A short story about the Russian people. Are Russians a people or a nation? We are local

The Russian ethnic group is the largest ethnic group in the Russian Federation. Russians also live in the near abroad, the USA, Canada, Australia and a number of European countries. They belong to a large European race. The modern territory of the settlement of the Russian ethnic group stretched from the Kaliningrad region in the west to the Far East in the east and from the Murmansk region and Northern Siberia in the north to the foothills of the Caucasus and Kazakhstan in the south. It has a complex configuration and has developed as a result of long migrations, cohabitation in some regions with other peoples, assimilation processes (for example, some Finno-Ugric groups) and ethnic separation (with Belarusians and Ukrainians).

The name of the people "Rus" or "Ros" appears in the sources in the middle of the 6th century. There is no clarity in the origin of the word "Rus". According to the most common version, the ethnonym "Rus" is associated with the name "ros", "rus", going back to the name of the Ros river, a tributary of the Dnieper. The word "Rus" was common in Europe.

Anthropologically, Russians are homogeneous in the sense that they are all part of a large Caucasian race. However, there are differences between individual groups. Among the Russian population of the northern regions, signs of the Atlanto-Baltic race predominate, the Russians of the central regions constitute the Eastern European type of the Central European race, the Russians of the north-west are represented by the East Baltic type of the White Sea-Baltic race, among the Russians of the south there are signs of an admixture of Mongoloid and Mediterranean elements.

The ethnogenesis of the Russian ethnos is closely connected with the origin of the ancient Russian people, in the formation of which, in turn, the East Slavic tribes played an important role. The Old Russian nationality with a common Eastern Slavic self-consciousness was formed during the period of unity of the ancient Russian early feudal Kievan state (Kiev Rus IX - early XII century.). During the period of feudal fragmentation, the common self-consciousness was not lost, which affected, in particular, the formation of ethnonyms denoting three East Slavic peoples in subsequent centuries - Great Russians, Little Russians, Belarusians.

The process of development of the Russian nationality proceeded in parallel with the formation of the Ukrainian and Belarusian nationalities. A certain role in this was played by the gradual accumulation of local differences in the conditions of the collapse of the unified ancient Russian state. The ethno-cultural differences of the three peoples, which were formed in the following centuries, are explained both by the tribal division of the Eastern Slavs of the pre-state era, and by socio-political factors. In the context of the liberation struggle against the Horde yoke (mid-13th - late 15th centuries), ethnic and ethno-confessional consolidation of the principalities of northeastern Russia took place, which formed in the 14th - 15th centuries. Moscow Russia.

By the period when a new process of unification of Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians in the Russian state began, the ethnic differentiation of the Eastern Slavs, which developed in the 14th - 17th centuries, had gone far enough (although it was not completely completed until the 19th - 20th centuries) and turned out to be irreversible . The Eastern Slavs continued to develop in conditions of intense interethnic contacts, but already as three independent peoples.

The most important features of the ethnic history of Russians were the constant presence of sparsely populated territories and the centuries-old migration activity of the Russian population. The period preceding the formation of the Old Russian state, as well as the era of Kievan Rus, was marked by the movement of the East Slavic ethnic mass to the north and northeast and the settlement of those areas that later formed the core of the Russian (Great Russian) ethnic territory.

The ethnic core of the Russian people took shape in the 11th-15th centuries. within the lands lying in the Volga-Oka interfluve and the borders of Veliky Novgorod, in the course of fierce resistance to the Mongol-Tatar dependence.

After the liberation from the Horde yoke, the secondary settlement of the "wild field" began, that is, the southern Russian regions devastated by the Horde raids. Resettlement followed in the Volga region in the 17th - 18th centuries, to Siberia, the North Caucasus, and later to Kazakhstan, Altai and Central Asia. As a result, a vast ethnic territory of Russians gradually formed. During the development of new territories by Russians, intensive interethnic contacts with representatives of a number of other peoples took place. These and other factors contributed to the fact that special (isolated) ethnographic, ethno-confessional, ethno-economic groups were preserved or formed within the Russian people.

In the XVIII - XIX centuries. the Russian nation is gradually being formed. We can say that in the second half of the XIX century. basically formed the Russian nation. Reforms of the 60s 19th century gave a strong impetus to the development of capitalism in Russia. During the 19th century the formation of the Russian intelligentsia took place, major successes were achieved in the field of literature, art, science, and social thought. At the same time, archaic forms of traditional culture were preserved to a certain extent.

The natural and climatic features of the country had a great influence on the formation of the Russian ethnos: the virtual absence of mountain ranges, the presence of a large number of forests and swamps, harsh winters, etc. The intensity of agricultural work, especially the need to manage the harvest on time and without loss, contributed to the formation of the Russian national character, the ability to withstand excessive stress, which turned out to be saving and necessary during the period of enemy invasions, famine, and serious social upheavals. Periodically repeated attacks on the external borders of the country strongly encouraged the Russian population to fight for liberation and unity. Under these conditions, the state played an exceptional role in the formation and strengthening of the Great Russian people, and then the Russian nation.

In the absence of consolidated statistical data, up to the 17th century, according to various estimates, in the Russian state in the middle of the 15th century. there were 6 million people, in the first half of the XVI century. 6.5 - 14.5, at the end of the 16th century. 7 - 14, and in the seventeenth century. 10.5 - 12 million people.

In the XVIII century. the demographic state of the Russian state and the Russian people is presented in the following form. In 1719, the entire population of Russia was 15,738 million people, including Russians - 11,128 million. In 1795, out of 41,175 million people, Russians numbered 19,619 million people, or 49% of the total population. The given data does not take into account the Russian population living in the Baltic states, Belarusian and Ukrainian provinces, in the area of the Cossack troops (Don and Ural).

After joining the Russian Empire under the Treaty of Nishtad (1721), Estonia and Livonia, and later Courland, at the beginning of the 19th century. Finland and Bessarabia, and in the second half of the century of Central Asia and the Far East, Russians began to populate these regions. Thus, the migration movements of the Russian people in the XIX - early XX centuries. did not stop, new centers of Russian settlement were formed. As a result of these movements, the number of the Russian population in the Central Industrial and Northern regions of the European part of the country grew more slowly than in the southern populated regions.

According to the 1897 census, the entire population of the country totaled 125.6 million people, of which Russians made up 43.4% of its composition (55.7 million people), most of them were in the European part of the country.

By 1990, the number of the Russian ethnos had reached 145 million (actually in Russia - almost 120 million people), or 82.6% of the total population. 49.7% of Russians inhabit the center of the European part of Russia, the northwest, the Volga-Vyatka region and the Volga region; in the Urals, Siberia and the Far East - 23.9%. In the near abroad, most Russians are in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Belarus.

History of the Russian people originally performed over vast geographic areas. The Old Russian state, which arose in the ninth century, stretched from the White Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, from the lower reaches of the Danube and the Carpathian Mountains in the west and the Volga-Oka interfluve in the east. It was the annalistic Russian land and the area of settlement of the ancient Russian people, which already in those distant times was distinguished by a strongly conscious unity with its land. The concept of Rus came into the history of Kievan Rus from the previous centuries. It has an ancient chronology and is localized in the southeast of the East Slavic area - this is the right bank of the Middle Polnopravye - the Don region - the Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov. In this territory in the 6th-7th centuries there was a strong tribal Russian union, which served in the 9th-10th centuries. the core for the formation of the ancient Russian nationality, which included almost all the East Slavic tribes.

The word Rus belongs to the Indo-European family of languages. The dual voicing of the root Ros/Rus is a reflection of the ancient Indo-European vowel alternation in its local version. The original meaning of the word Rus is associated with the concept of light, white. This understanding of the Russian folk vocabulary retained until the twentieth century. The word Rus as the whole wide world or the concept of Tver in Russia, i.e. in an open place, open space, in the south.

As the East Slavic farmers settled in the Old Russian state, an ongoing process of internal land development took place, accompanied by ethnocultural contacts with multilingual peoples and, first of all, with the most geographically settled Balts (the Balts are peoples of Indo-European origin, speakers of the Baltic languages who inhabited in the past and inhabit today the territory of the Baltic from Poland and the Kaliningrad region to Estonia) and the Finno-Ugric peoples. In the 10th-12th centuries, the Slavo-Russians began the mass development of the Volga-Oka basin, where the core of the historical-ethnic territory of the Russians later formed. The ancient Russian state perished under the onslaught of the Batu invasion (1240), which was accompanied by the mass extermination of the population and the destruction of cities. The result of the collapse of statehood and great strife was the separation of ethnoterritorial associations, which in the historical perspective led to the formation of the Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian peoples.

The development of vast areas by Russians is a hallmark of Russian history. Very early Russians master the basins of the great northern rivers - the Pechora, Onega, Northern Dvina; in the 13th century, Russians already densely populated North-Eastern Russia; in the XVI-XVI centuries. master the Middle and Lower Volga region, the Northern and Southern Urals, deserted due to the raids of nomads of the forest-steppe and steppe of Don Russia, as well as the North Caucasus. The peculiarity of the movement of Russians to the northeast and east is characterized by two important factors. This is, first of all, the abundance of free land, which allowed the Russian settlers not to collide in their interests with the indigenous peoples. Secondly, almost deserted spaces were mastered: in the northeast - a huge region of Pomorye with difficult forests and forest tundras, with a cold subarctic climate; in the east - the Trans-Volga region with dense forests and, beyond the Urals, the south of Siberia, Altai and Transbaikalia; in the southeast - vast expanses with semi-deserts up to Central Asia. The development of Siberia and the Far East was of outstanding geo-territorial significance for the Russians. As a result, since the 15th century, the Russian state has become Eurasian. This is an outstanding phenomenon of the Russians, who managed to unite the Eurasian space into a single state.

In the old Russian lexicon there is a capacious and proud word explorers. This was the name of the first handful of brave people who discovered new lands for themselves and mastered them economically (in contrast to the colonial conquests of Europeans). During the entire foreseeable historical period, Russians have mastered 21 million square meters. km of land. This became possible thanks to the creation of Russian statehood and the developed self-awareness of the people. At the beginning of the 20th century, Russians were the second largest people in the world. Together with them, the population of the empire increased. If under Peter I the population of Russia was slightly more than 13 million people, then in 1913 it was 174 million. This increase was mainly due to rapid population growth; to a lesser extent due to the addition of new lands. By the beginning of the twentieth century. Russians in the European part of Russia made up 90% of the population. In total, the number of Russians in 1913 was about 76 million people.

Since the beginning of the twentieth century. the number of Russians, despite significant losses as a result of two world wars and other socio-economic cataclysms, has almost doubled. According to the 1989 census in the USSR, the number of all Russians was 145 million, including 120 million in Russia. This is due not only to a significant natural increase in the population, but also to the merging of certain groups of other peoples with Russians. Since the 1970s, the growth rate of Russians began to noticeably decrease due to a sharp decline in the birth rate, and since the 1990s, also due to a sharp increase in mortality. According to the 2000 census, the number of Russians in Russia amounted to 126 million people. The increase by 6 million people in the number of Russians in Russia compared to the 1989 census occurred solely due to the influx of the Russian population from the former Soviet republics to Russia (approximately 4 million people), as well as due to a change in ethnic self-consciousness among a part of the population of other nationalities living in Russia; in addition, since 2000, natural population growth rates have slightly stabilized.

The pattern of settlement is also changing. Already during the 1980s, there was a decrease in the migration of Russians outside of Russia, with their simultaneous outflow from the former Soviet republics. In the 1990s, ethno-transformational processes (the process is called ethno-transformational, when, when individual components of an ethnos change, the ethnic self-consciousness of the people included in it changes, while the ethnicity of a person also changes) intensified. The flow of Russian migrants to non-CIS countries has increased. As a result of depopulation processes (depopulation processes - a decrease in population growth rates, a decrease in its number), demographers predict a significant reduction in the number of the Russian population by the middle of the 21st century.

The Russian language belongs to the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic group, which is part of the Indo-European family of languages. It is the most widely spoken language in the world, one of the six official and working languages of the UN, and one of the five working languages of the Parliamentary Assemblies of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. Before the collapse of the USSR, the total number of Russian speakers was about 250 million people. From Ancient Russia, the Russian language inherited its written language. The basis of the modern Russian alphabet is Cyrillic - one of the oldest Slavic alphabets.

Orthodoxy played an ethno-consolidating role (ethno-consolidation - people's attitude to language, national-cultural ideology) at all stages of Russian history. Russian Orthodoxy continues this historical mission even today. Folk traditions of celebrating Easter, the Trinity, the Nativity of Christ, the Assumption and many church (patronal) holidays contribute to the strengthening of family, kinship and territorial ethnic ties.

The ethno-cultural unity of the Russian people throughout the entire area of their settlement did not exclude the diversity of differences and features in different aspects of life. These features and differences were formed in the course of the ethnic history of Russians under the influence of a variety of natural and climatic conditions and, accordingly, territorial and economic ways of life. Therefore, ethnographic literature traditionally distinguishes ethnocultural areas (from area - area, space), characterized by the specifics of dialect dialects, anthropological types, the presence of ethnographic population groups, ethnocultural features in economic activities, crafts and material culture, the diversity of local customs and rituals with the unity of the general model ritual and festive culture. For example, ethnographers traditionally single out northern and southern ethnocultural areas in the European territory of Russian settlement, and an intermediate center between them. Such a division is based on differences in dialects and elements of folk culture. Even at the beginning of the twentieth century. these differences between the northern Russian and southern Russian areas were very noticeable. During the twentieth century. there was a smoothing of some ethno-cultural differences (especially in clothing, as well as the language, local dialects are smoothed out - there are almost no regional dialects left). But their own characteristics in the life of northern and southern Russians will remain, since the tangible difference in natural and climatic zones also affects the specifics of everyday culture.

Every nation on earth is a biosocial and cultural-historical phenomenon. Each nation has made its own special contribution to civilizational processes. On this path, a lot has been done by the Russians. But the main thing, according to some historical craft, what the Russians fell to do is to unite the vast Eurasian expanses from the Baltic to the Pacific Ocean into a single historical, sociocultural and at the same time ethnically diverse space. This is an outstanding cultural and civilizational phenomenon of Russians.

Russians are an unusually numerous people, formed from the tribes of the Eastern Slavs. Today, the majority of Russians live on the territory of the Russian Federation (more than eighty percent of its population). And where did the Russian nation come from?

Russians descended from the Indo-European group of peoples. According to archeological data, the Slavs appeared in the first millennium BC. They are the direct ancestors of the Russians and some other peoples. Slavic tribes, more precisely, East Slavic, gradually settled and occupied the area of \u200b\u200bmodern Russia.

Eastern Slavs are even called “Russian Slavs”. Each tribe had its own name depending on the region of their location. But later they all united (in the twelfth century), and then gave rise to Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians (this happened in the seventeenth century).

After the tribes united, the Old Russian people formed. The main groups of Eastern Slavs from which the Russians originated:

Krivichi.
Slovenia.
Vyatichi.
Northerners.

It is necessary to note the Finno-Ugric tribes: Merya, Meshchera, Muroma and others. But the processes of uniting the tribes were disrupted due to the invasion of the Mongols. Cossacks, Belarusians, Ukrainians gradually began to separate. The Russian state was formed in the fifteenth century, from where the Russian people appeared.

Where the Russian people came from can be found from ancient literary sources: "The Tale of Bygone Years", "The Tale of Igor's Campaign", "Book of Veles".

Where did the word "Russian" come from?

It is not difficult to guess that the name of the people came from the word Rus, that is, from the state in which they lived. In turn, the word origin of the word Rus is still controversial. There are many versions on this subject, which you can read about in the article "Theories of the origin of the name Rus".

Initially, the word "Russian" was not used, they said - Russian people. In the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries, the name "Russians" came, then - "Great Russians". But at the same time, the word “Russians” also appeared here and there.

Where did the Russian land come from?

The emergence of Russia, the state occurred as a result of the settlement of the lands by Slavic tribes. Initially, these were Kyiv, Novgorod and the territories adjacent to them, the banks of the Dnieper and Dniester rivers. The Russian land was then called the Old Russian state, or Kievan Rus. Gradually, independent Russian principalities were formed (starting from the twelfth century). Then, in the middle of the sixteenth century, the Russian land was called the Russian kingdom. Since the eighteenth century - the Russian Empire.

Where did the Russian language come from?

Russian is an East Slavic language. It is very common in the world, and also occupies the lion's share among other Slavic languages in terms of frequency. Today Russian is the state language in Russia. In addition, it is the same in some other countries that have several languages.

Historians have been trying to figure out who the Russians are and where they came from for more than a hundred years, but so far no one has found a single right answer to this question. There are dozens of the most plausible theories, but each of them has its drawbacks, weaknesses. It is quite possible that we still have not found out where the ancestral home of the Slavs and the Russian people is, so that everyone can believe in what he considers most likely.

Where did the Russians come from?

It's no secret that the Russians came from the Slavs, but where they came from, these our ancestors, is a mystery.

In this regard, a number of interesting theories are put forward:

Norman.
Scythian.
Danube.
Autochthonous.
Hellenthal.

Briefly about each theory:

Everyone heard about the first theory, the Scandinavian leaders came to us from northern lands , brought a squad and began to rule. But it is difficult to believe that the tribes living in this territory did not have their own state structure, culture and customs.
Consider yourself descendants Scythians- one of the most pleasant options. Yet ancient Greek historians gave them too flattering a description. The veracity of this idea can also be doubted, especially if you approach the issue from the point of view of genetics.
There is an assumption that all Slavic tribes came from across the Danube, from Europe. It happened about one and a half thousand years ago, and since then the Slavs have firmly entrenched themselves in new territories and actively explored the North and East.
According to fourth theory, our distant ancestors were the "indigenous" inhabitants of those territories in which we live today. Where they were born, they came in handy there.
And here Hellenthal made an interesting hypothesis. According to this scientist, for more than 4 thousand years, part of the tribes from the territory of modern Germany and Poland moved to Eastern Europe. And 3 thousand years ago there was a migration of the population from Altai, a mixture of these two groups led to the appearance of the Slavs, and later Russians.

Where did Russian music originate?

With music, everything is much easier. A huge number of scattered tribes lived on the territory of modern Russia, each of which sought to fill its life with music, fill solemn events with it. Folk music is at least a thousand years old and includes:

Wedding songs.
Dance.
Ritual.
Calendar.
Lyrical.

It is not for nothing that folk art is called oral, because it was passed from mouth to mouth, rarely when works were recorded in writing.

So there are not so many sources that have come down to us from ancient times. By the number of songs and musical instruments, one can only indirectly conclude that our ancestors were musical people.

They used sonorous melodies not only to celebrate celebrations, but also to brighten up everyday life.

Where did the Russian language come from?

But in the history of the Russian language there are three stages:

Old Russian	Old Russian	National
Began to form during the birth of Kievan Rus.	A relatively recent period, the heyday came in the XIV-XVII century.	As early as the 17th century, Russians began to take shape as a nation.
In truth, it has little in common with modern Russian.	The spelling and pronunciation are more similar to the modern language.	Any nation needs a language, so Old Russian began to change.
It was used even in the pre-Christian era.	Actively used in church services.	The formation of the language is almost complete.

Even in our time, new words appear, new rules are introduced and completely new features are indicated.

The Russian language is not a kind of frozen substance, it changes according to modern trends. But the basis of the language was laid many centuries ago and it does not change. If two Russian people from the 17th and 21st centuries met now, they would not be able to explain normally.

But at the same time, our contemporary would have caught the essence of the ancestor's statements, but the "traveler from the past" would have too many problems with understanding. Now there are too many foreign words in the Russian language, and even without this, it has changed a lot over the past centuries.

Modern studies of the problem

Now pseudo-scientific articles regarding the origin of the Slavs have come into fashion. And they raise not only the topic of a common ancestor, but in all seriousness, "researchers" are trying to find the most "worthy" descendant. Actually:

The process of nation-formation started and went full steam ahead just four centuries ago.
Prior to this, self-identification was based on belonging to a particular territory, religion or community.
Neighbors have always had a very similar culture, one religion and called themselves almost the same, with slight differences.
Our ancestors probably would not have understood the enmity and the current degree of tension.
They were absolutely not worried about the question of the dignity or not of the dignity of their descendants; in harsh times, people faced more pressing problems. Yes, even elementary physical survival.

Unfortunately, these simple facts are now ignored by many. One can only hope that in their work all researchers will rely on historical sources, and not write what comes into their heads. It's not hard to follow fashion, but the value of such materials tends to zero.

Common ancestral home of Russian people

Until now, the origin of Russians and all Slavs causes fierce debate:

Most likely, we did not originate in this territory, but came from somewhere.
Western Europe, the mouth of the Danube and the region of the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea are named as the starting point of migration.
It is possible that the Slavs were formed as a result of a mixture of two or more groups that massively migrated towards each other or in the same direction.
It is likely that our distant ancestors were Indo-Europeans.
Ancient Roman helmets and other signs of the West are found on the territory of modern Russia, so our ancestors were familiar with Europe thousands of years ago. The only question is who "went to visit" whom.
Written sources of antiquity give conflicting information, but they agree on one thing - initially the Slavs came from somewhere in the West and moved to the East, developing new lands.

It would be nice to get a definitive answer to the question and find out where the very “small Motherland” of the whole people is located. But for now, we have to make do with these theories.

Someday we will be able to find out who the Russians are and where they came from. But one should not hope that scientists will name any one village, rather it will be about a territory that stretches over tens of thousands of square kilometers.

Video about the appearance of the Russians

In this video, historian Anatoly Klesov will tell you where, in his opinion, the Russians came from and who they are, what ancient race they belong to, what peoples they formed from:

How good it is to be Russian

I read here a naive children's post about the reasons to love Russians, and thought, but Why do I love my good people? Even a Moldavian will find a hundred reasons why Moldavians are the best people on Earth, which means that Russians should have such reasons. For what do we Russians love us Russians? (besides the charming modesty contained in this question).

For an amazing mixture of pride and introspection. A Russian can be robbed to the skin, beaten, smeared in mud - and still he will look at the offenders with poorly concealed pity for superiority. The confidence of our people in its greatness and chosenness does not depend in any way on external circumstances, the Russian looks down on all other peoples of the world, including the ruling Americans.

This consciousness of the world-holding Atlanteans, the consciousness of the sun, around which all the other people-planets revolve, has led both to our greatest triumphs and to defeats from complacency. Defeats, in turn, led to self-flagellation, to repentance, earnest, true, Russian - and all also mixed up on monstrous pride, on the secret realization that yes, of course, we have sinned, but no one has sinned as deeply and terribly as we have sinned. can no longer sin in the world. Even rolling at his feet, even with tears smearing snow on his face, the Russian will be sure that he has the purest tears in the world and the most sincere wallowing in his feet.

Proud, unwavering self-confidence in our own superiority is also our greatest weakness because the proud are easy to fool, and our greatest strength, because the most terrible defeats, failures, catastrophes do not make the slightest impression on the Russian. Where other people squirm in horror and die of depression, imperturbable Russians are just beginning to get a taste of it. "Blitzkrieg? Has the cadre army been destroyed? Have you already seen scouts near Moscow? Well, things ... And this jam is so tasty, what is it made of? Raspberry? Good jam ... get my overcoat there.

For a burning, furious, unceasing desire for centuries reach the limit and go beyond the limit. Cry - so that you cry out your eyes. To master Siberia - so that it ends in Alaska. To build planes - so that right up to space. Engage in totalitarianism - so that even the Nazis close their eyes in horror. To fight - so that the earth melted.

The Russian not only harnesses for a long time and rides fast, but rushes until he breaks through the very line of the horizon, in everything from inner spiritual life, to revolutionary activity to scientific and technical research. Only with the psychology of one eternally striving for the limit could one build such a huge country as ours, create such a gloomy and majestic literature as ours, amaze the world with unthinkable horrors and unthinkable heroes like ours. The Russian is capable of manifestations of the highest, rarest feelings - and in the same way he is capable of manifestations of the utmost, terrifying baseness. Sometimes at the same time. Flashes of the ultimate Russian character sometimes make other nations freeze in horror or reverence.

For dexterous, grasping, piracy growing out of the realization of one's own uniqueness and superiority. A typical Russian situation: to take an English nuclear bomb, take German missiles, after which for 50 years now threaten the world with “Our, Russian nuclear weapons!”, without feeling the slightest catch and not the slightest embarrassment. If a Russian finds someone else's thing, idea, development convenient for himself, then he immediately begins to use it as if he had just invented it himself. The Russian has no embarrassment, throwing, bashfulness, the Russian feels like a master, in whom the whole world is a workshop, and who can take into service any instrument he likes and make something of his own out of it.

Like the word "general's wife", in which a foreign root is heard, but the suffix of which is luxuriously impudent with its shameless Russianness. I liked the general, they took the general, made him a general's girlfriend. It's in Russian! Because of this, all kinds of peoples, when faced with Russians, quietly freak out at how Russians format reality for themselves, using the surrounding space as a toolkit. “You have a good city, Kazan. Only we will burn it a little and move it here. So more beautiful. Truth. And stop running and yelling, Tatars, for you, fools, we are trying, ”– this is the Russian type of thinking.

For the complete absence of a culture of hypocrisy. There is a hypocrite - with a cold impenetrable face, with refined movements, with a slight smile, behind which can hide both the utmost benevolence and the utmost hatred. There is Asiatic type of hypocrite - stiflingly obsequious, flowing with praise, smiling so that his mouth almost breaks - and at the same time scolding you three floors, as soon as the door closes. BUT there is no Russian type of hypocrite.

The Russian perceives the American smile on duty as an insult, as a mockery, as a mockery, as a declaration of war. Sincerity destroys Russians in the world of total refined hypocrisy, but it also serves as an unmistakable identification mark by which you can instantly recognize your own in a crowd of strangers. And if other peoples have sincerity as a sign of the highest disposition towards you, then the Russian has sincerity at the zero level, and the disposition begins with "soulfulness", which sometimes takes forms unthinkable for a foreigner. Well, if the Russians decided to show sincerity to you, brother, sit down and write a will, just in case.

The most complete expression of the national character.

For not being able to truly take offense growing out of the same absolutely impenetrable sense of exclusivity. Russians very often lose in national conflicts because they do not perceive them as conflicts, they do not see attacks and even direct attacks by other nations as a threat.

“They are someone, like dogs, why be offended by dogs?”

The plot of revenge is uncharacteristic for Russian culture, the Russian does not understand the long, exhausting, draining Anglo-Saxon intrigue, and almost the next day he climbs into the offender to hug, which is able to bring the offender to a heart attack. Growing out of an inability to be offended, a specific Russian kindness, - that is, insensitivity to hints, shouts, injections, blows and the dying yell of the unfortunate victim trying to get rid of the Russian - provided our people with the very colonization dynamics unprecedented in history. “To strangle in an embrace” is a typically Russian situation, confusing other peoples and tribes with a more subtle and touchy mental organization.

For beauty. The Russian phenotype is a graceful mixture of Northern Nordic austerity, too rocky, too sharp, too boxy in its pure Scandinavian type, and charming Slavic softness, too blurry and too submissive in other Slavic peoples. Russians are equally alien to both the northern angular concreteness and the southern resort jelly, they combine these two elements in the most perfect and pleasing to the eye way.

ABOUT Russian beauty enough words have been said over the past centuries, but what I like most about classical Russian types is the calm strength coming from them, not the hysterical southern fussy talkativeness, not the comical northern rectangular arrogance, but the soft, and at the same time terrible strength, strength of the people, capable of bending anyone into a ram's horn, easily readable in calm Russian views.

For the beauty and richness of the language, capable of expressing the subtlest, barely perceptible shades of feelings, and at the same time rising in its sound either to gentle, lively, playful, almost Italian modulations, or descending to a menacing hiss of terrible primitive hissing. It's good to talk about love in Italian, but how to curse an enemy in Italian? It's great to curse your enemies in German, but how to confess your love in German? In English, you can do both, but in a cropped, ugly, basic, children's configuration. AND only Russian gives to its owner full language palette, all language paints. And the finest brushes and feathers to draw the finest elements with these paints.

For an incredible historical destiny. What is the Jewish historical destiny? "They offended the mouse, wrote in the mink." What is American historical destiny? "The redneck went to the fair." What is the German historical destiny? "The Shopkeeper and World Domination". What is Russian historical destiny? Epos. Incredible takeoffs. Unthinkable fall. Complete nothingness. And complete domination of the world at arm's length.

When I started studying dramaturgy, I could not get rid of the feeling that Russian history seemed to be written by a professional playwright, who deftly guessed at what moment the viewer begins to get bored with continuous victories, victories, victories, and where he needs to turn his leg, and where, on the contrary , raise from filth to greatness. Out of habit, the Russian does not even see how perfect a dramatic contrast this is, how perfect a combination it is: the gloomy repressions of the 37th and the stunning, impossible Stalingrad victory of the 43rd. Or the Brusilovsky breakthrough of 1916 and complete destruction, here is the literal collapse of the state by the middle of 1917. The Russian, out of habit, does not even understand all the ravishing, dizzying beauty of this roller coaster of Russian history, from which any other people would have gone crazy long ago.

We are now in a dark period of history., but this is temporary, because Russian by nature is a cheerful insolent who cannot be sad and worry for a long time. We cried, repented, released all negative emotions from ourselves - and went to knead our fists, well, so that there was something to repent of next time. Russian self-confidence, rage, reticence, frightening sincerity and inability to take offense in time, show only one thing - it is impossible to agree with a Russian who has passed from a depressive into an active phase, it is impossible to stop, offend, discourage, conscience.

Just raise your hands and run away, because even the largest white people in the world cannot be killed. Now my kind people are in depression, but, as the winter rallies have shown, the dramaturgy of Russian history is taking its toll and the nation is beginning to awaken, “Yes, I love you, I want you well, don’t you dare, piss, turn away!” condition. After that, all non-Russian peoples will have to turn on the mode “Scatter in all directions, the Russians wanted the best for us”.

Are Russians the greatest people on earth? Yes! Russian impudent perseverance will sooner or later grind everything and everyone, even the Chinese. There are smarter peoples, there are more cunning peoples, there are more organized peoples, there are richer peoples, there are more numerous peoples, but there is no people more persistent than Russians. Russians, dispersed, broke everything: armies, peoples, countries, continents, outer space, and sooner or later the Russians will break through the world. And besides, every real Russian knows that the world belongs to him by right - it remains just to take this world away. And sooner or later the Russian world will take over.