“Keep the memory of all the military men who laid down their lives for their friends, for the land of their Fathers, for the Holy Faith of their Ancestors, for the prosperity and future of their Clans...”
"Slavic-Aryan Vedas",
Word of wisdom from the sorcerer Velimudra
Remembering the great victories of our ancestors is the sacred duty of each of us, for knowledge about those great victories of the past carries the keys to understanding how to build our future. Just as we remember the victory of our grandfathers in the Great Patriotic War over Hitler’s Nazism in 1945, so we must honor and remember the invaluable contribution to the development of Rus' of the victory of Prince Svyatoslav the Brave in 964 over Khazaria.
Say a word about Svyatoslav
Few people outside our Motherland know the name of the warrior, ruler and man - the Grand Duke of Kyiv Svyatoslav Igorevich, nicknamed the Brave. But even less is known that the correct name of his St. e Toslav, not St. I Toslav, since his name comes from the word “ Light", but not " holy" Thus, by replacing only one letter, the enemies of Rus' killed the correct understanding of his name, which was formed from two such beautiful words as Light and Slavit. As a result, the male name Svetoslav was obtained, meaning one who glorifies the light or the light of the one who glorifies. In addition, unlike Alexander the Great, whom our ancestors called dark warrior, the warrior prince Svetoslav was called the Light Prince and the Light Warrior by the people.
Prince Svetoslav Igorevich was raised as a warrior from childhood. Svyatoslav’s teacher and mentor was a Varangian Asmud(the Varangians were the highest caste of professional warriors, formed from different peoples of the Slavic-Aryans), who taught the young pupil to be the first in battle and in the hunt, to stay firmly in the saddle, to control a boat, to swim, to hide from enemy eyes both in the forest and in steppes. The art of military leadership was taught to Svetoslav by another Varangian - the chief Kiev governor Sveneld.
As a three-year-old child in the summer of 6453 from SMZH (Creation of the World in the Star Temple - a new chronology of our ancestors, which originates from the moment of the conclusion of a peace treaty after the victory in the war over Ancient China) (945 AD), he took part in his first battle. This was the time when Princess Olga and her retinue went to war with the Drevlyans to avenge her murdered husband, Prince Igor. Prince Igor decided to collect taxes in the second round, for which he was killed by the Drevlyans. Svyatoslav sat on a horse in front of the Kyiv squad. And when both armies came together - the Kiev and the Drevlyans, little Svetoslav threw a spear towards the Drevlyans. Then Svetoslav was just a boy, so the spear flew away not far - it flew between the horse’s ears and hit the horse in the leg. But the Kyiv governors said: “The prince has already begun, let us follow, squad, the prince.” This was the ancient custom of the Rus - only the prince could start the battle. And it doesn’t matter what age the prince was.
By the way, the word PRINCE according to transcript by G.S. Grinevich in the ancient proto-language of our ancestors - KENAZ, means “relating to the perfection (refinement) of the earth or, simply, the intimacy (refinement) of the earth”!
While Svetoslav was growing up and gaining experience and courage, the principality was ruled by his mother, Princess Olga. But Svetoslav Igorevich was not like his mother. If Olga was baptized into the Greek religion, which later became Christian, then Svetoslav remained the bearer of Vedic knowledge and traditions of his ancestors.
Through the centuries, the description of his portrait by the Byzantine historian Leo the Deacon has been preserved: “Average height, with a broad chest, blue eyes, thick eyebrows, beardless, but with a long mustache, on his shaved head there was only one strand of hair, which indicated his noble origin. In one ear he wore an earring with two pearls..."
Most of all, Svetoslav valued combat armor and weapons. The ancient chronicle “The Tale of Bygone Years” tells of Prince Svetoslav as a true warrior. He spent the night not in a tent, but on a horse blanket, with a saddle in his head. On campaigns he did not carry carts or boilers with him, did not cook meat, but thinly sliced horse meat or beef, or the meat of wild animals, fried it over coals and ate it that way. His warriors were just as hardy and unpretentious. But Svetoslav’s squad, unencumbered by convoys, moved very quickly and appeared unexpectedly in front of the enemy, instilling fear in them.
Svetoslav himself was not afraid of his opponents. When he went on a campaign, he always sent a warning message to foreign lands: “I’m coming at you!” Which meant - I want to attack you, that is, you are my enemies. The funny thing is that our ancestors used “you” to call their enemies, but now it is a word of respect for addressing a stranger or an older person.
Do not attack without warning, do not shoot at an unarmed or unequally powerful enemy - this is code of military honor, an ancient tradition of the Slavic-Aryans, which was honored and observed by the great Light Warrior Prince Svetoslav.
In addition to military honor and courage, an outstanding feature of Svetoslav’s character as a Light Warrior was his irreconcilable fight against usury, brought to Rus' by the Khazars. For taking money at interest and giving it to others at interest, chopped both hands. He considered usury to be corruption of the soul and monetary slavery, giving rise to all vices. And the Khazars, who made a living in Rus' by lending, were chained to a raft and floated down the Dnieper to the Black Sea.
Khazar Kaganate
The Khazar state - the Khazar Kaganate - is the strongest and richest state in the southeast of the borders of Kievan Rus. It was located in the lower reaches of the Volga, stretching to the west and east all the way to Mordovia, including such territories as Northern Afghanistan, Crimea (Tmutarakan is one of its cities). The Khazar city of Semender was located in the North Caucasus, Sarkel was located between the Volga and Don rivers, their lower reaches. The capital Itil was located right at the mouth of the Volga, approximately on the site of modern Astrakhan.
Before the enslavement by the Persian Jews (and-UD-ey - means excising UD, i.e. circumcised, and UD - male genital organ, where the words PLEASE - receiving sexual pleasure, FISHING ROD, FISHING ROD) came from in the middle of the 6th century AD. Khazaria, white and black Khazars lived in it quite amicably. The White Khazars were then called the ruling caste of professional warriors from the Slavic-Aryans, while the Black Khazars were the Turkic tribes that came to the lower reaches of the RA River (Volga - Itil) from the depths of Asia, as refugees from Ancient China. Essentially, the black Khazars were representatives of the yellow race with admixtures of the black race. They had black hair, black eyes and dark (yellow) skin, for which they were nicknamed black Khazars.
Khazaria existed as a multinational state in which people of both the white and yellow races lived peacefully side by side with each other. Khazaria lived in the same peace and harmony with its neighbors. The advantageous location of Khazaria (the famous “Great Silk Road” passed through the Khazar Kaganate) attracted Persian Jews from the tribe of Simonov to the country, who began to move here after the revolution they committed in Persia, when the Jews completely robbed the Persian people and fled the country with all their wealth . You can read more about how the Persian Empire, which was founded by the ancestors of the Slavic-Aryans, was destroyed in the 1st volume of Nikolai Levashov’s book “Russia in Crooked Mirrors.”
The choice of Khazaria as the place of the new resettlement of the Jews is far from accidental. Having ravaged the Persians, they simply had nowhere to run except to the north. And, in addition, in the northeast of the Persian Empire they plundered was Khazaria, which occupied a very advantageous location - trade routes from Asia to Europe passed through it. And whoever controlled Khazaria controlled the entire “Great Silk Road” and all the wealth passing through it!
Using the so-called institute of Jewish wives (Jewish women specially trained in sexual magic), giving them in marriage to representatives of the highest Khazar nobility, the Jews took possession of all key government posts. How? Very simple. Children born to a Jewish woman are exclusively Jews. It is through the maternal line that national characteristics are transmitted among Jews. So, after a generation, all the key positions in the Khazar state were occupied by children born from Jewish wives and male representatives of the ruling hierarchy of the Khazar Kaganate. Occupying high positions among the elite, Khazar Jews began to contribute in every possible way to the development of trading business for their fellow tribesmen. Having taken control of the country's economy, they also began to gain political influence.
There were still few Jewish mothers among the military elite, but even among them the time had come for an uprising. Obadiah, relying on the Khazar nobility of Jewish origin, with the help of mercenaries - the Pechenegs and the Guzes - unleashed a civil war, as a result of which the Khazar Turks were defeated and forced to leave their homeland and settle on the territory of modern Hungary. After defeating the Khazar Turks in the civil war, the Khazar Jews imposed a heavy tribute on the local population. Those Khazars who did not leave their homeland were turned into real slaves.
Once again, the Jews diligently “thanked” the people who provided the “refugees” with shelter on their territory. Many parallels can be found in the recent past - Palestine, Persia, and modern Ukraine and Russia are in the same situation as the people of Khazaria a thousand years ago.
Complete control of the caravan routes passing through the Khazar Kaganate allowed the Jews to create a trade monopoly when they began to control the purchase prices and selling prices of imported and local goods. As a result, minimum purchase prices were set for locally produced goods, which led to the robbery of local producers, and maximum prices were set for goods sold by Jews, which gave Jews excess profits due to the outright robbery of producers and buyers.
When the civil war in China led to a sharp decrease in trade turnover, the Khazar Jews moved north and defeated and subjugated Kama (Volga) Bulgaria, and also occupied the vast lands of Great Perm, where they organized their trading settlements - trading posts. The conquered lands gave precious fur of sables, martens, ermines, and in addition, Khazar Jews organized child trafficking(just like now in Russia). And again caravans with furs and slaves stretched from the North to the South, and the money went into the bins of the Khazar Jews.
Defeat of Khazaria
Kievan Rus turned out to be the most powerful and consistent enemy of the Jewish Khazar Kaganate. The mortal blow to the Khazar Kaganate, which put an end to its independent existence, was dealt by the Kyiv prince Svetoslav, the son of Igor.
In Summer 6472 from SMZH (964 AD), being 22 years old, preparing a campaign against Khazaria, Svetoslav did not go straight head-on across the steppe through the Volga-Don interfluve, undertaking a skillful maneuver. With a total of 20 thousand troops, he bypassed it, reached Ryazan, went down the Oka to the Volga and then moved on 500 boats with a small number of troops and immediately besieged the capital Itil. The Khazars did not expect an attack from the north, and were unable to organize a serious defense. Svetoslav took it by storm, and, as the chronicles write, left no stone unturned. Next, the Light Warrior undertook a campaign in the North Caucasus region, where he defeated the Khazar stronghold - a fortress Semender. After this, Svetoslav’s squad moved to the Don, where they stormed and destroyed the eastern fortress of the Khazars - Sarkel.
Thus, Svetoslav, having made an unprecedented campaign thousands of kilometers long, captured the main strongholds of the Khazars on the Don, Volga and North Caucasus. At the same time, he created a base for the influence of the Slavic-Aryans in the North Caucasus - the Tmutarakan principality. These campaigns crushed the power of the Khazar Kaganate, which ceased to exist at the turn of the 10th-11th centuries.
As a result of the campaigns of Grand Duke Svetoslav, the Old Russian state achieved the security of its southeastern borders and became the main force in the Volga-Caspian region at that time. The Khazar Kaganate collapsed and gave Rus' the opportunity to develop as a state. At the same time, the Slavic and many other tribes living around were saved. As a result, their development was determined for many centuries to come. Having put an end to the Khazar bondage, Rus' cleared from its path the military barrier closing trade routes to the East, which made it possible to revive trade between Europe and Asia.
After the destruction of the Khazar Kaganate, Jews left Rus' and settled in their trading posts in various states and began to exert a powerful influence on the economy of the countries that sheltered them, undermining their economy from the inside and influencing the policies of these states.
Death of the Great Warrior
Defending the interests of the Russian state of Kievan Rus, Grand Duke Svyatoslav did not lose a single battle. The death of the Great Light Warrior looks even more strange. This was in the spring of 6480 from SMZH (972 AD). After the conclusion of peace in a long war with the Roman Empire (Byzantium), when Svetoslav turned the inevitable defeat into another victory, then the small squad of the prince dealt a tangible blow to the emperor’s army, and the continuation of the war could leave the emperor without an army at all, and the surrounded squad of Svetoslav with weapons and his left enemy lands with booty.
On the way home, being in the area of the Dnieper rapids on the Khortitsa islands, most of his squad, the vast majority of which had been baptized into the Greek religion, suddenly left him. And at night, while sleeping, the sleeping warriors who remained loyal to the prince were attacked by the Pechenegs. Pechenegs were the name given to Slavic tribes that led a nomadic lifestyle. They had their own settlements, where they returned for the winter, during which they lay on their stoves and indulged in bliss or basked. This is where their nickname came from - PECHENEGI! And in this last battle, almost all the soldiers loyal to Prince Svetoslav and the prince himself died. According to the chronicle, from the severed head of Svetoslav, the Pecheneg prince Kurya made himself a cup, setting it in silver and gold.
One of the later chronicles contains an interesting detail - the Pecheneg princes used this cup in the ritual of conceiving children. Before lying on the bed, the prince and princess took turns drinking from this cup, repeating, like a spell: “Let our children be like Him.”
The death of Prince Svetoslav was beneficial both to Rome (Byzantium), for a living prince was dangerous for them, since he could destroy their empire in the next campaign, and to the forces that stood behind the young Vladimir, the future baptizer of Kievan Rus into the Greek religion, which led to This meant the death of 9 million out of 12 million who then inhabited this Rus' for the sake of the “peaceful god”, leaving only young children in whose heads the concepts of the Lord God and slavish submission to him were already embedded.
Also, the death of the Light Warrior was also an act of revenge for the completely destroyed Jewish Khazaria on the part of the ruling Jewish elite.
The significance of the defeat of Khazaria for Rus'
On July 3, 6472 from SMZH (964 AD), the state of Khazaria ceased its vile existence, which brought untold troubles to the Slavic-Aryans, and threatened the white man - WHITE RACE (Clans of the Ases of the Country of the Ases, and As is a god living on Earth) - complete and final destruction.
Trade ties between Rus' and the East strengthened thanks to the elimination of intermediaries in the form of the Jewish Khazaria.
The day is not far off when our Great Ancestor - the Bright Warrior of Kiev, Prince Svetoslav, nicknamed the Brave, will be declared national hero, both in Russia and in Ukraine! And children will take their example not from Batman, Superman and other evil spirits, but from such courageous, brave and strong, and most importantly, the real heroes of our Great Motherland!
“Examine, children of the Great Race, this Wisdom: No one can protect your Clans from foreign Clans and cruel enemies, if themselves you won't want to defend yourself. No one will create wealth in your clans if themselves you don’t want to create for Rod. No one will raise your children with dignity until themselves you will not raise your offspring.” (Word of Wisdom from Magus Velimudra)
Let this commandment of our ancestors become a reminder to all of us that only ourselves we can and must take care of ourselves and the future of our land, which is sprinkled with the blood of our ancestors. And no other peoples will ever show, just as they have not shown throughout our entire past, due attention or concern for the fate of our fraternal peoples (Ukraine, Belarus and Russia), if we themselves I can't defend myself!
Glory to our ancestors, who laid down their bright heads on the battlefields for our Russian land!
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The history of the Khazar Kaganate is inextricably linked with the history of Rus' - everyone who paid attention in school lessons knows about this. For several centuries in a row, the two neighboring powers were in confrontation.Unfortunately, the witnesses to those events left us with negligible reliable information, but there is still some information.
What was the state like that conquered many tribes and forced not only Rus', but also Byzantium to reckon with itself?
What forced the Russians and Khazars to fight each other for centuries and what was the price of one of the most glorious victories?
State structure of Khazaria
The Kaganate can easily be called one of the most developed and progressive powers of its time. It had an advantageous geographical location at the crossroads of two most important trade routes of the entire continent: Silk and Fur (which “from the Varangians to the Greeks”), a developed trade infrastructure, a strong army with excellent financing. The slave trade played a significant role in the economy of the state.The Kaganate controlled not only the slave markets of the Crimea, the Caucasus and the Caspian coast, but even had connections with the slave owners of Western Europe.
The first mention of the Khazars’ settlement in the Ciscaucasia (on the territory of modern Dagestan) dates back to the period that followed the great Hunnic invasion, or more precisely, to the 4th century of the current era. Since then, a state began to form, which has changed several capitals throughout its history. The last of them, which is directly related to the events described, is the city of Sarkel. Surrounded by the channels of the Don, built on an island and protected by walls, the city seemed impregnable.
Nominally, the Kagan was considered the ruler of the country. It is noteworthy that the power of Kagan was not inherited - this position was elective. Any citizen of the country could become a ruler. What is not a wonderful example of democracy, simply amazing for the early Middle Ages?
However, there was no talk of real power. In fact, it belonged to Kagan Bek, an inconspicuous “gray eminence”, whose main business was not participation in demonstration events, but the real management of the state. Kagan Bey was the arbiter of destinies and power. But this title was hereditary. The ruling elite, and not just the Kagan Beg, were not Khazars. Real power was in the hands of the Rachdonite Jews. Income from customs and trade was also distributed by people from noble families close to the Kagan Bek. The Rakhdonites also controlled the army: both the state squad and private troops. The slave trade was in their hands.
But what role, in this case, was assigned to the local population? Firstly, in those days there were two “castes”: the white Khazars and the “black” or Kara-Khazars. In addition to them, the Kaganate was inhabited by many other nationalities. But the Talmud, which guided the ruling elite, did not prescribe treating the goyim as full citizens, especially the pagan goyim (of which there were a majority in those days). Even the “white” Khazars who converted to Judaism were perceived as a different kind of people.
One can imagine what the attitude was towards tributaries and slaves, if even in front of his own citizens the impregnable Sarkel was in no hurry to open the gates, leaving them to die at the city wall under the arrows of the steppe inhabitants...
Khazar army
Many researchers single out the al-Arsi (al-Larisi) as the most interesting part of the military structure of the Khazar Kaganate. Some historians are inclined to assume that this part of the army was not mercenary (in the sense of foreign), but was recruited from the locals. The high salary and excellent support of the unit remain undeniable, as does its impressive strength. The unit was a heavy cavalry unit consisting of units of archers, swordsmen and spearmen.It has been reliably established that, despite excellent weapons and training, the Al-Arsians were not the first to engage in battle. With the poetry characteristic of the East, they were called “Sunset of Victory.” And before “Sunset” there were also “Morning” and “Noon”.
“The Morning of the Barking Dog” was the name given to lightly armed units formed from slaves, beggars, cheap mercenaries and criminals. They could only cause confusion in the orderly battle formations of the enemy and take the first blow. They were followed by “Noon Help” - already somehow trained crews, the path of which ran, as they say, over the bodies of the allies. And only the final chord was entered by the al-Arsii - the real special forces of their time. They not only played a decisive role in the battle, but also acted as a kind of barrier detachment. If they won, a reward awaited them. In case of defeat - execution.
This is the kind of enemy that the one who decided to raise his sword against the impregnable Khazar Kaganate had to fight with!
Tributaries
Tribes inhabiting vast territories paid tribute to the Kaganate. It has been established that the Khazars made the Volga Bulgars, several Meryan tribes (Burtas, Cheremis, Erzya, Meryu), Alans, Kasogs, and Vainakhs their tributaries.The Slavic peoples also fell under the yoke:
Northerners;
Radimichi;
Vyatichi;
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What was the fee? Little evidence of this has survived. For example, Nestor writes about one “white vereveritsa”, collected once a year from the smoke - that is, from one huge family. In the old days, the Slavs called the forest squirrel “veveritsa” or “veksha”. It would seem that this is not such a burdensome burden to get involved in a war with a dangerous enemy.
The answer to the question is given by the Radzivilov Chronicle. “For a white maiden,” the author assures, and so that no one has any doubts, he also gives a picture: an old man bowed in respectful bow before a stranger, and next to him were several young maidens entangled in a rope. This already seems to be true. The Khazar Rakhdonite owners, who control the slave trade, would rather be interested in Slavic beauties than in ordinary squirrels.
Here it is worth turning to the epic. Folk tales sometimes reflect the spirit of the era better than a dozen chroniclers. Where could the images of the monster Kosherishcha and the miracle Yuda, suspiciously consonant with the words “kosher” and “Jew”, appear in ancient tales? And the epic about the battle between Ilya Muromets and Zhidovin? And what about the anti-hero “king of the Jews”, who in old fairy tales is invariably defeated by the Russian hero? It is logical to assume that all these stories were inspired by the bitter truth of the then life of tributaries of the Kaganate.
Hikes of Oleg and Igor
Many people remember Pushkin’s poem about Oleg the Prophet, who set the villages and fields of the foolish Khazars on fire, from school. Of course, the works of the great classic, like fiction in general, cannot be perceived as a historical source, but Alexander Sergeevich did not come up with anything in this case. Oleg really fought with the Khazars and even reassigned several Slavic tribes to Kyiv.However, the Khazars and Russians did not always live in enmity. During Oleg’s reign, in the capital of Rus' there was a tract called Kozary - something like an embassy and a diaspora center rolled into one. Quite peaceful trade relations existed between the two peoples. But we should not forget that in those days, violation of trade obligations could well serve as a reason for war. Even the reason for one of Oleg’s most devastating campaigns against Byzantium was the eviction of Russian merchants from the marketplace near Constantinople.
He undertook several campaigns against the Kaganate and Igor. He even broke into Tmutarakan, which was in the possession of the Kaganate. And taking advantage of the civil strife within the Khazar state and its disagreements with Byzantium, the Russian prince made several successful raids on Constantinople, including through the Khazar possessions.
Svyatoslav Khorobry
It turned out that the man who played a decisive role in the confrontation between Khazaria and Rus' is today one of the most controversial figures. Not one of his compatriots and contemporaries was even able to describe the appearance of Svyatoslav.Years of life are also controversial. Judging by the Tale of Bygone Years, Olga gave birth to Svyatoslav at the age of well over 50, and he died at about 30, having by that time won several brilliant victories. If you believe this data, at the time of the defeat of the Khazar Kaganate, the prince was only 23 years old!
The chronicler mentions that Svyatoslav called the city of Pereyaslav on the Danube the middle of his land. But, judging by the map of those years, this place was almost the western outskirts, and certainly not the middle. From this we can assume how ambitious the plans of the young warrior prince were. It is worth believing that the reason for the campaign against Khazaria was not only the noble desire to save young Slavic women from the Jewish yoke, characteristic of epic heroes, but also a completely rational calculation to expand the borders of Rus' to the east.
Nestor gives equally sparse comments about the campaign itself and its details. Apparently, the church was never able to forgive the last pagan prince...
Destruction
“Svyatoslav went against the Khazars. Hearing about this, the Khazars came out to meet their prince Kagan, and agreed to fight, and Svyatoslav defeated the Khazars, and took their city [Itil] and White Vezha [Sarkel],” the chronicle narrates.
And although this brief description leaves many questions, the picture emerges clear.
It has been established that in 965 Svyatoslav attacked Khazaria from the land of the Vyatichi, strengthening his squad with their militia, from there he went down the Volga, through the lands of the Bulgars and Burtases, and advanced to the lower reaches, to the capital Sarkel itself. Somewhere in those parts he met and defeated the Khazar army, with the “Prince Kagan” himself at its head. It is unlikely that it will be possible to establish for certain who we are talking about. Either the chronicler translated the double title of Kagan-bek this way, or he called the nominal ruler this way.
The young prince did not have to worry about meeting with the al-Arsiyas, Khazar commandos, on the lands of the Kaganate vassals. The owners of Khazaria did not care about those who were called goyim - Svyatoslav knew this very well. Only on the approaches to the capital did the first skirmishes with professional mercenaries occur.
It is not difficult to understand that a frontal attack on the Khazar capital could not be effective. Sarkel was located at the bottom of a natural pit between the Seversky Donets and the Don. From the north, the Russian army could be attacked in the rear by the vassals of the Kaganate - the Burtases, and from behind the Donets one could expect danger in the form of a militia of the Black Bulgarians. The prince advancing on the Kaganate would have to constantly take care of the rear. The Russian army would have suffered too terrible losses here. In addition, Svyatoslav could not help but understand that the heart of the Kaganate was not the capital at all, but the marketplace - it took one of the first blows.
To penetrate enemy lands, the Russian prince chose the territories of peoples especially oppressed by the Khazars.
His troops, like the grim reapers of death, marched along the Volga, sweeping away on their way trembling battle formations hastily assembled or pulled up from the capital by the Rachdonites.
Itil’s fate is not difficult to imagine. Archaeologists are still collecting his few remains bit by bit.
Then there was a campaign to the lands of Ciscaucasia. According to the testimony of Arab and Armenian chroniclers, the Rus devastated mosques, churches and synagogues, and reassigned the local population (Kasog-Adyghe and Alans) to Kyiv.
And only after that it was Sarkel’s turn, who simply had nowhere to wait for help. For the first time in the history of the city, the enemy approached it not from the northwestern steppes, but from the southeast, the indigenous lands of the Khazars, slamming into the back with a swift attack, absolutely unprepared for defense.
The young prince calculated everything. His victory was achieved not only with blood and soldier’s sweat, but also with the ability to negotiate, look for allies, and unite people in the face of a common enemy.
His calculation turned out to be correct: a striking force - an army of thirty thousand - was waiting for him in the capital, and in the lands of the Bulgars, and even more so on the patrimony of the Slavic tribe of the Vyatichi, he did not encounter resistance. The idea of competing with the Kaganate also appealed to his father’s recent ally, the Pechenegs.
Svyatoslav became a worthy successor to the work of Prince Igor and his mentor. After the brilliant victory, the Volga, and not the Don, became the eastern border of the Russian lands.
The Khazar Kaganate, defeated, plundered and disgraced, ceased to exist. The last mentions of him are found in chronicle sources from the time of Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich.
The Khazar state was located southeast of Kievan Rus, in the lower reaches of the Volga. It stretched east all the way to Mordovia, including the territories of Crimea and Northern Afghanistan. The capital Itil was located at the mouth of the Volga, approximately on the site of modern Astrakhan. One of the Khazar cities is Tmutarakan. The city of Sarkel was located in the lower reaches of the Volga and Don rivers. Semender - in the North Caucasus.
Before the capture of Khazaria by the Persian Jews (and-UD-ey - means excising UD, that is, circumcised, and UD - male genital organ) in the middle of the 6th century, white and black Khazars lived there quite amicably.
The White Khazars are the ruling caste of professional Slavic-Aryan warriors.
The Black Khazars are Turkic tribes who came from the depths of Asia to the lower reaches of the RA River (Volga-Itil), refugees from Ancient China.
Genetically, the black Khazars were representatives of the yellow race with admixtures of the black race. They had black hair, black eyes (for which they were called black Khazars) and dark (yellow) skin.
Khazaria was a multinational state in which people of both the white and yellow races coexisted peacefully. Khazaria also lived in peace and harmony with its neighbors.
Using the so-called institute of Jewish brides (Jewish women specially trained in sexual magic), giving them in marriage to representatives of the highest Khazar nobility, the Jews took possession of all key government posts. How? Very simple. Children born to a Jewish woman are exclusively Jews. It is through the maternal line that national characteristics are transmitted among Jews. So, after a generation, all the key positions in the Khazar state were occupied by children born from Jewish wives and male representatives of the ruling hierarchy of the Khazar Kaganate. Occupying high positions among the elite, Khazar Jews began to contribute in every possible way to the development of trading business for their fellow tribesmen. Having taken control of the country's economy, they also began to gain political influence.
There were still few Jewish mothers among the military elite, but even among them the time had come for an uprising. Obadiah, relying on the Khazar nobility of Jewish origin, with the help of mercenaries - the Pechenegs and the Guzes - unleashed a civil war, as a result of which the Khazar Turks were defeated and forced to leave their homeland and settle on the territory of modern Hungary. After defeating the Khazar Turks in the civil war, the Khazar Jews imposed a heavy tribute on the local population. Those Khazars who did not leave their homeland were turned by the Jews into real slaves.
Once again, the Jews diligently “thanked” the people who provided the “refugees” with shelter on their territory. Many parallels can be found in the recent past - Palestine, Persia, and modern Ukraine are in the same situation as the people of Khazaria a thousand years ago.
Complete control of the caravan routes passing through the Khazar Kaganate allowed the Jews to create a trade monopoly when they began to control the purchase prices and selling prices of imported and local goods. As a result, minimum purchase prices were set for locally produced goods, which led to the robbery of local producers, and maximum prices were set for goods sold by Jews, which gave Jews excess profits due to the outright robbery of producers and buyers.
When the civil war in China led to a sharp decrease in trade turnover, the Khazar Jews moved north and defeated and subjugated Kama (Volga) Bulgaria, and also occupied the vast lands of Great Perm, where they organized their trading settlements - trading posts. The conquered lands provided precious fur from sables, martens, and ermines, and in addition, the Khazar Jews organized child trafficking (just like now in Russia). And again caravans with furs and slaves stretched from the North to the South, and the money went into the bins of the Khazar Jews.
Defeat of Khazaria
Kievan Rus turned out to be the most powerful and consistent enemy of the Jewish Khazar Kaganate. The mortal blow to the Khazar Kaganate, which put an end to its independent existence, was dealt by the Kyiv prince Svetoslav, the son of Igor.
In Summer 6472 from SMZH (964 AD), being 22 years old, preparing a campaign against Khazaria, Svetoslav did not go straight head-on across the steppe through the Volga-Don interfluve, undertaking a skillful maneuver. With a total of 20 thousand troops, he bypassed it, reached Ryazan, went down the Oka to the Volga and then moved on 500 boats with a small number of troops and immediately besieged the capital Itil. The Khazars did not expect an attack from the north, and were unable to organize a serious defense. Svetoslav took it by storm, and, as the chronicles write, left no stone unturned. Next, the Light Warrior undertook a campaign in the North Caucasus region, where he defeated the Khazar stronghold - the Semender fortress. After this, Svetoslav’s squad moved to the Don, where they stormed and destroyed the eastern Khazar fortress - Sarkel.
Thus, Svetoslav, having made an unprecedented campaign thousands of kilometers long, captured the main strongholds of the Khazars on the Don, Volga and North Caucasus. At the same time, he created a base for the influence of the Slavic-Aryans in the North Caucasus - the Tmutarakan principality. These campaigns crushed the power of the Khazar Kaganate, which ceased to exist at the turn of the 10th-11th centuries.
As a result of the campaigns of Grand Duke Svetoslav, the Old Russian state achieved the security of its southeastern borders and became the main force in the Volga-Caspian region at that time. The Khazar Kaganate collapsed and gave Rus' the opportunity to develop as a state. At the same time, the Slavic and many other tribes living around were saved. As a result, their development was determined for many centuries to come. Having put an end to the Khazar bondage, Rus' cleared the military barrier from its path that was closing trade routes to the East, which made it possible to revive trade between Europe and Asia...
Few people know this name outside our homeland. And even fewer know that the correct name of the Kyiv prince Svyatoslav Igorevich - the Great warrior, man and ruler, nicknamed the Brave, is not Svyatoslav, but Svetoslav, because his name comes not from the word “holy”, but from “Light”. By changing just one letter, the enemies distorted the correct sound of the name, which meant Glorifying the Light. Svetoslav is the Bright Prince and the Light Warrior, as opposed to Alexander the Great, whom the people called the dark warrior.
Prince Svetoslav Igorevich was raised as a warrior from childhood. Svetoslav’s educators and mentors were two Varangians (Varangians are the highest caste of professional warriors, formed from the Slavic-Aryans).
- Asmud taught Svetoslav to stay in the saddle, to be the first in battle and hunting, to swim, to control a boat, and to hide from enemy eyes.
- Sveneld is the chief Kiev governor, who taught his young pupil the art of military leadership.
Participation in the first battle was symbolic, but significant. In the summer of 6453 from the SMZH of the Creation of the World in the Star Temple (according to the current chronology - 945), Princess Olga went with an army to war with the Drevlyans, to avenge her murdered husband. Before the start of the battle, when two armies came together, little Svetoslav was sitting on a horse in front of the Kyiv squad. A three-year-old child gave a sign for battle - he threw a spear towards the Drevlyans. The spear fell nearby and hit the horse in the leg. But the ancient custom of the Rus said that only the prince could start the battle, no matter at what age. The Kyiv governors decided: “The prince began, let us follow, squad, the prince.” KENAZ in the Old Russian proto-language means “related to the perfection (refinement) of the earth.”
Svetoslav did not look like his mother. Unlike Olga, who was baptized into the Greek religion, he remained faithful to the Vedic traditions and knowledge of his ancestors.
Description of the portrait from the Byzantine historian Leo the Deacon: “Average height, with a broad chest, blue eyes, thick eyebrows, beardless, but with a long mustache, only one strand of hair on his shaved head, which indicated his noble origin. In one ear he wore an earring with two pearls..."
The ancient chronicle “The Tale of Bygone Years” tells of Prince Svyatoslav as a true warrior.
He spent the night not in a tent, but on a horse blanket, with a saddle in his head. He valued weapons and combat armor most of all. On the campaign, he did not carry any carts or boilers with him, did not cook meat, but thinly sliced horse meat or beef, or the meat of wild animals, fried it over coals and ate it that way. His warriors were just as hardy and unpretentious. But Svetoslav’s squad, unencumbered by convoys, moved very quickly and appeared unexpectedly in front of the enemy, instilling fear in them.
In addition to the military mission, Svetoslav waged an irreconcilable fight against usury imposed by the Khazars. He considered usury to be corruption of the soul, giving rise to vices and money. For giving money at interest and even taking it at interest, he chopped off both hands. And the Khazars, who made a living in Rus' by lending, were chained to a raft and floated down the Dnieper to the Black Sea.
Death of the Great Warrior
Defending the interests of the Russian state of Kievan Rus, Grand Duke Svyatoslav did not lose a single battle. The death of the Great Light Warrior looks even more strange. This was in the spring of 6480 from SMZH (972 AD). After concluding peace in a long war with the Roman Empire (Byzantium), Svetoslav turned the inevitable defeat into another victory. Then the prince’s small squad dealt a significant blow to the emperor’s army, and the continuation of the war could have left the emperor without an army at all, and Svetoslav’s surrounded squad, armed and with their booty, left the enemy lands.
On the way home, being in the area of the Dnieper rapids on the Khortitsa islands, most of his squad, the vast majority of which had been baptized into the Greek religion, suddenly left him. And at night, while sleeping, the sleeping warriors who remained loyal to the prince were attacked by the Pechenegs - Slavic tribes who led a nomadic lifestyle. The Pechenegs returned to their settlements only for wintering, during which they lay on the stoves and indulged in bliss or basked. This is where their nickname came from - PECHENEGI! In this last battle, almost all the soldiers loyal to Prince Svetoslav and the prince himself died. According to the chronicle, from the severed head of Svetoslav, the Pecheneg prince Kurya made himself a cup, setting it in silver and gold.
One of the later chronicles contains an interesting detail - the Pecheneg princes used this cup in the ritual of conceiving children. Before lying on the bed, the prince and princess took turns drinking from this cup, repeating, like a spell: “Let our children be like Him.”
The death of Prince Svetoslav was beneficial both to Rome (Byzantium), for a living prince was dangerous for them, since he could destroy their empire in the next campaign, and to the forces that stood behind the young Vladimir, the future baptizer of Kievan Rus into the Greek religion, which led to This meant the death of 9 million out of 12 million who then inhabited this Rus' for the sake of the “peaceful god”, leaving only young children in whose heads the concepts of the Lord God and slavish submission to him were already embedded.
Also, the death of the Light Warrior was also an act of revenge for the completely destroyed Jewish Khazaria on the part of the ruling Jewish elite.
The defeat of Khazaria by Prince Svetoslav was of enormous significance. Thanks to him, the development of earthly civilization has moved away from the disastrous path outlined by our irreconcilable enemies.
The day is not far off when our Great Ancestor - the Light Warrior Prince of Kiev Svetoslav, nicknamed the Brave, will be declared a national hero, both in Russia and in Ukraine! And children will take their example not from Batman, Superman and other evil spirits, but from such courageous, brave and strong, and most importantly, the real heroes of our Great Motherland!..
Let this commandment of our ancestors become a reminder to all of us that only we ourselves can and must take care of ourselves and the future of our land, which is sprinkled with the blood of our ancestors. And no other peoples will ever show, as they have never shown in our entire past, due attention or concern for the fate of our fraternal peoples (Ukraine, Belarus and Russia), if we are unable to protect ourselves!
Glory to our ancestors, who laid down their bright heads on the battlefields for our Russian land!
Rus. White race.
Blog creator, Anderstender. Rus
Khazar Khaganate
The defeat of Khazaria is simply impossible to overestimate! Without this great victory, the history of our civilization would have taken a completely different, more dramatic path...
For the majority of Russian people, all knowledge about Khazaria is exhausted by the famous Pushkin lines, according to which the “prophetic Oleg” is going to “take revenge on the foolish Khazars.” In history textbooks, only a few meager words are devoted to the defeat of the Kaganate by Prince Svyatoslav. The victory of Rus' over its powerful southern neighbor is not mentioned in the officially approved list of days of military glory. Of course, several of Svyatoslav’s sayings have become textbooks (“I’m going to attack you!”, etc.), but few people associate them with the defeat of the Khazars.
The Khazar Khaganate was crushed by Svyatoslav. The end of Khazaria meant the unification of most of the East Slavic tribes into a single state, Kievan Rus. During the campaign, the lands of the Bulgars, Burtases, Yases and Kasogs, dependent on the Kaganate, were also crushed. The power of the Khazars was crushed not only in the center of Khazaria, but also on its outskirts. The end of Khazaria meant freedom of passage for Rus' to the Caspian Sea, Khorezm and Transcaucasia. Rus' opened up a free road to the East. Trade ties between Rus' and the East strengthened thanks to the elimination of Khazaria intermediaries. The victory of Prince Svyatoslav also meant the ideological victory of Rus' in the right to choose a special path for its spiritual development.
As many researchers note, the destruction of Khazaria, whose leaders professed Judaism and supported it among the subject and surrounding peoples through the spread of enslavement, slavery, obedience and superiority of the Jews, which was beneficial to their worldview, meant the destruction of the shackles of the most severe spiritual oppression, which could destroy the foundations of a bright, original spiritual life of the Slavs and other peoples of Eastern Europe.
The Khazar Khaganate was crushed by Svyatoslav. The end of Khazaria meant the unification of most of the East Slavic tribes into a single state, Kievan Rus. During the campaign, the lands of the Bulgars, Burtases, Yases and Kasogs, dependent on the Kaganate, were also crushed. The power of the Khazars was crushed not only in the center of Khazaria, but also on its outskirts. The end of Khazaria meant freedom for Rus' to travel to the Caspian Sea, Khorezm and Transcaucasia. Rus' opened up a free road to the East. Trade ties between Rus' and the East strengthened thanks to the elimination of Khazaria intermediaries. The victory of Prince Svyatoslav also meant the ideological victory of Rus' in the right to choose a special path for its spiritual development.
As many researchers note, the destruction of Khazaria, whose leaders professed Judaism and supported it among the subject and surrounding peoples through the spread of enslavement, slavery, obedience and superiority of the Jews, which was beneficial to their worldview, meant the destruction of the shackles of the most severe spiritual oppression, which could destroy the foundations of a bright, original spiritual life of the Slavs and other peoples of Eastern Europe.
Khazar Khaganate, Khazaria (650-969) - a medieval state created by the nomadic people - the Khazars. Separated from the Western Turkic Kaganate. He controlled the territory of the Ciscaucasia, the Lower and Middle Volga regions, modern northwestern Kazakhstan, the Azov region, the eastern part of Crimea, as well as the steppes and forest-steppes of Eastern Europe up to the Dnieper. The center of the state was initially located in the coastal part of modern Dagestan, and later moved to the lower reaches of the Volga. Part of the ruling elite converted to Judaism. For some time, part of the East Slavic tribal unions were politically dependent on the Khazars.
For the majority of Russian people, all knowledge about Khazaria is exhausted by the famous Pushkin lines, according to which the “prophetic Oleg” is going to “take revenge on the foolish Khazars.” In history textbooks, only a few meager words are devoted to the defeat of the Kaganate by Prince Svyatoslav. The victory of Rus' over its powerful southern neighbor is not mentioned in the officially approved list of days of military glory. Of course, several of Svyatoslav’s sayings have become textbooks (“I’m going to attack you!”, etc.), but few people associate them with the defeat of the Khazars.
How the prophetic Oleg is getting ready now
Take revenge on the foolish Khazars,
Their villages and fields for a violent raid
He condemned him to swords and fires;
With his squad, in Tsaregrad armor,
The prince rides across the field on a faithful horse.
Let's ask ourselves why such epochal events of a thousand years ago are presented today as intermediate facts of the history of the Fatherland that do not deserve the close attention of contemporaries?
But first, let us trace the outline of events that changed not only the then political map of Eurasia, but, without a doubt, the entire further course of world history.
What was the Khazar Kaganate, how did its rulers manage to achieve such an unprecedented position in the medieval world, and why did just one concentrated strike by Russian troops put an end to the dominance of such a powerful ethnic group?
The Khazar power arose in the middle of the 7th century on the ruins of the Turkic Khaganate. Geographically, the new state formation occupied a huge space: the entire Northern Black Sea region, most of the Crimea, the Azov region, the Northern Caucasus, the Lower Volga region and the Caspian Trans-Volga region. Ethnically, the population of the Kaganate was a conglomerate of Turkic peoples. True, initially the Khazars were Caucasians, but then, around the end of the 6th century, they began to actively mix with the Turkuts (eastern geographers of this period divided the Khazars into two categories: dark-skinned, black-haired and “white, beautiful, perfect in appearance”).
So, L.N. Gumilyov in his book “Ancient Rus' and the Great Steppe” cites one document - this is a note from a traveler of those distant times.
It clearly states that the Khazars (the people who lived in Khazaria) were completely two different genotypes: some were black with brown eyes, others were light-haired and blue-eyed.
Thus, it can be assumed that the first were newcomers from the Turkic Kaganate.
There, in the book, it is described in detail about how the Jews appeared in the steppe and for what political reasons they left Iran (then Persia), and how exactly the ruling elite of Khazaria gradually, mainly through matrimonial ties, completely adopted Judaism.
From the 8th century, Jewish immigrants from Byzantium and Iran began to intensively migrate to the Volga steppe. The Jews quickly took a leading position in Khazaria, settling exclusively in cities (while the majority of the aborigines were, of course, nomads). At the same time, with rare exceptions, the Jews, as consistent proselytes, did not allow any conversion of the Khazars to their faith.
Gumilyov notes: “Judaism is the cult of the people “chosen by Yahweh,” and therefore rare converts were considered “the leprosy of Israel.” Only the top of the Khazar nobility accepted Judaism.
During the same period, a formal dual power arose: the nominal head of state was the bek, who represented the local population. In fact, the country was ruled by a kagan of Jewish origin, whose power was passed on from father to son.
The Kagan was the representative of the religious authority, and the Bek was the civil authority. The historian Koestler says that almost invisible to the eyes of mere mortals, the Kagan was in fact the full-fledged ruler of Khazaria, and the bek was only his assistant, performing administrative functions. The position of the bek could hardly be called enviable. He was not only a puppet of the Jews, but was also a kind of sacrificial animal that could be killed at the request of the crowd or the kagan. The reason for this could be a natural disaster, military defeat, crop failure, etc. The Turkic majority of Khazaria, subject to severe taxes - in Jewish terminology “goyim”, “subhumans” - was also in a disadvantaged position. The religious fanaticism of the Jewish elite was so strong that even the offspring from mixed marriages between the Khazars and Jews were perceived by them as inferior. These mestizos, driven from the central cities of the state, settled in the Crimea under the name of Karaites, and then some of them went to the Baltic states.
The first bek, Obadiah, created extremely favorable conditions for subsequent Jewish immigration: he built many synagogues and educational centers, gathered “the sages of Israel,” gave them silver and gold, for which they “explained to him 24 books of the Holy Scriptures, the Mishnah, the Talmud and collections of holiday prayers ". 12 Khazar Jewish beks went from Obadiah. Obadiah was glorified as the ruler who “revived the ancient Jewish law.” Christianity and Islam, religions that existed in Khazaria before the advent of Judaism there, began to be harshly suppressed in the country.
However, with Islam it was not so simple. Some of the top were able to maintain this religion, and most of the military professed Islam. Thus, Islam was suppressed in Khazaria, but to a lesser extent than Christianity. (Does it remind you of anything?)
As a military force, the Khazars used the services of a large mercenary Muslim army. This “guard” acted both in external wars and as a punitive force within the country.
The favorable geopolitical position of Khazaria, the presence of significant free capital, allowed the Kaganate to exert a powerful influence on all world politics. Both the French Carolingians and the Spanish Umayyads found themselves in financial bondage.
In particular, I have repeatedly read that, for example, Charlemagne created his Holy Roman Empire with money... from Khazar merchants.
What can we say about the lands inhabited by the Slavs! The Tale of Bygone Years reports in 884 that the Khazars were paid tribute by the Polyans, Northerners, Vyatichi, and Rodimichs. The Tivertsy and Ulichi, with whom Prince Oleg fought, were vassals. It must be emphasized that, with all its power, the Kaganate was an ear of clay with feet of clay, because the Jewish elite did not perceive Khazaria as their Motherland, did not care at all about the autochthonous majority, and used all financial benefits exclusively to strengthen the position of the Jews throughout the Ecumene.
The mercenary army was effective in raiding neighbors and robbing tributaries, but in repelling external aggression it turned out to be practically useless...
Around 940, Bek Pesakh attacked Rus', “went against Helga” (Oleg), approached Kiev and devastated the country, and then forced Oleg against his will to fight the Byzantines, thus pitting both of his opponents against each other. The forced alliance of the Rus with the Khazars was very costly for the former - in the war with Byzantium, our ancestors lost their entire fleet and 50 thousand soldiers. The imposition of tribute on the Slavic lands was also painful.
Svyatoslav's military activity, with its unprecedented scope, was subordinated to two main directions: Byzantine and Khazar. Characterizing the content of the latter direction, Academician Rybakov writes: “The struggle for freedom and security of trade routes from Rus' to the East was becoming a pan-European matter.”
The campaign against the Kaganate was thought out impeccably. The length of the hike is about 6000 km. It took about three years to implement it. The prince did not dare to conduct an offensive through the Don steppes, controlled by the Khazar cavalry. The Rus cut down and repaired the boats, and in the spring of 965 they descended along the Oka and Volga to the Itil fortress, to the rear of the Khazar regular troops, who were awaiting the enemy between the Don and the Dnieper. Choosing favorable moments, the warriors went ashore, where they replenished their food supplies.
According to a 10th-century chronicler, Svyatoslav inspired his soldiers with the following speeches:
"...Let us be imbued with the courage that our ancestors bequeathed to us, we will remember that the power of the Russians has so far been indestructible, and we will bravely fight for our lives! It is not proper for us to return to our homeland, fleeing. We must win and stay alive, or die with glory, having accomplished feats worthy of valiant men!”
The resistance to the Rus was led not by Bek Joseph, who shamefully fled along with his fellow tribesmen, but by the nameless Kagan. It was not difficult to achieve victory over the completely demoralized Turko-Khazars. “And having fought, Svyatoslav overcame the Khazar and took their city,” the chronicler laconically states. After Itil, Semender and Sarkel fell. Luxurious gardens and vineyards were plundered and set on fire, and the inhabitants of the cities fled. The death of the Jewish community of Itil gave freedom to the Khazars and all surrounding peoples. All parties that relied on the support of aggressive Judaism lost their support. In France, the Carolingian dynasty lost its position, ceding hegemony to national princes and feudal lords, the Caliph of Baghdad weakened and lost control over his possessions, and the Khazar Jews themselves scattered along the outskirts of their former power.
Many Khazarian Jews went to Europe, under the patronage of the local kings and princes, where they continued their work against Rus' at the courts of the European nobility. Many Khazars settled within Poland.
There is a legend that Svyatoslav personally threw the chief kagan from the highest tower of Itil, and he fell to his death. But before his death, he cursed Svyatoslav himself and all the Russians, promising them that Khazaria would definitely take revenge on them and their descendants.
Now it becomes clear why Svyatoslav’s feat is not promoted as widely as it deserves. Parallels with today suggest themselves. It remains to ask the last, purely rhetorical question: will a new Svyatoslav appear, who will “drive the new Khazars back into their wild steppes”?
It is also now becoming more clear why all historical textbooks begin with the 10th-11th centuries and they contain almost no information about the first millennium in the history of Europe and Rus'.
Because if there is such a textbook, then it will have to write in detail the history of Khazaria, and someone really doesn’t want people to know the truth about it.
Khazaria, in principle, did not leave completely; it was always in Rus'.
She just hid for the time being.
And now he is celebrating his victory.
He's just celebrating early.
Last thing Word hasn't been said yet.
And lastly Case not done yet.
