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3.3. the Location of the Rozhestveno Village That Dmitriy Donskoi Had 170 | history: fiction or science? chron 4 | part 1 Fig. 6.33. The wall behind the altar of the Church of Our Lady’s Nativity. One sees factory buildings behind the wall; the Fig. 6.34. The cross behind Fig. 6.35. The cross behind remains uncovered during construction works are buried next the church altar with a piece the altar of the Church to the wall. Some of the graves are marked with crosses. The of an old headstone next of Our Lady’s Nativity. grave that we saw in 1994 is marked by a heavy stone and a to it. Photograph taken Photograph taken small fir tree. Photograph taken in 2000. in 2000. in 2000. Fig. 6.36. Another cross behind the altar Fig. 6.37. The heavy stone upon the flow- Fig. 6.38. The heavy stone upon the of the Church of Our Lady’s Nativity. erbed that marks the place where the flowerbed that marks the place where This is where the skulls and bones un- huge wooden box with the remains of the the huge wooden box with the remains covered during the paving of the yard heroes slain in the Kulikovo Battle was of the heroes slain in the Kulikovo were buried in 1999. Photograph taken buried in 1994. There is no cross here, for Battle. The actual burial was filmed by in 2000. some reason. Photograph taken in 2000. the authors in 1994. chapter 6 the battle of kulikovo | 171 with cellars and manifolds built on this site. The rem- paign had already been way past its peak? They man- nants of the soldiers are discarded, or, at best, re-buried aged to survive the 20’s and the 30’s, after all. in communal containers with a Christian service. Could the matter at hand be related to the very One would think that historians could really per- roots of Russian history and not just religion? As for form a large body of work here – how can it possibly the authors of the present book, the facts that we be true that there’s an ancient burial ground that still know lead us to the conclusion that the methodical exists in the very centre of Moscow, and there wasn’t destruction of certain ancient artefacts (the ones that a single historian or archaeologist to ask the question could have helped us understand the real meaning of about the identity of the dead that were buried here? the Old Russian history) has been taking place in However, let us assume that historians know noth- Russia for many years now, without any publicity and ing about the communal graves of the warriors who in the most despicable way possible. had fallen at the Kulikovo Field that were found in the In 2000 we visited the Old Simonov monastery Simonov monastery; after all, it is but a hypothesis of once again; by that time, many other bones were un- ours for the time being.Yet these very historians know earthed from the ground around the church. These perfectly well that the remains of Peresvet and Oslya- bones were buried once again next to the wall one bya are buried in this church. One would think that finds behind the church altar, qv in fig. 6.33; there are their ancient headstones were still guarded with awe. two new crosses marking the graves, qv in figs. 6.34, This is not the case. When one enters the church, 6.35 and 6.36. We managed to converse with the per- one sees the new gravestones made a couple of years son who had personally mounted the cross shown in ago, qv in fig. 6.31. An old photograph hanging nearby fig. 6.36 in 1999. One of the parishioners was paving (fig. 6.32) demonstrates this place the way it had been the yard of the church; the layer of the ground that be- in 1985, which is when the church was vacated by the came removed in the process had equalled a mere 2 factory authorities – there isn’t so much as a trace of or 3 feet in thickness. Nevertheless, this shallow layer any grave at all. The ancient headstones must have of ground had contained a multitude of human bones been destroyed or relocated by then. and even the remains of several skulls; the parishioner The real XIV headstone from the grave of Oslyabya buried the bones in hallowed ground and put a cross and Peresvet as mentioned by N. M. Karamzin in on top of them. Apparently, the neighbouring cross [365], Volume 5, Chapter 1, comment 82, isn’t any- that one sees in figs. 6.34 and 6.35 was mounted in a where to be seen nowadays – it may still be part of similar fashion. It is perfectly obvious that the ground the church masonry, as Karamzin suggests. However, around the Church of Our Lady’s nativity is filled with no one knows anything about any old headstones bones up to the shallowest layers; the old gravestones nowadays – the one that interests us is most likely to must have been right on top of them. After their re- have been taken outside and destroyed by paving moval, the bones lie right underneath our feet. breakers in the 1960’s during one of the subbotniks However, oddly enough, there is no cross over the (Saturday collective labour meetings conducted by spot where the gigantic container with skulls and volunteers free of charge in the Soviet epoch). One bones was buried in 1994. This place is just marked of the workers who had participated in these subbot- by a large piece of rock and nothing else – neither niks told us about them; he carried the stones out of plaques nor inscriptions (see figs. 6.37 and 6.38). The the church personally. At any rate, we neither man- reasons for such secretiveness remain perfectly un- aged to locate the old headstone, nor to learn of what clear to us. Why has there been no cross mounted on was written thereupon. this site? The piece of rock and the flower bed are Moreover, the text of the inscription wasn’t found definitely serving some memorial purpose; however, in any historical work, either. What could have been if you don’t know that underneath one really finds a written there? How could it be that the barbaric order large container with skulls and bones exhumed from to destroy these priceless old stones with paving the collective grave of the heroes that had died at the breakers was given in the 1960’s, cynically and in full Kulikovo Field, it is impossible to find it out by mere awareness, when the ferocious anti-religious cam- guesswork. 172 | history: fiction or science? chron 4 | part 1 3.3. The location of the Rozhestveno village Kapha … which is where he was killed by the Gen- that Dmitriy Donskoi had granted to the oese” ([435], page 233). Old Simonov monastery after the Battle We instantly mark the similarities between the de- of Kulikovo scriptions of the two battles: 1) Both great battles take place in the same year – The History of the Church of Our Lady’s Nativity namely, 1380. in the Old Simonov, Moscow ([734]) states explicitly 2) Both battles end with the defeat of the same mil- that Dmitriy Donskoi granted the village of Rozhest- itary leader – Mamai. veno to the church in question right after the battle; 3) One battle takes place at Kalki (KLK unvocal- the village had stood at the actual Kulikovo Field: ized), whereas the second is fought upon the Field of “The Great Prince had granted the village of Ro- Kulikovo, which also transcribes as KLK without vo- zhestveno to the Old Simonov monastery on the day calizations. of Our Lady’s Nativity; it was located on the battle- We already pointed out the similarity between field where the troops of Mamai had been crushed by both names. Dmitriy’s army” ([734], pages 7-8). 4) Both battles feature Mamai’s Lithuanian ally Historians are of the opinion that the Battle of who either deserts him or doesn’t manage to come to Kulikovo had been fought in the Tula region. Doesn’t his rescue in due time. it strike the reader as uncanny that a Muscovite 5) Mamai flees to Kapha after the battle with Tokh- church should be granted a village that had been some tamysh, and does the very same thing after the Battle 320 away from Moscow? Apart from that, the Tula re- of Kulikovo ([635], pages 108-109). gion had not been part of his principality, and be- This is virtually all that we know about the defeat longed to other princes! Nothing of the sort has ever of Mamai at Kalki. taken place in veritable Russian history. Our hypothesis is as follows: This absurdity ceases to exist once we relocate the The defeat of Mamai at Kalki is but another ac- Battle of Kulikovo to Moscow, which is where one count of the Kulikovo Battle that wound up in certain finds the Simonov monastery. The latter had pos- chronicles in a condensed form, which is drastically sessed no lands in the Tula region for the last 200-300 different from the battle’s detailed descriptions found years, according to the chronicles; however, it did pos- in other chronicles. sess the village of Simonova right next to it – the res- This implies that Tokhtamysh-Khan can be iden- idence of “the monastery’s workers – smiths, iron- tified as Dmitriy Donskoi, which is a very important mongers, carpenters et al” ([734], pages 11-12).
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