"Soft power" of the West in the era of Peter the Great
The tragedy of Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich is largely associated with the so-called. great game, the game of Rome and the West as a whole against the Russian kingdom. The masters of the West sought to subjugate Russia and use it to their advantage.
During this period, the Roman throne tried to unite the European powers against Porta in order to stop the powerful Ottoman power, which smashed its spear against the walls of Vienna. The anti-Turkish alliance decided to involve Russia. Moscow was necessary for Rome to penetrate into Asia. In addition, Moscow was interested in the papal throne from the point of view of the struggle with the Protestants, England, which at that time was becoming the new "command center" of the West. The old "command post" of the West - Rome, tried to maintain its influence, and England - to expand its sphere of influence. If Rome was based on the ancient concept of enslaving humanity with the help of religion (ideology), control over science, art and historythen England - with the help of financial and economic priority, trade and industrial, scientific and technological superiority. At the same time, Rome and London had one goal - world domination (later the USA will inherit it from the British). Rome and England equally looked at Russia - as an obstacle and booty, which still needed to be weakened (killed), processed and redrawed in their own interests. If England relied on trade (economic interests), then Rome - on religion. Russia had to bow to the West. The current state of affairs in Russia did not suit them.
Even under Ivan the Terrible, Jesuit Antonio Possevino visited Russia. However, the Russian Tsar, even at the end of his rule, was no weaker than the Jesuits. He managed to take advantage of the Jesuit mission, making peace with Stefan Batory. However, as the matter touched Orthodoxy, he immediately forgot about diplomacy and replaced the papal envoys.
Realizing that the problem cannot be solved right away. Rome decided to take Russia with the help of appropriate informational, ideological processing. So, Possevino developed a program for the conquest of Russia-Russia (Russian civilization). The main thing in it was the creation of special schools in the spirit of Latinism and the conversion to the union of Russian West Russian regions. Catholic seminaries were created in Vilna and Polotsk "for Russians from the Kingdom of Poland and for those who were captured in Muscovy ...". It was about teaching Russians in Catholic schools. The corresponding "programming" (coding) of the Russians took place in them, which turned into "anti-Russian" and worked already in the interests of Rome (the West).
Later, using the same model, they created “Ukraine” - as an “independent” state and “Ukrainians” - as “separate” from the Russian people. The goal of the West is the dismemberment and weakening of the united Russian civilization of the Russian superethnos, as the main enemy of the West on the planet. At the same time, some Russians turn into a kind of “orcs” (spoiled elves, if you use images from the “Lord of the Rings”), who lost their roots and self-awareness and are used by the “dark forces” - the masters of the West, in the struggle with the remaining Russians.
The Russians, who have lost their Russianness, but at the same time retaining the main attributes of the Russian person - language, cultural attributes, etc., become an excellent tool of the West in the war with Russia. In the Russian state, they are perceived as “their own”, easily integrated, and occupy important positions. But at the same time, they retain a foreign entity - they are “Westerners” and in one way or another try to direct Russia along the Western path of development, subordinate the Russian people to the masters of the West. Including with the help of Western education, fashion, propaganda of Western languages, culture, customs (for example, holidays), etc.
There are currently a lot of such “Russian-Westerners” in the government and cultural sphere (“elite”). These people believe that the fate of Russia is the role of a "pipe" and a "settler-testing ground" in the global world. Therefore, it is necessary to accept, “optimize” the remaining remnants of the legacy of the Soviet empire - science, education, the nuclear and space industries, the armed forces, the military-industrial complex and abandon the nuclear weapons. Become a part of the “global community”, be a semi-colony, sit and not rock the boat. Young people should totally learn English and various specialties of “two-legged guns” in order to have a chance to “dump out of rashki” and get a chance to become a second-third person in the “civilized world”. Their children in the second or third generation will be full-fledged Americans, Canadians, British, Chinese, etc. The remaining Russians do not fit into the “market” and will be “optimized.” How rapidly the current Small Russia (Ukraine) is dying out. Somewhat slower, but the Russian Federation is moving in the same way.
Returning to the Possevino plan, other points should also be noted: the use of foreign merchants, who should have laid the thought in Russian consciousness about the possibility of the emergence of the Catholic Church in Russia; use as scouts, Catholic translators, interpreters at the embassies. The plan also included the use of foreign doctors, the appropriate selection of books, etc. The Jesuit Order became the stronghold of the dilapidated Roman Catholic Church. It was a mixture of spiritual-political, military institute and intelligence-sabotage special services.
The secret war against Russia went stage by stage and did not stop with the change of the popes or rulers of the Western powers. This is the strength of the Western world - the education of the elite in the spirit of the Western "matrix". Each generation of the elite continues the project, a cause that was founded and started many hundreds of years ago. Popes and cardinals, great emperors and kings, presidents and prime ministers are leaving, and the thousand-year-long war continues. Western "masons" are building the building of a "new world order" - a global slave civilization.
In the late XVI - early XVII centuries. the masters of the West managed to achieve serious success. The ruling dynasty of Rurik was destroyed. Boris Godunov began to impose Western orders. Smoot began in Russia. In the retinue of the impostor False Dmitry, who occupied Moscow, were the Jesuits. It is not known for certain whether the Jesuits themselves invented and raised an impostor, or skillfully took advantage of someone else's notion (the direct boyars of childbirth, including the Romanovs, were the direct culprits of the beginning of the Troubles). One way or another, the impostor was successfully used as a military weapon against Russia, using the expectations of ordinary people who demanded justice. In Russia, they succeeded in setting the Romanov (Rimsky) family on the throne, which began to carry out a pro-Western policy. Peter the Great was only the crown of this policy. In particular, Aleksei Mikhailovich and Nikon staged a pogrom on the Russian Orthodox Church, split the Russian people, and with fire and sword wiped out the "fiery" essence of the Russian faith. Then his son Peter Alekseevich completed the process of turning the Orthodox Church into the role of servants in the state, the essence was replaced by the form. In turn, the degradation of the Russian church was one of the causes of the 1917 disaster of the year. The Russian state has lost its "connection with the sky", spiritual nourishment. Now she kept only on the sacredness of autocratic power and the army. These two pillars have consistently rotted to the 1917 year, and the Romanov empire died, almost destroying the Russian civilization and the Russian people under its rubble.
At the end of the seventeenth century, several Jesuits arrived in Moscow. They settled in the colony of foreigners who were in the Russian service. With the support of the famous Westerner, Prince V. V. Golitsyn, Catholic missionaries managed to attract Russian children to study. This phenomenon could not please the then champion of "Russianness" patriarch Joachim. He drew the attention of tsars Ivan and Peter Alekseevich to the hotbed of western infection. In 1688, the Jesuit colony was escorted from Russia. However, the charge d'affaires of the German Emperor Curtius stood up for the Jesuits. He argued that for Russia itself it was beneficial to have a colony of people in Russia who, without receiving a government salary, would educate Russian children. General Patrick Gordon joined the Jesuits. Jesuit school restored. It is worth noting that first approached by Prince V. Golitsyn, and then the closest associate and comrade of Peter the Great, Patrick Gordon studied at a Jesuit school.
Among the closest friends and relatives of P. Gordon was Pavel Meneziy and Franz Lefort. Menezius studied at the Scottish Jesuit College. This Jesuit alumnus and adventurer, who was looking for happiness (wealth and power) in Russia, had extensive connections abroad. He took a special place under Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, in 1672 he was sent with a diplomatic mission to Berlin, Vienna, Venice and Rome. In Moscow at that time there were already people who were seeking the union of Catholicism with Orthodoxy. There is an opinion that the head of the ambassadorial order, the boyar Matveev, directing the embassy of Menezia to Rome, had a secret desire, through establishing strong contacts with the papal throne, to achieve the union of churches. Then Menezius became one of the first educators of Peter Alekseevich. He was particularly involved in military "fun", which is increasingly fascinated by the young prince. As is well known, the “amusing” troops of Peter in the future will become the basis for the Russian guard - the regiments of Preobrazhensky and Semenovsky, which were created by relatives of Menezia Gordon and Lefort.
For us, this seems like a matter of ordinary. But for that era, it was an unheard of innovation. It is difficult to imagine that Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible entrusted the upbringing of his son to a Catholic. Then they took it very seriously, right up to the death penalty. But time did its. Changed attitude to foreigners. Step by step, foreigners “entrenched themselves” in Moscow and penetrated into the environment of the Romanovs. The Russian kingdom ceased to be a closed state. On the other hand, many foreigners honestly served Russia. Or thought that they serve her, turning Russia to the western path of development. The same Meneziy was a member of the Chigirin campaigns and the Crimean campaign 1689 of the year. When Peter’s unity began, he showed affection for Menezius, was at his home.
The closest associate of Menezia was Patrick Gordon. Until the death of Menezia (1694 year), both maintained and valued their family ties, often acting together. Career Gordon went uphill even with the favorite of Princess Sophia, Prince V. V. Golitsyn. Gordon also had extensive connections in the West, closely following the local events. So, among his friends was Guasconi - a merchant and secret agent of the Jesuit order. In addition, Gordon did not break ties with his homeland. He was personally known to the English kings, Karl and Jacob. Thus, in 1686, the king of England and Scotland, James II, granted Gordon the rank of extraordinary British envoy to Russia, but the appointment was not approved by the tsarist government, since he remained in Russian military service. In the 1689 year, a few weeks before Peter's victory over Sophia, Gordon very quickly turned to his side. At the same time, Peter, who was very jealous of Sophia Golitsyn’s entourage, very well received the Scotsman. As a result, from the very beginning of the sole reign of Peter, Gordon found himself in the inner circle of the young king.
Another interesting personality surrounded by Peter Alekseevich is Franz Lefort. As a young man, he left Switzerland and went in search of happiness. Hired to serve in Russia, found patrons in the face of Gordon and Menezia. Through his patrons, Lefort became close to the powerful princes V. V. and B. A. Golitsyn. Then Lefort also moved to Peter's side in time. A talker and a merry fellow, a clever and well-read narrator, Lefort won the friendship of the young king, becoming one of his closest associates.
Franz Lefort. Dutch engraving, 1698
Thus, shortly after Peter’s famous escape to the Trinity, all three — Menezius, Gordon, and Lefort — entered the closest circle of the young king. You can, of course, naively think that all three were true patriots of Russia. But history shows that this is impossible. Given their connections, it is clear that "Germans" deliberately introduced to the entourage of Peter, to adjust the course of his reforms in the right direction. And their personal aspirations, ambitions contributed to this.
As the organizer of various entertainment Lefort had no equal. In addition, with Peter he had not such a big age difference as Paul Meneziy and Patrick Gordon. Franz arranged banquets that often lasted for three days and three nights. Their participants were women from the German Quarter, some of them were “free natures”, not constrained by the Russian “house-builder”. The king liked to visit these fun parties. Petr Alekseevich often visited the house of Lefort - 2-3 dined with him once a week. Often spent the night. Conversations were different: from serious, to military-political topics, to the most obscene. Until the morning, the music thundered, couples danced, wine flowed and conversations were conducted. And the Russian tsar, previously guarded by tradition, felt at ease here.
“The free feasts here, where, in clouds of tobacco smoke, everything was wide open,” wrote the Russian historian M. P. Pogodin, “the music thundered, various intricate games were played out, merry songs were heard that stirred the blood, and the heated couples would fall until midnight ; where women and girls, dressed not in our own way, with half-open or open breasts and bare shoulders, with a tight waist, in short skirts threw sweet glances, smiled coquettishly at all ambiguities, and were not too strict about military treatment, suggested almost kissing and hugs ... Peter, tired after the day's work and worries, was addicted to evening amusements, with kind comrades, to a fun campaign, on the German way, to free treatment with the fair sex, until midnight and midnight. ... Maybe here he tasted early and other pleasures, and laid the foundation of different habits. A well-known German settlement after the rioters' riots occupied a significant place in his moral education ... ".
In this way, The "Germans" quickly took the Russian tsar into circulation, corrupted him, accustomed to bad habits. In particular, handsome Lefort introduced Peter to his mistress Anna Mons, whom the king was very fond of (she was the favorite of the king for more than ten years). The king, apparently, was very fond of the German charmer. She could even become the future empress, following the example of the cook Martha. But she didn’t differ by a wide mind, went on a spree, what angered the sovereign and he lost interest in her.
Due to various entertainments, “public women”, and Anna Mons, Peter’s trips to the German settlement became more frequent. The same link will destroy the legal marriage of Peter to Lopukhina, and will cause the young Russian Tsarina to link to the monastery. Thus, the "Germans" will destroy the most important connecting thread of Peter with Russia - the family and the legitimate wife. And this will greatly facilitate the "processing" of the king by his "friends."
In addition, listening to Lefort, the king was increasingly inclined to the thought of visiting Holland and other European countries. He was so fascinated by her that he even accepted her sea flag, changing only the order of colors. From that moment on, Western symbols and colors began to dominate in Russia. And this is a very serious factor. Russia is trying to subordinate the "Western Matrix".
Peter himself long believed that he was able to use the personal talents of the “Germans”, their energy and knowledge - for a big cause, for the good of Russia. From them, he learned a lot about Western Europe, its achievements in the field of science, technology and military affairs. The “Germans” worked in the creation of the “new Russia”. You can not clean up with a score and the Russian environment of the king. Many statesmen understood the need for reform and modernization of Russia. They considered it useful to take something from Europe to create a powerful Russian state.
Peter’s “friends” continued the work of forming the king’s worldview. In 1697, Peter, as part of the “Great Embassy,” travels to Europe. Franz Lefort was among the leaders of the embassy. The obvious side of the embassy is known even from school textbooks. But there was a secret, hidden side. In the book of G.V. Vernadsky “Russian Freemasonry in the Time of Catherine II” it is noted: “In one manuscript of the Public Library it is said that Peter was accepted into the Scottish degree of St. Andrew, with the commitment that he would restore this order in Russia, which he did (in the form of the Order of St. Andrew the First-Called, established in 1698), leaving the epancha green, as it should be, but instead of the green ribbon, he made a blue ; his written commitment existed in the past century in the same box where he was received, and many read it. ” Obviously, he introduced him to the Masonic Lodge of Lefort. “Among Lansky’s manuscripts,” writes Vernadsky, “there is a fragment of a gray paper on which the following message is written:“ imp. Peter 1 and Lefort were taken to the Templar in Holland. ”
An indirect sign that this is true is the architecture of the future capital of Russia - St. Petersburg, which is replete with Masonic symbolism. Petersburg became the center of westernization of the Russian empire, the place of residence of its Westernized elite - the “nobles-Europeans”.
Peter in 1698 year. German artist G. Kneller
To be continued ...
During this period, the Roman throne tried to unite the European powers against Porta in order to stop the powerful Ottoman power, which smashed its spear against the walls of Vienna. The anti-Turkish alliance decided to involve Russia. Moscow was necessary for Rome to penetrate into Asia. In addition, Moscow was interested in the papal throne from the point of view of the struggle with the Protestants, England, which at that time was becoming the new "command center" of the West. The old "command post" of the West - Rome, tried to maintain its influence, and England - to expand its sphere of influence. If Rome was based on the ancient concept of enslaving humanity with the help of religion (ideology), control over science, art and historythen England - with the help of financial and economic priority, trade and industrial, scientific and technological superiority. At the same time, Rome and London had one goal - world domination (later the USA will inherit it from the British). Rome and England equally looked at Russia - as an obstacle and booty, which still needed to be weakened (killed), processed and redrawed in their own interests. If England relied on trade (economic interests), then Rome - on religion. Russia had to bow to the West. The current state of affairs in Russia did not suit them.
Even under Ivan the Terrible, Jesuit Antonio Possevino visited Russia. However, the Russian Tsar, even at the end of his rule, was no weaker than the Jesuits. He managed to take advantage of the Jesuit mission, making peace with Stefan Batory. However, as the matter touched Orthodoxy, he immediately forgot about diplomacy and replaced the papal envoys.
Realizing that the problem cannot be solved right away. Rome decided to take Russia with the help of appropriate informational, ideological processing. So, Possevino developed a program for the conquest of Russia-Russia (Russian civilization). The main thing in it was the creation of special schools in the spirit of Latinism and the conversion to the union of Russian West Russian regions. Catholic seminaries were created in Vilna and Polotsk "for Russians from the Kingdom of Poland and for those who were captured in Muscovy ...". It was about teaching Russians in Catholic schools. The corresponding "programming" (coding) of the Russians took place in them, which turned into "anti-Russian" and worked already in the interests of Rome (the West).
Later, using the same model, they created “Ukraine” - as an “independent” state and “Ukrainians” - as “separate” from the Russian people. The goal of the West is the dismemberment and weakening of the united Russian civilization of the Russian superethnos, as the main enemy of the West on the planet. At the same time, some Russians turn into a kind of “orcs” (spoiled elves, if you use images from the “Lord of the Rings”), who lost their roots and self-awareness and are used by the “dark forces” - the masters of the West, in the struggle with the remaining Russians.
The Russians, who have lost their Russianness, but at the same time retaining the main attributes of the Russian person - language, cultural attributes, etc., become an excellent tool of the West in the war with Russia. In the Russian state, they are perceived as “their own”, easily integrated, and occupy important positions. But at the same time, they retain a foreign entity - they are “Westerners” and in one way or another try to direct Russia along the Western path of development, subordinate the Russian people to the masters of the West. Including with the help of Western education, fashion, propaganda of Western languages, culture, customs (for example, holidays), etc.
There are currently a lot of such “Russian-Westerners” in the government and cultural sphere (“elite”). These people believe that the fate of Russia is the role of a "pipe" and a "settler-testing ground" in the global world. Therefore, it is necessary to accept, “optimize” the remaining remnants of the legacy of the Soviet empire - science, education, the nuclear and space industries, the armed forces, the military-industrial complex and abandon the nuclear weapons. Become a part of the “global community”, be a semi-colony, sit and not rock the boat. Young people should totally learn English and various specialties of “two-legged guns” in order to have a chance to “dump out of rashki” and get a chance to become a second-third person in the “civilized world”. Their children in the second or third generation will be full-fledged Americans, Canadians, British, Chinese, etc. The remaining Russians do not fit into the “market” and will be “optimized.” How rapidly the current Small Russia (Ukraine) is dying out. Somewhat slower, but the Russian Federation is moving in the same way.
Returning to the Possevino plan, other points should also be noted: the use of foreign merchants, who should have laid the thought in Russian consciousness about the possibility of the emergence of the Catholic Church in Russia; use as scouts, Catholic translators, interpreters at the embassies. The plan also included the use of foreign doctors, the appropriate selection of books, etc. The Jesuit Order became the stronghold of the dilapidated Roman Catholic Church. It was a mixture of spiritual-political, military institute and intelligence-sabotage special services.
The secret war against Russia went stage by stage and did not stop with the change of the popes or rulers of the Western powers. This is the strength of the Western world - the education of the elite in the spirit of the Western "matrix". Each generation of the elite continues the project, a cause that was founded and started many hundreds of years ago. Popes and cardinals, great emperors and kings, presidents and prime ministers are leaving, and the thousand-year-long war continues. Western "masons" are building the building of a "new world order" - a global slave civilization.
In the late XVI - early XVII centuries. the masters of the West managed to achieve serious success. The ruling dynasty of Rurik was destroyed. Boris Godunov began to impose Western orders. Smoot began in Russia. In the retinue of the impostor False Dmitry, who occupied Moscow, were the Jesuits. It is not known for certain whether the Jesuits themselves invented and raised an impostor, or skillfully took advantage of someone else's notion (the direct boyars of childbirth, including the Romanovs, were the direct culprits of the beginning of the Troubles). One way or another, the impostor was successfully used as a military weapon against Russia, using the expectations of ordinary people who demanded justice. In Russia, they succeeded in setting the Romanov (Rimsky) family on the throne, which began to carry out a pro-Western policy. Peter the Great was only the crown of this policy. In particular, Aleksei Mikhailovich and Nikon staged a pogrom on the Russian Orthodox Church, split the Russian people, and with fire and sword wiped out the "fiery" essence of the Russian faith. Then his son Peter Alekseevich completed the process of turning the Orthodox Church into the role of servants in the state, the essence was replaced by the form. In turn, the degradation of the Russian church was one of the causes of the 1917 disaster of the year. The Russian state has lost its "connection with the sky", spiritual nourishment. Now she kept only on the sacredness of autocratic power and the army. These two pillars have consistently rotted to the 1917 year, and the Romanov empire died, almost destroying the Russian civilization and the Russian people under its rubble.
At the end of the seventeenth century, several Jesuits arrived in Moscow. They settled in the colony of foreigners who were in the Russian service. With the support of the famous Westerner, Prince V. V. Golitsyn, Catholic missionaries managed to attract Russian children to study. This phenomenon could not please the then champion of "Russianness" patriarch Joachim. He drew the attention of tsars Ivan and Peter Alekseevich to the hotbed of western infection. In 1688, the Jesuit colony was escorted from Russia. However, the charge d'affaires of the German Emperor Curtius stood up for the Jesuits. He argued that for Russia itself it was beneficial to have a colony of people in Russia who, without receiving a government salary, would educate Russian children. General Patrick Gordon joined the Jesuits. Jesuit school restored. It is worth noting that first approached by Prince V. Golitsyn, and then the closest associate and comrade of Peter the Great, Patrick Gordon studied at a Jesuit school.
Among the closest friends and relatives of P. Gordon was Pavel Meneziy and Franz Lefort. Menezius studied at the Scottish Jesuit College. This Jesuit alumnus and adventurer, who was looking for happiness (wealth and power) in Russia, had extensive connections abroad. He took a special place under Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, in 1672 he was sent with a diplomatic mission to Berlin, Vienna, Venice and Rome. In Moscow at that time there were already people who were seeking the union of Catholicism with Orthodoxy. There is an opinion that the head of the ambassadorial order, the boyar Matveev, directing the embassy of Menezia to Rome, had a secret desire, through establishing strong contacts with the papal throne, to achieve the union of churches. Then Menezius became one of the first educators of Peter Alekseevich. He was particularly involved in military "fun", which is increasingly fascinated by the young prince. As is well known, the “amusing” troops of Peter in the future will become the basis for the Russian guard - the regiments of Preobrazhensky and Semenovsky, which were created by relatives of Menezia Gordon and Lefort.
For us, this seems like a matter of ordinary. But for that era, it was an unheard of innovation. It is difficult to imagine that Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible entrusted the upbringing of his son to a Catholic. Then they took it very seriously, right up to the death penalty. But time did its. Changed attitude to foreigners. Step by step, foreigners “entrenched themselves” in Moscow and penetrated into the environment of the Romanovs. The Russian kingdom ceased to be a closed state. On the other hand, many foreigners honestly served Russia. Or thought that they serve her, turning Russia to the western path of development. The same Meneziy was a member of the Chigirin campaigns and the Crimean campaign 1689 of the year. When Peter’s unity began, he showed affection for Menezius, was at his home.
The closest associate of Menezia was Patrick Gordon. Until the death of Menezia (1694 year), both maintained and valued their family ties, often acting together. Career Gordon went uphill even with the favorite of Princess Sophia, Prince V. V. Golitsyn. Gordon also had extensive connections in the West, closely following the local events. So, among his friends was Guasconi - a merchant and secret agent of the Jesuit order. In addition, Gordon did not break ties with his homeland. He was personally known to the English kings, Karl and Jacob. Thus, in 1686, the king of England and Scotland, James II, granted Gordon the rank of extraordinary British envoy to Russia, but the appointment was not approved by the tsarist government, since he remained in Russian military service. In the 1689 year, a few weeks before Peter's victory over Sophia, Gordon very quickly turned to his side. At the same time, Peter, who was very jealous of Sophia Golitsyn’s entourage, very well received the Scotsman. As a result, from the very beginning of the sole reign of Peter, Gordon found himself in the inner circle of the young king.
Another interesting personality surrounded by Peter Alekseevich is Franz Lefort. As a young man, he left Switzerland and went in search of happiness. Hired to serve in Russia, found patrons in the face of Gordon and Menezia. Through his patrons, Lefort became close to the powerful princes V. V. and B. A. Golitsyn. Then Lefort also moved to Peter's side in time. A talker and a merry fellow, a clever and well-read narrator, Lefort won the friendship of the young king, becoming one of his closest associates.
Franz Lefort. Dutch engraving, 1698
Thus, shortly after Peter’s famous escape to the Trinity, all three — Menezius, Gordon, and Lefort — entered the closest circle of the young king. You can, of course, naively think that all three were true patriots of Russia. But history shows that this is impossible. Given their connections, it is clear that "Germans" deliberately introduced to the entourage of Peter, to adjust the course of his reforms in the right direction. And their personal aspirations, ambitions contributed to this.
As the organizer of various entertainment Lefort had no equal. In addition, with Peter he had not such a big age difference as Paul Meneziy and Patrick Gordon. Franz arranged banquets that often lasted for three days and three nights. Their participants were women from the German Quarter, some of them were “free natures”, not constrained by the Russian “house-builder”. The king liked to visit these fun parties. Petr Alekseevich often visited the house of Lefort - 2-3 dined with him once a week. Often spent the night. Conversations were different: from serious, to military-political topics, to the most obscene. Until the morning, the music thundered, couples danced, wine flowed and conversations were conducted. And the Russian tsar, previously guarded by tradition, felt at ease here.
“The free feasts here, where, in clouds of tobacco smoke, everything was wide open,” wrote the Russian historian M. P. Pogodin, “the music thundered, various intricate games were played out, merry songs were heard that stirred the blood, and the heated couples would fall until midnight ; where women and girls, dressed not in our own way, with half-open or open breasts and bare shoulders, with a tight waist, in short skirts threw sweet glances, smiled coquettishly at all ambiguities, and were not too strict about military treatment, suggested almost kissing and hugs ... Peter, tired after the day's work and worries, was addicted to evening amusements, with kind comrades, to a fun campaign, on the German way, to free treatment with the fair sex, until midnight and midnight. ... Maybe here he tasted early and other pleasures, and laid the foundation of different habits. A well-known German settlement after the rioters' riots occupied a significant place in his moral education ... ".
In this way, The "Germans" quickly took the Russian tsar into circulation, corrupted him, accustomed to bad habits. In particular, handsome Lefort introduced Peter to his mistress Anna Mons, whom the king was very fond of (she was the favorite of the king for more than ten years). The king, apparently, was very fond of the German charmer. She could even become the future empress, following the example of the cook Martha. But she didn’t differ by a wide mind, went on a spree, what angered the sovereign and he lost interest in her.
Due to various entertainments, “public women”, and Anna Mons, Peter’s trips to the German settlement became more frequent. The same link will destroy the legal marriage of Peter to Lopukhina, and will cause the young Russian Tsarina to link to the monastery. Thus, the "Germans" will destroy the most important connecting thread of Peter with Russia - the family and the legitimate wife. And this will greatly facilitate the "processing" of the king by his "friends."
In addition, listening to Lefort, the king was increasingly inclined to the thought of visiting Holland and other European countries. He was so fascinated by her that he even accepted her sea flag, changing only the order of colors. From that moment on, Western symbols and colors began to dominate in Russia. And this is a very serious factor. Russia is trying to subordinate the "Western Matrix".
Peter himself long believed that he was able to use the personal talents of the “Germans”, their energy and knowledge - for a big cause, for the good of Russia. From them, he learned a lot about Western Europe, its achievements in the field of science, technology and military affairs. The “Germans” worked in the creation of the “new Russia”. You can not clean up with a score and the Russian environment of the king. Many statesmen understood the need for reform and modernization of Russia. They considered it useful to take something from Europe to create a powerful Russian state.
Peter’s “friends” continued the work of forming the king’s worldview. In 1697, Peter, as part of the “Great Embassy,” travels to Europe. Franz Lefort was among the leaders of the embassy. The obvious side of the embassy is known even from school textbooks. But there was a secret, hidden side. In the book of G.V. Vernadsky “Russian Freemasonry in the Time of Catherine II” it is noted: “In one manuscript of the Public Library it is said that Peter was accepted into the Scottish degree of St. Andrew, with the commitment that he would restore this order in Russia, which he did (in the form of the Order of St. Andrew the First-Called, established in 1698), leaving the epancha green, as it should be, but instead of the green ribbon, he made a blue ; his written commitment existed in the past century in the same box where he was received, and many read it. ” Obviously, he introduced him to the Masonic Lodge of Lefort. “Among Lansky’s manuscripts,” writes Vernadsky, “there is a fragment of a gray paper on which the following message is written:“ imp. Peter 1 and Lefort were taken to the Templar in Holland. ”
An indirect sign that this is true is the architecture of the future capital of Russia - St. Petersburg, which is replete with Masonic symbolism. Petersburg became the center of westernization of the Russian empire, the place of residence of its Westernized elite - the “nobles-Europeans”.
Peter in 1698 year. German artist G. Kneller
To be continued ...
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