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Kremlin
Borisov's house guard at the porch
I open the doors Mosalsky appears on the
porch
people Maria Godunova and her son
Feodor poisoned themselves with
poison we saw them Dead
corpses the people are silent in horror
why are you
silent Long live Tsar Dimitri
Ivanovich the
people
are silent
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we have always been taught that the tragedy of Pushkin by
Boris Godunov is a historical tragedy
from the times of the 10th century in which we are in
Pushkin’s
modern times, one and a half more than
one and a half centuries have passed and it turns out that we
are inside this tragedy, that it is
practically about
us, it is amazing that the man is a young
man 25 years, who first became so
widely acquainted with Russian history
through the history of Karamzin from chronicles from
other sources and materials. This
man, from all of Russian history, which
presented him with an immense wealth of
exciting heroic tragic and
other plots, chose the one and only
murder of the boy Tsarevich, the rightful
king
of the future, usurpation of power with the
allowance
here the question definitely arises: Well, did Dimitri kill
Boris or not, or
maybe he himself actually did it, it was
a legend, but I recently thought that the most
amazing thing is that even if in
fact everything in history was not so,
somehow Pushkin, as if
someone had told him,
literally decided to write about
this not even Let it be not so much as about something
that has already happened, but about something that still
needs to happen.
That is, this is literally a
prophecy about us, this murder and what is happening
now and what followed then and
lasted about a
decade and a half The Time of Troubles For us, this
now lasts almost the entire 10th century. Pushkin
has, if we speak in scientific
philosophical language, in his works
there is a whole phenomenology of crimes, that
is,
service consists of and so on, so here are
a few examples from Pushkin look
how curious it is that Tsar Boris, in his
famous monologue, I have reached the highest
power, complains and is indignant at the fact that he is
unlucky, that he has achieved the highest power and
he is not happy, the most important thing is that the
people do not love him, he is outraged by this to the
extreme that they do not love him
because he is a benefactor The people, but the people
still don’t like him, can’t understand in
the World Cup This thing is happening
around the fallen people and can’t
understand why they don’t hate him and why they don’t
like inverted
logic of some kind Stingy knight
Pushkin baron all his life he has been extorting
money from debtors, he has driven debtors to their graves,
he has accumulated chests of gold, he is tormented by his conscience, there is
still something human left in him,
but
Edith Nevada,
this is something
schizophrenic with pure tender love,
almost childish, she loved, abandoning her,
utters a fantastic phrase Wow, it’s
over for the soul, it seems easier this
man must have committed an abomination and his soul felt
better
This is something incredible
Well, and finally Salieri had a Legend
such that Michelangelo killed his
sitter in order to truthfully portray the
suffering
Christ and then But sorry, I suddenly
doubted what if it was a legend What if this is a
fairy tale Well, how would a normal person
react if he found out that Michelangelo was not a
murderer? This is happiness, a great
artist was not a murderer for Sollier, this is
horror and a disaster, that is, that a person
was not a murderer for him.
That is, these people have an inverted logic, they have
the sun stands on the head
and is an almost scientific conclusion that
suggests itself here from Pushkin’s works, the
conclusion is that as soon as a person makes
a knock on something that cannot be crossed,
immediately after stepping over the threshold he
finds himself in the opposite world where everything is
sung, as in the Proletarian anthem,
Who was nothing he will become everything, this is a direct
formula, inversion and
Russian culture, this was repeated by Alexander Sach Blok in
his poem 12 writes black anger Holy
anger, it is incomprehensible how anger can be,
especially Black anger, it can be Holy, it can
only be in an inverted consciousness in an
inverted
world, I am deeply convinced
that
that terror which was not just a
one-time or one-time or
multiple event or political
action, but which became
not only a political but also an
ethical
norm, terror in the atmosphere in which we
lived for many decades, this terror
began not in the thirties, not in the twenties, but
in July of the year when was Istra
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when Shui comes to tell Boris that an
impostor has appeared and that the King and the lords are
for him and what Boris is interested in first of all. This is
what people, spectators and readers of
Pushkin’s time, understood this without
any explanation, we don’t
understand this, Boris is interested primarily
with did you recognize the murdered baby and was there a
substitution, that is, Boris
is interested in whether the legitimate tsar is coming at him
now or is it really an impostor,
if it’s an impostor then Boris is not afraid, as
he thinks, of any force that
is accompanied by himself. But if the legitimate
tsar is coming, then his
Boris is dead the law
in the mind of Boris ANO is part of the people’s
consciousness the legitimate tsar is a
sacred figure and the tsar’s place is sacred. It must be
said that the tsar for the Russian people was
not the main boss. It’s not like the
president is a prime minister there or anyone
else, the tsar is a person who is
God himself through the church. placed over the
entire people to be responsible for the People in the
face of
God, this is very important, the concept of the Tsar was
connected with the spiritual foundation of Russia with the
Orthodox
Faith with the Christian Orthodox
Faith, the Orthodox Faith refers
primarily to man, to the
individual, and the Tsar was that Person
who, in the eyes of everything, brought life
to life Ancient Russia would have been
connected with the church not as an institution,
but as a system of value above all, and
accordingly, as an institution, too,
all life was
permeated with necessity and the fulfillment of
Christ's commandments
began, a person could sin, but
he covered it. That is
why it was called Holy
Russia, pre-Petrine Russia was called
Holy Russia Not because there were all
saints there, but precisely because there was a Holy
ideal, Christ his
commandments Petrine Russia was already
different, it was Great Imperial Russia,
not Russia but Russia,
our wonderful foreign theologian, thinker
Archimandrite Konstantin Zaitsev said
that the process of Russian history is there was a
process of tension in the relationship
between Holy Russia and Great Russia, an
imperial process in which they somehow
tried to adapt to imperial Russia,
as they tried to somehow adapt to the
ideal of Holy Russia. It was very difficult
and in the end the process began
to consist in the fact that imperial Great
Russia became overshadow Holy Russia and the matter
finally came to the conclusion that the only
person, the only Person who
united the State and the Church, that is, the
spiritual moral basis of the life of the
people, the only Person was the
Orthodox
Tsar, this does not mean that he was a Holy
Tsar, he could have been just as sinful, the kings
denounced the church hierarchy, it was everything
but he
must
strive in any case for the ideal of
man, that is, the very fact that a person
is at the head of the state is not just the
most important or the most intelligent, but
appointed by God and having a conscience and
standing before God answering to God
for everything for his people, this itself
corresponded to Christian teaching that
man is the image and likeness of
God and should behave so worthy
of this, another thing is that kings are different and
otherwise, but the people believed that a king could
be like that, that is, that man
could in reality be the image and
likeness
of God, that’s what it was
like to say the moral and
spiritual side of Russian
State thinking in the Russian
State people's consciousness, this is
what it
consisted of, and when Pushkin Pushkin
was talking to Gogol somehow the
last time
Pushkin said such a thing, a
tree is a law, that is, a
piece of wood in the law, a person hears something
harsh and not
Fraternally, the highest mercy is needed; a mitigator
can be placed above the law and
show Mercy; the law cannot be
neither merciful nor unmerciful; the law
is just and
everything is an auto
law; it is needed, but it cannot be above
all; human Mercy is above it;
and as Christ, Orthodox Christians did
not make a request. deal with us
with justice and deal with us with
mercy Because if you
deal with us with justice, then
we will all simply perish; deal with us with
mercy, then the king had the same
hope that he would act not only by
law, but also by mercy and
mercy this Hope was not
justified now. But this was the ideal to
which the consciousness of
Russian people was directed, and it is very important
what kind of person a person has; one thing is that a
person in the image and likeness of God must
be like Christ, and another thing is that
a person passed from a monkey at once. It’s clear
what are the different aspirations maybe a
person professes just one and the other And
now
it’s clear what kind of metaphysical catastrophe
occurred in the popular consciousness in connection with
this terrible tragedy,
people suddenly decided that it’s not just possible
to live without a king Without which person they
decided that it’s just possible to
live without this places without this San without
this person without this role a person
who stands before God for the whole people.
That is, this was a consequence of this or was
due to the fact that people decided that they could
live without
God, no peace orie Christian brotherhood
amila,
you can kill and betray your son and
his father and mother and wife and anyone
else, black commandments arose for the
reverse world: Steal, expropriate
and simply kill and Many don’t even know
that this cannot be done, somehow forgot
What is this if not for the reverse
world and how, too, mention a lot
Archimandrite Konstantin he wrote that a
new state arose which was a
werewolf of Great
Imperial Russia
werewolf ear Such a wonderful For
Vera Gives each nation its own special
physiognomy, that is, Pushkin correctly
saw in the people a personality, a people is a
personality, and this is the climate, the way of government and
Vera is what determines and look how
amazing this formula was realized, at
first it all started with atheism,
at first
it began to exterminate Faith, then
as a result of this, the way of government was changed,
and as for the climate,
now it’s called ecology and we
see what kind of world we exist in and what
is being done in NM probably nowhere in any
country except ours there is no such
scale of ecological
catastrophe, this is all Pushkin almost
predicted in this formula of his,
they say that it is necessary What is necessary is the
Revival of Russia Yes it is necessary, because
I deeply believe that if this does not
happen it will be some kind of
sign that the end of the world is near, this is
special conversation, but I am deeply convinced of this.
Well, some people think that it is
necessary to restore churches, it is necessary to
restore crafts, you need to know your culture,
you need to know your history. Not only this. It is
necessary, not only this,
but the whole culture of
Russia, its entire state life. It
all rested, I repeat, on Christ's
commandments on
faith, if this does not happen, then there will be nothing,
no origin, all this, all
this right up to the monarchical form
that we have, but we have monarchists,
all this will be an empty shell in which there
will be nothing. The revival of Russia can
only begin with what it is about they are already talking to us,
they are talking and talking, but somehow nothing has
begun Repentance Many do not understand what
repentance is, they think that it is kaya, it
means beating one’s chest, throwing
ashes on one’s head, tearing one’s shirt and
pouring mud on oneself in every possible way, nothing like that
Repentance in Greek is metanoia this means a
change in
consciousness, that is, what does it mean, a person
who has done something that should
not be done,
confesses with horror, admits this sin and
tries not to
do it again. That’s what repentance
actually is, some will say, well,
what has I got to do with it there he will say, they killed the king, I
haven’t killed a lot of things, I have nothing to do with this,
I must say, I deeply believe that let’s
say, the anger that arises in the
soul of each of us for many reasons,
be it there, let’s say, some kind of family
conflict, quarrel, anger - this is the seed
of war, so how are we not involved in a
crime that expressed itself in a
terrible way in this,
if we abandoned our
wives, trampled on their feelings, if we lied, if
we stole, if we bore false
witness, if we hated
someone, how is it that we are not
involved? After all, all sins
connected stands on
one shrine thereby USC all the
rest Each of us has desecrated
some shrines, each of us has,
if we dig through our lives, we have our own
murdered Tsarevich Dimitri and our fourth
Chernobyl reactor in our lives, all
this is from this, all the tragedies of the world are from us and
because we don’t understand what
repentance is And that And we don’t know and have forgotten
that there is someone before whom we need to repent,
whose image and likeness We
wear at the end of Boris Nov, Pushkin has
a scene when Dimitri enters Moscow and the
people are justly furious against the
regicide Boris, who died, to
rush means to exterminate His
family SDO to
knit Boris's puppy in Pushkin for
the first time the people are not written in a crowd for the first time
the word is spoken a crowd of people rushing in a
crowd to knit drown Long live
Dimitri Let the mouth of Boris
Godunov perish The pathos of fair retribution
there is nothing more terrible than the Thirst for a
fair fuss This is this the blackest
malice that wants to pretend to be Holy
malice
and after this scene immediately in the next in the
last scene Boris commits the
murder of the innocent boy
Theodore son of Boris for the World Cup and the people are silent in horror
this Silence is the beginning of repentance
what we
did at first with our permission
this is the beginning of repentance This is the
realization that we did this, that
we are
to blame and God forbid if we
say now. Having learned about this terrible
story or about other terrible stories,
knowing about them, we will fulfill this feeling of
just retribution and call on
each other to take revenge on
someone. - to punish someone for this, to punish someone,
nothing could be more terrible, and this
will be a continuation of that death of the road,
which,
perhaps, its most terrible moment
was that day of the eighteenth year
when the
royal family was lawless if we do not
understand that there is no malice, even the most
just anger should not
take possession of us, if we do not understand this, then
let all the bells ring,
all the churches will open, all the choirs will sing, everyone will
write, draw, read Russian history,
nothing
will happen to us, and Russia will not be reborn, but will
finally perish,
and therefore the whole world will perish right now Each of
us can say how much of our
people are angry
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humiliated, insulted, and they
still have kindness left in them,
thirst for love for each other, Faith,
thirst for Faith, how much of this everyone
can do, we just maybe don’t
pay attention to it, but it’s worth it
take a closer look and we will see that people are
still people, that they can be people, and
that we need to think about it and we need to look in this
direction, because the ideal exists.
Christ has not ceased to exist, he has
existed since
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