Blessed Basil, holy fool for Christ's sake, Moscow miracle worker. Basil the Blessed - predictions about Russia People do not know how to pray

Vasily was born in December 1469 in the village of Yelokhovo. Until the age of sixteen he was an apprentice with a shoemaker. From a young age until his death, he performed the feat of foolishness and endured hardships. Vasily went about without clothes all year round, spent the night in the open air, constantly fasted and wore chains. It is believed that he was the only person who was afraid of Tsar Ivan the Terrible. Basil the Blessed died on August 2, 1552. He was buried in the cemetery of the Trinity Church, where Tsar Ivan the Terrible ordered the construction of the Intercession Cathedral, in memory of the conquest of Kazan, better known as St. Basil's Cathedral.

Prophecies of St. Basil the Blessed: “... the Russian people cannot live without a whip. How terrible is my friend and blood-drinker Ivashka the Terrible, how many curses have been poured out on his head, like ashes from burned souls, and they will honor him as a great autocrat ...

Behind Ivashka the Terrible there will be many tsars, but one of them, a hero with a cat's mustache, a villain and a blasphemer, will strengthen the Russian state anew, although on the way to the cherished blue seas a third of the Russian people will fall, like logs under carts ...
And the third murderer will rule for a long time. And for the sake of a formidable order in a great power, this mustachioed king from the wild mountaineers will put on the chopping block all his associates, and faithful friends, and thousands of thousands of husbands and wives ...
They will burn and destroy small and great temples. And then they will rebuild them. But God will not return to them if they serve in new churches not to Him, but to gold. And then the poor people will once again turn away from our churches...

And Russia will live a whole century without a tsar and shed rivers of her blood. And then they will put an unintelligent young man on the throne, but soon he, along with his retinue, will be declared impostors and driven from Rus' ...
The great turmoil will continue in the kingdom for a long time, until it is stopped by the great warrior called by all our people ...

In the very south of the black Arap kingdom, a leader in a blue turban will appear. He will throw terrible lightning and turn many countries into ashes. But great Rus' will gather together and destroy this leader ...

And the fourth sovereign will come, who will be called the great Horseman. If he is pure in soul and thoughts, he will bring down his sword on robbers and thieves. Not a single thief will escape reprisal or shame. The Russian people will rejoice, but there will be evil spirits who will quietly kill the great Horseman. And there will be a great cry in Rus' ...
And when terrible wars pass, turning all living things into dust and ashes in different countries, the truly great Sovereign will reign on the throne, who is destined for a long and blessed reign, and our long-suffering Rus' will enter its golden age ... ".

From the brotherhood of holy fools

The Moscow holy fool, prophet and miracle worker Vasily the Blessed was one of the most unusual Russian saints. The Russian Orthodox Church annually honors his memory on August 15, although he was far from the only seer in the Russian capital. In the 16th century, he overshadowed the glory of many of his comrades who lived in Moscow, and not only in it. Everyone in the capital - from craftsmen to Tsar Ivan the Terrible - loved and revered him more than other mendicant holy fools. Perhaps because much less is known about other blessed ones. For example, Muscovites knew a certain Maxim, the first capital holy fool, after whom only a few aphorisms remained: “If they beat you - obey and bow lower ...”, “Do not cry beaten, cry unbeaten ...”, “We will be patient - and we will be people. .."

The prophet remained completely nameless, who predicted to the pregnant Princess Elena Glinskaya that on the birthday of her son a terrible thunderstorm would break out over Moscow and the reign of this boy, the next Grand Duke of Moscow, would be the same. And so it happened: during a severe thunderstorm, under the peals of thunder, Ivan Vasilyevich was born - Ivan IV, later nicknamed the Terrible.

Few have heard of John the Big Cap, so named because he walked around Moscow half-naked all year round, with a heavy copper cross on his chest, chains (chains with shackles weighing two and a half pounds), copper rings on his fingers and in an iron cap . It was he who, in front of all the people, convicted Boris Godunov of all the sins and predicted his difficult fate. By the way, this very John the Blessed was bred by Pushkin in the drama "Boris Godunov" under the name of Nikolka the Iron Cap. His funeral in the summer of 1589 was accompanied by a terrible thunderstorm, the lightning of which caused several fires; many saw in that an omen of the Troubles.

And yet the most famous and revered Moscow holy fool was St. Basil the Blessed. It was in his honor that popular rumor renamed the Intercession Church on Red Square (near which this beggar begged and prophesied) into St. Basil's Cathedral.

It must be said that the blessed, or holy fools, were almost always in Rus'. From time immemorial, this was the name given to people who, as they said, were “not right in the head” or, in other words, strange things were observed. Often such "poor" and in fact were people with mental disabilities. However, in the Middle Ages in Rus', they were considered clairvoyants and soothsayers, who are protected and instructed by the Lord himself. Since the madman himself is not able to formulate his thought, it means that God speaks through his mouth - this is what the believers believed.

In addition, foolishness in Rus' was a form of Christian achievement. It is not without reason that another name for the holy fools is blessed, that is, those who have been rewarded with blessedness from the Lord: he endowed such people with the gift of healing and prophecy. To overcome the temptations of this world, the holy fools renounced family, home, property, even the appearance of a decent person. The holy fool went out into the world in rags, behaved like a madman, muttered something unintelligible. And often blessed insight moved the blessed one to an act that seemed to be amusing, but at the same time filled with some, at first glance, obscure, but in fact deep meaning.

Old Russian foolishness, along with the rejection of blessings, mortification of the flesh and madness, often imaginary, denounced the sins of life, ridiculed and condemned the passions that overcome people.

However, the holy fools never despised those around them, but on the contrary, they regretted it and tried their best to help. So Vasily, barefoot and naked, with chains put on his body, spent his days reproaching people for vices, directing their souls to goodness, and at night with tears he prayed for sinners on the porch.

Life and deeds

In December 1468 or 1469, in the village of Yelokhovo near Moscow, a boy was born, baptized by Vasily. According to legend, his very birth was unusual: the baby was born on the porch of the local Vladimir church. His parents, people of a simple class, wanted their son to master some craft. Therefore, when Vasya grew up, he was given as an apprentice to a shoemaker.

The boy mastered the basics of the profession quickly. But there was some strangeness in his character and behavior: sometimes he quit his job and froze, as if listening to something inaudible to others. And soon Vasya had an unexpected gift of foresight. Once a merchant came into the workshop and ordered boots that would be worn for a long time. When the customer left, the young apprentice suddenly began to cry. The astonished shoemaker asked what happened, and he, crying, replied: “He won’t even put on these boots - he will die tomorrow.” The prophecy has been fully confirmed.

Since then, visions visited Vasily more and more often, and sometimes he was no longer so much in the earthly world as in the heavenly one. It became clear that God had chosen the young man either for predictions or for spiritual achievement. At the age of sixteen, Vasily left his parents and went to Moscow.

Soon the whole capital already knew the blessed one. Yes, and how not to notice a young man who walked around the most crowded places naked, and in the heat and cold did not remove heavy iron chains. However, not everyone was to the liking of the foolish truth-lover. For example, a kalashnik or kvassnik stand in the marketplace, they sell their goods, praise them, and bargain. Suddenly, Vasya the holy fool appears and overturns the trays! Traders almost into a fight, shouting, scolding. But then someone will try the remnants of grub and scream: “Good people, but chalk and lime are mixed in Kalash flour, and kvass is sour!” It turns out that the blessed one was happy for the buyers.

Sometimes Vasily did not even prophesy - joy or sorrow could be predicted by his behavior. One day, approaching the Bogoroditsky Cathedral, he suddenly began to cry. And at that very moment, the passers-by who surrounded him saw how flames burst from the cathedral windows! But as soon as the blessed one wiped away his tears, the fire disappeared without a trace. “Being a big trouble, and after it - a great joy,” whispered those who were already convinced that every act of Vasily carries a secret meaning. And they turned out to be right: soon the Tatars Makhmet Giray burned Moscow, but then the city was rebuilt and became even more beautiful.

A similar incident, although not with such a happy outcome, occurred in the Ascension Monastery on Ostrog (later - Vozdvizhensky). Vasily, passing by, stopped at the door of the monastery church and suddenly sobbed inconsolably. The next day, the temple caught fire. The flames spread to neighboring houses and other streets. Almost the entire center burned out - the main bazaar, the royal and metropolitan palaces, even stone houses collapsed. Only later did people remember how Vasily cried, feeling trouble, but not in the sieves to prevent it.

Fate kept the blessed one and averted ill-wishers from him. Once a boyar, who respected Vasily, gave him his fox fur coat.

– Are you truly willing to give? – the holy fool will ask severely.

– I truly wish, because I love you from the heart, - the answer is everyday.

Throwing on a fur coat, Vasily went to the marketplace, where thieves saw him. One swindler lay down on the ground, pretending to be dead, and the second stuck to the blessed one, asking for alms for burial.

– Has he died long ago? Vasily asked without looking at the body.

– Just now,” the thief sighed hypocritically.

Then the blessed one took off his fur coat, covered the “dead man” with it, and left, throwing over his shoulder:

– From now on, be dead for your wickedness.

The overjoyed thief picked up his fur coat... and cried out when he saw his dead comrade under it.

At the same time, Basil, being himself a beggar, invariably gave alms to others in need. So, one day a rich man gave him some gold coins. The blessed one accepted the money, went up to a decently dressed foreigner and poured gold into his palm. Later, people learned that this visiting merchant lost his fortune, did not eat for three days, but was embarrassed to ask for alms.

It should be noted that the holy fools in Rus' have always developed a special relationship with the rulers. The powerful of this world, like a magnet, were drawn to the blessed, despite the fact that even in rich chambers they felt at ease and fearless. The holy fool could reproach the ruler at the top of his voice, accuse him without choosing expressions. And it wasn't a joke at all. The jester is impudent, but cautious, for he feeds on the crumbs from the table of those to whom he dares. For the holy fool, a prince or tsar is the same person as everyone else, only the demand from him is stricter: after all, he is responsible for the fate of many.

In this regard, the blessed were not afraid of anyone or anything, being sure that they were under the protection of divine protection and popular respect. But the rulers themselves were sometimes afraid of them - one word of the holy fool could tear off the veil of majesty and reveal the true essence of actions.

Such a special relationship developed between St. Basil the Blessed and Ivan the Terrible. Sometimes a normal desire arose in the cruel sovereign - to listen to the truth about himself from the blessed. One day he began to build himself a new palace on Sparrow Hills. And he really wanted to quickly move into the new chambers ... Once, returning from a service, the king noticed the blessed one and asked:

– Where were you today, Vasya?

– In the same place as you, on the Vorobyovs, - followed the answer.

– I was in the temple at the liturgy, the king was surprised.

– No, you mentally walked along the Sparrow Hills and built your chambers. To stand in the temple and think about worldly things means not to be in it.

There was nothing for the sovereign to answer the reproach, for which anyone, except the blessed one, would have tasted the whip. And not only! Anyone who dared to dare the most severe of Russian tsars could lose his head. But like any tyrant who anticipates imminent heavenly punishment, Grozny listened to any statement that looked like a prophecy. His fits of half-mad anger were replaced by periods of repentance, and at these moments the king almost fawned over the clairvoyants. It is not surprising that Vasily was often called to the royal chambers in order to somehow appease the stern crowned bearer.

So, one day, on the day of his angel, the king invited him to a feast. Three times they poured wine for the holy fool, and three times he poured it out the window. The angry king asked why he was doing this.

– I extinguished the flame with which Novgorod is enveloped, - the blessed one answered and left the feast.

The next day, Grozny sent a messenger to Novgorod, who was told by the inhabitants that a big fire had really started in the city, but suddenly the flames went out. At the same time, many

saw in the sky over Novgorod a bright image of a naked man pouring fire. So Basil acquired the glory of not only a prophet, but also a miracle worker, protector and patron of people. Many began to appeal to him for help, especially after the rumor spread about his walks along the Moscow River, as if on dry land.

Once in the Caspian Sea, a storm overtook a Persian ship on which several Orthodox were sailing. The ship went off course, the deck was flooded with waves - death was approaching. And then one of the Russians said:

– In Moscow there is Blessed Basil, who walks on the waters, and the waves listen to him. He will save us.

The Orthodox began to pray, calling out to the blessed one, and soon those who were on deck saw in the darkness the outlines of a naked man who was leading the ship. Gradually the wind died down and the waves subsided. The Persian Shah told about this miraculous salvation in a letter to Ivan the Terrible. And more than once after this incident, the miracle worker's prayer saved sailors caught in a storm.

Despite the hardships, St. Basil the Blessed lived a long life. In the eighty-eighth year he fell seriously ill, he himself predicted the day of his death and asked for communion. Upon learning of his illness, the king came to say goodbye to him. Not one came, but with Tsarina Anastasia and her sons: the younger, sickly baby Fedor, and the eldest, healthy three-year-old Ivan, heir to the throne.

The dying man blessed Anastasia, then Fedor.

– Bless the elder, - Grozny pushed his son Ivan in the back. - Bless the future kingdom ...

– I have already blessed the future king, - said Vasily, - but the eldest will not be in the kingdom. His future is stained with blood.

– You are talking nonsense! Will I have your blessing? - the king frowned.

– Do not be angry, sir, there is no blessing from me to King Herod.

The king left the dying man darker than a cloud. And what was he like after such prophecies!

On August 2, 1557, Vasily died. All of Moscow mourned over his death, thousands of people came to say goodbye to the blessed seer, who was later canonized as a saint. The body was buried in the cemetery at the Trinity Church, which was located on Red Square.

The temple was soon demolished, and in its place, on the orders of Ivan the Terrible, a cathedral of rare beauty was built, called Pokrovsky. And in 1588, Fyodor Ioannovich ordered to attach a chapel in honor of St. Basil the Blessed from the northeast side of the cathedral. This chapel, where the relics of the holy fool, who by that time was officially recognized as a saint, was transferred, gave the cathedral a second name, fixed for centuries - St. Basil's Cathedral (St. Basil's Cathedral).

For a long time, before the construction of the Ivanovskaya bell tower in the Kremlin, St. Basil's Cathedral was the tallest building in Moscow (the height of its central dome is 65 m). Time and people destroyed many Russian churches, but this temple survived both the vandalism of Napoleon's army, Stalin's discontent, and the sidelong glances of the builders of communism.

Built in a completely atypical architectural style for Rus', St. Basil's Cathedral looks like a multi-colored toy or a fairy-tale decoration. Four large and four small churches surround the central Pokrovskaya, and none of them is similar to the other. All churches are interconnected by a system of passages and together form a multi-colored and jubilantly festive St. Basil's Cathedral.

Before the revolution, the day of St. Basil the Blessed was celebrated with great solemnity. The service was usually attended by the emperor and his entire family.

The service to the saint was written by the Solovetsky elder Michael before Basil's canonization. And although in Rus' there have always been hysterics and pseudo-fools, people have a good sense of who is really blessed, and who is only masked by the guise of a holy fool.

What will happen

Many centuries have passed, and the veneration of Blessed Basil is still preserved, who tried to take on his shoulders the misfortunes and sins of people and teach them to see God in their souls. Until now, his relics are said to give people the joy of healing, bring happiness and provide intercession.

And the Russian people cannot live without a whip. How terrible is my friend and blood-drinker Ivashka the Terrible, how many curses have been poured out on his head, like ashes from burned souls, and they will honor him as a great autocrat ...

And Russia will live a whole century without a tsar and shed rivers of her blood. And then they will put an unintelligent young man on the throne, but soon he, along with his retinue, will be declared impostors and driven from Rus' ...

The great turmoil will continue in the kingdom for a long time until it is stopped by the great warrior called by all our people...

Behind Ivashka the Terrible there will be many kings, but one of them, a hero with a cat's mustache, a villain and a blasphemer, will strengthen the Russian state anew, although on the way to the cherished blue seas a third of the Russian people will fall, like logs under carts ...

And the third murderer will rule for a long time. And for the sake of a formidable order in a great power, this mustachioed king from the wild mountaineers will put on the chopping block all his associates, and faithful friends, and thousands of thousands of husbands and wives ...

They will burn and destroy small and great temples. And then they will rebuild them. But God will not return to them if they serve in new churches not to Him, but to gold. And then the poor people will again turn away from our churches...

In the very south of the Arap kingdom, a leader in a blue turban will arise. He will throw terrible lightning and turn many countries into ashes. But Rus' will come together and destroy it...

And the fourth sovereign will come, who will be called the great Horseman. If he is pure in soul and thoughts, he will bring down his sword on robbers and thieves. Not a single thief will escape reprisal or shame. The Russian people will rejoice, but there will be evil spirits who will quietly kill the great Horseman. And there will be a great cry in Rus' ...

And when terrible wars pass, turning all living things into dust and ashes in different countries, the truly great Sovereign will reign on the throne in 7517 from the Creation of the World, who is destined for a long and blessed reign, and our long-suffering Rus' will enter its golden age ...

Basil the Blessed, the most famous of the holy fools with whom Rus' abounded, was born in 1468 in the village of Yelokhovo, not far from Moscow, into the family of pious peasants Jacob and Anna.

From childhood, he led an ascetic life, constantly prayed, and even then the first sprouts of Divine grace became visible in him. As a boy, he was apprenticed to a shoemaker. One day a merchant came into the shop and ordered a lot of new boots. Sixteen-year-old Vasily laughed at him. When the customer left, the owner began to ask the young man about the reasons for his behavior. Vasily replied that it was strange to order as many boots as would be enough for many years, because this person should die the next day. His prediction came true. After that, Vasily did not want to stay with the owner anymore, or return to his parents, and went to Moscow.

Lost in the noisy city crowd, he chose the ascetic path of feigned madness in order to partake as fully as possible of the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ, completely refusing respect from people. Having no permanent home or even a place to lay his head, he lived almost naked on the streets and in public places, spending his nights in prayer on the church porch. Among the crowd, he kept his silence as strictly as hermits in the desert; forced to speak, he pretended to be tongue-tied. Having no close people, renouncing the world and its attachments, he showed great sympathy for the unfortunate, sick and oppressed. He often visited prisoners imprisoned for drunkenness in order to turn them to correction.

In an era when fear and oppression reigned in society, the life of St. Basil served as a living reproach to the unrighteous boyars and a consolation for the destitute. Almost all of his actions had a prophetic meaning. For example, the blessed one many times threw stones at the corners of houses where pious people lived, and when he passed by dwellings whose owners were slumped in sins, he kissed the corners of the walls. When asked about the reasons for such strange behavior, Vasily answered that in houses where holiness reigns there is no place for demons, and therefore, seeing them from the outside, he drove them away with stones. On the contrary, kissing the corners of wicked houses, he greeted the angels who remained outside, unable to enter inside. In the market, he knocked over the stalls of dishonest merchants. Once, having received money from the king, he, contrary to his custom, did not distribute it to the poor, but gave it to a well-dressed merchant, who, having lost his fortune, did not dare to beg and was dying of hunger.

In 1521, when the Tatar army of Mehmet Giray threatened Moscow, Saint Basil, shedding abundant tears, prayed for his homeland in front of the gates of the Assumption Cathedral in the Kremlin. Suddenly, a terrible noise was heard in the church, a flame broke out, and a voice from the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God announced that She was leaving Moscow because of the sins of its inhabitants. The saint intensified his prayers, and the terrible phenomenon disappeared. Mehmet Giray, who had already set the city suburbs on fire, was driven back from the city by the army that came to the rescue and fled beyond the borders of Rus'.

Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible loved Blessed Basil and treated him with great reverence, just like the holy Metropolitan Macarius. One day the saint, invited to the palace for a royal feast, poured wine out of the window three times. When the tsar angrily asked him what he was doing, he replied that he was putting out the fire in Novgorod. A little later, messengers brought news of a great fire that had actually taken place in Novgorod. The fire, however, did not flare up, because a certain strange-looking man walked naked through the streets and sprinkled the burning houses. Seeing Basil, the messengers recognized in him the man of God who extinguished the flame.

On another occasion, in 1547, the saint began to weep bitterly in front of the temple of the Vozdvizhensky Monastery, in the place where, after some time, a great fire began, devastating Moscow. Shortly after this disaster, when the tsar was present at the Divine Liturgy, the blessed one, standing in a corner, looked at him attentively. After the liturgy, he said to the king: "You were not in the temple, but in another place." The king began to protest, but Vasily repeated: “You are not telling the truth. I saw how in your thoughts you went to Sparrow Hills to build yourself a new palace there. From that moment on, the king began to fear the saint and respect him even more. But this respect did not prevent him from showing cruelty, which became a byword.

Saint Basil also appeared to people on a ship in distress and saved them from death. He performed many more miracles during the 62 years of his feat of foolishness.

At the age of 88, the saint fell ill. Upon learning of this, the king, along with his family, immediately hurried to him to ask for his prayers. On his deathbed, Basil spoke prophecies about the future of the kingdom, then his face lit up, because he saw a host of angels who had come to receive his soul. Having come to rapture, he reposed in joy on August 2, 1557.

The whole city was then filled with fragrance, and many people gathered for his funeral. The king and his sons carried him on their shoulders to the church, where the metropolitan and the bishops were waiting for them. On the grave of the blessed one, which became a source of healing for the faithful not only from Moscow, but also from other regions, a church was built in honor of the Intercession of the Mother of God, in memory of the capture of Kazan. Later, the temple received the nickname of St. Basil's Cathedral among the people.

Miracles associated with the saint did not stop. And in 1588, under Metropolitan Saint Job, Basil the Blessed was canonized. On this day, 120 sick people were healed at the relics of the saint.

Basil the Blessed is revered as the patron saint of Moscow.

Compiled by Hieromonk Macarius of Simonopetra,
adapted Russian translation - Sretensky Monastery Publishing House

Until the age of sixteen he was an apprentice with a shoemaker. After sixteen years and until his death, he performed the feat of foolishness. He went about without clothes all year round, spent the night in the open air, constantly fasted and wore chains, endured hardships.

He constantly denounced lies and hypocrisy. Contemporaries noted that this was almost the only person he was afraid of.Ivan the Terrible.

Basil the Blessed died on August 2, 1552 (sometimes 1551 is also mentioned). Ivan the Terrible and the boyars carried his coffin, and Metropolitan Macarius performed the burial.

Vasily's body was buried in the cemetery of the Trinity Church in the Moat, where Tsar Ivan the Terrible ordered the construction of the Intercession Cathedral soon, in memory of the conquest of Kazan, better known as St. Basil's Cathedral.

In 1588, by order of Theodore Ioannovich, a chapel was built in the name of St. Basil the Blessed at the place where he was buried, a silver shrine was made for his relics.

Wonders

Even as an apprentice, he predicted that the customer would not need boots. He died the next morning.

One boyar gave Vasily an expensive fur coat. The thieves noticed the fur coat and decided to take it. One of them pretended to be dead, while others asked Vasily for a fur coat for burial. Vasily covered the “dead” with a fur coat, but at the same time said: “be you dead from now on for your craftiness; for it is written: let the wicked be consumed. The deceiver is indeed dead.

Once St. Basil the Blessed scattered rolls at a seller in the market, and he confessed that chalk and lime were mixed into the flour.

The Book of Degrees tells that in the summer of 1547 Vasily came to the Ascension Monastery on Ostrog (now Vozdvizhenka) and prayed for a long time with tears in front of the church. The next day, the well-known Moscow fire began, namely from the Vozdvizhensky Monastery.

While in Moscow, the saint saw a fire in Novgorod, which he put out with three glasses of wine.

With a stone, he broke the image of the Mother of God on the Varvara Gates, which has long been considered miraculous. He was attacked by a crowd of pilgrims who flocked from all over Rus' for the purpose of healing, and they began to beat him with a “mortal combat”. The holy fool said: “And you will scratch the paint layer!”. Having removed the paint layer, people saw that under the image of the Mother of God there was a "devil's mug".

Prophecies of St. Basil the Blessed:

... And the Russian people cannot live without a whip. How terrible is my friend and blood-drinker Ivashka the Terrible, how many curses have been poured out on his head, like ashes from burned souls, and they will honor him as a great autocrat ...

... There will be many kings behind Ivashka the Terrible, but one of them, a hero with a cat's mustache, a villain and a blasphemer, will strengthen the Russian state anew, although on the way to the cherished blue seas a third of the Russian people will lie down, like logs under carts ...

... And the third murderer will rule for a long time. And for the sake of a formidable order in a great power, this mustachioed king from the wild mountaineers will put on the chopping block all his associates, and faithful friends, and thousands of thousands of husbands and wives ...

... They will burn and destroy small and great temples. And then they will rebuild them. But God will not return to them if they serve in new churches not to Him, but to gold. And then the poor people will once again turn away from our churches...

... And Russia will live for a century without a tsar and will shed rivers of its blood. And then they will put an unintelligent young man on the throne, but soon he, along with his retinue, will be declared impostors and driven from Rus' ...

... The great turmoil will continue in the kingdom for a long time, until it is stopped by the great warrior called by all our people ...

... In the very south of the black Arap kingdom, a leader in a blue turban will arise. He will throw terrible lightning and turn many countries into ashes. But the great Rus' will gather together and destroy this leader...

... And the fourth sovereign will come, who will be called the great Horseman. If he is pure in soul and thoughts, he will bring down his sword on robbers and thieves. Not a single thief will escape reprisal or shame. The Russian people will rejoice, but there will be evil spirits who will quietly kill the great Horseman. And there will be a great cry in Rus' ...

... And when terrible wars pass, turning all living things into dust and ashes in different countries, he will reign on the throne in 7517(2009 New Style)year from the Creation of the World, a truly great Sovereign, who is destined for a long and blessed reign, and our long-suffering Rus' will enter its golden age ...

He was an absolutely real person who lived in Russia at the end of the 18th century [cool but was born on the same day as me] who made a number of grandiose predictions without exaggeration (the dates of the death of Catherine II and Paul I, the war of 1812 and the revolution of 1917), suffered severely for these predictions (he spent half his life in a monastery prison, half his life in exile). Nevertheless, we did not come across equally absolutely real texts, that is, texts written by his hand. These texts are a state secret, transmitted first from tsar to tsar, then from general secretary to general secretary, and, finally, from the president to the "successor" - as
an important addition to the nuclear briefcase.

These texts exist. Information about them surfaced in 1917, when it first became clear that Nicholas II there was, it turns out, a kind of box (received from his father, and then inherited from his grandfather) and containing the main prophecies about the fate of Russia. It became known that since the 18th century, Abel’s books, his confiscated correspondence, and the testimony of scammers with retellings of prophecies were kept in the corresponding department of the Gendarmerie since the 18th century. The Cheka could not keep some of these documents under the hood and they began their journey around the world, surfacing as “prophecies Basil the Blessed", then as "prophecies Vasily Nemchin”, then as “the prophecies of the elders”, “the prophecies of Rasputin”, and sometimes under his own name: “the prophecies of the monk Abel”.

In the 20th century, there were few people who heard something about these documents, but with the beginning of the collapse of the USSR and, as a result, with the restructuring of the KGB of the USSR, a second information leak occurred - prophecies appeared in print. Their most fruitful years are the period 1988-1992, when the general public first heard about Vasily Nemchin, about some copies from the texts Basil the Blessed, about books Rasputin and other similar artifacts. We do not rule out that there are indeed some texts authored by the listed prophets, however, everything that got into print and issued for them is nothing more than a compilation of the same document. This is clearly seen in the linguistic and factual comparison of the prophecies of the allegedly listed authors.

For example, if Abel writes about some a young man with an ax who will be placed in a crystal coffin”, then in approximately the same words the construction of the Ziggurat on Red Square is described by both “Vasily the Blessed” and “Vasily Nemchin”. Such use of the same phrases and words cannot be in principle, just as all three of these prophets (plus Rasputin) could not name one of the rulers of Russia of the future " a small man with a dark face sitting on the shoulders of a giant". That is, we are clearly talking about a prophecy belonging to one person. What shall we call him? Abel, Nemchin, Vasily the Blessed or Rasputin- not the point is important. Most likely, these scraps of information are based precisely on the prophecies of Abel. However, we will focus on a kind of well-known brand " Vasily Nemchin ”, promoted in the early 90s Pavel Globa(this gentleman definitely has or had at his disposal some ORIGINAL texts, because it was not just that a person fled to Germany when the prophecies he published about the events after Yeltsin began to come true with stunning accuracy).

So, in the prophecies of Abel it says:
After seven decades of abomination and desolation, demons will flee from Rus' (demons are, of course, Jews. In the early 90s, they "rushed" en masse to Israel and the United States. Now many, already with dual citizenship, are returning to the Russian Federation - my note, Vladimir Berezin).
Those that remain will dress up in "sheep disguises" while remaining "predatory wolves". Demons will rule Russia, but under other banners (hidden occupation - V.B.). A second Boris, a giant titan, will appear in Rus'. Russia will be on the verge of collapse and destruction, and under the guise of the revival of its former greatness, that
the last thing left. After the last three years of abomination and desolation, when dog children will torment Russia. The giant will leave in such a way that no one will expect it, leaving behind many unsolvable mysteries. The giant will wander through the labyrinth, and a small man with a black face will sit on his shoulders.
A small man with a black face will be half bald, half hairy. He will remain unknown for a long time, and then he will play the role of a servant. He will come from a southern family. He will change appearance twice. Rus' will suffer great disasters from him. Will war in the Prometheus mountains (Caucasus) lasting 15 years. There will be a third Tauride War- there a crescent moon will appear and the torn Taurida will bleed. And then they will put an unintelligent young man on the throne, but soon he, along with his retinue, will be declared impostors and driven from Rus'. Demons rushing to power will hopelessly smash against a bear's head and paws into which the spirit of the Russian ancestors will be embodied.

As is well known to people, like us, carefully studying historical artifacts, prophecies Abel (Vasily Nemchin) in a pure, step-by-step chronological form does not exist in print. There are some fragments covering fairly wide periods of time, there are also several publications Pavel Globa for 1988-190, until 2000, quite often found on the net, but then suddenly disappeared somewhere (this is especially true for texts mentioning a man with a black face on the shoulders of Titan). Nevertheless, many printed publications have been preserved even now, comparing what was said there with what is happening, we can already build some kind of consistent and easily recognizable picture.

Who is "Titan", "Giant", "second Boris", who left when no one waited and wandered through the maze? This character is very similar to Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin- a man of great stature, Boris by name, somehow unexpectedly, as it were, renounced power in 1999 and lived after that in the Barvikha government complex, where a whole city of government bomb shelters was built underground in the USSR - a labyrinth.

Who is a dark-faced man of small stature, sitting on the shoulders of the Giant, playing the role of a servant, from a southern family, who changed his appearance twice? This character is very similar to Vladimir Vladimirovich- a man much shorter than Boris Nikolayevich, whom Boris Nikolayevich brought into politics, to whom he probably constantly gave some advice, that is, he seemed to hold on his shoulders. Everyone is watching - he is sitting in the Kremlin Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, but in fact ALL the people around Putin are people placed by Boris Nikolayevich. That is, Yeltsin retained all the levers, and Putin, by and large, sits in an empty cab and portrays the driver.
Hence the analogy: sits on the shoulders of a giant».

With twice changing appearance of Vladimir Vladimirovich everything is clear at first glance: two presidential terms are, as it were, two appearances, two changes of face. But why is Vladimir Vladimirovich's face described as "dark"? There is a suspicion that the prophet from the depths of the 18th century could not see this face. It was blurred. Mysterious. For example, the prophet could see several "Vladimirov Vladimirovich" -. Hence the darkness. Hence the change of faces: first, one person is shown on TV, then his double. (Perhaps the reason is that Putin stays in power thanks to mimicry, pretending to be a patriot and statesman, playing on the people's hatred for the liberals and their "swamp opposition", in fact being the head of the occupation administration and part of the liberal-oligarchic stratum. Hence - its "dark", indefinite appearance - V. B.)

On the other hand, a change in appearance is also a change in image, a change in rhetoric. VV how did you come to Olympus? V. v. vowed" pee in the toilet"terrorists, which meant bad people from the North Caucasus who offend the Russian people. And the Russian people voted for V.V. And before 2004, what did V.V. answer to a resident from the North Caucasus who asked about the Russians? V.V . said: these are fools. That's the change of face.

Finally, the words about the "southern race" V.V. and his performance of the role of "servant" give some hints both to the past and to the future Putin. Hints on the past is a mysterious story with a Georgian mom V.V., as yet unproven
but not refuted either. Hints for the future are hints for the premiership Putin, who was president, and then became prime minister - that is, as if in the role of a servant of the next president.

Who are they " dog babies" and " demons seeking power We believe that there is no need to explain - and so everything is clear to everyone. As follows from the prophecies, demons will be torn apart by certain " bear paws". These paws are also mentioned by Nemchin, Abel, and St. Basil the Blessed, and even in some texts by Rasputin. That is, in the book, written by the hand of Abel himself and carefully kept by the Cheka-KGB-FSB, these bear paws are present unequivocally. The question arises: what should demons do, rushing to power and possessing knowledge of their shitty future (the archives of the KGB of the USSR are at their complete disposal)? The demons have no choice but to continue " dress up in disguise”, that is, after the masks of the democrats, pull on the skin of this legendary bear, thereby, as it were, inverting the prophecy in their favor. And what are we
see? We see the emergence of the Unity party, which was suddenly renamed “The Bear” for some reason, taking the bear also as a symbol. We see a "successor" with a suitable surname - Medvedev.
Accident?

No, this is not an accident. This is cause and effect. The reason is the mention in the prophecy of "bear paws". The consequence is the renaming of "Unity" and the appearance in the Kremlin of Mr. Menahem Medvedev- a young man ... who is ... the very "unintelligent young man" who will be moved "to the kingdom." Actually, they are already moving - we see .... [Written before re-election instead of Medvedev Putin]

The prophecies go on to say, what ten tsars, the most terrible for Rus', will come for an hour: a man with a helmet and a visor that does not reveal his face / a faceless swordsman, a man chained in chain mail, a man shedding blood /; The man from the swamp. His eyes are greenish. He will be in power when he has two fives. He had a mortal wound, but it is healed. He fell, but rose again to unattainable heights and began to avenge everyone for his humiliation. And there will be blood Great blood in three, in seven, and through the fall of the green-eyed. It won't be calculated for a long time. Then he will be thrown into the abyss; The other will be long-nosed. Everyone will hate him, but he will be able to rally a great force around him; A man sitting on two tables (that is, thrones. Ed.) will seduce five more like him, but on the fourth step of the ladder they will fall ingloriously; Man with impure skin. He will be half bald and half hairy; Will flash like a meteor Tagged and will replace him lame/crippled/, who will cling to power terribly; After Great Dame with golden hair will lead three golden chariots.

In the very south of the black Arap kingdom, a leader in a blue turban will arise. He will throw terrible lightning and turn many countries into ashes. There will be a great exhausting war of the cross with the crescent, in which the Moors will intervene for 15 years. Carthage will be destroyed, which will be resurrected and the prince of Carthage will be the third pillar of the unification of the armies of the crescent. There will be three waves in this war - back and forth.
When a terrible death threatens everyone, the Swift Sovereign /Great Horseman, short-lived great sovereign, the Great Potter/ will come. He will be pure in soul and thoughts and bring down his sword on robbers and thieves. Not a single thief will escape reprisal or shame. Five boyars close to the tsar will be put on trial. The first boyar is a judge. The second boyar flees abroad and will be caught there. The third will be the governor. The fourth will be red. The fifth boyar will be found dead in his bed. The Great Renewal will begin. There will be great joy in Rus' - the return of the crown and the acceptance of the whole big tree under the crown. The three branches of the tree will merge into one after the flight of the demonic, and there will be a single tree.

Here is a rough picture. If we interpret the prophecies in the language of political science, [the interpretation was given before 2012 and, as we see, turned out to be untenable], then the drain of the “unintelligent young man” (Mr. Menachem Medvedev) will be organized by some kind of temporary committee, which has assumed the role of temporary executive power. Who will enter there - one can only guess, the figures are written only with general strokes, hints. Obviously, this will be a group of governors, officials from various departments, the military, who will somehow either merge the “elections” themselves or refuse to recognize them. Even the option of the collapse of Russia into a kind of confederation is not ruled out, where each governor and head of the AO will take as much independence as he wants. These governors will probably be these same tyrants for an hour, who will then begin to unscrew the heads of the Great Potter - that is, the ruler who is destined to reassemble the country.

But the collapse of Russia for the time being, we still consider it a less likely option, seeing in the tyrants a certain ruling Committee, where, in particular, some of the people who nominated the “unintelligent young man” will be represented. The committee will, of course, be temporary, and very soon the committee members will begin to find out among themselves who is in charge.
Signs of the most important, listed Nemchin.

So far, a more or less recognizable character is the one ... who will be able to gather a lot of power around him (which is quite possible with a client base of 10-15,000 people). He, apparently, is red-haired, ... Actually, he is the only one - Mr. Chubais.
“A man sitting on two tables (thrones)” is a kind of gentleman holding two positions. It seems to us that this will be a certain person who is both a government official in his own country, and who occupies a certain high position in the CIS system or the union of Russia and Belarus. An official may not necessarily be Russian and not necessarily just an official. For example, Mr. Lukashenka, retaining both the post of President of Belarus, and having received a post in the Committee.
The military and governors appearing in the texts fit perfectly into the description of the top of the law enforcement agencies. Especially the special services - the visor on the face is the same mask, that is, a mask. There are as many options here as there are many special services in Russia.
The bald man with unclean skin strongly resembles one figure from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation - Mr. Zyuganov, who may be involved in the Committee. He does not have special power, like, for example, the head of the FSB or the mayor of Moscow, but he has a real electorate. By including Zyuganov in the Committee, this electorate can be attracted.

Who it " Tagged ” is the most understandable. It looks like Mr. Gorbachev, whose presence in the Committee will portray to this Committee a certain democratic reputation.
The scariest character is swamp man ". It is associated with the shedding of blood. Who is - it is difficult to say until he is mortally wounded. Maybe it's about Mr. Shoigu heading a very powerful power structure. At first, the Committee will not do without him, but his presence there and further runs the risk of making him the most influential figure in the Committee, so his colleagues will most likely try to merge him with some kind of decree. This will be the wound. But in reality, it will not be possible to throw him out of the game - his people are everywhere in the Ministry of Emergencies and he may well “fly up to unattainable heights”. [well, not the Ministry of Emergency Situations but the army for a long time]

« lame "- the most mysterious figure so far. There are no particularly crippled politicians in Russia, with the exception of some, but Mr. Primakov, eg. In past election battles, his opponents actively promoted the topic of a hip joint prosthesis, so it is possible that it will be voiced further. Hence the image of Nemchin - "Lame". And the lord himself Primakov- a serious enough figure in the scenario to compete for power. On the other hand, "Lame" can also be a certain politician with an expiring term of office - the so-called "lame duck". It's hard to say now.

Now it seems to us that only the last figure, which will precede the appearance of Russian national leader, called the Great Horseman. That is, this figure will manifest itself - it means soon to wait for the Horseman. This figure is Great Lady with golden hair ”, somehow connected with certain chariots. Chariots are most likely metaphors. Chariots - movement somewhere or from somewhere. But blonde hair is already a sign. The lady must be sought among the blondes. To be honest, we don’t know where to look, but given that neither Vasily Nemchin nor the monk Abel had even heard of any “Ukraine” (in those days it was also Rus'), you can also look for a lady among Kyiv politicians.

This is a very serious question, because someone in Kyiv also has copies of ancient predictions - there were branches of the KGB there too. What, just like that, Mrs. Tymoshenko dyed her hair white, and the Party of Regions rolled out the blonde Mrs. Bogatyryova? Did Mrs. Vitrenko put her head in a bucket of peroxide because she wanted to be like Britney Spears at her sixty years old? That is, the prophecy about the “fair-haired Lady” is known in Kyiv, as is well known. And people are trying to play on it, as in the Kremlin they are trying to play on "bear paws". The game is worth the candle, since the “fair-haired Lady” is assigned some outstanding role by the prophet.

So far, the most likely contender for this role is Mrs. Tymoshenko[text before 2012] - anyway, she began loudly and correctly. If she really realizes what she promised, her influence on the masses, including in Russia, will be enormous, because no one has yet tried to revise "privatization" in the CIS. They were afraid to even discuss the topic. And at the same time (and we have been talking about this for a long time) the revision of “privatization” will give a person at least a 70% rating. A real rating that will have to be reckoned with in Russia as well.

Thus, in the course of events, more and more of the secret becomes gradually clear. Was first recognized Yeltsin(first texts Globs with references to Nemchin appeared already in 1988, if not earlier). Then he was recognized Putin. Now it's the turn of the "unintelligent young man" Menahem. Who do we recognize next?

Mikhail Saltan, Gleb Shcherbatov(ARI/netpress) around 2011

Valex: Tauride War - why not a war for the Crimea and Donbass. AND " crescent moon will appear"Maybe it's Turkey?