/ world at present information/ Throughout his go to to our nation, apparently dissatisfied with our membership within the EU and NATO, Putin determined to assault us and acknowledged that the Cyrillic alphabet didn’t come from Bulgaria, however from…the Republic of North Macedonia. Sadly, our individuals, who’re used to bowing to their overseas colleagues, rulers, didn’t react adequately this time. In addition they allowed the conceited conduct, uncharacteristic of a religious particular person, of the Russian patriarch.
Some thought that Putin stated this by chance, that it was nearly a joke, and performed down the insult. However let’s inform the reality: this dismissive angle of some circles, individuals and media in at present’s Russia is just not from yesterday. On the Web you will discover many documentaries, clips and speeches in opposition to Bulgaria. There are fairly just a few comparable publications within the press. Sadly, our Russian brothers, with few exceptions, deny the nice advantage of small Bulgaria / however within the Center Ages by European requirements Bulgaria was an empire!/ for his or her literature, faith and tradition. A lot of them nonetheless have an imperial self-consciousness, a remnant of Stalin’s Russia /USSR/. And just lately, a coverage has been launched to rehabilitate the Chief of the world proletariat. However that’s one other matter requiring one other remark. The unhealthy factor is that our deserves to Russian tradition, writing, literature, faith / conversion / are belittled and even denied outright. And a few media and individuals, reminiscent of Putin’s spokeswoman, are downright anti-Bulgarian. A yr in the past, our nationwide opera, now on the rise!, made a triumphant go to to Moscow. The general public and specialists rated it extraordinarily extremely. The director of the Bolshoi Theater admitted that for the time being they don’t have the energy to implement Richard Wagner’s tetralogy “The Ring of the Nibelungen” on such a big scale, as our opera with the director Academician Plamen Kartalov did. However there was additionally one newspaper, one of many large ones, “Kommersant”, which tried to spit on and even caricature the sensible performances…
An exhibition devoted to the Cyrillic alphabet was just lately exhibited in Moscow. With inaccurate textual content, faux maps, clumsy drawings and images, it was “proved” that it was not created in Bulgaria, however in reality, it’s unknown precisely the place! Bulgaria was merely absent each on the maps and within the texts. Furthermore, the Russian state tv – First Channel – aired a documentary filmed in Greece, the Czech Republic, Italy and Russia, during which the missions of Cyril and Methodius in Pannonia, Rome, among the many Khazars are offered intimately, however there isn’t a point out of Bulgaria and The Preslav royal courtroom, the place the scholars of Cyril and Methodius / Clement, Naum, Sava, Gorazd and Angelarius/ created this alphabet, the Cyrillic alphabet, which proved to be probably the most good scripts on the earth.
In an article by a German creator in Der Spiegel, based mostly on Russian sources, we learn the next absurd assertion:
„Round 861, the Byzantine emperor Michael III despatched the Greek brothers /?!/ Cyril and Methodius as missionaries to… the world between the Dnieper and the Volga. The 2 clergymen and scientists introduced the Cyrillic alphabet and Orthodox Christianity to the rising Russian Empire”.
Actually absurd! Humorous! The mission of the Holy Brothers was not within the “rising Russian Empire, however within the Khazar Aganate. The Khazars are neither Slavs, nor Russians, however Turks. And the mission itself turned out to be unsuccessful – Cyril and Methodius couldn’t baptize and Christianize this Asian individuals wandering between Christianity, Islam and Judaism.
The conversion and Christianization of Russia passed off solely in 988, a full 120 years after the conversion of Bulgaria underneath Boris-Michael / 863/, when the brothers Cyril and Methodius had lengthy since handed away. At the moment, the alphabet was additionally transferred and in Kievan Rus / the primary Russian state / the Russian version of our, Previous Bulgarian language and of our, Previous Bulgarian literature additionally appeared.
In fact, the nice Russian students, specialists in medieval historical past and literature, know this effectively. Why are historic sources preserved? A few of them are in Kiev and Moscow. Here is what he wrote Prof. Sergey Nikitin in one in all his articles:
„The Russian individuals will always remember that they acquired their writing and Slavic literature from Bulgaria at a time when Russian literature and writing didn’t but exist.”
I may even point out the well-known and revered in our nation Academician Dmitry Likhachev. He referred to as the previous Bulgarian state the “Empire of the Spirit”!
The good Russian scientist and thinker, the dissident academician from Petersburg, was one of many few Russian brothers who acknowledged and publicly declared that Bulgaria gave Russia the alphabet, writing, and faith. As a result of there they nonetheless discuss concerning the Russian, not the Bulgarian alphabet, and our nice contribution to their cultural historical past is denied. Sure, what Putin jokingly or in truth stated was from… Macedonia, maybe with out realizing that Macedonia is definitely a primitive a part of Bulgaria, reminiscent of: Mysia, Thrace and Dobrudja. However that’s one other matter – of politics. And it isn’t all the time one thing regular and clear. It’s ridiculous now that our and Macedonian rulers collect and focus on the absurd matter: “Frequent Bulgarian and Macedonian historical past”!
That is what Academician Likhachev writes in his well-known work “The Improvement of Russian Literature from the tenth to the seventeenth Century”:
„Nonetheless, the miracle is defined not solely by the genius of Cyril and Methodius, who had been entrusted with creating an alphabet, spelling (orthography), but in addition on the premise of Bulgarian – a powerful, delicate literary language able to expressing probably the most complicated summary concepts. The miracle is especially defined by the truth that the Bulgarian individuals had been capable of understand this. And the flexibility to understand has been cultivated within the Bulgarian individuals, as a result of Bulgaria has lengthy been the territory of nice cultures and was within the neighborhood of those enlightened peoples of Europe at the moment”.
P.P. And yet one more factor: practically 40 p.c of the lexical / linguistic / fund of the trendy Russian language relies on our, Previous Bulgarian language.
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