After writing my small post about these new movements for “new chronology” I was thinking about the outlines of history classes I’ve had during the school years, and came out with one quite interesting fact, we’ve been passing in the first year of secondary school (5th class). At that time, we were studying Russian history of pre-Christianity period (before the 10th century). By saying this, I mean, that according to the historical dates, Russia has become Christian country in 988, but the facts of “colonizing” the country with Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, were mentioned before Russians became orthodox Christians.
Off-topic: Islam was coming from Middle Asia, Buddhism, from the region of Caspian Sea, the western part of the country was taking catholic missions from Rome and so and so on. But the tradition we’ve read was about the period of 8-9th centuries.
According to the hospitality rules, if some guests came to your place, and you miss something you need for guests (for example, some plates, bread, anything); you could enter the neighbor house even if he wasn’t there and take all the things you need, and after the guests leave, you should have returned it back, otherwise you’d be called as a theft, the consequences didn’t change since that time for any country..
When I was reading that, there was only one idea running in my head: “Wow, we used to be so hospitable, and fair!”
But, no doubt, at that time, I couldn’t imagine the fact, that the history books could have been written by ordinary people, who didn’t do any researches, or interpreted some kind of history source he found in his way – human factor, which we can’t deny.
Going through Nestor chronicles and chronicles of King Igor, I didn’t find any mentions about this “hospitable tradition”, because mainly these chronicles were describing the time events and some remarkable moments in history, which glued the writers of that time, but nowadays, scientists can’t prove the fact, that these chronicles so old. Some people think that the second chronicles, I’ve mentioned is just a good fake dated by the period of Slavophils, when the society was trying to become more traditional and split from European culture, which was integrated since the 18th century.
And these two chronicles are taken as the constants by classical historians of present time! Human factor, it’s hard to believe that one of these pillars of Russian history can be a fake. Anyhow, the facts of history falsification were acknowledged in other countries, when the myths became the real history facts in Asia, in Europe. People believe in what they want to believe, and the only thing I’d like to do now, is to find in Cyprus the books of Karamzin, and Soloviev – Russian historians, who wrote the books about the history of pre-Christianity period and first dynasty (Ryrikovich dynasty), to analyze it again, and not to take all the facts written there as a complete historical truth, and process it with more skepticism.