century, the “Sharikovs” from history cannot forgive the Sovereign for the very fact of his existence. They cannot forgive the fact that his image is an alternative to their bloody idols, their insane utopias, the worship and adherence to which led our peoples and our country to unprecedented victims and catastrophe. The truth about the last Sovereign is mortally dangerous to them, because then it turns out that industrialization and reforms can be successfully carried out without millions of victims, without Gulags and Solovki, without collectivizations and "emergency situations". It turns out that the strength and will of a statesman, his greatness, lie not in the number of people killed by him, but in saving the people, which happened during the reign of the Sovereign Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, when in the 20 pre-war years the population of the empire grew by 55 million people. It turns out that it was under Nicholas II that all the “great construction projects” of communism that the Bolsheviks boasted about were programmed, started or implemented: BAM, electrification of the entire country, development of the Far East. -for the sale of kerosene and oils went to the development of domestic industry. It turns out that kindergartens, shelters, maternity hospitals, shelters for the homeless, the fight against illiteracy, primary education were not at all an invention of the Soviet government: they were founded and successfully developed in tsarist times. It turns out that under the “weak” Tsar in 1915-1916, the enemy was stopped in the Kingdom of Poland and the Baltic states, and in 1941-1945. under "strong" Stalin near Moscow and on the Volga. It turns out that during the entire Second Patriotic War (including the post-tsarist period) we lost about 2 million, and in the Great Patriotic War almost 30 million people, most of them account for the civilian population, which the "brilliant" commander threw to be torn to pieces by the worst enemy .

Sovereign Nicholas II is an immortal example of a Christian politician, a man and a family man, an example of disinterested, sacrificial love for Russia, its people, its history. How much effort, how much effort, all those Kerenskys, Milyukovs, Rodzyanki, Guchkovs, Lenins, Trotskys, Sverdlovs, Gubelmans-Yaroslavskys, Bukharins, Pokrovskys, Mintsy put in to slander the name of the Sovereign, consign it to oblivion, discredit, slander. They killed the Royal Family, demolished the Ipatiev House, 70 years they lied, slandered, slandered ... So what? The names of the murderers and slanderers have long been forgotten, and the Tsar and his Family are glorified and received a crown from the Lord, a majestic temple has grown on the site of the Ipatiev House, where people from all over the world flock to bow to the Holy Royal Martyrs and Passion-Bearers. The murderers and slanderers called the Sovereign “weak”, “weak-willed” and “bloody”, and in response the whole world heard: “ Father asks to convey to all those whoHe remained devoted to Him, and to those on whom they can have influence, so that they do not avenge Him, since He has forgiven everyone and prays for everyone, so that they do not avenge themselves, and that they remember that the evil that is now in the world, will be even stronger, but that it is not evil that will conquer evil, but only Love».

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, who endured so much in Russia, wrote shortly before her martyrdom: Oh God save Russia! This is a cry from the heart day and night - everything is in it for me - only not this shameful, terrible world ... everyone must suffer for everything they have done, but no one understands this ... Now you are learning not to have any personal desires. The Lord is merciful and will not leave those who trust in Him. How old I have become, but I feel like the mother of this country and I suffer as if for my child, and I love my Motherland, despite all the horrors now and all the sins.Lord, have mercy and save Russia!…”

The Royal Family by its very existence, by its example, evoked and evokes in people petty, selfish, selfish, dishonest, vain, cruel-hearted feelings of inexplicable hatred. This hatred is ancient and all-encompassing, and the Sovereign is not its main object. After all, his life and death is a consequence of fidelity to Christ and imitation of His Universal Feat. Our sovereign loved Christ the Savior more than his earthly life. That is why his enemies hated him so much, that is why the spiritual heirs of these enemies hate him so much today. As His Holiness Patriarch Kirill rightly said when visiting Ganina Yama: « Aren't we faced with deceit, lies, hypocrisy, deceit today? Are there no people today who would like to never have any memory of either the Royal Passion-Bearers, or the persecutions, or the sufferings of our people? .

It is puzzling why an admirer of Stalin Yu. N. Zhukov, who did not write a single book about Nicholas II, and not an admirer and biographer of the Tsar, Doctor of Historical Sciences A.N. Bokhanov? Something cannot be remembered that the admirers of Nicholas II were invited to the congresses of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation! Is it any wonder that after such “round tables” an Orthodox journalist from a major Orthodox TV channel asks a question during an interview: “What can you say about the possibility of decanonization of the Royal Family”?

In general, to our great regret, the blasphemy against the Passion-Bearer Tsar began to appear more and more often in the Orthodox media. On March 1, 2013, the magazine, which calls itself the "Petersburg Church Bulletin of Living Water", placed on its pages an article by D.I. n. Y. Kantor called " Imitation Triumph. How St. Petersburg celebrated the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty". In general, Kantor is an expert on Marshal Tukhachevsky and the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact. Well, I would write further about the bloody marshal, so, no, Kantor fits into a topic that he knows nothing about, or deliberately reports tendentious and false information: " In the political biography of Nicholas II, there were much more fatal failures than successes. A gloomy shadow, which had not dissipated by 1913, hovered over the memory of the Khodynka tragedy - then the shock of society was caused not only by the death of hundreds of people, but also by the indifference of the newly crowned monarch, who did not consider it necessary to refuse to continue the celebrations in his honor“We have no doubt that Ms. Kantor, apart from Soviet textbooks, has not read anything about the Sovereign, including about the tragedy at Khodynka Field, and therefore she repeats the fantasies of Soviet hack writers from history. Another surprise is why the editors of an Orthodox magazine consider it necessary to place these fantasies in Kantor's retelling on their pages? Well, they would have read about Khodynka the same S. S. Oldenburg, A. N. Bokhanov, they would have known that the Tsar and the Tsarina personally visited all the hospitals where the victims of the stampede lay, attended memorial services for the dead, whose families were paid from the personal royal huge sums of money, payments for which, by the way, continued until the February Revolution, that the notorious ball at the French ambassador Montebelo was extremely important for the interests of Russia and the Tsar could not fail to visit him, since this would mean a major foreign policy failure for him . (By the way, he was present at it for 15 minutes). However, for some reason, Living Water does not need historical truth at all, it needs slander against the Royal Martyrs.

Kantor's blasphemous article evoked a just reaction from Father Igor Ilyushin, who pointed out that " withThe very title of the article sounds like a mockery of the majestic jubilee, blasphemy emanates from the quote “weak worldly power needed “spiritual bonds”, and denigrates the bright memory of the holy Royal Passion-bearers» . In response to these words of the priest, the editorial staff of Living Water began a real anti-tsarist hysteria. Priest Alexy Volchkov, development director of Living Water, made a confession: “I am an Orthodox person. I respect Julia Kantor as a historian. I share her position. The monarchical system of government has not taken place as a historical project. Alas!" . It is paradoxical that the cleric of the Feodorovsky Cathedral in St. Petersburg, erected to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the reign of the Romanov dynasty, thinks so. As for how “Orthodox” Priest Volochkov is, it’s hard for me to judge, but the fact that he, a 31-year-old specialist in the history of Christianity in the ancient world, can hardly speak with aplomb about the history of Russia in the twentieth century and about the personality of Emperor Nicholas II is undoubtedly. As for another employee of Living Water, 30-year-old "theologian" and graduate student Timur Shchukin, who specializes in poetry, songs and "some kind of journalism", then in addition to primitive insults, including against the author of this article, By the way, the defendants, he cannot tell the reader anything: “ Pyotr Multatuli is a historical charlatan who does not disdain plagiarism and outright falsifications". With the evidence of this "live-breeder", things are, of course, bad, because he is more and more in poetry and songs. Well, okay, we are no strangers to such “complements”. They are not the point, of course. However, it is impossible not to notice what we have been writing and talking about for a long time: those who blaspheme the Tsar are inevitably dissatisfied with both the incumbent President and the hierarchy. This is an axiom of live-breeders and white ribbons of all stripes, of which the pseudo-church ones are the most dangerous. In her article in Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Kantor actually opposed the President's idea of ​​introducing a unified history textbook in schools. The editors of the RNL rightly wonder if Kantor's publications are a deliberate campaign to discredit both the monarchist idea and the idea of ​​strengthening power, which is being pursued by the current President of Russia Vladimir Putin?

It is great that the editors of the portal Russian People's Line gave a fair rebuff to the detractors of the Sovereign from the so-called "Orthodox" magazine. Another thing is bad: at the RNL itself, materials of this kind are increasingly appearing. On February 21 this year, the site posted an interview with the leading Ukrainian archivist historian Mr. V. Voronin, who, in collaboration with another Ukrainian politician D. Tabachnik, wrote a book about P. A. Stolypin and published it in Russia in the ZHZL series. Apparently, the editors of the RNL were so excited that foreigners were writing about Stolypin that they hurried to publish an interview with one of them. And in this interview, Mr. Voronin stated without hesitation that “ you can nod as much as you like at the traitors from among the adjutant generals, but by his abdication the tsar not only renounced power, he also deprived all the numerous supporters of law and order the will to resist. Criminal(!) The inaction of the emperor doomed not only his family to death, but also made a fratricidal war inevitable in the near future, the echoes of which are still felt in society. A statesman can be forgiven a lot, but not weakness and lack of will. And if Stolypin acted as the personification of the state will and courage, then the tsar was consistent in lack of will" ten . That's it, that's it! That is, according to a member of the Party of Regions, the Holy Tsar-Martyr turns out to be himself guilty of a fratricidal war, and of the collapse of the country, and even of his own death and the death of his family! Perhaps even the Bolsheviks did not agree to such nonsense. Well, okay, what do we, after all, care about what officials from the “square” think about our Tsar. The main thing is that the believing fraternal Ukrainian people honor the Holy Royal Martyrs especially deeply and touchingly, which I myself witnessed. Another thing is surprising, why does the leadership of the RNL place slander about the saint of the Russian Orthodox Church on its pages? And not only puts, but also tacitly agrees. So, after the accusations of the Sovereign by Voronin in “consistent lack of will”, interviewing E. Kostnadis thoughtfully noted: “ An analogy arises precisely from the history of recent color revolutions. In 2004, like Nicholas II in February, Kuchma also capitulated to the Maidan.”But Voronin was quick to point out that, of course, Kuchma could not be compared with NikolaiII:« As for your analogy ... I have the deepest respect for Leonid Danilovich and, of course, he cannot be called weak-willed in any way ". That is, where is your weak-willed king before our mighty Danilych! On this, in fact, the dialogue on this topic ended. Orthodox Kostnadis did not find what to answer and moved on to Russian-Ukrainian rapprochement.

One would think that such a blasphemy against the Tsar is an accident at the RNL. But, alas, it is not. This is not surprising, since the site has almost completely become a platform for the most absurd and rabid neo-Stalinism, in which there is less and less space for the Holy Royal Martyrs. And Stalinism, no matter what its adherents say, is a direct opposition to the Tsarist Imperial period.

Here is another "pearl" about the Sovereign at the RNL. This time from M. Delyagin. Recall that the above-mentioned character managed to visit the analysts of Yeltsin, Nemtsov, Maslyukov, Aksenenko, Kasyanov. That is, the result of his analytics in the people, so to speak, "on the face." It would seem that after all this, a person should be extremely careful in historical assessments. But no! Patting the Sovereign on the shoulder, like a half-educated student, our analyst draws the following conclusion: Nicholas II is the predecessor of Gorbachev, with the same consequences, with the same good impulses that ended in disasters. With the same humanism that ended in blood. Etc. With the same desire to relieve oneself of responsibility, which ended in tragedy" eleven . It would seem that here the editors of the RNL would comment on the words of the Yeltsin analyst, object to him, stand up for the honor of the Royal Martyr! But none of this happens. The slander remains "hanging" on the site. But quite recently, the RNL, through the lips of the writer V. Krupin, in April 2010, rightly reacted to Delyagin's anti-church and blasphemous sayings, directed against the initiative of Bishop Vincent (Morari), then Archbishop of Yekaterinburg, to restore the church of St. Catherine demolished by the Bolsheviks. Here is what Delyagin said then: With such priests, no FSB, no Gulag is needed: this is exactly what the population spontaneously destroyed them for (even without inciting the Bolsheviks) during and after the civil war. People who turn the religion of holy love into a religion of utter hatred are obscurantists at best, and it seems that they are the leaders of today's ROC 12. Why, then, did the RNL rebuff Delyagin, rightly pointing out that he was "digging a hell hole" and now posting his anti-tsarist thought eruptions on the front page? The reason is simple: Delyagin, one of the participants in the construction of "democracy" of the 90s, which, as we remember, brought our people to the brink of extinction, now loves Iosif Vissarionovich very much and praises him at the first opportunity. It seems that for the RNL an enthusiastic attitude towards Stalin is now becoming the main advantage.

Otherwise, what is the purpose of, for example, posting on the RNL a video with A. Karaulov's stories about the “murder of comrade. Stalin”, the same Karaulov, who, in the early 90s, lounging in an armchair, was interested in the late Metropolitan Pitirim (Nechaev) if he was an agent of the Stalinist KGB? The same Karaulov who, today, in the same issue of The Moment of Truth, where he talks about “the murder of Stalin,” dares to assert that the holy Tsar on January 9, 1905 “shot at the icons” 13? What should an Orthodox person think when does he watch the RNL website?

Today it becomes obvious that it is Emperor Nicholas II who is becoming the key figure in Russian history. As Archpriest Alexander Shargunov wrote well: “ Our Tsar is a holy symbol of Russia. Each nation has its own historical vocation and its own characteristics. Now there is an increasing depersonalization of peoples precisely because in every nation, as in every person, only that which belongs to Christ is true and unique. The Russian Tsar is different from European monarchs, and the Russian people corresponded to this form of government. The Russian people are simple-hearted, and they needed a wise and simple-minded Tsar. In the last King it all came together" fourteen .

The Emperor loved his people. He could not hang and shoot him in hundreds of thousands, rot in camps and prisons, doom millions to starvation for the sake of his political goals and even to suppress unrest and revolution. The Orthodox monarchy is the cooperation of the Tsar and the people, and if this cooperation disappears, then the monarchy also disappears. The rejection of just such a Tsar created the conditions for the spread of various fabrications about his professional and human qualities. All this is quite understandable: the Tsar, in modern terms, remained in the Orthodox field, and his opponents from the political and intellectual elites left this field long ago. Only a limited secularized mind today can give rise to maxims like "Nicholas II lost the country." For such a mind, the "losers" will include the Savior himself, who rejected the help of the Almighty Father, fulfilling His Holy Will ..

The understanding of this is growing and will continue to grow among the Orthodox people every day. No matter how much his pink-liberal and red-patriotic enemies, lovers of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin, would not grind their teeth and slander the Tsar, their time is gone. Awareness of the greatness of Nicholas II, the sacrifice he made, inevitably returns people to God and the Church, and therefore to the age-old path of historical development. This path is mortally dangerous for our geopolitical ideological enemies, who are striving with all their might to prevent this, to create a counterbalance to the Holy Tsar-Martyr. Today they are ready to promote even the figure of Stalin, a figure that is generally uncomfortable for them, since it is, albeit indirectly, albeit mythically, but connected with the great victory in the war of the Russian nation so hated by them. They would prefer to see Trotsky or Lenin as their heroes, but those are already so ugly and rejected by all sane people that they are doomed to failure in advance. Stalin, as the most intelligent figure behind the scenes, managed to create the image of a leader in a white tunic and golden pagons, an image that outwardly resembled God's Anointed One. But this was precisely the diabolical essence of this substitution. In essence, a werewolf appeared to the people. This werewolf even today successfully leads the people away from God, replacing him with himself. Therefore, it is very beneficial for the enemies of Russia to constantly feed this werewolf, so that our people, in no case, return to the age-old spiritual values ​​lost in 1917. Therefore, constant disputes are provoked about the “good” or “bad” Stalin, composed of “pious "Legends designed to prove Stalin's "Orthodoxy". The idea of ​​the need for neo-Stalinism is stubbornly imposed on the current government, which in fact can only lead it and the people to another catastrophe. In addition, the praising of Stalin inevitably leads to the rehabilitation of Bolshevism. Here, on the same RNL, you can already read the following: “ ATIn this regard, the release of the series "Passion for Chapai" can rightfully be recognized as a turning point in the public perception of the confrontation between whites and reds. In the film, whites are shown demoralized and human. It is the whites who shoot women, old people and children, drink and play cards, have greasy conversations, fight not for an idea, but only in order to “crush the red reptile” and avenge their relatives. Not once in the series did whites express concern about the fate of the Royal Family, they never crossed their foreheads. The struggle between the Whites and the Reds looks doomed from the very beginning. By watching the series, there is a strong conviction that the whites will lose at all costs, and the reds will certainly win, even despite the fact that many of them "did not finish the academies." Oddly enough, the Reds in the film constantly talk about God, cross themselves in almost all episodes, pray, kiss the icons. there is a cross on its dome. In general, the film was made in full accordance with the call of the editor-in-chief of the Russian People's Line A. D. Stepanov - to see Russian in Soviet" sixteen .

That is, the author of this note, Mr. A. Timofeev, actually states: he is pleased that the author of the most disgraceful filmmaking, Volodarsky, portrayed God as a devil, and the devil as God. It turns out that it was not the Red International Brigades who killed priests, blew up churches, burned women and children alive, it was not the Reds who slaughtered about 1 million Don Cossacks, it was not the Reds who drowned barges with hostages, schoolchildren, doctors and teachers, it was not the Reds who skinned people alive, boiled them in boiling water, burned the stars on their chests with red-hot iron. The Reds, it turns out, only crossed themselves, prayed and spoke about God. It is not clear what kind of idiots Timofeev and Volodarsky take us for. However, the film is not for us, but for all the same young people who have to "grab" this vile broth and become infected with the "red fever" bacillus contained in it. However, it turns out that the leadership of the RNL calls this “seeing Russian in Soviet”. A worthy evolution among the admirers of the Union of the Russian People! Note that our cinema is not interested in either the heroes of 1812, except for the vulgar mocking comedy "Rzhevsky against Napoleon", nor the heroes of Shipka, nor Stolypin, nor Alexander II, nor Suvorov. Their popularization can lead to the revival of the people's sympathy for their great ancestors, and our enemies need us to constantly revolve in the system of Bolshevik-Soviet coordinates: Chapaev, Kotovsky, Makhno, the Odessa bandit Mishka-Yaponchik, Stalin - these are the historical characters about whom films for young people are being made lately. By the way, in fact, this is the Stalinist method of propaganda. After all, the leader praised only those heroes of Russian history that he needed to mobilize the people before the war and during the war: Alexander Nevsky, Peter I, Suvorov, Kutuzov, Ushakov. But, praising these heroes, the Stalinist cinematography actually put Bolshevik propaganda into their mouths, let us recall the "people's" fighter against the boyars Malyuta, or the "people's" fighter against "foreigners" and the same boyars Menshikov. As for Suvorov, Kutuzov and Ushakov, highlighting them against the general gloomy background of the "backward" Russian Empire, Stalin's ideologists in every possible way belittled and discredited the spiritual values ​​by which these heroes lived, the sovereigns whom they served. In the film "Suvorov" - Pavel I, a psychopath and a petty tyrant, in the film "Kutuzov" - Alexander I, an imbecile hypocrite, in "Heroes of Shipka", filmed according to Stalin's canons, Alexander II is simply incompetent. In "Heroes of Shipka" it is not at all clear why the Russian army is going to fight in Bulgaria, what unites Russians and Bulgarians; the word "Orthodoxy" is completely absent in the film. One often hears that Stalin returned to the people the names of Pushkin, Suvorov, Kutuzov and Tchaikovsky, who, under Lenin and Trotsky, were "thrown from the ship of history." There is no doubt that in those specific historical pre-war conditions, this, of course, brought positive results. But at the same time, the “leader” equated the believing Orthodox people who created the glory and greatness of Russia with the atheists, rebels and terrorists, the perpetrators of her death - Lenin, Gorky, Kalyaev, Dzerzhinsky, Sverdlov. So we got a new warped history of our country, in which white was mixed with black, good with evil.

Today, politically and spiritually, the Stalin-myth is a complete dead end. On the one hand, it will inevitably lead to the political and economic isolation of our country, since Stalin has long been turned into a kind of scarecrow in the West, and Stalinism is practically equated with Nazism. On the other hand, with Stalinism, we will never be able to revive the true Empire. How, from the standpoint of Stalinism, can one talk with Chechens, Bashkirs, Crimean Tatars, Krachaevs, Russian Finns and Greeks, who were taken to the Kazakh steppes in wagons under Stalin? Explain to them that this was a mistake of the Stalinism of the past, welcome to the Stalinism of the future? Empire and Stalinism are incompatible things. The veneration of the White Tsar can still be found among various peoples of the former Russian Empire. But nowhere, except, perhaps, in some part of Georgia, one can find mass veneration of Stalin. Nor does it exist among the Russian people; the main victim of Bolshevism was Yinism. This reverence would be even less if it were not for the constantly artificially inflated campaigns: one anti-Stalinist and the other Stalinist. Therefore, when Priest Alexander Shumsky assures that " The vast majority of the Russian people, including the church people, have made up their minds about the Soviet period and Stalin, and this attitude is positive. And the supreme Russian government, by many obvious signs, agrees with the Russian majority. 18 , he once again gives out wishful thinking. The Russian people, at all times, have never accepted executioners and monsters as their legitimate power. "You can not pray for the king-Herod-the Mother of God does not order." Stalin is that King Herod, and praying to him is a grave sin of idolatry. Today, the mythical Stalin is revered only by a part of our unfortunate, brainwashed youth, who are being fooled, including such priests as A. Shumsky. This youth, in the conditions of the current spiritual emptiness, is looking for spiritual guidance. Instead of giving true guidelines: Christ and His Church, the national heroes of our Fatherland, the "Orthodox" Stalinists palm off the Generalissimo, who died 60 years ago, and actually tell her that this is God and a hero. There is no doubt that as As soon as our people acquire their true values, their true traditional path based on the gospel preaching, on the Christ-loving army, on love for their homeland, then the terrible cult of the false king will evaporate like smoke, and the great feat of our people in the Great Patriotic War will remain.

As for the modern government, it is smart enough not to understand all the danger and futility of neo-Stalinism, and will never follow this path. In his speech at the Council of Bishops, President Vladimir Putin unequivocally said: “ During the years of the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945, reliance on true values ​​inspired our people and our army, helped us win and helped us win. It was the power of genuine, historical Russia - the Russia of Minin and Pozharsky, Dmitry Donskoy and Alexander Nevsky, Sergius of Radonezh and Seraphim of Sarov - that crushed Nazism and saved the world. 19. As you can see, the President did not speak about Stalin or the Communist Party. It was on the initiative of the President that a monument was erected in Moscow to one of the main ideological opponents of Bolshevism, P. A. Stolypin, whom the “Orthodox” Stalinists call a “pygmy”.

Stalinism is a dead quagmire that can only suck in the society and the authorities who dare to step into it. Flirting with Stalinism, as well as with any form of Bolshevism, theomachism, is the path to death. Today, it’s already enough to have fruitless discussions about Stalin, this is leading to nothing, a waste of time. Stalin as a historical figure belongs to science, Stalin as a mythical idol must be overcome like any idolatry. Only a return to the age-old spiritual values ​​of our people: faith in God and based on this faith, sovereign patriotism, selfless love for the Motherland and people, will be able to lead us out of the spiritual impasse. Today we are not talking about the restoration of the monarchy. We are talking about all-round assistance to the existing government in gaining a spiritual foundation, and such a foundation can only be God, his holy ascetics and heroes who laid down their lives for the Fatherland, glorifying it with their military and labor feat. Of course, the theme of social justice, the welfare state is extremely important. But again, the foundations of this social state were laid not by the Bolsheviks, but in tsarist times, and this must also be discussed today. Today, it is necessary to develop criteria for a new state ideology, in which there should be no place for either Bolshevism or Stalinism.

Let's take a look at the newsreel of a hundred years ago. Celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Romanov Dynasty. The Royal Family visits Kostroma, Yaroslavl, Moscow. Thousands of crowds of ordinary people enter the river waist-deep, just to see the Father-Tsar. Here, sir. How many people surround him: courtiers, generals, bishops; many fawn, catch his eye, bow, swear devotion and allegiance. In four years, the vast majority of these people will betray their King, and he will go to his Calvary, surrounded by his Family, and a handful of faithful. All around there will be treason, and cowardice, and deceit ... There will be Tobolsk exile, the Ipatiev House, Ganina Yama, decades of blasphemy, blasphemous manipulations with the “Ekaterinburg remains”, presented as the Royal relics. July 17, 2010 Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk (Alfeev), after the night service he conducted in the Church-on-the-Blood at the site of the murder of the Royal Family, he delivered a pastoral word: “ Today, with deep emotion, I crossed the threshold of this sacred temple, built on blood, at the place where the last Russian autocrat, Sovereign Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, and with him all his August family, breathed their last. Today there is a majestic temple here, today hymns are heard here, today thousands of people gather here and a great church celebration takes place. Like the second Easter, a divine service is performed at night in red - martyr's and at the same time Easter vestments, in memory of those people who died here under completely different circumstances and in a different environment.

[…]Sovereign Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich was shot because he was the king. For 70 years after his death, he continued to be insulted, his name continued to be slandered in every possible way.[…]No, and there will never be an excuse for those people who delivered this lawless sentence. And therefore it is impossible to speak here of any judicial act, but only of lawlessness and crime. About the greatest crime that was committed in this place, but which the Lord turned to the glory of the Church of Christ. Sovereign Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich and his entire family were not just shot: their remains were brutally destroyed so that their memory would be wiped off the face of the earth. And then, during the long decades of godless power, they tried in every possible way to erase the memory of the holy Royal Passion-Bearers from the hearts of people.

But that memory never faded. There were no thousands of pilgrimages, there were no religious processions, as is done now, but I remember well how in the early 80s, when I was 15 years old, a prayer service was performed that very night in the apartment of one of the Moscow priests. It was impossible to do this in the temple, because the holy Royal Passion-Bearers not only were not glorified, but even the mere mention of their veneration was life-threatening. And therefore this prayer service to the holy martyrs was performed in the apartment, and not several thousand, but several dozen people gathered there. But even this secret prayer testified to the fact that the memory of the sovereign and his family never died, even in these mournful years of persecution and oppression. And today, here, in this place, stands a majestic and beautiful church that reminds us of the holy Royal Passion-Bearers. these amazing people, for whom their whole life was a service to God and the Fatherland, who could not imagine life without their homeland. They were ready not only to live, but also to die for their people, which happened right here, in this place. wife to husband, parents to children, children to parents. How we miss such families today, how rare today are such families that are united by one faith, one love, one spirit. They show us an image of the highest humility, because after the great glory in which they lived, they found themselves in great disgrace, and with patience and humility, like Christ, who ascended Calvary, they ascended to their Calvary in order to be here endure death as passion-bearers and martyrs" 20 .

Reading these deep and wise words of Vladyka, you clearly realize that today, just as in 1613, when we kissed the cross of allegiance to the Romanov Family for ourselves and our descendants, this nationwide oath retains its significance just like 400 years ago . Only now on a spiritual level. Remaining faithful to the Dynasty, arriving in God and praying for Russia, we remain faithful to Christ the Savior. Rejecting the memory of the Dynasty, worshiping its enemies and haters, we give Christ, the Church and God's Anointed Ones. Today, as a hundred years ago, we face the same question with whom we are: with the holy Royal martyrs or the spiritual heirs of their murderers, under whatever guise they are.

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Candidate of Historical Sciences

was born on November 17, 1969 in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). In 1991 he graduated from the full-time department of the Faculty of History of the Russian State Pedagogical University. A. I. Herzen. He worked at school as a history teacher, in the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in the Security Directorate of the State Unitary Enterprise TEK St. Petersburg. In 2011, at the Saratov State Socio-Economic University, he defended his dissertation for the degree of candidate of historical sciences on the topic "Emperor Nicholas II at the head of the army in the field: military-political issues of government (August 1915-March 1917)" (scientific adviser L. P. Reshetnikov). Author of many monographs and articles on the life and reign of Emperor Nicholas II and his era. Since June 2010 he has been engaged in scientific work at the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies. Fluent in French. Member of the Union of Writers of the Russian Federation.

Monographs:

• Multatuli P. V. The Forgotten War: Russia and Germany in the First World War, 1914-1918. - St. Petersburg: TC "Borey-ART", 1998. - 161 p. - 1000 copies. - ISBN 5-7189-0255-1.
• Multatuli P.V. The Lord bless my decision... Emperor Nicholas II of the active army and the conspiracy of the generals. - St. Petersburg: Satis, 2002, edition 4000.
• Multatuli P. V. Strictly the Lord visits us with his wrath ...: Emperor Nicholas II Revolution of 1905-1907. - St. Petersburg: Power: Satis, 2003. - 384 p. - 4000 copies. - ISBN978-5-7868-0099-0.
• Multatuli P. V. Witnessing about Christ until death… Yekaterinburg 1918: a new investigation. - M.: Forum, 2006. - 788 p. -3000 copies - ISBN 978-5-89747-066-2.
• Biography of the New Martyr Tsar's Cook John Kharitonov, who was murdered on July 4/17, 1918 in the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg / comp. Peter Multatuli. - St. Petersburg: Leushskoe publishing house, 2006. - 27, p. circulation 5000: - (Petersburg patericon).
• Multatuli P. V. Nicholas II. Truth versus lies. - St. Petersburg: AST, Astrel, 2008. - 477 p. - 4000 copies.
• Multatuli P. V. The foreign policy of Emperor Nicholas II (1894-1917). - M.: book series RISI, FIV: 2012. - 872 pages. Circulation 1500 copies. - ISBN 5-91862-010-6
• Multatuli P. V. Nicholas II. Road to Calvary. - M.: AST, Astrel, 2010. - 637 pages. Circulation 3000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-17-061688-6
• Multatuli P. V. Nicholas II. The renunciation that was not. - M.: AST, Astrel, 2010. - 640 pages. Circulation 3000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-17-064144-4, 978-5-271-26340-8
• Multatuli P. V. Myths and truth about the Russian Emperor Nicholas II. - Yekaterinburg: Publishing House of the Church-Memorial on the Blood in the Name of All Saints, 2011
• Multatuli P.V. "Icebreaker" for Napoleon. The false myth of the "preventive war" of 1812 - M.: Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, 2012. Circulation 750 copies. - ISBN 978-5-7893-0151-7
• Multatuli P. V. Treason, cowardice and deceit all around. The true story of the abdication of Nicholas II. - M.: Astrel, 2012. - 443 pages. Circulation, 2000 copies. - ISBN 5-271-44514-3 978-5-271-44514-9
• Multatuli P. V. Emperor Nicholas II and Muslims. - M: Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, 2013. - 53 pages - ISBN 978-5-7893-0161-6
• Multatuli P. V. Emperor Nicholas II. Way of the Cross. RISS book series. - M: FIV 2013. - 747 pages. Circulation 1500 copies. - ISBN 978-5-91862-018-2
• Multatuli P. V. The Way of the Cross of the Royal Family. Yekaterinburg Calvary. - M.: Veche, 2013. - 448 p.: ill. circulation 3000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-4444-0948-0
• Multatuli P. V. Emperor Nicholas II and the conspiracy of the 17th year. How the monarchy was overthrown in Russia. - M.: Veche. 2013. - 432 p. - 3000 copies. ISBN 978-5-4444-1020-2
• Muљtatuli Petar V. Golgota royal breed. - Beograd: Eurounty. 2014. - 456 p. - 2000 copies. ISBN 978-86-505-2579-1
• Multatuli P. V. “God forbid, just don’t get involved in the war!” Emperor Nicholas II and the pre-war crisis of 1914. Facts versus myths. - Moscow: Russian Institute for Strategic Studies. 2014. - 252 p. - 1000 copies. ISBN 978-5-7893-0208-8

Pyotr Valentinovich Multatuli(November 17, 1969, Leningrad) - Russian historian and publicist. Until December 2016, he worked as Head of the Analysis and Evaluation Sector at the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies. Candidate of Historical Sciences. Member of the Writers' Union of Russia.

Origin

Father - philologist and theater critic Valentin Multatuli, associate professor at St. Petersburg State University, translator of works by Molière, Racine, Corneille and Rostand into Russian. Mother - Natalia Multatuli (nee Anufrieva), was born in Paris (France), from a family of emigrants of the first wave. In 1957 she returned with her parents to the USSR. Editor and translator of many French books and individual texts on art criticism and history. Pyotr Multatuli is the great-grandson of Ivan Mikhailovich Kharitonov, the senior cook of the Imperial kitchen, who was killed by the Bolsheviks together with the royal family in the Ipatiev house on July 17, 1918. On the maternal side, the great-great-grandson of Major General P. G. Bellik, an outstanding participant in the Caucasian War, appointed by Emperor Alexander II the head of Chechnya and the Grozny mayor. The bridge across the Sunzha was named after P. G. Bellik in Grozny.

Biography

P. V. Multatuli

In 1991 he graduated from the Russian State Pedagogical University. A. I. Herzen, Faculty of History.

He worked as a history teacher in a secondary school, an investigator and a detective of the criminal investigation department. Then - a post-graduate student of the School of Political Sciences (Paris). Dissertation topic: "Russian-French military alliance during the First World War."

On one of the copies of the book Witnessing Christ to Death, published in 2007, Patriarch Alexy II wrote:

“It is gratifying to receive such work from you, the great-grandson of Ivan Mikhailovich Kharitonov, who was one of the devoted servants of the Sovereign Holy Passion-Bearer Nicholas II. I hope that your research will be another step towards establishing the historical truth and restoring the memory of our people about the tragic events of hard times, and will also serve to revive interest in the spiritual essence of the feat of the emperor and his family and people close to him.

In 2007, together with Elena Chavchavadze, he took part, as a co-author of the script, in the creation of the documentary film Storming the Winter. Refutation”, filmed for the 90th anniversary of the October Revolution.

In 2008, according to the script of Peter Multatuli, a documentary film “Nicholas II. A thwarted triumph ”, which received a diploma of the 1st degree at the Radonezh Film Festival (Moscow), which premiered on January 20, 2009 on the VGTRK TV channel.

In 2010, he became one of the founders and an active participant in the Return Foundation, which advocates the return of historical moral traditions and values, including names, holidays and monuments that existed in Russia before 1917 and were rejected during the years of Soviet power.

On May 31, 2011, he defended his Ph.D. thesis on the topic "Emperor Nicholas II at the head of the army in the field: military-political issues of government (August 1915-March 1917)" (supervisor Leonid Reshetnikov)

P. V. Multatuli is convinced that the remains buried in the Peter and Paul Fortress, as the remains of the Royal Family, are not genuine.

In November 2013, P. Multatuli, along with A. N. Bokhanov, K. V. Malofeev, L. P. Reshetnikov, M. B. Smolin and others, signed an appeal to President V. V. Putin with a call to fix in the Constitution Russian Federation the special role of Orthodoxy.

Ratings

Positive

The works of Multatuli were highly appreciated by Doctors of Historical Sciences V. M. Lavrov and A. N. Bokhanov. On March 22, 2010, the presentation of Multatuli's book “Nicholas II. The renunciation that wasn't there." Present were Deputy Director of the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of History. V. M. Lavrov, Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation L. A. Lykova, head of the “Return” movement Yu. K. Bondarenko, director of the RISS L. P. Reshetnikov and other famous scientists. As V. M. Lavrov noted, “the author made an interesting search in this direction, it required both creative thinking and courage to go against the generally accepted versions.”

Petr Valentinovich Multatuli

• Candidate of Historical Sciences
  
• Leading Research Fellow, Russian Institute for Strategic Studies
  
• The great-grandson of Ivan Mikhailovich Kharitonov, the cook of the Royal Family, who was killed on the night of July 17, 1918 in the basement of the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg.
  

Bibliography

• “Emperor Nicholas II at the head of the army. Conspiracy of the Generals. - St. Petersburg: Satis, 2002;
• "Emperor Nicholas II and the Revolution of 1905-1907". - St. Petersburg, 2003;
• “Bearing witness to Christ until death. Yekaterinburg atrocity of 1918: a new investigation. - Yekaterinburg, 2008;
• Nicholas II. Truth versus lies. Series "Name of Russia". – M.: AST, 2009;
• Nicholas II. The renunciation that wasn't there." – M.: AST, 2010;
• Foreign policy of Emperor Nicholas II. 1894-1917". –M.: FIV, 2012

- Petr Valentinovich, let's talk about a very difficult topic, which periodically not only escalates - it explodes in the information space. I mean the attitude towards the so-called Yekaterinburg remains, which someone considers to belong to the Royal Family, while someone fundamentally disagrees with such conclusions.

“It's not about the remains themselves. Most people treat these remains on the principle of “believe - do not believe”, while not being specialists in either genetics or forensics.

There was a decision of the state commission, which recognized the bone remains found near Yekaterinburg as the remains of the murdered Royal Family. The Russian Orthodox Church and a number of scientists did not support this conclusion, considering it insufficiently proven. The Church in Deciding on Authenticity holy relics is guided not by examinations, not by DNA analysis, but by completely different criteria, namely, by the descent of the Holy Spirit.

It is alarming that some of the people who conducted the investigation and who consider these remains to belong to the Royal Family are trying to impose their decision on the Church. We clearly see an attempt to impose our decision on the Church as the only right one for all time. Why are these people doing this? I doubt that they are guided only by the desire for historical justice and the desire to help the Church.

Moreover, from the very beginning, especially on the second remains - the so-called remains of "Maria and Alexei" - a media campaign began. Examinations have not yet been carried out, and already - and this is completely unacceptable - statements have been made that everything matches, and the missing remains of the Tsar's Children have been found.

I am far from accusing everyone who recognizes these remains and considers them to be relics of some kind of malicious intent. But the fact that on the part of some people there is an unhealthy hype around this issue and an obsessive desire to solve it here and now, this second and forever, cannot but be alarming. Therefore, I believe that the position of the Church is the most wise, the most just, the most balanced. It was expressed by the late Patriarch Alexy II, it is expressed by the current Patriarch Kirill, and, in my opinion, it is absolutely fair.

– And this despite the fact that the Church, as a rule, fights for its shrines; when they are not given back, he persuades, begs, demands, convinces... And here, it would seem, "holy relics" - and such distancing.

“But we remember that neither the first remains nor the second ones were even allowed to allow the Church to come close.

September 1977 Demolition of the Ipatiev House

- According to the second remains, they just argue precisely by the fact that there were clergymen.

“It's not about whether there were priests or not. When a burial is discovered, which is considered to be the burial of the Head of State and his Family, especially those glorified by the Church, a state-church commission should be appointed. The very opening of the burial ground should take place under strict public control. Have you noticed that the remains are always found by some amateurs?

- Archaeologists.

- Lovers. It is not the state commission that is working in this direction, as it was done, for example, to search for and open the graves of those who died in the Great Patriotic War, the graves in Butovo, and so on. As for the Church, as I said already, it was simply ignored. The Holy Synod never received an answer to a number of questions that it asked the commission.

Therefore, the Church reacts to this quite correctly: it has not received answers to its questions even in the legal plane. But there are also spiritual arguments that do not allow the Church to recognize these remains as relics. And thank God that our Church is patient in this matter and does not take the position of wholesale denial or, on the contrary, full recognition, namely, the position of common sense. Since genetics cannot be a criterion for determining holy relics.

In addition, the Church cannot ignore the investigation conducted by the investigator Nikolai Sokolov since 1919. Of course, he did not finish his work. The work of an investigator, as you know, ends with an indictment and the transfer of the case to court. He wrote a book, where he outlined everything - this is a book, these are not the conclusions of the investigation. But one cannot ignore the facts and conclusions that he came to, just because the new team does not recognize them.

- And if then they would hurry up and agree under pressure: well, yes, since some part of society that is active in this matter insists so much - in order to extinguish the conflict, let's admit it? What could be?

– As you remember, the decision on burial was made in 1998, on the 80th anniversary of the murder of the Royal Family. Even then it was clear that the Royal Family would be glorified as saints (this happened in August 2000). And we can imagine different scenarios. Why not, among other things, assume a scenario hostile to the Church - when some time after the Church would recognize these remains as relics, representatives of these hostile forces would not declare that an error had occurred, genetic calculations would suddenly turn out to be incorrect? And even if without evil will - if later genetics, once again, "stepping forward", would establish that these are not the Royal remains? What blow would be dealt to the Church? Would it be necessary to bring the relics back to the level of the remains or what?

I don't even know how to express myself. This has never happened in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church. So there can be different scenarios - from ill will to ignorance to new scientific discoveries.

– Do you remember when you first visited Ganina Yama?

- Of course I remember. There was nothing there then, only one white cross stood in the forest. And black crows flew over this place. It was 1999. Then there was an ominous feeling. Now from Ganina Pit there are completely different feelings, a feeling of the presence of the Holy Royal Martyrs and Passion-Bearers there.

– And Porosenkov Log?

- Everything connected with the remains found there sounds in a completely insulting tone for the Royal Family. Consciously or unconsciously. They call them the remains of "Mary", "Nicholas" - they do not say "Sovereign", "Grand Duchess", the Heir to the Tsarevich is simply called Alexei. The memorial itself is called the Romanov memorial - this is a purely Bolshevik name. And the place where they were found is generally called Porosenkov Log.

– There, by the way, the crosses are not oriented to the east, as it should be, but are set perpendicular to each other.

Yes, and it's also very disturbing. And, mind you, no one goes there; no one, except for purely interested persons, visits this place. And this visit is in no way comparable with the flow of people from all over the world that goes to Ganina Yama - and went there even at a time when there was no monastery there, only a cross in the forest. I met people there from Germany, Italy, France, the USA, from all over Mother Russia. The people feel where the Holy Spirit is. And the malice of certain forces and people in relation to Ganina Yama also testifies where the truth is. Because everything is known by the spirit.

Certain forces really want us to talk not about Sovereign Emperor Nicholas II, not about his reign and accomplishments, not about his Feat, not about his Family, but all the time about some kind of bones. Those - not those ... To constantly indulge in these discussions, in these genetic examinations, in which we do not understand anything. This is the task before them.

Thank God, this process is starting to stall, because people are already tired of it. But there was a certain imposition of their opinion: most people are sure that the royal remains are buried in the Peter and Paul Fortress. And, once again, I will say that the attitude of these people is built only on the basis of “I believe - I don’t believe”, because they cannot check it themselves. Therefore, we are not talking about any genetic examinations, we are talking only about our faith. And our Vera tends to believe that the holy place is Ganina Yama.

- At a press conference on the second find, a marvelous statement was made - let it slip: the remains were found at a depth of 30 cm. How can this be? And the cultural layer for 90 years really did not increase the depth of occurrence, and to what depth then they were originally buried according to this version?

– There are other questions. Statements were made that bullets from a TT pistol and coins from the 1930s were found in the second burial. Where did they come from? There are no convincing answers to this question.

1992. During the laying of the Church-on-the-Blood

- Correct me, please, if I'm wrong. It turns out that people who talk about Piglet's Log paint the following picture. July 1918. At the abandoned Ganina Yama mine, by that time, no work had been carried out for 15 years. Vaganov - one of the bloody team - knows this remote place, because he has mowing in that area. The bodies are brought there. They put two cordon rings around - the second one ends just next to the railway track, where the switchman's booth stands. For three days they do something with the bodies - they cut, burn, pour sulfuric acid. Then suddenly they say: “Ugh, it didn’t work out!” - and, having gone beyond the cordon, in a practically open place, where there are, moreover, strangers - a switchman with his family - they bury the remains. Where is the logic in this version?

Let's take facts. The official conclusion of the government commission says that the killers tried to burn the bodies of the Slain. But in the conclusions of the experts of the same commission, it is stated that there are no traces of thermal effects on the discovered remains! In private conversations, completely wild explanations are given for this: “You know, the skin burned out, but the bones were not charred.” How is this possible? After all, according to the same definitions of the commission, they tried to burn the bodies for a long time, that is, the bones could not not be charred. These are mutually exclusive things. But those who claim such absurdities are not dilettantes in forensic science.

Another moment. We know that after the atrocity, Yurovsky and his henchmen spent at least two days in the area of ​​Ganina Yama, manipulating the Honest Remains of the Royal Passion-Bearers. Two cordons were put up, any random person, under pain of execution, was not allowed even close to the place of manipulation.

That is, the strictest secrecy of events was observed. And they are trying to convince us that Yurovsky buried the bodies in the Piglet Log, previously trying to burn them there. This happened in the immediate vicinity of the railway crossing, where the minister and his family lived permanently - they could see everything that Yurovsky and his group were doing. That is, the strictest secrecy observed at Ganina Yama was violated by Yurovsky in Piglet Log for some reason.

Moreover, he sent his henchmen to the house, they broke the fence of the floor sleepers to pull out the stuck truck. This minister and members of his family were interrogated by investigator Sokolov. And they only said that a Bolshevik truck was stuck near the crossing. Meanwhile, if the burning and hiding of bodies really took place there, then at least the employee would remember the smoke and a large fire that are inevitable when burning bodies. In addition, all the events would take many hours, morning would come, and there would be no secrecy anymore. And it is absolutely certain that Sokolov would have explored the "bridge of sleepers" and found the bodies.

One more moment. There are memories of Fr. Germogen (Eremeev) and Fr. Igor Romanenko, who in 1991, together with the writer V. Soloukhin, went around the entire village of Koptyaki, trying to find at least one person who would indicate to them the place of destruction of the Bodies of the Royal Martyrs. It turned out that all the inhabitants of the village had been warned by the Chekists long before that it was impossible to talk about this topic with anyone. And here - what happens? The film director and geologist, at their own "fear and risk", according to them, have been looking for a hiding place for quite some time. And this is in Sverdlovsk of the late 70s, an almost closed city! Enough people knew about this "enthusiasm" to report where it should be.

And they want to assure us that the KGB allegedly knew nothing about these searches. Who do they want to fool? It is clear that this is impossible, that there should have been very high patronage from Moscow for such searches. And not at the level of Interior Minister Shchelokov, but much higher. Especially when you consider that the Ipatiev House was destroyed at the same time. So, there is a very strong undercurrent in this case. It is quite obvious that we are being told either part of the truth or a lie at all.

- Petr Valentinovich, another "sore" topic related to the previous one. Street names, area name. Some of the characters whose names are immortalized have blood on their hands up to the elbows. The Minister of Culture not so long ago poured balm on our wounds (if only this undertaking did not die out). I really want to return human names to the streets. And the regions too.

In general, the situation with the city and the region is interesting. The history of Yekaterinburg surprisingly echoes the history of St. Petersburg. Both cities are being built in the Petrine era. One bears the name of St. Peter, the other - St. Catherine. During the First World War, anti-German sentiments arise both here and there, proposals are made to rename the city, to remove the German - burg. True, everything remains the same with us, and St. Petersburg becomes Petrograd.

In 1924, Yekaterinburg is called Sverdlovsk, St. Petersburg - Leningrad. In 1991, first, the city of St. Peter regains its real name, followed by the city of St. Catherine. And the names of the regions both there and here remain the same - Leningrad and Sverdlovsk. But, if the first is associated not only with Lenin, but also with the heroic blockade of Leningrad, and the desire to preserve is quite understandable, then the Sverdlovsk region ... And after all, many people are satisfied with this.

- It speaks about the spiritual level of people. But this is only a part of the people, and a small part. Thank God that Minister of Culture V. Medinsky is already raising the issue of renaming at the state level. This issue is also being raised by the Return Fund, and something has already been done in this regard.

The spiritual is connected with the material. As long as our streets are named after political “chikatils”, such as Sverdlov, Voikov and the like, who were only engaged in dismembering, killing, burning, we will never live well. We are near the Church-on-the-Blood. Can you imagine, parents lead their child and say: “Here, in this place, the Royal Family was killed. A temple has been erected in her memory. They walk 200 meters: “And this is a monument to the murderer of the Royal Family. And this is a street in his honor. This is schizophrenia when we honor both the victims, and the executioners, and the saints, and their persecutors and tormentors. This is absurd.

In 1991, so many changes were made because the society wanted to wash off the leprosy of communism. And then everything began to drag on, and the worse our people lived in the 90s, the more romantic and respectable communism became. And we already hear that Stalin was an outstanding manager. We have one Orthodox website where they are seriously discussing how to connect Ivan Ilyin with Stalin, trying to prove that Stalin is the successor of the work of the Russian Tsars. So, as long as we have attempts to unite God with the devil, nothing good will happen in the country. Nobody.

Take Karl Marx - he was shaking at the name of Russia. He hated Russia. Just like Engels. And we still cannot remove their names from the streets of our cities. When representatives of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation begin to shout that Lenin is our history, though these are unconvincing arguments, they are arguments. And Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels - what is our history?

- There is also Karl Liebknecht, whom you cannot pronounce. And many others from this series. When the monument to Peter and Fevronia was opened, it was necessary to inform the people where exactly this square is located. And the square is located at the intersection of Klara Zetkin - Tolmachev - Dzerzhinsky - Proletarskaya streets. And this "constellation" is located very close to the Church-on-the-Blood. And everyone felt the awkwardness of such a situation. But will changes follow this… Petr Valentinovich, how did Ekaterinburg seem to you today? Well, it's customary to ask a question about fresh impressions.

- You know, when I first arrived in Yekaterinburg, I thought that a more unpleasant city could not be found. Gray, gloomy, and the people were the same. Soviet "boxes" in the worst sense of the word. And then I came here in 2008. A completely different city, it was all glowing. And the Temple-on-the-Blood plays a major role in this, its very presence. As a result, Yekaterinburg became the city of the exploits of the Royal Martyrs. And people take it that way. Everything else is secondary here.

The brightest thing that is in Yekaterinburg is the feat of the Royal Family. When you go to Golgotha ​​in Jerusalem, don't you think that this is a "gloomy place"? Because in Christianity the most seemingly cruel sufferings, torments in the name of Christ, turn into bright holidays. Golgotha ​​is the greatest feast of the Resurrection of Christ for us. And here, in Yekaterinburg, the Royal Family endured such torments, and this is a feat, this is a holiday for the Russian Orthodox Church. Although I am categorically against the definition of the Tsar-Redeemer, the feat of the Royal Martyrs made it possible to atone for the sin of the Russian people committed in 1917. This is a sacrifice made for the people in the name of Christ.

Very many new martyrs perished, died, atoning for their sins, which they committed when they renounced the Tsar and supported the revolution. And the Royal Family are Lambs. They are innocent. Not that they did not commit sins - there is no person who would be alive and not sin. But they died in the name of God, in the name of Russia. This is the peculiarity of the sacrifice of the Royal Family.

2012 Small procession along the Old Koptyakovskaya road

- Well, and then the difference in wording: the place where the Tsar was killed is the place where the Tsar performed his feat.

- Yes, but what kind of excursions did you take here? "The last palace of the last king." The Comintern sat in the Ipatiev House, then the children were taken to look at it. And what happens then? Then Stalin covers all this, this room is closed, and later the relics of the righteous Simeon of Verkhoturye are transported here - an exhibit of the museum of atheism. This is a saint whom the Royal Family deeply revered. The relics of the righteous Simeon - and the great sacrifice of the Royal Family. It's amazing how the Lord arranged everything.

I believe that Yekaterinburg is the spiritual capital of Russia. Why did he become so handsome? Because he has a spiritual background. And why such an attack on Yekaterinburg, why is the concentration of evil here? Because the light is strong here, and a lot of things are being decided right here. Everyone who honors the Tsar gathers here, and we see how many of us are.

When we look at our cities, it seems that there are few of us. But remember the prayer standing in Moscow, when the people filled the whole square! So here. Suddenly, 50 thousand people gather and walk 20 kilometers with a prayer. So the value of Yekaterinburg is colossal. Although there is also a lot of negativity here, the city has become completely different - it has become joyful.

– Petr Valentinovich, thank you – and, I hope, see you next time in Yekaterinburg.

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