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! Darkness to Light now we go from Light to Darkness !
(literally and figuratively)
at yet another masterpiece of visual arts
(Ilya Efimovich Repin)... confronted with the consequence of what happened - killing his beloved son - Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich in a fits of raving madness ...
the world's first real Tsar
Ivan IV
called the "Terrible" but his Russian epithet (by-name) means more something like
"the fearsome" - "the awe-inspiring"- "the formidable"
in sheer despair rapidly becomes aware of the irreversibility of deadly physical force
... some light is directly shed on the bizarre scenery upon these Persian Ghashghai carpets that highlight the ...
extraordinary roominess within the picture while the chilling emptiness
of the darkish Kremlin rooms yawns in the background
thereby creating an atmosphere of most intense
loneliness and darkness
in
hart - mind - soul
all
together
staggeringly - ylgnireggast
: scenery :
the first image depicts the scenery at the time of Ivan's predecessor Ivan I Danilovich, "Kalita"
the second one depicts the scenery at the time of predecessor Dmitry Donskoy (Ivan I's grandson)
- both predecessors were no "tsar" but "(Grand) prince of Moscow" who lived in earlier centuries -
the third one is as of the time of Ivan IV
and the fourth one depicts the situation a couple of decades later
... and here we go ...
... continu ... ation ... of ... the ... story ... line ...
(Wjatscheslaw Grigorjewitsch Schwarz - Nikolai Semjonowitsch Shustov - Klavdy Vasiliyevich Lebedev - Carl Bogdanovich Wenig - Wassili Wladimirowitsch Pukirew)
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!!! » преступление и наказание « !!!
:_ if you are repulsed by the "link" between _:
Marszałek Józef Klemens Piłsudski
(a kind of father most of us elderly would like to had have)
and the gloomy tsar
! please see it as art work !
with
music paintings become alive
! this is not a statement !
I
would have found another track of the orchestral version of Fryderyk Chopin's Marsz pogrzebowy (Marsz żałobny)
but this one
really
performed by the Orkiestra Repezentacyjna Wojska Polskiego
is
simply the best
! like it so much !
- as the whole world does -
: it helps tremendously :
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:::: to find ::::
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... although ...
Ilya Repin's, Wjatscheslaw Schwarz', Klavdy Vasiliyevich Lebedev's, Nikolai Semjonowitsch Shustov's, Carl Bogdanovich Wenig's and Wassili Wladimirowitsch Pukirew's history paintings might come fairly close to
"reality"
the world does not know how
really looked like
(we only have a handful of vague sources)
but what the world inside and outside Russia
knows
is
that he most likely did not - not at all - look like - heroically depicted as a monument
aiming to glorify and heroize
the controversial individual
lately
: resume :
Ivan IV had have been demonized and has been heroized
! the disturbing truth however !
is
he most likely looked like
"you and me"
the aforementioned history painters were aware of this
and hence they depicted a
desperate - lonely - hopeless
old man
not a monstrous individual in a human garb
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: unforgettable :
(pretty styled male face - Nikolay Cherkasov - in this role as an actor)
(-; anyway ;-)
.... ....
in Sergej Eisenstein's superb cinematographic work
: Ivan IV as a :
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neither a hero
to be erect as statue in the Russian city of Orel (Oryol)
("the Ivan")
"the Hun"
in Budapest/Hungary
did Attila look rather mongolide
as most historians assume
as some others do
that's for certain
? but how did Huns looked like ?
! nobody really knows !
... what one knows ...
"the Turk"
in Taschkent/Usbekistan
the personification of the
! not least according to his self-description !
historians estimate that Timurs military campaigns caused the deaths of 17 million people, amounting to about 5% of the world population at the time
.. now ...
compare this to a death toll of 27 million people (soldiers and civilians) in/of the former Soviet Union in the course of
WW II
("Great Patriotic War" = Вели́кая Оте́чественная война́ = Вялікая Айчынная вайна = Велика Вітчизняна війна )
but consider that there was no use of firearms at all in Timur's world then
- (machine-)guns - rocket launchers - mortars - howitzers etc. - let alone (other) heavy weaponry like tanks - bazookas- fighter aircraft - bombs, etc. -
by these hordes of Timur-e Lang = title of this monster in Old Persian = Timur the Lame = Tamerlane
: imagine the vastness and sheer horror of this by far and wide most monstrous "conventional" slaughter in the long entire history of mankind :
! 17,000.000 men, women and children among them countless fellow Muslims burned alive, buried alive and killed by non-firing hunting, cutting and stabbing arms !
... like ...
Hitler - Timur
was
: a :
! behemoth !
!! satanic beast !!
and
!!! an ardent admirer of the fine arts and a patron of architecture !!!
! knowing the history !
... and ...
is
there awareness among
? some ?
regarding
means and methods
used by
other
earlier - invaders - later
in order to "familiarize" the invaded
with
!?! "their"!?!
hm ... yes
"prophet"
(! a picture is worth a thousand words !)...
or rather in order to force them into submission
(! a picture is worth a thousand words !)one thing is certain
! absolutely certain !
said means and methods
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"the religion of peace"
you know
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were definitely in the realm of
and thus definitely not in the realm of
! persuasion !
let alone
conviction
: as it ! largely ! was :
__________________________________________________________________(forced baptism of Saxons after defeated by Franks)
(forced baptism of considerable parts of pagan Baltic, Finnic and West Slavic peoples)
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in christianizing Western, Central, Northern and Eastern European tribes and peoples
(title: St. Wulfila (Greek) explaining the Gospels to the Goths, ca. 360 AD)
Wulfila felt strongly committed to Biblical idols
: like :
St. Simon Petrus of Galilee
(in Rome)
(mediaeval depiction of an "event" of roughly 1,000 years earlier)
or
(authentically depicted)
John
(the Baptist)
... ...
(title: St. Patrick (Roman-Briton) preaching the Gospels to the Irish, ca. 400 AD)
Celtic (Belgae, Gaul, Briton, Pict, Caledonian)
(title: St. Columba (Irish) preaching the Gospels to the Picts, 563 AD)
Celtic (Vindelic, Rhaetian, Helvetic)
(title: St. Gall (Irish) preaching the Gospels to descendants of the Vindelici, ca. 610 AD)
(title: St. Boniface)
(Gaulic/Anglo-Saxon)
'felling Thor's Oak'
ca. 746 AD)
and - another - a
romanticized impression of that event
(St. Boniface as martyr was ambushed and lynched by Frisians inconvenient with his activity)
(title: St. Willibrord (Anglo-Saxon) preaching the Gospels to the Frisians ca. 730 AD)
North-Germanic (Danish, Swedish)
(title: St. Ansgar (Gaulic/Franconian) preaching the Gospels to the Danes ca. 830 AD)
(title: St. Ansgar preaching the Gospels to the Swedes ca. 850 AD)
North-Germanic (Danish, Norsk)
Æthelberht (Anglo-Saxon) is preaching the Gospels (Evangelization) to Guthrum, king of the Vikings in Britain)
(title: Baptism of Guthrum, king of Vikings (Danes) in Britain ca. 890 AD)
(title: The Christianization of Poland in the year 966 AD, the baptism of Mieszko I king of Poland (along with spouse Doubravka of Bohemia and daughter Gunhild of Wenden))
(Kiev) Russian (East-Slavic) (romanticized impression)
(title: clandestine meetings of Christians in pagan Kiev ca. 930 AD (shortly before Vladimir the Great christianized the Kievan Rus around 980 AD))
...
(one of the earliest (Greek) Orthodox missionaries just outside of Novgorod)
...
(Vladimir the Great (Russian-Ukrainian) later "St. Vladimir" is taught in the gospels by a Greek missionary)
Baltic (Prussian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian)
(title: The Christianization of Lithuania, ca. 1100 AD)
(title: St. Vicelinus (Saxon) preaching the Gospels to the Wends, 1131 AD)
: resume :
historic facts of inconvenient nature
: : can be : :
at worst ignored and be offset at best
(the crusades - you know - where pretty damn much nonsense is narrated or rather parroted about)
for instance
by
dominating voices of arrogance, ignorance, stupidity and progressive debility in the public discourse within Western countries
denied or - if denial is impossible - explained away
for instance
by
leading Islamic scholars
!!! but cannot be erased from collective memory !!!
!! definitely !!
! not !
: or even outperform :
(in regard of heroization and awe inspiring tremendousness)
"the Mongol"
on the bank of the Tuul River at Tsonjin Boldog somewhat 50 miles east of the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar
and
: some impressions of his warriors :
...
(excuse me, excuse me, something must have been mixed up here in my mind's photo line of military ravage)
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