According to some sources, the order of Peter the Great “On the destruction of 300-year-old elders” was in order to introduce a deceptive story with the help of foreigners. But there is no evidence of this decree preserved in our time, and we must take into account that History was written for us not as it really was, and that now they are also trying to influence the people with the help of all sorts of “fairy tales” of historical meaning modern writing... There are many versions, regarding this issue there is an assumption about what caused this.
Peter's personality still evokes mixed reactions. For example, in his work “Antichrist,” Dmitry Merezhkovsky noted a complete change in the appearance, character and psyche of Tsar Peter the Great after his return from the “German lands,” where he went for two weeks and returned two years later. The Russian embassy accompanying the tsar consisted of 20 people, and was headed by A.D. Menshikov. After returning to Russia, this embassy consisted only of Dutchmen (including the well-known Lefort), only Menshikov remained from the old composition.
This “embassy” brought a completely different tsar, who spoke Russian poorly and did not recognize his friends and relatives, which immediately indicated a substitution. This forced Queen Sophia, the sister of the real Tsar Peter I, to raise the archers against the impostor. As you know, the Streltsy revolt was brutally suppressed, Sophia was hanged on the Spassky Gate of the Kremlin, the impostor exiled the wife of Peter the Great to a monastery, where she never reached, and summoned his wife from Holland. False Peter killed “his” brother Ivan the Fifth and “his” little children: Alexander, Natalya and Lavrenty immediately, although the official history tells us about this in a completely different way. And he executed his youngest son, Alexei, as soon as he tried to free his real father from the Bastille.
False Peter began to act like an ordinary conqueror:
He crushed Russian self-government - the “zemstvo” and replaced it with a bureaucratic apparatus of foreigners who brought theft, debauchery and drunkenness to Russia and vigorously instilled it here;
He transferred the ownership of the peasants to the nobles, thereby turning them into slaves (to whiten the image of the impostor, this “event” is blamed on Ivan the Fourth);
He crushed the merchants and began to plant industrialists, which led to the destruction of the former universality of people;
He crushed the clergy, the bearers of Russian culture, and destroyed Orthodoxy, bringing it closer to Catholicism, which inevitably gave rise to atheism;
Introduced smoking, drinking alcohol and coffee;
Destroyed the Old Russian calendar, rejuvenating our Culture by 5503 years;
He ordered all Russian chronicles to be taken to St. Petersburg, and then, like Filaret, he ordered them to be burned. Called in German “professors”; write a completely different Russian history;
Under the guise of fighting the old Faith, he destroyed all the elders who had lived for more than three hundred years;
He forbade the cultivation of amaranth and the consumption of amaranth bread, which was the main food of the Russian people, which destroyed longevity on Earth, which then remained in Russia;
He abolished the natural measures: fathom, finger, elbow, vershok, which were present in clothing, utensils and architecture, making them fixed in the Western manner. This led to the destruction of ancient Russian architecture and art, to the disappearance of the beauty of everyday life. As a result, people ceased to be beautiful, since Divine and vital proportions disappeared in their structure;
He replaced the Russian title system with a European one, thereby turning the peasants into an estate. Although “peasant” is a title higher than the king, as there is more than one evidence of;
He destroyed the Russian written language, which consisted of 151 characters, and introduced 43 characters of the writing of Cyril and Methodius;
He disarmed the Russian army, exterminating the Streltsy as a caste, and in the European manner introduced primitive firearms and piercing weapons, dressing the army first in French and then in German uniforms, although the Russian military uniform was itself a weapon. The new regiments were popularly called “amusing” ones.
Amaranth
Basically, they were received with hostility by the people. And this is correct, since after the reforms the people remained begging in a slave position. So, few people know that Peter 1 prohibited the cultivation of amaranth, as well as the consumption of amaranth bread, which was the main food of the Russian people at that time. With this, Peter 1 destroyed the long residence that at that time still remained in Russia (according to legend, the elders lived for a very long time, even the figure of 180 years is mentioned..).
On January 31, 1714, Peter I signed a decree prohibiting young noblemen from marrying without receiving the basics of mathematical literacy. Priests were forbidden to marry young people without the permission of the school teacher.
On the foundation of the school of mathematical and navigational sciences
January 1701
The Great Sovereign, the Tsar and the Grand Duke, the autocrat of all Great and Little and White Russia... indicated with his personal command the great Sovereign... to be mathematical and navigational, that is, nautical and cunning sciences. To be a teacher of those sciences from the English land: mathematics - Andrei Danilov's son Farkhvarson, navigation - Stepan Gvyn, and the knight Gryz; and to teach those sciences to all in supplying management in the Armory to the boyar Fyodor Alekseevich Golovin and his comrades, and to select those sciences for teaching voluntarily, but others even more so under compulsion; and provide daily food for the needy for food, using arithmetic or geometry: if someone is found to be somewhat skilled, five altyns a day; and for others, a hryvnia or less, having examined each of the arts of teaching; and for those sciences, to determine the yard in Kadashev workshop of the chamber, called the big linen, and about the cleaning of that yard, send your great sovereign decree to the workshop chamber of the bedchamber Gavrila Ivanovich Golovin, and, having taken that yard and having seen all the necessary needs in it, build from the income from Armory Chamber.
January 20, 1714 - to the Senate
Send several people from mathematical schools to all provinces to teach the children of the nobility, except those of the same palace, the clerk of numbers and geometry, and impose a fine such that they will involuntarily get married while they learn this. And for this purpose to the bishops about this, so that wedding memorials are not given without the permission of those to whom the schools are ordered.
February 28, 1714
The Great Sovereign indicated: in all provinces, nobles and clerks of rank, clerks and clerks’ children from 10 to 15 years old, especially those from one palace, should teach numbers and some part of geometry, and for this teaching, send several students from mathematical schools to the province to the bishops and to noble monasteries , and in the bishop's houses and in monasteries, give them schools, and during that teaching, give those teachers 3 altyns of food, 2 money per day, from the provincial income, which according to the nominal e.i. V. (title of the king: His Imperial Majesty) decree set aside; and from those students they have nothing to gain; and how those disciples of theirs will learn that science completely: and at that time give them certified letters under their own hands, and at that time release from those disciples for that teaching they will receive a ruble per person; and without such certified letters, they should not be allowed to marry and should not be given crown memorials.
On the establishment of the Academy of Sciences. January 28, 1724
Two images of a building are usually used to describe the location of the arts and sciences: the first image is called the University; the second is the Academy or Society of Arts and Sciences.
§ 1. The university is a collection of learned people who teach high sciences, such as theology and jurisprudence (the rights of art), medicine and philosophy, that is, to what state they have now reached, to young people; The Academy is a collection of learned and skilled people who not only know these sciences in their own way in the degree in which they are found, but also strive to complete and multiply them through new inventories (editions), but have no concern for teaching others .
§ 14. The university has four faculties, namely: 1) theology, 2) law, 3) medicine and 4) philosophy. The Faculty of Theology is resigning here, and the care of this is entrusted only to the Synod.
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§ 16. The aforementioned and in some classes divided academicians will be required to have one hour of public lectures daily in their science, as in other Universities.
§ 17. If any academician wants to have private colleges for money, then he is allowed.
§ 18. And in order to benefit from these trainings, it requires suitable people who partly know humanities and have some minor arts of philosophy and mathematics. For this reason, it is very necessary that each academician be given one or two young students and provided with a satisfied salary, who study with all diligence and help the academicians; and the above-mentioned young people, under the direction of academicians, can learn the sciences without their own losses, and at the same time (if they behave well and show some samples of their art) they have the hope of succeeding and inheriting their teachers. And it is fitting that they should give thanks for such virtue; For this reason, they have those who begin to learn the first foundations of science, teach them, so that over time they too can use academic teaching, and in this way the intentions of the lower school can be fulfilled without great losses...
In 1710, Peter I published a manifesto “On the prohibition of all ranks of people from giving the Little Russian people insults, bitterness, reproaches, censure as traitors and inflicting all kinds of oppression.”
The Northern War is still going on, Peter is planning the Prut Campaign, construction on an unprecedented scale has been launched in St. Petersburg, enormous forces and funds are being invested in the construction of new ships - against this backdrop, Peter signs this manifesto, suddenly becoming concerned about the attitude of “every rank of people” towards the Little Russians. What prompted the reformer sovereign to do this?
Mazepa's betrayal on the eve of the Battle of Poltava
The title of the manifesto contains words about “censure of traitors.” We are talking, of course, about the betrayal of Hetman Mazepa, who in 1708 went over to the side of the Swedish king Charles XII.
This act of the hetman became a real blow for Peter I. For many years he saw in Mazepa not just an ally, but a close friend. Even during the reign of Princess Sophia, Ivan Mazepa became his own man in Moscow, since he constantly traveled to the Russian capital with instructions and embassies from Hetman Samoilovich. In 1687, Mazepa became hetman of the left bank of Ukraine. When the reign of young Peter I began, Mazepa quickly won his trust with practical advice regarding Poland. He took an active part in Peter’s Azov campaigns, and was personally awarded by the sovereign with the Order of St. Andrew the First-Called “for his many noble and diligently faithful services in military labors.” When the war with Sweden began, Peter, of course, counted on the support of his friend Ivan Mazepa, who more than once showed him his devotion and friendship. He even handed over Kochubey and Iskra to the hetman for reprisal, who tried to warn the tsar that Mazepa was preparing betrayal.
Therefore, when Peter learned that Ivan Mazepa, in the midst of a military campaign with the Swedes, fled to Charles XII, he was shocked. He did not expect such betrayal from his friend.
Manifesto of 1710
In 1708, Mazepa runs to Charles XII. In 1709, Peter won a brilliant victory near Poltava. This victory became possible partly because the people of left-bank Ukraine did not support the betrayal of Hetman Mazepa. He hoped to come to Charles with three or four thousand Cossacks, however, in fact, no more than one and a half thousand followed him and most of them subsequently returned to the banners of the Russian Tsar. The peasantry of Little Russia, the Cossacks, and most of the Cossack elders did not support the hetman’s “universal” (appeal), in which he set out the reasons that prompted him to betray the lawful king and called on him to follow his example. Moreover, a guerrilla war against the Swedes unfolded on the left bank of Ukraine.
Mazepa fled to Turkey. After an unsuccessful attempt to get the government of the Ottoman Porte to extradite the traitor, Peter issued the one-of-a-kind Order of Judas, which he “bestowed” on Mazepa in absentia. The new hetman of Ukraine Skoropadsky asked the emperor to protect the Ukrainian people from attacks and accusations of treason.
For this reason, on March 11, 1710, Peter I issued a manifesto “On the prohibition... of giving offense to the Little Russian people.” The manifesto said: “...so that no one dares to call Our Royal Majesty’s faithful subjects of the Little Russian people traitors, for whoever is innocent of that crime does not deserve to endure such a reproach for another, since the Little Russian people and the Zaporozhye army served Us, the Great Sovereign , it is true that they did not pester Mazepina for treason, and those who were in treason received a worthy execution, and other traitors and thieves, the Cossacks, due to Mazepina’s charm, left Our Little Russian cities with him.” Punishment for violating this decree included the death penalty.
Decree of 1682
The Manifesto of 1710 was not the first tsar’s order not to offend the residents of Ukraine. At the very beginning of the reign of Peter I, in 1682, when the future emperor and reformer was 10 years old, his co-ruler Ivan was 16, and the country was ruled by Princess Sophia, a decree was issued to “boyar people” (representatives of the service class who carried out military service under the command of the boyars ). This brethren, who arrived “for their boyars” in Moscow, complained about intoxicating drinks from the royal cellars, but at the same time they were ordered not to participate in unrest, not to start fights among themselves, and also “Why, you should be a German, and a Cherkasy, and other peoples a foreigner, and do not speak any trumpeting, obscene words to any people and do not taunt them with anything.” Residents of Ukraine in this document are referred to as “Cherkasy”, and are considered on an equal basis with “Germans” and other “foreigners”.
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The word AMARANTH. Mara is the goddess of death (among the ancient Rus, Slavs and Aryans), and the prefix “A” means negation in the language - for example, moral-immoral, etc., linguists know.
So it turns out that AMARANTH literally means one who denies death, or rather, one who bestows immortality!!! The word AMRITA - we literally get the same thing - mrita is death, the prefix “a” is negation.
In addition to the wonderful culinary properties that Amaranth oil has, it contains a number of unique substances, microelements and vitamins, the benefits of which for the body can hardly be overestimated.
The healing properties of amaranth have been known since ancient times. Amaranth oil is a well-known source of Squalene.
Squalene is a substance that captures oxygen and saturates the tissues and organs of our body with it. Squalene is a powerful antitumor agent that prevents free radicals from damaging cancer cells. In addition, Squalene easily penetrates through the skin into the body, affects the entire body and is a powerful immunostimulant.
The unique chemical composition of amaranth determines the limitlessness of its use as a remedy. The ancient Slavs and Aryans used amaranth to feed newborn children; warriors took amaranth grains with them on difficult campaigns as a source of strength and health. Being a real pharmacy, amaranth was used for treatment in ancient Tartaria (the country of the Aryans). Currently, amaranth is successfully used in different countries in the treatment of inflammatory processes of the genitourinary system in women and men, hemorrhoids, anemia, vitamin deficiencies, loss of strength, diabetes, obesity, neuroses, various skin diseases and burns, stomatitis, periodontitis, gastric ulcers and duodenum, atherosclerosis. Preparations containing amaranth oil reduce the amount of cholesterol in the blood, protect the body from the effects of radiation exposure, and promote the resorption of malignant tumors, thanks to squalene, a unique substance included in its composition.
Squalene was first discovered in 1906. Dr. Mitsumaro Tsujimoto from Japan isolated an extract from the liver of a deep-sea shark, which was later identified as squalene (from the Latin squalus - shark). From a biochemical and physiological point of view, squalene is a biological compound, a natural unsaturated hydrocarbon. In 1931, Professor of the University of Zurich (Switzerland), Nobel Prize winner Dr. Claur proved that this compound lacks 12 hydrogen atoms to achieve a stable state, so this unsaturated hydrocarbon captures these atoms from any source available to it. And since the most common source of oxygen in the body is water, squalene easily reacts with it, releasing oxygen and saturating organs and tissues with it.
Deep-sea sharks need squalene to survive in conditions of severe hypoxia (low oxygen) when swimming at great depths. And people need squalene as an anticarcinogenic, antimicrobial and fungicidal agent, since it has long been proven that oxygen deficiency and oxidative damage to cells are the main causes of aging of the body, as well as the occurrence and development of tumors. Entering the human body, squalene rejuvenates cells and also inhibits the growth and spread of malignant tumors. In addition, squalene is able to increase the strength of the body’s immune system several times, thereby ensuring its resistance to various diseases.
Until recently, squalene was extracted exclusively from the liver of deep-sea sharks, which made it one of the most scarce and expensive products. But the problem was not only its high cost, but also the fact that there is not so much squalene in the shark’s liver - only 1-1.5%.
The unique antitumor properties of squalene and the great difficulty of obtaining it have forced scientists to intensify their search for alternative sources of this substance. Modern research has discovered the presence of squalene in small doses in olive oil, wheat germ oil, rice bran, and yeast. But during the same research, it turned out that the highest content of squalene is in oil from amaranth grains. It turned out that amaranth oil contains 8-10% squalene! This is several times more than in the liver of a deep-sea shark!.
During biochemical studies of squalene, many other interesting properties were discovered. Thus, it turned out that squalene is a derivative of vitamin A and, during the synthesis of cholesterol, is converted into its biochemical analogue 7-dehydrocholesterol, which in sunlight becomes vitamin D, thereby providing radioprotective properties. In addition, vitamin A is absorbed much better when it is dissolved in squalene.
Then squalene was discovered in the human sebaceous glands and caused a whole revolution in cosmetology. After all, being a natural component of human skin (up to 12-14%), it is able to be easily absorbed and penetrate into the body, while accelerating the penetration of substances dissolved in the cosmetic product. In addition, it turned out that squalene in amaranth oil has unique wound-healing properties and easily copes with most skin diseases, including eczema, psoriasis, trophic ulcers and burns. If you lubricate the area of skin under which the tumor is located with amaranth oil, the radiation dose can be significantly increased without the risk of getting a radiation burn. The use of amaranth oil before and after radiation therapy significantly accelerates the recovery of the patient’s body, since when squalene enters the body, it also activates the regenerative processes of the tissues of internal organs.
The healing properties of amaranth have been known since ancient times. In ancient Slavic medicine, amaranth was used as an anti-aging agent. The ancient peoples of Central America – the Incas and Aztecs – also knew it. Among the ancient Etruscans and Hellenes, it was a symbol of immortality. Indeed, amaranth inflorescences never fade.
The name of amaranth among the ancient Mayan, Aztec and American Indian peasants was Ki-ak, Bledo, Huatli. The Indian name for amaranth is ramadan (given by God). Amaranth is a clear confirmation of the truth: the new is the long-forgotten old. The plant that fed the population of the American continent for eight thousand years now appears before us in the form of a stranger. Some facts have come down to us about the economic importance of amaranth for the last Aztec empire, which was ruled by Montezuma in the early 16th century AD. The emperor received 9 thousand tons of amaranth as a tax. Amaranth became an integral part of many ritual events in which paint made from it was used. Obviously, this was the reason that the Inquisition declared the plant a devilish potion, as a result of which the Spanish conquistadors literally burned the Huatli crops, destroyed the seeds, and punished the disobedient with death. As a result, amaranth disappeared from Central America.
European civilization trampled on a foreign, unknown culture, often much higher in intelligence. No amount of fear of conquerors could force the Indian tribes to abandon the cultivation of Huatli. Especially in hard-to-reach mountain villages. And it’s not even about pagan rituals. Maize (corn) cakes suppressed hunger, but caused intestinal inflammation and pain. The addition of huatli to the dough deprived the peasants of suffering.
It is not surprising that Mexico, the USA, and the countries of Central and South America began to cultivate amaranth in large areas.
The UN Food Commission has recognized amaranth as a 21st century crop for its nutritional and healing properties.
To be honest, I personally know this plant well, but I always thought that it was decorative... What a surprise!!! Amaranth, and even right in my flowerbed!!!
It’s good and tasty to make bread and add it to soups, especially mushroom soups - you’ll lick your fingers, you’ll get full from a small plate because it’s very filling, but at the same time you won’t gain weight from it, but on the contrary, a feeling of lightness will appear in your body.
But this is a cultivated plant, brought from America by chance with the seeds of other plants back in the 30s of our century. Amaranth seeds are small, like a poppy, and the height of the plant is over 2 m. And if it grows alone, then one plant occupies an area of almost 1 m. Isn’t it a miracle that from a small grain such a luxurious one, with a garland, grows in 3.5 months? precious seeds, reddish or golden giant! The productivity of amaranth is fantastic - on fertile lands - up to 2 thousand centners of high-quality green mass and up to 50 centners of seeds per hectare.
Amaranth is drought- and frost-resistant in the presence of a high agricultural background and does not require feeding, and animals eat it completely. He is the record holder for protein content. It is not for nothing that amaranth greens are equated to the most high-calorie seafood products - squid meat, because, in addition to protein, the most valuable amino acid for the human body - lysine in it is 2.5 times more than in wheat, and 3.5 times more than in corn and other high-lysine grains.
Amaranth is a wonderful food for pets and poultry. If you feed it green mass (up to 25% of other feeds), piglets grow 2.5 times faster, and rabbits, nutrias and chickens grow 2-3 times faster, and milk yield and milk fat content increase significantly in cows and goats. The green mass of amaranth is fed to pigs with a small amount of dirt, and the animals grow quickly, gaining up to 60 kg of live weight in 4 months.
A large amount of vitamin C and carotene makes amaranth food especially valuable and has a good effect on animals and birds, thanks to which they do not get sick.
Amaranth ensiles well, but it is better to do this in a mixture with corn and sorghum. Since the green mass of corn contains a lot of sugars, and the green mass of amaranth contains a lot of protein, silage made from them is much more nutritious than from amaranth itself.
But amaranth is also a wonderful product. It is used in first and second courses, dried, salted and fermented like cabbage, pickled for the winter, and prepared in soft drinks that are more expensive than Pepsi and Coca-Cola.
Amaranth oil has the highest price among vegetable oils and animal fats, in all respects it is 2 times superior to sea buckthorn oil and is used during the complex treatment of radiation sickness, and the sprouted seeds are similar in composition to mother’s milk.
Scientists have found that amaranth also has effective medicinal properties. Scientists explain this by the fact that amaranth seeds have particularly strong biofields, which determine its miraculous healing properties. Or such a fact. Rickets chickens immediately recovered after being fed amaranth seed residues (chaff) for two days. And further. All rabbit owners in the neighborhood had deaths of animals - both adults and young animals. And those who used amaranth as food had none.
Amaranth is especially effective for successful beekeeping.
A pantry of squirrels, a culture of today and the future - this is what biologists around the world call this plant. Experts from the UN Food Commission have recognized it as a crop that will help provide the growing population of our planet with high-quality protein.
It is advisable to sow amaranth on green mass with row spacing of 45 cm, then thinning the crops after they reach a height of 20-25 cm, leaving 10-12 plants per linear meter. If for seeds, then with row spacing of 70 cm, leaving 4-5 plants per linear meter. The sowing time is the same as for corn, when the soil warms up to 8-10 degrees. C heat.
After seedlings emerge, the main concern is to prevent weeds from drowning them out. Care is needed for three weeks, then the amaranth itself oppresses all its “enemies.” Its roots are strong and can penetrate soil waters, taking from there not only moisture, but also necessary mineral elements, which contributes to the formation of huge biomass. Thus, amaranth can play the role of ameliorant and provide valuable food with high-quality protein.
For regions with risky farming, it is very promising, because in drought conditions it is capable of producing constant yields, and in optimal conditions - high yields of biomass and grain. When collecting amaranth for medicinal purposes, one must keep in mind that it can be used for greens even when the plants reach a height of 25-30 cm; leaves can be collected from the lower tiers of plants throughout the summer until late autumn, while it is still growing, consumed as food, stored for the winter and for the manufacture of medicinal preparations
The grain should be collected when the upper leaves become creamy in color and the seeds show signs of slight shedding. It is necessary to dry greens under a canopy, in drafts, without access to sunlight.
Amaranth should be stored in a dry, dark and well-ventilated place, preferably hanging in linen or paper bags.
In one of the diaries, a topic appeared about the reforms of Peter I, about the fact that, among other things, he banned the cultivation of amaranth and the consumption of amaranth bread, which had previously been the main food of the Russian people, which destroyed longevity on Earth, which then remained in Russia; (according to legend, the elders lived for a very long time; even the figure of 300 years is mentioned..)
Amrita is the drink of the gods, the nectar of immortality, and also the herb from which it was made.
Nowadays, amaranth is successfully used in different countries for the treatment of hemorrhoids, inflammation of the genitourinary system in men and women, anemia, loss of strength, obesity, diabetes, neuroses, periodontitis, stomatitis, various skin diseases, burns, atherosclerosis, and peptic ulcers.
Medicines containing amaranth oil help reduce cholesterol in the blood, protect against radiation exposure, and resolve malignant tumors, because amaranth contains the unique substance squalene.
Studies have found that amaranth oil has more squalene in the grains (8-10% of the substance), this is more than the liver of a deep-sea shark contains!
Amaranth oil has wound-healing properties and easily cures skin diseases such as psoriasis, eczema, burns and trophic ulcers.
You can increase the radiation dose without the risk of getting a radiation burn if you lubricate the area of skin over the tumor with amaranth oil. Squalene significantly activates regenerative processes in the tissues of internal organs, so taking amaranth oil orally before and after radiation therapy speeds up the recovery of patients.
Summarizing the foreign and domestic experience in using amaranth oil, it can be argued that it is a powerful tool for the treatment, recovery and prevention of various diseases. By affecting the entire body, amaranth oil normalizes metabolism, restores the body's defenses, which leads to long-term positive results.
Amaranth leaves contain a lot of vitamin C, carotene, tannins, flavonoids, calcium salts, potassium, zinc, manganese.
The seeds and leaves of the plant are used to treat pancreatitis, gastritis, diabetes, tumors, kidney and liver diseases.
On October 20, 1714, Peter I issued a decree prohibiting the construction of stone buildings throughout the country, except St. Petersburg. We remembered what else the great reformer Tsar prohibited and how this affected the appearance of the country.
1. The ban on stone construction was in effect until 1741. It was not a whim, but a passionate desire to make St. Petersburg a real European city. There was a catastrophic shortage of experienced masons, which gave rise to a brilliant plan to prohibit these craftsmen from working anywhere except St. Petersburg. But in addition to craftsmen, stone was also needed, and there were too many brick factories throughout the country. Therefore, cunning builders figured out to build wooden houses, apply a thin layer of clay to the walls, plaster it and paint bricks. When driving fast, it was almost impossible to distinguish a fake, so the king was pleased with the pace of construction.
2. The decree “On not making oak coffins” strictly ordered that “nobody should be buried anywhere in oak coffins.” In those days, log coffins were made from whole oak. Peter first imposed a heavy duty on hollowed-out coffins, and then completely banned their production. Here is what the famous pre-revolutionary historian N.I. Kostomarov wrote about this: “Throughout the entire state, oak coffins were ordered to be rewritten, taken away from undertakers, taken to monasteries and to priestly elders, and sold at four times the purchase price.” It was forbidden to cut down not only oak trees, but also ship pine forests. This contributed to the development of sawmills and the construction of one of the most powerful fleets in the world.
3. Peter I “abolished” 5508 years, changing the tradition of chronology: instead of counting years “from the creation of Adam,” in Russia they began to count years “from the Nativity of Christ.” The country became closer to Europe: the Julian calendar began to be used, and the New Year was celebrated on January 1. To further speed up the turn to Europe, Peter also prohibited the use of old numbers - letters of the Slavic alphabet with titles - and introduced modern Arabic numbers instead. The style of letters was simplified, secular books were now given their own font - civil, which contributed to the development of printing and the growing popularity of reading.
4. Freedom has also increased for young people who want to get married. As many as three decrees prohibited the forced marriage of a girl. But it became mandatory to separate the engagement and wedding in time so that the bride and groom “could recognize each other.” And although the landowners carried out arbitrariness over the serfs for a long time, marrying them off at their own discretion, this was purely illegal, and if such cases nevertheless reached the “all-seeing eye” of the authorities, punishment could follow.
5. Lovers of Russian antiquity call one of the most terrible acts of Peter the decree prohibiting the cultivation of amaranth and the consumption of amaranth bread, which used to be the main food of the Russian people. Judging by the etymology, amrita is the nectar of immortality. The Incas and Aztecs considered amaranth sacred, so the “devil’s plant” was actively destroyed by the Spanish conquerors in South America - and now Peter is in his native country. According to legend, the elders in Rus' lived for a very long time - even the figure of 300 years is mentioned. Those who believe these reports accuse Peter of destroying the longevity of the Russians with his ban.
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