The other day, on April 22, all progressive mankind celebrated the birthday of Vladimir Lenin. And, as usual, all the regressive evil spirits tried to get out in the comments, carrying their usual nonsense from a hackneyed record about the “German spy”, “Jewish roots”, “holy tsar”, “Brest peace” and “created Ukraine”.
I've always wondered how you can carry such nonsense. It seems that everyone studied at school, and most of those who write like that studied at a good Soviet school. Although no, we were studying, and some were sitting there, counting the crows outside the window.
Speaking of crows. Now I will present to you a number of facts that all anti-Soviet and monarchists prefer to ignore.
1. Between 1900 and 1917 there were SEVEN crop failures, seven famine years. No one counted the number of people who died from starvation. During the entire existence of the USSR, there were TWO cases of famine - 1932 and 1946. But the stench raises a hundred times more.
2. The "good tsar" Nicholas 2 outright, shamefully, mediocrely lost the Russian-Japanese war. Ditching the fleet and surrendering Port Arthur.
3. "Holy Great Martyr" Nicholas 2, without hesitation for a minute, gave orders for the execution of peaceful demonstrations and bloody suppression of uprisings. Not trying to delve into the causes of these uprisings and not trying to fix anything.
4. Nicholas 2 "Bloody" dragged Russia into the First World War, which was absolutely unnecessary for her. Having at the same time "shell hunger". Having killed several million Russians during the war.
He entered the war against the traditional allies of Russia (both Austria and Prussia were allies of Russia for a long time). On the side of the eternal enemies of Russia - France and Great Britain. Although many advisers told him that if we were to enter the war, then exactly the opposite - in alliance with Germany.
Also interesting is the situation with Rasputin, who opposed the war, but was killed by British intelligence residents.
5. The surplus appraisal, which is constantly poked in the nose of the Bolsheviks, was introduced by the tsarist government in 1916. And the Provisional Government of the "liberals" continued. And the Bolsheviks canceled it at the first opportunity, replacing it with a food tax.
6. During the February uprising in St. Petersburg, Nicholas 2 was sitting in the country, chasing teas and taking long walks.
And yes, Nicholas 2 worked for the good of the Fatherland by the sweat of his brow. During the period from 1884 to 1909, he shot 11,582 dogs, 18,679 cats, and the raven without an account at all (not counting traditional hunting targets). All this is confirmed by the entries in his personal diary, where he kept an accurate count of the killed animals and birds.
Simple math tells us that he killed a dog and a couple of cats almost every day, not counting crows. When is it time to engage in state affairs, if there are no more pets left in the district and you need to make long hikes to find a miraculously surviving cat?
Even during the days of the February upheaval, the tsar's diaries continued to contain entries such as "Drank tea with ladies-in-waiting" or "Walked a lot."
If anyone is to blame for the fall of the Russian monarchy, it is by no means Lenin, but just such an openly degenerate monarch who was infinitely far from governing the state and failed everything that could be failed.
7. The tsar was overthrown not by the Bolsheviks, but by the liberals, who created their own "Provisional Government".
8. Universals of the UNR (including the declaration of "independence" of Ukraine, dictated by the German General Staff) were also recognized not by the Bolsheviks, but by the Provisional Government.
And the Bolsheviks, at the first opportunity, sent there a couple of responsible comrades like Muravyov and Shchors, who gave the German, English and French puppets bribes.
9. Lenin and the Bolsheviks saved Russia from the liberals, who in just a few months doubled Russia's external debt, destroyed the front (the number of deserters exceeded a million people) and actively merged the country.
According to some reports, Lenin was in such a hurry with the October coup precisely because the German fleet was already approaching Kronstadt, and only a few weeks remained before the drain of Petrograd. German spy, yes.
Well, I would like to end with a quote from Lenin, written in 1918:
“One must have the courage to face the unvarnished bitter truth.
It is necessary to measure entirely, to the bottom, all that abyss of defeat, dismemberment, enslavement, humiliation into which we have now been pushed.
The more clearly we understand this, the more firm, tempered, steely will become our will to liberation, our striving to rise again from enslavement to independence, our adamant determination to achieve at all costs that Russia ceases to be miserable and powerless, so that it became in the full sense of the word powerful and plentiful.
And after that, who will dare to blurt out that Lenin did not like Russia?
Emperor of All Russia Nicholas II. Part 2.Nicholas II
In the text of the abdication, Nicolai wrote: “In the days of the great struggle with the external enemy, who had been striving to enslave our homeland for almost three years. The Lord God was pleased to send Russia a new ordeal. decisive days in the life of Russia, We considered it a duty of conscience to facilitate for Our people the close unity and rallying of all the forces of the people for the speedy achievement of victory, and in agreement with the State Duma, we recognized it as good to abdicate the Throne of the Russian State and lay down the Supreme Power ... "
Nicholas II, B. Kustodiev
Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich, under pressure from the Duma deputies, refused to accept the imperial crown. At 10 am on March 3, the Provisional Committee of the Duma and members of the newly formed Provisional Government went to Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich. The meeting took place in the apartment of Prince Putyatin on Millionnaya Street and dragged on until two in the afternoon. Of those present, only Foreign Minister P. N. Milyukov and Minister of War and Naval A. I. Guchkov persuaded Mikhail to accept the throne. Despite the rejection of the monarchy by the insurgent people, the leaders of the Cadets and Octobrists tried to convince the Grand Duke to lay the crown on himself, seeing in Mikhail the guarantee of the continuity of power. The Grand Duke greeted Milyukov with a joking remark: "Well, it's good to be in the position of the English king. It's very easy and convenient! Eh?"
However, Rodzianko, Kerensky, Shulgin and other members of the delegation had already realized that Mikhail would not be able to reign quietly like a British monarch and that, given the excitement of the workers and soldiers, he would hardly be able to really take power. Mikhail himself was convinced of this. His manifesto, prepared by Duma member Vasily Alekseevich Maksakov and professors Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov (father of the famous writer) and Boris Nolde, read: Supreme power, if such is the will of our great people, which should establish the form of government and the new fundamental laws of the Russian State by popular vote through its representatives in the Constituent Assembly.
Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich
Interestingly, before the publication of the manifesto, a dispute arose that lasted for six hours. Its essence was as follows. The Cadets Nabokov and Milyukov, foaming at the mouth, argued that Mikhail should be called emperor, since before his abdication he seemed to reign for a day. They tried to maintain at least a slight lead for the possible restoration of the monarchy in the future. However, the majority of members of the Provisional Government eventually came to the conclusion that Mikhail, as he was, and remained just a Grand Duke, since he refused to accept power.
The death of the royal family
The Provisional Government that came to power arrested the tsar and his family on March 7 (20), 1917.
The deputies of the city councils of Moscow and Petrograd demanded a trial of the former emperor. The head of the Provisional Government, A.F. Kerensky, answered this: “Until now, the Russian revolution has proceeded without bloodshed, and I will not allow it to be overshadowed ... The Tsar and his family will be sent abroad, to England.” However, England refused to accept the deposed emperor's family before the end of the war. For five months, Nikolai and his family were kept under strict supervision in one of the palaces in Tsarskoe Selo.
Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky
Here, on March 21, the meeting of the former sovereign and Kerensky took place. "A disarmingly charming man," the leader of the February Revolution later wrote. After the meeting, he said with surprise to those who accompanied him: "But Nicholas II is far from being stupid, contrary to what we thought about him." Many years later, in his memoirs, Kerensky wrote about Nikolai: “Going into private life brought him nothing but relief. Old Mrs. Naryshkina conveyed his words to me: “It’s good that you no longer need to attend these tedious receptions and sign these endless documents . I will read, walk and spend time with children"
Grand Duchesses and Tsesarevich: Olga, Alexei, Anastasia and Tatiana. Alexander Park, Tsarskoye Selo. May 1917
However, the former emperor was too politically significant to be allowed to quietly "read, walk and spend time with children." Soon the royal family was sent under guard to the Siberian city of Tobolsk. A.F. Later, Kerensky justified himself by saying that they expected to send the family from there to the United States. Nikolay reacted indifferently to the change of place of residence. The tsar read a lot, participated in staging amateur performances, and was engaged in the education of children.
Nicholas II with daughters Olga, Anastasia and Tatyana (Tobolskwinter 1917)
Having learned about the October coup, Nikolai wrote in his diary: "It is sickening to read the description in the newspapers of what happened in Petrograd and Moscow! Much worse and more shameful than the events of the Time of Troubles!" Nikolay reacted especially painfully to the message about the armistice, and then about the peace with Germany. In early 1918, Nikolai was forced to take off his colonel's epaulettes (his last military rank), which he took as a serious insult. The usual convoy was replaced by the Red Guards.
House of Ipatiev. 1928 The first two windows on the left and two windows from the end - the room of the king, queen and
heir. The second window from the end is the room of the Grand Duchesses. Below it is a basement window,
Where were the Romanovs executed?
After the victory of the Bolsheviks in October 1917, the fate of the Romanovs was sealed. They spent the last three months of their lives in Yekaterinburg, the capital of the Urals. Here the exiled sovereign was settled in the mansion of the engineer Ipatiev. The owner of the house was evicted on the eve of the arrival of the supervised, the house was surrounded by a double wooden fence. The conditions of detention in this "special purpose house" turned out to be much worse than in Tobolsk. But Nicholas behaved courageously. His hardness was passed on to the household. The king's daughters learned how to wash clothes, cook food, and bake bread. The Ural worker A.D. was appointed the commandant of the house. Avdeev, but because of his sympathetic attitude towards the royal family, he was soon removed, and the Bolshevik Yakov Yurovsky became the commandant. "We like this type less and less ..." - Nikolai wrote in his diary.
Commandant of the Ipatiev House Yurovsky Ya. M. ( 1918 )
The civil war pushed back the plan for the trial of the tsar, which the Bolsheviks had originally hatched. On the eve of the fall of Soviet power in the Urals, Moscow decided to execute the tsar and his family. The murder was assigned to Ya.M. Yurovsky and his deputy G.P. Nikulin. Latvians and Hungarians from among the prisoners of war were assigned to help them.
On the night of July 17, 1913, the former emperor and his family were awakened and asked to go down to the basement under the pretext of their safety. "The city is restless," Yurovsky explained to the prisoners. The Romanovs, together with the servants, went down the stairs. Nikolai carried Tsarevich Alexei in his arms. Then 11 Chekists entered the room, and Yurovsky announced to the captives that they were sentenced to death. Immediately after that, indiscriminate shooting began. Tsar Ya.M. Yurovsky shot from a pistol point-blank. When the volleys died down, it turned out that Alexei, the three Grand Duchesses and the royal doctor Botkin were still alive - they were finished off with bayonets. The bodies of the dead were taken out of the city, doused with kerosene, tried to burn, and then buried.
Killed in the Ipatiev house. Clockwise: Nicholas IIwith family. (From left to right: Olga, Maria,Nikolai, Alexandra, Anastasia, Alexey and Tatiana), life chef M. Kharitonov, valet Colonel E. Trupproom girl S. Demidovamedical doctor E.S. Botkin
Investigator Sergeev found on the south side of the basement room, where the family of the last emperor died along with his servants, the stanzas of Heine's poem - "Belshazzar" in German, which in poetic translation sound like this:
And before the dawn came The slaves killed the king...
royal family
Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna
Having lived a life full of upheavals, Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra Feodorovna maintained a loving and enthusiastic attitude towards each other to the end. Their honeymoon lasted over 23 years. Few people knew about the depth of this feeling at that time. Only in the mid-1920s, when three voluminous volumes of correspondence between the tsar and tsarina (about 700 letters) were published in Russia, was the amazing story of their boundless and all-consuming love for each other revealed. 20 years after the wedding, Nikolai wrote in his diary: “I can’t believe that today is the twentieth anniversary of our wedding. The Lord blessed us with rare family happiness; if only to be able to be worthy of His great mercy for the rest of our lives.”
Maria Feodorovna, Alexandra Feodorovna and Nicholas II with their daughter Olga
Five children were born in the royal family: Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatyana, Maria, Anastasia and Tsarevich Alexei. Daughters were born one after another. In the hope of the appearance of an heir, the imperial couple began to get involved in religion, was the initiator of the canonization of Seraphim of Sarov. Piety was complemented by an interest in spiritualism and the occult. Various soothsayers and holy fools began to appear at the court. Finally, in July 1904, a son, Alexei, was born. But parental joy was overshadowed - the child was diagnosed with an incurable hereditary disease, hemophilia.
Tsesarevich Alexei
His Imperial Highness the Heir Tsesarevich and Grand Duke Alexei Nikolaevich
Nicholas II with Tsarevich Alexei
The last Russian Emperor Nicholas II with children by age.
Pierre Gilliard, a teacher of the royal daughters, recalled: "The best thing about these four sisters was their simplicity, naturalness, sincerity and unaccountable kindness." Characteristic is the entry in the diary of the priest Afanasy Belyaev, who on Easter days in 1917 happened to confess the arrested members of the royal family. "God grant that all children are morally as high as the children of the former boyfriend. Such kindness, humility, obedience to parental will, unconditional devotion to the will of God, purity in thoughts and complete ignorance of earthly dirt, passionate and sinful, amazed me" he wrote.
From the family album of the Romanov royal family
Their Imperial Majesties with the August Family.
Children of Nicholas II. Karlsruhe, Germany, early 20th century
Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Tatyana Nikolaevna.
Committee of Her Imp. High Vel. Princess Tatyana Nikolaevna to provide temporary assistance to victims of hostilities.
Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Tatyana Nikolaevna
An atmosphere of harmony, love and peace reigned in the emperor's family. Here Nikolai always rested his soul and drew strength for the performance of his duties. On April 8, 1915, on the eve of the next anniversary of the engagement, Alexandra Fedorovna wrote to her husband: "Dear, how much we have experienced hardships over all these years, but it was always warm and sunny in our native nest."
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Prof. I. M. (Andreev) Andreevsky († 1976) Anointed of God. (To the question of the essence of the Orthodox Russian autocracy).
If every human soul is by nature a Christian, then the Russian soul is by nature an Orthodox Christian.
To be truly Russian means to be Orthodox. And to be Orthodox means also to resolve the idea of power from the Church-Orthodox point of view, that is, to consider only God-responsible power as true power, and the entire social problem as a religious problem.
An Orthodox Russian person should never forget the direct and clear words of Holy Scripture: Fear God, honor the Tsar! (1 Peter 2:17).
“The king by nature is like all men. but by power it is like a higher God, ”said the ardent patriot of the Russian land and its national shrines, more than all other Russian historical figures who contributed to the development of the Russian national religious and political self-consciousness - the holy reverend Joseph Volotsky.
Faithful to its national-historical foundations, the Orthodox Russian Church, without forcing anyone, only preaches, appealing to the free will of every Orthodox Russian person, the idea of an Orthodox Russian autocracy, as the best possible on an imperfect earth and historically justified for Russia, a type of God-responsible power anointed with God is king.
Fervently preaching this idea, the Orthodox Church will never allow herself, we repeat, any violence against the free will of the Russian people, for this would be contrary to the very spirit and essence of Christ's Truth. Violence over the will of the people is used only by its enemies!
The Orthodox Church can and will exist under any authority, even under the authority of the Antichrist himself, fighting him with confession and martyrdom, retreating to the catacombs as needed, firmly remembering the promise of the Savior that His Church would not be able to overcome all the forces of hell! But the Orthodox Church will yearn for the Orthodox autocracy and tirelessly preach it until the last day of world history, because the true “prosperous and peaceful life” “in all piety and purity” considers it possible to realize in Russia only with this form of the most God-responsible state power!
Religious values are undoubtedly the highest values. Therefore, morality must necessarily be based on religion.
None of the ethics of Kant (the so-called "ethics of duty" of the categorical moral imperative), no heteronomous ethics with its socio-biological substantiations of moral behavior human, nor the ethics of the so-called. "innate altruism and solidarism" - cannot be sufficiently substantiated. Only theo nominal (i.e., religious) ethics can withstand any philosophical criticism.
Indeed, the "ethics of duty" is completely meaningless if it is not based on the doctrine of the value for which duty is preached. Indeed, communist ethics can also claim to be an "ethics of duty" and completely repeat Kant's categorical imperative ("act in such a way that the rule of your will can serve together with the beginning of universal legislation"), understanding by this a "sense of duty" to the party, which has established indisputable the beginning of universal legislation.
The socio-biological foundations of ethics are even more meaningless, because in isolation from the highest spiritual religious values, the very concept of social and biological good becomes extremely subjective, and depending on the ideology (for example, atheistic-materialistic) - directly leads to Hottentot morality what is ethical is what is useful to the party”, etc.).
Human nature is characterized not only by egoism, but also by altruism. And this is where some try to build "an ethic of innate altruism and solidarism." The defenders of this "ethics" say: "Altruism is a natural fact. Therefore, the task of moral education lies in the sufficient and planned development of the innate instinct of solidarity.
"The ethics of innate altruism and solidarism" is a great temptation and a great evil. Abolishing religious foundations from morality and denying Divine Revelation, according to which the world lies in evil and the prince of this world is the devil, for which the Savior's expiatory sacrifice was needed, this "ethics" believes that by its own strength, without help from above, it can be moral evil has been destroyed on earth.
But a man is not an ant or a bee, but humanity is not an anthill or a beehive. Man has free will and the ability to contemplate not only the laws of material nature, but also the highest spiritual and eternal values. In the light of these highest values, he sees that Good and Evil have metaphysical roots, and therefore the fight against evil only by human forces is tragically fruitless.
The tragic experience of world history convinces every person who is looking for the fundamental principle of evil in the world, that it is possible to understand and comprehend and defeat evil only with help from above. The earth is not hell yet, and on it there are remnants of Divine Love rejected by the world - the only true principle of life. On the earth cursed by God, not only fragments of the former holistic beauty of God's world remained, but also sparks of the heavenly radiance of the holistic Goodness: elements of altruism in the souls of people.
Closing their eyes to the fading flame of moral values, caused by the loss of the very source of light and heat, the "altruists" offer to fan the fading sparks of Good on their own. This rejects the great significance of Golgotha and tramples on the bead of the Savior's Divine words: Without Me you can do nothing. “Without you, we can do everything,” say the “altruists,” “and we don’t need you or your Golgotha!”
In contrast to the "natural" law of "altruism and solidarism", religious consciousness affirms the supernatural moral law that remains in the soul of a person after the fall, as the greatest almsgiving of God (the voice of conscience !). At the same time, another great gift was given to man - the gift of free will!
Listening to the voice of conscience, the free will of a person, admonished by bitter personal experience, can either ask for help from above to fight moral evil in himself and in the world, or, rejecting this help, rely only on his own strength. In the first case, a person follows the path of Christian moral perfection, and in the second, he builds a socialist anthill, which differs from the anthill of insects by the need for the universal "social good" to use universal unlimited violence!
Of the three types of state power - monarchy, democracy and despotism - in fact, only the first (monarchy) is based on a religious-ethical principle, the second (democracy) is based on a non-religious-ethical principle, and the third (despotism) - on an anti-religious (satanic) principle.
For a truly Orthodox Russian person, who correctly understands the hierarchy of values and strives to view everything in life from the highest religious point of view, there is no doubt about the choice of the principle of state power.
Not a single Orthodox Russian person familiar with the elements of Orthodox asceticism doubts that one can never rely only on oneself and build one's life on the basis of one's own will alone. On the contrary, always remembering the Lord's prayer, it is necessary to pray to the Lord: Thy will be done!
What is true for each individual person is true for the whole people, especially in the matter of establishing the principle of state power.
"The will of the people", so enthusiastically praised by democracy, from a religious point of view, can in no way be taken as the supreme value and the highest authority in resolving the question of the "true welfare of the people." The “will of the people”, as the highest and final authority, is meaningless and represents a collection of self-power if it is not addressed to absolute religious values.
The “will of the people”, like the will of an individual person, must be free, but this freedom must be protected from the temptation of “freedom of violence”, when the falsely understood principle of unlimited (or better, unprotected) freedom turns into its opposite (see Shigalev’s confessions in "Besakh" by Dostoevsky).
God granted man (and human society-people) only with the freedom to choose between Good and Evil (between His will and the self-will of man), but did not provide absolute freedom of action in relation to Himself and His laws . Thus, He did not allow the possibility of the destruction of Divine love, truth, goodness, beauty and religiously understood freedom.
The “will of the people” can choose between two principles of life: 1) Thy will be done, Lord, and 2) My will be done, regardless of the will of the Lord.
In relation to state power, the will of the Lord is known: at the head of the people should be the anointed king of God, who in his activity is guided not by the “will of the people”, but by the will of God!
Under the Orthodox Russian autocracy, the people elect a tsar, whom the Church will then anoint as king. To this anointed king of God, the people, desiring to live according to God, that is, in truth, voluntarily, of their own free will, entrust the fullness of state power. After that, the anointed king is no longer guided by the “will of the people” (i.e., the democratic principle), but by the will of God and his own conscience, as the voice of the will of God.
The Orthodox Russian anointed tsar is by no means an unlimited and irresponsible lord, like the Eastern despots and leaders of European totalitarian states. No, he is extremely responsible before God! It is enough to recall the wonderful prayers that the tsar and the people read during the HYPERLINK "" Holy Coronation and Anointing of the Sovereign, in order to understand the deepest religious, moral and political meaning of the Orthodox Russian autocracy.
“Be my heart in Your hand,” the sovereign himself prays, “even if you arrange everything for the benefit of the people entrusted to me and for Your Glory, as if even on the day of Your Judgment I will shamelessly give You a word ...”
The king gives his heart into the hands of God, and therefore he understands the benefit of the people entrusted to him only in conjunction with the glory of the Lord. For the people, his anointed king promises to answer at the Last Judgment. The people at this time, through the lips of the primate of the Orthodox Church, anointing the king, pray:
“Make wise and instruct Him to go through this great service unto Thee: grant Him understanding and wisdom!” The people understand the God-given burden of royal power as "a great service to God." Each people has its own mystical and historical mission, which it (the people itself) may not know and not understand to an exhaustive depth. Royal power is mediation between God and the people. To the anointed king, at His own discretion, listening to the humble prayers of the sovereign himself, the prayers of the Church and the whole people, the Lord reveals the depths of the people's mission and helps its implementation.
The unusually touching and most touching rite of the Coronation and Anointing of the sovereign, so highly artistic and at the same time truthfully, sincerely, simply and majestically described by A. N. Muravyov, cannot but leave in the souls and memory of those present, including the tsar himself, the deepest impressions for a lifetime. Many sovereigns wept during the Coronation together with the shocked people.
The tsar and the people, crowned in this significant rank by the Church in a kind of marriage, with male primacy and responsibility of the tsar and with feminine sacrifice, purity and fear of the people, mutually make vows of fidelity and, praying humbly for help from above, agree voluntarily before the face of God "bear each other's burdens."
After this marriage, the tsar and the people become one state body, mutually responsible before God. It is absolutely clear that the Church, which crowns the tsar with the people, cannot in any way be "separated" from the state. For the anointed tsar of God, the Church anointing him as king, and the people married in church to the tsar represent an inseparable integral trinity of the structure of the Russian state.
Hence, the truth of the words of the sacred formula - the dogma about the national-historical essence of Russia - becomes completely understandable: with t! Hence, the primordial historical sacred slogan of Russia in its selfless struggle against external and internal enemies becomes completely understandable: “For v ѣ ru, the Tsar and the Fatherland!”
In the light of the foregoing, it becomes quite clear what the greatest mystical and historical tragedy in the life of Russia was the abdication of the late Tsar-Martyr from the Throne! For his mistakes and transgressions and for the terrible sins of all his people, the Anointed of God paid with martyrdom not only for himself, but also for his entire Family, including the minor innocent child of his son-Heir. The Russian people, for the sins of their sovereign and for their immeasurable sins before him and before God, received from the Lord such a retribution, to which there is no end in sight. For who, having raised his hand to the Anointed of the Lord, will remain unpunished? - says the Lord (1 Sam. 26:9) and will he not die because he cursed the Anointed One (2 Sam. 19:21).
Tsarist Russia - this is the Sun from the East - no doubt, had dark spots on itself. But the essence of the sun is not in spots, and to destroy the sun in the name of fighting its spots is senseless and inexcusably criminal. Therefore, the February Revolution of 1917, which gave birth to a nightmarish October, cannot have any religious justification!
Not rebellion (which is any revolution in relation to the anointed tsar), but prayerfully the people must answer for the sins of their kings.
The wise sunny Pushkin, the true son of Russia, said this simply and clearly with the holy lips of his Pimen the Chronicler:
They commemorate their great kings For their labors, for glory, for good - And for sins, for the dark deeds of the Savior, they humbly beg.
Many, even those who accept the idea of a monarchy, are confused by the question of the hereditary form of power. Only from a non-religious-ethical point of view can it seem more fair and, mainly, insuring (in a human way) against abuse of the principle - the principle of electing the head of state for a certain period. But from a religious point of view, everything becomes clear.
Yes, under hereditary monarchical power there can be different kings: both saints and sinners, and smart and simpletons, and strong and weak. But after the anointing (which is performed on each new member of the dynasty separately!), they all receive special help and grace from God, Who can turn the sinner into a saint, the weak into the strong, the simple into a sage. The very life of the king is entirely in the hands of God!
But the most important thing, which should never be forgotten, is the foresight of sending down to the people at different moments of its historical life - different x z kings. The people, under the dynastic succession of a monarch, receive from God such a king as he deserves!
The most terrible and terrible thing in our crafty and difficult time is the rejection of the Orthodox Russian principle of autocracy by some representatives of the Orthodox Church itself. The spirit of the Red Renovationist Reformation and church revolutionism, this most terrible spiritual poison, prophetically predicted as a sign of the approaching end of the world, is beginning to manifest itself more insistently in the life of the Orthodox Russian Church.
The mass of wolves in sheep's clothing is trying to take away from the concept of "king" its religious root, trying to make us forget everything that is said about the king in Holy Scripture.
Fortunately, the Russian people themselves begin to sober up and learn to distinguish between "good shepherds" and "evil shepherds." The idea of Orthodox Russian autocracy, despite the incessant propaganda of the enemies of God and Russia, the so-called. Left circles (or, perhaps, precisely because of this propaganda!) are beginning to attract more and more Orthodox Russian hearts, mortally longing for the Master of the Russian Land, the Tsar-Anointed of God.
If the Russian people are worthy of it, the Lord will return to them His Anointed
One of the newsmakers last week was State Duma deputy Natalia Poklonskaya. Criticizing the film "Matilda", which tells about the little-known pages of the life of Nicholas II, Natalya casually hooked on other historical figures: " Paradoxically, the monsters of the twentieth century (Lenin, Trotsky, Hitler, Mao Zedong), who shed a sea of human blood, did not cause such rejection as the kind and merciful Sovereign, who was killed with his Family, who radically improved the well-being of his people". It was these words that could not but cause a media scandal.
Today, when we are celebrating the 99th anniversary of October, also called the Great, it is worth talking about why he received such an epithet.
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We talked about the figure just recently. By the way, we also had the thesis that the last sovereign is one of the figures of national history, for which one can find a shaft of polar assessments (depending on the sympathies of the seeker). We are not going to argue with this. But about the rest I would like to say a few words.
Prologue
Russia at the beginning of the 20th century is a big village. Over 85% of the population of the empire belonged to the peasant class. This does not mean that all these 85% lived in villages. On the contrary, many went to work in the city after finishing their field work. Not because there was nothing to do at home. But because the size and productivity of the allotment did not allow them to feed their families by paying the due taxes and payments.
On average, at the beginning of the 20th century, there were 2.6 acres of land per adult peasant (the value could differ depending on which pre-reform category the peasant belonged to). A tithe is just over a hectare of land. Fathers divided the land between their sons, the allotments gradually decreased, it became more and more difficult to conduct crop rotation.
Further. The farm needs a horse, at least one, otherwise you need to harness yourself to the plow. The less he put on, the more pastures were plowed up, which means that the peasants became horseless, falling into dependence on the kulaks. They rented horses at exorbitant prices, thus the process of impoverishment of the village was twisted in a spiral.
The need for land reform was obvious not only to the left parties, but also to the government. - is not our topic today, so we will not analyze whether it failed or not. Although if we take the popularity of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party in 1917 as a criterion (“Land to the peasants” is the Socialist-Revolutionary slogan), then we have to admit that the reform had some problems.
In the spring and summer of 1917, the situation strongly resembles the present. In the press - continuous substitutive informational occasions ("War to the bitter end", elections, confrontation between the Soviets and the Provisional Government). However, from the side of the people, those same 85%, there is only one request: “When will the land be divided?”. Some begin to divide without waiting for a signal. Others write about it to the front. By autumn, the front begins to slowly crumble. In cinematography, this is reflected in something like this
In this simple dialogue, consisting practically only of quoting a letter, there is the whole life, all the aspirations of the very people, with whose well-being we began today's material. Apparently, it was his growth that forced the authors of the letter to dismantle the cattle of the landowners Terentievs, and even kill them themselves. By the way, it's not mandatory at all. Prishvin also came to be dispossessed by peasants, he described this in his diary. He was treated fairly, leaving part of the property and seed, since the master also needs to live.
The power of the Soviets instead of the power of dilettantes
In all this turmoil, few people remembered that back in April, Lenin almost immediately sketched out a new party program (“April theses”), among which number 5 is: “Not a parliamentary republic, but a republic of workers’ councils.” That is the classic "All power to the Soviets." Why Soviets and not a republic? Yes, because Lenin noticed in the spring that:
1. In Russia, without intersecting with each other, there are two most important processes: the formation of a new government in the form of a parliamentary republic; the implementation of the age-old program of universal justice as the peasant understood it (“We are yours, and the land is ours”).
2. When these processes meet each other, it will dry up, and strongly. Because the participants in these processes live in different worlds, although they speak the same language.
Revolution is not to remove the king. Lenin himself, for example, in his collected works says practically nothing about the last Russian emperor. Well, Lenin did not write to Nicholas II. Yes, and it’s not about him, but about the apparatus of government, where the figure of the king is important, but only a detail. Those who removed this figure very soon discovered for themselves and those around them that they did not know what to do with the avalanche of events and responsibilities. Recall that in six months, from March to November 1917, the post-revolutionary government experienced two coup attempts and three major crises, as a result of which the cabinet was quite seriously updated.
Bad management, especially in times of war, is bad. However, even bad management is worse than no management. When the processes in the country begin to go by themselves, regardless of the will of the government. 1917 began for Russia as a choice between bad and worse. And in this sense, the historical fault of the February revolutionaries, perhaps even about more than the not too skillful manager of Nicholas II.
But what about Lenin? Lenin did exactly one thing: he seized control, locking it into the system of Soviets that was being formed during 1917. Which, among other things, were also valuable feedback, allowing you to feel the pulse of the country and see a little further than Petrograd. The Second Congress of Soviets already on October 26 (November 8) adopted two important decisions: the decrees on peace and land. Thus, taking control of processes that could potentially tear Russia to pieces. If you look from the point of view of February, he made a counter-revolution, no matter how ridiculous it may sound.
From a historical point of view, Lenin rather took revenge on those who forced Nicholas II to abdicate at the end of February. Although he, of course, was an anti-monarchist. It's just that the point here is not at all in monarchism, but in the state, one should not mix and confuse these two concepts.
The leadership of the Bolshevik Party can be treated differently, we have freedom of speech, as Poklonskaya herself noticed. But one cannot but admit that the October Revolution stopped the destruction of the state of that very kind and merciful sovereign. It was not the Bolsheviks who were removed from government at all.
There is only one thing to add to what has been said. The discipline of "boxing by correspondence" is a necessary thing for a politician, and it needs to be mastered. Just in the process of mastering it is desirable to be careful when cornering.
Nicholas II Alexandrovich - born May 6, 1868, Tsarskoye Selo. Emperor of All Russia, Tsar of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland. Nicholas II abdicated during the February Revolution of 1917 and was under house arrest with his family in the Tsarskoye Selo Palace. In the summer of 1917, by decision of the Provisional Government, he was sent into exile with his family to Tobolsk, and in the spring of 1918 he was moved by the Bolsheviks to Yekaterinburg, where in July 1918 he was shot with his family and close associates.
Quotes, aphorisms, sayings, phrases - Nicholas II
- Around treason and cowardice and deceit.
- Evil will not conquer evil, but only love.
- I still need you, and that's why you'll stay.
- Better ten Rasputins than one empress hysteria.
- Today I was visited by a feeling of falling in love. After dinner, this feeling disappeared.
- Only that state is strong and strong, which sacredly keeps the covenants of its past.
- Childish gullibility is a charming quality for an ordinary person - and fatal for a ruler.
- This Russian carelessness and maybe! Spoils us half the success in every business and always and everywhere.
- The bottom line is that in the name of saving Russia and keeping the army at the front in peace, you need to decide on this step. I agreed.
- I did not protect autocratic power, but Russia. I am not convinced that a change in the form of government will bring peace and happiness to the people.
- In order not to quarrel and not to spoil family relations, I constantly give in and in the end remain a blockhead, without will and without character.
- In Kronstadt, riots and devastation began yesterday. It was difficult to get news, because the telephone did not work. Well, it's time.
- I go crazy when I think about the prospects of Russia, we will become the greatest nation, the greatest state, everything in the world will be done with our permission.
- Deep faith in the Lord and the unanimous desire of truly Russian people to break and expel the enemy from the borders of Russia give me firm confidence to look calmly at the future.
- We live in Russia, and not in some republic where Ministers submit their resignations every day. When the king finds it necessary to dismiss the minister, then only the latter leaves his post.
- How much longer will our unfortunate Motherland be tormented and torn apart by external and internal enemies? Sometimes it seems that there is no strength to endure longer, you don’t even know. What to hope for, what to do?
- Hard day! Serious riots broke out in St. Petersburg as a result of the desire of the workers to reach the Winter Palace. The troops had to shoot in different parts of the city, there were many killed and wounded. God, how painful and hard.
- All these changes make my head spin. I think they happen too often. In any case, this is not very good for the internal state of the country, because each new person also brings changes in the administration.
- I bear a terrible responsibility before God and am ready to give an account to Him every minute, but as long as I live, I will act with conviction, as my conscience tells me. I do not say that I am always right, for every man is wrong, but my mind tells me that this is how I should conduct business.
- After my abdication for myself and for my son from the throne of Russia, power was transferred to the Provisional Government, which arose at the initiative of the State Duma. May God help him lead Russia along the path of glory and prosperity. May God help you, valiant troops, to defend Russia from the evil enemy.
- Until now, everything went, thank God, like clockwork, but today there was a great sin. The crowd that had spent the night on Khodynskoe Pole, in anticipation of the beginning of the distribution of dinner and mugs, pressed against the buildings, and then there was a terrible crush, and, it is terrible to add, about 1300 people were trampled!! A disgusting impression left from this news.
