Have you ever thought that the north pole at the top of a globe or map is a convention, it might as well be below, and if the globe is turned over, as is often done in the southern hemisphere, then the picture of the world will change greatly, antarctica and australia will seem to be the largest continents, and russia, europe or north america will be barely noticeable. For many decades, if not centuries, we lived with our heads turned to the west, to europe, turning a blind eye to the rest of the world. How much do we know about the overwhelming majority of the world, about those ancient civilizations that, in the new conditions, are becoming our most important partners or allies . We remember do we know that man, agriculture, civilization, the state, cities, humanity feels the same as we do, has the same values and also rejects the dictates of the west. Lets look together, with eyes wide open, at our beautiful land, its peoples and civilizations that created the world in which we live, today about russian civilization. What is a people, a nation, a civilization . This is memory, these are monuments, these are the graves of ancestors, these are holidays, this is a mothers lullaby, this is a kiss from a loved one, this is the first cry of your child, awareness the commonality of civilization stems from the recognition of the commonality of the past, present and future, behind everyone. Each of us, dozens of generations who lived, gave birth to children, grew crops, built, developed our vast homeland, laid down their lives to protect it from enemies. This is a great legacy and we must remember this legacy and be worthy of this legacy. On june 24, 1945, here at the walls of the gray kremlin the country welcomed its sons who returned with victory. Look at these faces, courageous, concentrated, spiritual, beautiful. The heroes of unprecedented battles on all fronts of the great patriotic war, from the barintse sea to the black sea, are those who broke the backbone. Nazi vermin. The banners of the defeated divisions of those who considered themselves the superior race, and the rest inferior, were thrown onto the rainwet asphalt of red square. All of europe collapsed under the third reich. The anglosaxon world trembled before him. They fed. The nazi monster, so that it would not attack them, attacked us, it attacked us, and this was the most fatal mistake of hitlers germany, the soviet people continued to fight in hopeless situations, completely surrounded, until the last bullet, and a month later, after the treacherous german attack, the walls of the brez fortress, its heroic defenders were bleeding, and died. But i dont give up. The battle of moscow, the blockade of leningrad, stalingrad, the kursk bulge, the banner of victory over berlin, and 27 million lives ruined by the united europe that came with hitler. And no matter how today this united europe tries to trample on our victory, the ranks of our immortal regiment will not straighten out, because we are the heirs. Winners, its in our genes, they dont understand why we celebrate our victory like that, and they never will, because they have never had such a victory and will not have one over the most terrible enemy in the history of mankind at the cost of the greatest human sacrifices in history , it was our country, our people, leaving for immortality, who stopped the car. Nazi extermination, freeing the entire world from the enslavement of annihilation. Im talking to you under the whistling of shells, surrounded by a gloomy glow, im talking to you from. My country, sad country, with my hands squeezing the charred heart, i make such a promise, i am a city dweller, the mother of a Red Army Soldier who died under a gunshot in battle, we will fight with selfless strength, we will defeat rabid animals, we will win, i swear to you, russia, on behalf of russian mothers. Once in the philippines, where the population is more than 100 million people, i asked a very highranking official who was the symbol of their national pride, and he, without hesitation, answered pacquiao, pacquiao, Manny Pacquiao is the lightweight boxing champion of the world, a good athlete, and who else . Pacquiao is enough for us to feel like the greatest nation. We have hundreds of outstanding athletes who have achieved success in sports. Much more than pakiau, besides this , great scientists who moved world science forward, the greatest writers, composers , artists, generals, statesmen, sometimes one such name is enough to glorify any nation, and we have hundreds, thousands of such names, like no country, we have given a lot to humanity, and like no other country, we have often been in a state of selfabasement, or even selfblame. One of the most deplorable features of our peculiar civilization is that we are still discovering truths that have become hackneyed in other countries, and even among peoples much more backward than us. Look around all the centuries we have lived, all the spaces we have occupied, and you will not find a single riveting memory, not a single venerable monument that would powerfully speak about the past and paint it vividly and picturesquely. We live only within the limits. Russian civilization has absorbed the Cultural Heritage of many peoples, tribes, with their traditions and beliefs, it has always been and remains multinational, multilingual, multiconfessional. This is a country that has no borders, so its borders move and then narrow, because we do not have any serious border registries or mountain ranges, so this changes back and forth all the time, this determines its extraordinary openness, its well, its just impossible to describe a separate civilization alone. At least 22 tribes took part in the formation of russia in the 90 centuries. At the origins of this huge community. Located most a large area of the globe was inhabited by east slavic tribes, which later turned into russian ukrainians and belarusians. The name of the slavs most likely comes either from the word glory, or a word that speaks an understandable language, in contrast to the dumb germans, who are not able to speak an understandable language. The news of the first state is associated with the testimony of the chronicle of the vocation, the tribes mired in strife. Kiev, which became the impetus for the formation of a unified state of ancient russia, well, in 1862, when the millennium of russia was celebrated. There was a long difficult process of choosing a confession, and the choice was made in favor of christianity, adopted from the eastern roman empire, byzantium. Russian civilization is multiconfessional. We have four traditional religions orthodoxy, islam, judaism, buddhism. At the time of the emergence of ancient russia, Large Centers of islamic civilization already existed. Pete. And if we talk about serious things, then we were talking about two missionary streams. One missionary stream came from the west, the other came from constantinople. This was the time when byzantium was actively involved in the christianization of surrounding countries. Relations between russia and constantinople, or tsarigrad, as it was called then, were extremely difficult. More than once the path from varyak to the greeks became a warpath. There were multiple times. War between byzantium and russia, byzantium tried to set up the pechenegs against russia. It was a very complex relationship, but at the same time it was a combination. Byzantium gave an icon, but not only an icon. Byzantium provided urban art, architecture, and mosaics. And through the efforts of the saints equal to the apostles enlighteners cyril and methodius, russians had the opportunity, one of the few on earth, to read and hear the word of god. Read the works of great ancient philosophers in your native language. For byzantium, gaining allies in the person of the russian princes became an important argument in the confrontation with rome. The church conflict between western and eastern christians, which later developed into a split of the church into orthodox and catholic, began several centuries before the baptism of russia. Our nascent state will become with the disappearance of byzantium. The main stronghold of the world orthodoxy, the largest orthodox state in the world, which we remain to this day. The music of russian prayer in Church Slavonic is the only thing that truly, truly unites us throughout the centuries. Sacred connection, musicality, rhythm. From dorogomyshsky, what is tchaikovsky from musorsky, but we know that it is ours when we hear it, and something rises in our soul, something causes a smile of delight, and something squeezes tears of joy from our eyes. We shudder at the first sounds of tchaikovskys first concerto, performed by an orchestra marinsky theater in. We remember, we feel the horror of the nazi invasion, hunger, cold, the heroism of besieged leningrad, when the seventh symphony of Dmitry Dmitrievich shestakovich, written there, breaks in. And doesnt it emanate the romance of native spaces and the greatness of spirit at the sounds of rachmaninoffs second concerto performed by the incomparable denis matsuev. Russian civilization is also a dance with sabers, arams or cheturyan. And polovetsky dances, Alexander Porfiryevich borodin. Dont you want to stand up from a feeling of pride, when you hear, glory, mikhail ivanovich, glinka. Ill go out into the field with a horse at night, lets walk quietly in the dark night, civilization is the songs that the people sing, songs coming from the very depths of our souls, they are with us in work, in feasts and in sorrow, in joy, in peaceful life in war, how many dont try to explain them to anyone. Over there the flowers are celebrating, we are pushing her after the gods, from ourselves, from ourselves, byala. Like a prince on a glittering land, a blanket of patchwork distances, a city on a road roller coaster, i am russian, i am going to the end, i am russian, may the blood of hell. To the eightieth anniversary of the complete liberation of leningrad from the fascist blockade. The enemy is marching towards leningrad, and you are looking for excuses. Burn comrades, the tank is on fire from the bottle. Lushsky border. If. Even one german breaks through on your site, even on a tank , even on a stick, ill shoot you, pulkovo meridian, bread, i ruined the bread, i dont have the strength, maksimich, i wont get to the factory, leningrad metronome, breaking the blockade is not just a military operation, no, this is our duty. In front of leningrad. Operation spark. I never wanted to live the way i want to, now. I want to live to see victory. Film epic blockade. On saturday on the first. I will not run away from the enemy, if necessary, i will be able to die where i stand. Bourbon stirsman, product. Do you like going to a man for a manicure . I love it and recommend it to everyone. Here is this phrase ice cream for women and flowers does not work for children, because the ice cream is with vodka. This is a bestseller for us , listen, there is deception all around, just ice cream with lemon, the lives of others. Premiere, sunday on the first. To the seventieth birthday of leonid yarmolnik. My favorite student, leonid yarmolnik. I saw someone so young. A slender, very flexible boy, this freedom and lightness, it seems to me , was what distinguished leni in general, well, leonid vasakovich is a very demanding person, but he really is a demanding person in life, he is a real friend whom you can call at night and say, leni sakovich, i need a dachshund, i have never seen him turn away from some problem or from some request to him, i was so lucky in life with the one with whom life brought me together, there was someone to look at, someone to imitate. Premiere of the documentary. In sunday on the first. Over its more than thousandyear history, russia has suffered genuine disasters four times, when statehood was destroyed, the country became a battlefield for civil wars and interventions, suffered colossal casualties, lost vast territories, was thrown back in economic development, when the question of the survival of its civilization arose. The first collapse was caused by external conquest in. Genghis khan, he united the mongols, he created a truly great empire that conquered both chinese lands and korea, western siberia, and charisma and transcaucasia, in the end, now collided with our state, dozens of flourishing cities turned into ashes, their inhabitants were completely killed, from the old man to the mere baby, as the chronicler exclaimed, that is, they were literally cleansed. The books of ancient russia and the mongol empire gradually acquired a more pragmatic outline. The mongols plans did not include the complete destruction of the population in order to seize the lands, since they were not suitable for the kaches. The russians were to be used in charge way, as a source of constant enrichment for the replenishment of labor and military forces. If you ride in your mouth, you will be a big boss. To us, governors. We have a saying from your native land, die, but dont leave. At first it was a terrible shock and colossal losses, human, material, whatever, but then russia was included in a huge world empire, because you have to understand that the mongol empire was a power that stretched from the adriatic to. China, yes, it was indeed a form of economic dependence, but they did not actually interfere into the mentality, into the culture, well, in fact, even into the political power of the russian lands, the life of the russian world, and religion, most importantly, they remained virtually untouched, the threat of the steppe was great, but no less was the threat of the west, and if people from the east they threatened to take away life or freedom, then. People from the west could take away much more, they threatened to take away the immortal soul. The west tried to turn russia into its province, tried to convert it to catholicism, the people fought to the death, there were fortresses, like here in izborsk, fortresses under the walls of which many avalanches crashed, crusaders, where Alexander Nevsky came after. Glorious campaigns against the dogknights for him, and the main task was to subjugate completely and not allow them to rise, inevsky prefers to pay the horde, but not to come under the wing of e latins in the fight against the arna, why is there christ, here is christ, well, okay, so what, he says no. Thanks for the shortcut to your knees. During the period of tatarmongol domination, russia became part of. The empire of the chenghizids and solved a prosaic, but very difficult issue survival. But these centuries were also extremely important for the future of the country and its people. Belonging to the chenghizid empire made russia a participant in global politics. And in the future, russias revenge will make it the heir to the northern part of the mongol empire. The call for the creation of the largest orthodox state was first heard from the lips of the abbot of the pskov eleazar monastery, elder philotheus, who formulated our First National idea in the twenties of the 16th century, during the reign of vasily ii. So know, lover of god and lover of christ, that everything christian kingdoms came to an end and converged in a single kingdom of our sovereign. According to the prophetic books, this is the roman kingdom, for two romes have fallen, the third stands, and the fourth will not happen, this very phrase moscow is the third rome, it is very dangerous, dangerous why, because often behind this some people hide pride, wow what, we are the third rome, we are the best. We are the United States of america for gods sake, we are the most powerful nation in the history of the world, in the history of the world, any person or any nation and any movement that embraces the idea of personal pride will be crushed, and this is the message, the famous philotheus, which is also incriminating to the king. Didnt remain, if we weaken, if we are destroyed, there will be no orthodox state, that is, a country that, spiritually from the church, in its public life is trying to preserve the laws of god, and then what, what is going on there at your court, thats and not that we are exclusively exclusive, we are generally unique, no, the horror is that we are the third ril, when. Ivan answered that the moscow princes initially, sovereigns on their land were appointed by god. The failure of the mission was attributed to the quirks of ivan ii. And they renewed their attempts after his son vasily ascended the throne. This was the historical watershed, after which attempts to involve russia in the western system as a vassal ceased , and communication with it began as an enemy. In 1549 , notes on muscovy by segismund herberstein were published in vienna, which would go through 22 reprints in the 15th century alone. In this and many other books, the ideal form was given an image of russia that will not change in the west to this day. Russian religiosity was now presented as heretical. Reverence for power is like cruel slavery. Simplicity of morals like savagery. Russia appeared to be a natural enemy. Moreover, such a perception of russia became part of the genetic code of the west itself. As that antipode, looking at which the west acquired its identity, elevated its culture, its value system. Human rights have already been reduced to slavery before human flesh. That is, he has the right to any urge your flesh. Declare a manifestation of freedom , although this is slavery, freedom and humanism where the spirit is higher than the flesh, this is the whole christian culture, in russian culture this is especially so, especially so, and this, too, is precisely the core of our civilization, there is a meaningforming core, if there is god, there is also a devil, this must be treated as a given, neither for fame, nor for money, this is a war for selfpreservation, simply, moral, national, historical, cultural. Today russia extends over 1 8 of the earths surface, roughly nine, in fact 11 time zones, such territory is not given to civilizations just like that. How did we manage to acquire such a vast living space, why did russia become a great power, and not lithuania or poland, which in the middle ages were larger and stronger, had a larger population, more advanced weapons, and actively sought to expand their borders from sea to sea. Russian civilization has always been riverine. Since the time of the izvoryaks journey to the greeks, from the baltic. The sea turned black, the russians remained the river masters of eurasia. Actually, where does rus and russia . Among those who consider the varangians and the first russian princes to be scandinavians, the word rus is most often derived from the finnish ruotsi, mushrooms, and those who consider them baltic slavs derive the name rus from numerous rivers with the names ros , rus, rosa, rusa, rusnya, roska , porussia, found in abundance throughout eastern europe. Which reflected the cult of water among the people who lived along the river beds, with their mermaids and mermaids. It was along the banks of the rivers that our ancestors settled, it was the rivers that were the Main Transport arteries, they sailed along the rivers on plows and boats,