The Most Scandalous Monument In Belgorod Region
IGA
from the village of Kholki the monument to Prince Svyatoslav of Kiev was
built up for the 1040th anniversary of crushing defeat of the Khazar
Kaganate by this ancient Russian great commander.
The author of this monument is well-known Russian sculptor Vyacheslav
Klykov. Befor this he created many monuments, the most well-known of them
are the monument to Marshal Zhukov near the Historical Museum in Moscow, the
monument to Cyrill and Mephody in the Slavyanskaya Square, Prince Vladimir
in Khersonesus and others.
But this monument at once provoced a whole wave of scandals all over Russia.
The case is in this 13 meters monument Prince Svyatoslav is depicted on
horseback and his horse is trampling under foot a khazar warrior.
At first it seems there is nothing unusual in this picture. But one detail:
to make clear that the prostrate warrior is a khazar and nobody else on his
shield there was a big emblem of David's star.
Of course the main religion (though not the single) in the Khazar Kaganate
was Judaism, but the fact that the giant charger of Svyatoslav is trampling
the symbol of Judaism caused a storm of protests from very many Jewish
communities from all corners of Russia even before the opening of this
monument.
At first the local authorities planned place the monument in Belgorod, but
maybe just because of this scandal they finally decided to put it in some
far place but not in the city.
And also some time after the shield with David's star was replaced by the
new one with just a neutral picture.
You can see the photo of this monument of our site in the section Our
Belgorod.
http://www3.webng.com/rusgenealogy/
Just click the button Our Belgorod.
*************************************
In our next report we will tell you about the undeground monastery near the
village of Kholki in Belgorod region.
*************************************
newsw...@hotmail.com
Interestingly historic depictions Khazars who planted apple orchards
or who ran the isinglass trade down the Volga to the Caspian placed
tamgas (charms of white horses), and used a type of silver standard
flag that resembled Tibetan prayer flags with runic-type letter tamgas
on their shields rather than a holy Star of David that more likely
went on a Torah cover, not on a war shield that most likely would
become worn or mutilated. Their original homeland of Khazars was in
Daghestan before migrating to what today is Astrakhan and opening
trading establishments in Grodno, along the steppes later occupied by
Kipchaks, and establishing a trading center the north part of Georgia
and other areas of the Caucasus. Why the sculptor put a symbol usually
found inside a temple on a warrior's shield is only to attract
attention to the fact that the royal family converted to Judaism, but
the warriors in the Khazar military were made up of many different
religions and ethnicities from all over the Caucasus, Russia, Iranic
peoples, Central Asia, and other places, including Europe.
The reason for the Khazar Empire was to act as a buffer between the
Caliphate to the East representing Islam and the Byzantine Empire to
the South, thus protecting what was then pagan Kiev, the Rus, and the
Scandinavians trading at Novgorod and Grodno with the Slavs and other
traders from Europe and Asia along the Silk Road. Khazars ran the
isinglass industry along the Volga. The Kievan prince's mother, Olga
converted to Christianity and allied with the Byzantines. The
Byzantine Emporer married a Khazar woman, Theodora and coverted her to
Christianity.
There were Khazar settlements in Constantinople in the village of
Parma. And Khazars and Byzantines intermarried in the 8th century. By
destroying the Khazars, the Kievan Prince destroyed the only neutral
buffer that shielded the Christians from Islam in the 10th century.
When the Khazars homeland was destroyed the daughters of the royal
Khazar family intermarried with Hungarian royalty in the 10th and 11th
centuries. Khazaria was composed of Jews, Christians, Moslems, Pagans,
and people trading along the rivers and Silk Road from Europe, Persia,
Armenia, and Central Asia. Today, the language closest to the
medieval Khazar language is modern Chuvash/Chuvashia (a country of
mostly orthodox Christians, but with various ethnic groups dwelling
there as well. If you want to read a novel with young characters about
Khazaria in the 10th century, may I suggest the time-travel adventure
novel titled A Perfect Mitzvah Gift Book...which shows the tolerant
society that Khazaria was, composed of many ethnic groups and many
religions.
A Perfect Mitzvah Gift Book: Time Travel with the Kagan's Kids to 10th
Century Kiev, "When Jews Of Eastern Europe Had No Hope Other Than The
Grace Of The Almighty, The Coming Of The Meshiach, Or The Arrival Of
The Khazars."
By Anne Hart
Our price: $14.95
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 174
ISBN: 0-595-38159-6
Published: Dec-2005
International orders:
Call 00-1-402-323-7800
Review of Book:
Let this first person proto-Bar or Bat Mitzvah gift story book novel,
although fiction, guide you through the walkways of anthropology and
ethnology in my Kagan's Kids of Khazaria Time-Travel Adventures, the
perfect book for a Mitzvah gift for thirteen to fifteen-year old
readers and also for their parents.
Book Description
There may not have been any concept of Bar or Bat Mitzvah in 10th
century Kiev 'yet,' but that wouldn't stop the nearly grown children
of the Kagan of the Khazars from arranging the appropriate rite of
passage and blessing for the changing of the societies around them
which they knew-the pagan Vikings, Rus, and Pechenegs surrounding
Kiev, the Volga Finnic peoples of the Urals, the eternal Silk Road,
Christian Byzantium to the south, the Caucasus Mountaineers, the
grassland steppes, the rabbi-scholars of Constantinople and Spain, the
Turks arriving from Central Asia, and the Islamic Caliphate of Persia
and Baghdad to the East. Each encounter began a new concept and
framework for their time-travel adventures.
The garden of the Khazars is a storyteller's paradise, especially
during the time that their ruler's family, friends, and associates
turned Jewish, and the Kagan of the Khazars got tied up in the belly
of a Viking Ship, rescued by his thirteen-year-old son, and his
daughter, the teenage, time-traveling Princess Tarbagatay rode between
the fourth and tenth centuries with the Queen of the Steppes. Welcome
to anthropology through fiction and my series for all storytellers on
tall tales of Medieval Khazaria.
Let my first person proto-Bar or Bat Mitzvah gift story book novel,
although fiction, guide you through the walkways of anthropology and
ethnology in my Kagan's Kids of Khazaria Time-Travel Adventures, the
perfect book for a Mitzvah gift for thirteen to fifteen-year old
readers and also for their parents. As an author of multicultural and
multiethnic novels that reveal the nuances of anthropology through
fiction-stories, novels, and plays-let this novel and the treat that
follows be your mentor to open doors to new opportunities, choices,
roads, and destinations.
Browse Before You Buy at http://www.iuniverse.com.
Che Guevara
This is fascinating history. Thanks for sending it to me. I have always been fascinated, even as a child, with Russian history. I didn't even know I had Russian ancestors.
I really don't know how or where to "post" on the Russian Genealogy Board so could you please explain it to me? I would be most grateful as I am trying to trace ancestors from Kalingrad.
Many thanks,
Sharon
Cuirassier
You can try these forums:
http://genforum.genealogy.com/russia/
or
http://forums.delphiforums.com/rusgenealogy
Best wishes
IGA
On Aug 11, 1:33 pm, "Che Guevara" <shazn...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> This is fascinating history. Thanks for sending it to me. I have always been fascinated, even as a child, with Russian history. I didn't even know I had Russian ancestors.
>
>
>
> I really don't know how or where to "post" on the Russian Genealogy Board so could you please explain it to me? I would be most grateful as I am trying to trace ancestors from Kalingrad.
>
>
>
> Many thanks,
>
>
>
> Sharon
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >
newsw...@hotmail.com
See the various poems and stories/plays on Khazaria based on the novel
at: http://silk-road-novels.blogspot.com/