In general, of course, the very idea of ??the heroic "Standing on the Ugra" is very different from the typical Moscow myths. There is no pathos and pathos in it, which Kremlin fabulists usually use, trying to give a touch of epic heroism to the highly controversial events of the history of the state of Moscow.

Background, reasons What do we remember today about "Standing on the Ugra"?.

That valiant Moscow impostor Ivan III, refused to pay tribute to the Horde. The tsar of Ordyn was offended. Came to Ugra. I stood. Turned and left home.

That's all! No more interesting, remarkable significant facts!.

Why did the Moscow impostor stop paying tribute to the Horde? Why such self-reliance? And what is more interesting, when Ivan III visited this very good idea - to stop paying tribute to his master?.

There are two versions that this event happened in 1476 and in 1472.

The version with 1476 year is confirmed by the fact that after 1476 Moscow ceased to receive from the king of the Horde shortcuts to the board.

The version associated with 1472 is confirmed many times. According to the records of the Vologda-Perm chronicle, in 1480, King Ahmat, in the course of negotiations, reproached Ivan III for not paying tribute to the ninth year. And makes one very interesting fact extremely remarkable: At that time in the Horde there was not, so to speak, a single government, and the eternal internecine warfare prevented it from becoming again the force that shook the whole world. Therefore, in Moscow, in search of a stronger or more promising ally, in 1472, she entered into an agreement on mutual friendship with the direct rival of Sarai, the Crimean king Mengli-Girei, thus violating the treaty with Ahmat. And already in 1474, between Mengli-Girey and Ivan III, a union treaty was concluded, according to which Moscow began to pay tribute not to the Saray king Akhmat but to the Crimean heir of Genghis Khan!.

Moscow simply "changed the roof," which was very much in line with its typical behavior in the diplomatic arena. Moscow always gave an oath of allegiance to any more powerful enemy and always violated it, at the first successful opportunity.

There is one more reason why it is necessary to pay attention to the year 1472: on November 12, 1472, Ivan III was married to the alleged heiress of the Byzantine throne (and in fact a beggarless beggar) Zoya Palaeologus in the Kremlin Uspensky Cathedral.

After this marriage, the confessor of Ivan III, Archbishop Vassian, releases him from the oath of allegiance to the Horde king, and accordingly from tribute!.

According to the line of the then-Moscow church, after the wedding with the "Constantinople bride":.

Enterprising priests even invented for the tyranny impostor Ivan III special title:.

"John, God's mercy sovereign of all Russia and the Grand Duke of Vladimir, and Moscow, and Novgorod, and Pskov, and Tver, and Ugra, and Perm, and Bulgarian, and others".

Note: he was never called a king! Because whatever Moscovites are separatists, they knew that only the ruler of the Horde has the right to be called the king!.

The vassals of the Horde Tsar - the Moscow princes had no right to carry this title!.

Remember, after the next impostor - Ivan the Terrible put on the Hat of Bogdan, and called himself "the Russian land king", the direct heir of Genghis Khan - the Crimean king Devlet Gerey immediately demanded of Grozny to abandon the title, and when he refused to simply came and burned Moscow in 1571. Devlet Gerey wrote then to Grozny:.

"I'm burning and wasteland all because of Kazan and Astrakhan, but I apply wealth to the dust of the whole world, hoping for the majesty of God. I came to you, burned your city, I wanted your crown and your head; But you did not come and against us did not, and still boast that I am a Moscow sovereign! If there were shame and stupidity in you, then you would come against us and stand ".

Grozny simply fled, fearing for his head, which would have been removed along with the road Uzbek hat.

A small remark: After the marriage of Ivan III with Zoya Palaeologus, in 1489 the ambassador of the Holy Roman Emperor Nikolai Poppel on behalf of his suzerain offered Ivan III the royal title. The Moscow tyrant refused, stating that he had no need of the title of common people for God's anointed:.

"We are the Lord's mercy sovereign on our land from the beginning, from our first grandparents, and we have the ordination from God, as our ancestors, so we ... but we did not want ordinations from anyone, and now we do not want to!".

Are there any other questions? It is clear now, from where so violent color grew schizophrenia and megalomania on the throne of Moscow?.

The course of the "battle". What I like about Moscow is the fact that I can never guess in the picture right away: Where are ours?.

What is the difference in the picture warriors? Flags? Equipment? Clothing?.

Nothing! The Sarai army of the Horde is no different from the army of Moscow. But only the cap of King Ahmat gives him. And so, well, really two identical commands. And this is indeed the case ... But let us return to our battle. Do you know why you will not find information on it in the network? Well, or find a couple of phrases like:.

... "In June 1480, he organized a reconnaissance of the right bank of the Oka River, and in the autumn he made a speech with the main forces" ... ... "Ivan III began to draw troops to the shores of the Oka" ... ... "On the same day, Vladimir the icon of the Mother of God was brought from Vladimir to Moscow , With the intercession of which linked the salvation of Russia from the troops of Tamerlane back in 1395 "... ..." The troops of Khan Akhmat freely moved through the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Russia through Mtsensk, Odoev and Lyubutsk to Vorotynsk ... "... King Ahmat expected help from King Casimir IV , But so her and Did not wait, because Moscow's ally, the Crimean king distracted Casimir by attacking Podolia "... .... "Knowing that the Russian regiments are waiting for him on the Oka, Khan Akhmat decided to invade Muscovy through the Ugra River" ... ... "King Ahmat did not intend to use the surprise effect and ruin Muscovy, relying instead on the traditional tactic of intimidation Superior to the number of troops and forcing them to subordinate "... ..." On October 8, the Khan Akhmat tried to force the Ugra, but his attack was repulsed by the forces of Ivan the Young "..." Knowing that King Ahmat mobilized the Great Horde as much as possible, so there was not left in its territory Ivan III selected a small but efficient unit, which was to commit a devastating sabotage in the possessions of Khan Ahmat ".

... "Tsar Akhmat, learning that in his deep rear the sabotage detachment is operating began withdrawing its troops in the first days of November" ... ... "According to Moscow mythology, the Kremlin attributed this his grandiose victory over the Horde, the miraculous intercession of the Virgin, which saved the Moscow land from ruin. Therefore, the river Ugra began to be called "the belt of the Virgin" ....

That is, the Moscow myth claims that Ivan III defeated the Great Horde thanks to his wise tactics of "Standing", and not because of traditional Moscow-Byzantine meanness and cunning!.

The truth is not believed? So I did not believe, and as it turned out was right.

In one of the most forgotten historical books of the Moscow State, namely in the "Scythian History" by Andrei Lyzlov on "Standing on the Ugra", a completely different, disgusting and terrible history of the oath of apostasy and betrayal of the Horde by Moscow.

What was it really?.

The events that preceded the heroic stand actually began to develop a little earlier than 1472, since in 1472 the army gathered Akhmat had already burned the town of Aleksin for Moscow's refusal to pay tribute.

Lyzlov does not specify the year, but reports that shortly before 1472, the Tsar of the Golden Horde Ahmat sent his ambassadors to Moscow "according to the custom of the kings of the Horde with Basmou", demanding payment of tribute. Ivan bashma spit and trampled it, and ordered the ambassadors to drown, leaving, again, one, so that he could give Akhmat his answer.

Akhmat after this often called the Prince of Moscow in the Horde, but the prince of the ambassadors lowered and drove them off scornfully, for his two saints: Jonah, the Metropolitan of Moscow and Jonah, the Archbishop of Novgorod, prophesied to him that Moscow autocrats can not be under the Horde kings in submission.

The patience of Ahmat burst, and in 1480 he gathered all his princes, lancers, princes and murzes, went to Moscow. Since King Akhmat was not afraid of anyone, only those who did not own weapons remained in the Horde.

And he went, it is necessary to note not himself!.

Striikovskaya writes that the arrival of the king to the Ugra was agreed with the king of Polish Casimir, in 1477, three years before the events described by Moscow historians.

King Casimir arrived in Lithuania and sent his nobleman to the Zavolzhsky king Akhmat, asking that he help him in the war with the prince of Moscow.

The tsar of the Horde responded to his request and gathered all his troops to the river Ugra.

But when Ahmat approached the Ugra, Kazimir had already changed his mind about fighting with Moscow and signed a truce with them for several years.

The Muscovites were waiting for him on the Ugra, and in every way they mocked him, since King Ahmat could not force the river, since he did not know the local boards and transitions.

While Tsar Akhmat was searching for the ford, the Muscovite prince sent his troops secretly to the Great Horde, led by the tsar Urodovlet, the town governor and governor of Prince Gvozdev of Zvenigorodsk. They sailed to the Horde on the boats along the Volga, and without encountering any resistance they began to cut out the Horde old men, women and children, and burn their cities. And they could destroy all the Horde people, but stopped the Gorodetsky mursa named Oblaz the Strong who told the king: "O King, there is no point in the great kingdom that it is completely devastated and ruined, because you yourself are from here, like us all, and this Our fatherland. And just so let's get out of here.. Do not wrath God ".

And then the Orthodox army returned from the Horde and came to Moscow with a great victory, bringing many prisoners and a considerable amount of booty.

King Akhmat was immediately reported about this and he at that hour retreated from the Ugra and headed to the Horde.

But while he was returning to the Shed, Nogai tartars flew on her and what the Muscovites had to destroy -. After which they crossed the Volga and came out to meet King Akhmat and suddenly attacked him right in the field. The king was not ready to attack. Because the Nogai and could overcome it.

King of Akhmat was killed by his brother-in-law - Murza Yamtemir.

In the Steppen Book about the Moscow campaign against the Horde, there is not a word behind the reign of King Ahmat standing on the Ugra. For that is the story, about how the second year of standing on the Ugra attacked the king Nogai Tsar Ivan, killed Akhmat and captured the Horde. From that day the Horde came to complete desolation.

So what happens?.

According to Lyzlov, the noble descendants of the holy traitor Alexander Nevsky with their inherent meanness, lured King Ahmet from the Horde and while under the guise of negotiations kept him on the Ugra they cut out the women and children who remained in Bolshaya Sara!.

The Horde king, in an attempt to save anything, rushed back, but was ambushed and was killed by his own kindred.

It turns out that the fall of the Great Saray - happened in consequence of the plot of the Horde themselves, led not so much greed and pride as much as Moscow.

Moscow not only managed to sow the seeds of hostility in the Horde, but also did not kill its own king with its own hands, and entrusted this unpleasant event to the Horde themselves, for they were terribly afraid of the curse that always befell those who killed the king's blood.

The fall of Sarai led to the fact that Moscow subsequently sequentially enslaved all the participants in the conspiracy, and itself, Tsargrad erased from the face of the Earth.

Well, unflattering facts from the mythology of Moscow have undermined, forgotten, misplaced.

Please note that the memory of Moscow's grandiose victory over Saray remained in the emblem of the Kaluga region, where the Ugra River itself actually flows.

On the coat of arms, we see the river Ugra itself and the royal crown, representing King Ahmat, whom the Muscovites on this very river stopped. It's a pity that they did not indicate on the arms of their secret raid in the rear of Tsar Ahmad, and did not paint their feat, they did not mention what dashing warriors they are when they fight against women and children!.

Editorial site is not responsible for the content of blogs. The editorial opinion may differ from the author's.

Join the group "Browser Blogs" on Facebook, stay tuned!.