At that time in Europe there was a custom called the “right of the first night.” Its essence is that the feudal lord had the right to deflower any girl from his possessions who got married. That is why, after marriage, the bride spent her wedding night not with her newly-made husband, but with the feudal lord. If he did not like the bride, he had the right to refuse the first night, or sell this right to the groom. In some countries this tradition continued until late XIX century.
How did this tradition begin? According to one hypothesis, in this way the feudal lord confirmed his right of ownership.
According to another version, the gentleman took on this “difficult” role so that the husband would get a “proven” wife. Some historians see elements of sacrifice in this tradition (virginity was sacrificed to a deity, while the role of the deity in some countries was played by a priest).
Some peoples believed that the blood that appears during deflowering brings evil and disease. Therefore, the ritual was entrusted to a tribal elder or a sorcerer - that is, a strong person capable of resisting the machinations of evil spells. And only after this “purification” ritual was the newlywed given to the groom.
There was such a custom in Scandinavian pagan cults. After dark before first wedding night the priest of the fertility god Frey took the bride (of course, a stranger) into the forest, lit a fire and sacrificed a pig. After this, he performed the ritual, and then brought the bride to the groom. It was believed that after this mystery, a woman would be able to give birth to many healthy sons.
Some tribes in Africa and South America the act of deprivation of innocence was even performed by women (healers or the wife of the tribal leader).
Today, the most ancient customs may seem provocative and even barbaric. However, this is a part of the wedding history of the world that is interesting to get to know. Someone will be glad that today this is not practiced among modern newlyweds; someone might even be upset...
Not pleasure - but danger
In ancient times, the power of superstitions was greater than ever throughout the world. Therefore, the blood that appears when a girl is deflowered was associated by many peoples with evil. To avoid trouble, such a dangerous task was not trusted to the groom. For example, an elder or a sorcerer was the first to fight “evil.” However, different nations carried out this mission different people. And in different quantities and in different ways...
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Shamans deflowered girls to save them from evil spirits
In the ancient Scandinavian tribes, a sorcerer stole the virgin bride at nightfall before her wedding night and dragged her into the forest. There he brought a sacrifice (moose or wild boar) to the goddess Fria by the fire, in order to then perform ritual intercourse with the girl.
Ancient sex on the first date
IN Ancient Egypt unmarried girl on a certain day she came to the temple of the Great Goddess, where she had to give herself to the first man she met. You can imagine how much the male sex must have loved hanging out in that temple!
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In India, one of the peoples invited a non-local man to a wedding, who stayed in the village overnight to deflower the bride.
Just think, but what today is the most disgusting and sick betrayal for us, in the Papuan Arunto tribe was considered the norm. Shortly before the wedding, the groom himself (!) asked two or three of his friends to kidnap the bride and deprive her of her virginity. But this was only the beginning, because after the girl became a woman, every man of the tribe could come to her house before the wedding for a very specific purpose...
The first was... not a person
The inhabitants of the Kuanyama tribe, located next to Namibia, acted in an inhumane manner. Future brides were deflowered with a chicken egg!
There were peoples in history who did this to local girls using a bone knife or finger. This was done in New Guinea, on the Marquesas Islands, in the tribes of Central Australia and Central America. This was usually done by an elderly woman. And after that, all the men of the groom’s clan took turns copulating with the bride. The last one was the legal spouse.
Defloration as an honorable right
However, some ancient peoples put a different meaning into the tradition of the “right of the first night.” For example, the ancient inhabitants of the Balearic Islands considered it a privilege. Therefore, the eldest and most honorable of the guests at the wedding was the first to “lie down” with the bride, then all the others followed in descending order by age and rank. The groom was last. And in North Africa at the beginning of our era, the first wedding night even became a kind of “continuation of the banquet”, entertainment for the guests. Each one took turns copulating with the bride and giving her a gift.
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Painting by V.D. Polenov "The Right of the Master"
In the Middle Ages, almost everywhere, the first wedding night was the most honorable right. It became a sacred duty for the feudal lord to deflower serf girls. Counts and dukes could marry up to a hundred girls a year! And even brave medieval knights in shining armor meekly had to yield the “right of the first night” with their lady of the heart to their lord.
Fortunately, in Switzerland, for example, this custom became obsolete at the end of the 16th century, and some German states began to replace it with tribute or ransom. Such traditions existed in Russia until the abolition of serfdom in 1861. In various European countries, the groom reached the bride in the second order until the 17th-18th centuries.
“Am I not your first?!”
Ancient and medieval traditions were primarily against the groom, because anyone could be first, but not him. Today, being the first for every man is a gift worth its weight in gold. Maybe they speak of a genetic memory of the grievances of their forefathers?..
Today is the first wedding night - often the first, not in every sense
But in modern world talking about the “right of the first night” does not make much sense, because today, more than ever, the convention of this term is relevant. After all, for many girls, their wedding night is not their first in every sense of the word. However, there are still tribes in Africa that practice approaches to the first wedding night that are non-standard for civilized countries today...
Elena Kaluzhina
Sometimes modern people are shocked by the various customs and traditions followed by the inhabitants of medieval Europe. For example, the right of the first wedding night, which belonged to the feudal lords of many countries, was also practiced in feudal Russia. For centuries, the peasants submitted to the master's authority, practically without protest. So, it's not all that simple. Why was everyone happy that it was not her groom who was depriving the girl of her virginity?
What kind of custom?
Losing virginity in medical terms is called “defloration.” According to custom, this should happen on the first wedding night. In the Middle Ages, the right to have sexual intercourse with a bride, if she and her groom belonged to the peasant class, belonged to their master. That is, a feudal landowner whose lands are cultivated by families of young people getting married.
As a rule, it was possible to avoid fulfilling one’s duty to a nobleman only by paying a kind of “compensation.” The size and form of such a tax, collected by the master from his marrying peasants, varied depending on the country and the personal whim of the illustrious count or duke.
However, some representatives of the authorities and the clergy fought against this custom, depending on their own views. For example, back in 1486, King Ferdinand II the Catholic of Spain (1452-1516) issued a decree prohibiting noble lords from using the daughters and sons of peasants against their will “for pay or without pay,” as well as sleeping with the bride on their wedding night.
Nobody restrained the French aristocracy; the right of the first night was openly used here. Even representatives of the Catholic clergy, who often owned significant plots of land, engaged in defloration of their peasant women. And some of the nobles benefited from this, offering everyone, for a reasonable fee, to take advantage of their right to the innocence of girls.
Domestic nobles also did not lag behind their Western “colleagues”. And although according to the laws Russian Empire Landowners did not have the right to the first wedding night of serf girls; many took advantage of this custom. The complete lack of rights of Russian peasants allowed the masters to do almost anything with them.
To avoid paying tax
However, the majority of residents of our country and Western European countries were quite happy with this custom. And one of the reasons why representatives of the lower class literally put their brides under the feudal lords was the reluctance to pay the appropriate tax.
The peasants always lived poorly; their families had no extra money. For example, the Book of Burgundian Customs (a historical document of the late 14th century) states that when marrying a girl who belonged to another nobleman, a peasant is obliged to pay his owner a ransom. The payment could be avoided by forcing one's bride to gesir soubs le seigneur, which literally means "to lie under the master."
The size of the virginity tax on the girl, which allowed her to avoid a night with the landowner, depended on his preferences. Thus, at the beginning of the 15th century, in Normandy, the groom could “buy” the right of the first night from a nobleman for 10 sous, a loin of a pig and a gallon of wine. Some peasants were sorry to part with money and provisions; they preferred to give in to the counts and dukes of their brides.
Some Russian nobles also generously gave gifts to young families, satisfying their whims. Such material assistance was very useful for people starting a life together.
Defloration professional
Contrary to stereotypes, many men do not like to deprive girls of their virginity. Impressionable young men are scared away by the screams, pain, tears and bloody discharge of young beauties. The physiological aspects of the female body seem terrible to suitors. In Puritan Europe, marriages were often entered into by guys who did not have sufficient sexual experience. It was difficult for them to perform defloration both physically and mentally.
This is where professionals came to the rescue, who could “do it” with girls in the least painful way and as safely as possible, properly arousing the young lady and without damaging her fragile psyche. Needless to say, this is a task that is beyond the power of inexperienced youngsters.
It is not surprising that in 1507, when the mayor's office of the French city of Amiens passed a law obliging lords to share a bed with the wives of their vassals on their wedding night, the population reacted positively to this decision of the authorities. Defloration was perceived by many people not as a right, but as a duty of a nobleman.
Some counts and dukes had to deflower hundreds of girls a year. If the elderly lord could no longer cope with his task properly, one of his children or younger relatives took on this important function.
The origins of this custom go back centuries. In pre-Christian Europe, it was believed that only a shaman or tribal leader could perform defloration without causing the wrath of the spirits. This difficult task was handled by professionals. Echoes of pagan beliefs were strong among the people. Only the shaman was replaced by a signor or... representative of the clergy.
One day, the inhabitants of a monastery located in the Italian city of Piedmont even turned to the local bishop with a request to release them from the obligation to engage in defloration of local residents. The leadership of the Catholic Church met them halfway, replacing the existing custom with the payment of the appropriate tax.
Bastard child
In no country in the world was the position of peasants enviable. Therefore, people hoped that the girl would become pregnant by the landowner. If a child was born 9 months after the wedding, the master was informed of the birth of an illegitimate son or daughter. Many nobles believed in their paternity; they generously helped the peasant family and gave money to support the child. This allowed the couple to comfortably raise other children.
In addition, some landowners sought to give their bastards a decent education, which had a positive effect on their future. Illegitimate descendants of representatives of noble Russian families even received truncated surnames of their fathers. For example, the bastard of Count Vorontsov was recorded in documents as Rontsov, the son of Prince Trubetskoy bore the surname Betskoy, the descendant of Bestuzhev - Stuzhev, etc.
The bride's innocence was confirmed
In Christian countries, a girl's virginity was often one of the prerequisites for her marriage. But not all young ladies kept their virginity before marriage. How to be? The right of the first night turned out to be in their favor, because this way everything could be hidden. They say, “the gentleman did this to me.”
As for the nobleman himself, he doesn’t care at all: the bride is a stranger. Why report to the peasants that the young lady turned out to be very experienced and skillful in bed? What does he care about people he doesn’t even want to know?
That's why many girls didn't resist. For most of them, the master's bed was available only on their wedding night, and they took advantage of it.
The myth of the first man
In many European countries there was a pagan belief that the first man is very important in the life of any woman. It was believed that he, as it were, leaves his energetic mark on her, influencing all her future children, who will certainly inherit his qualities, regardless of whether this man is their biological father or not.
Some peasants wanted their offspring to borrow at least a few traits from the “noble” man.
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(Archpriest Avvakum )
I often have to talk with the reader on various sensitive topics. In my opinion, in the conversation of well-mannered people, there should be no prohibitions on discussion; it’s another matter when the author indulges in obvious obscenities. It is the ability to stay on the edge of what is permitted, not to cross the threshold of decency, that distinguishes a writer from a scribbler. Still, the writer is responsible for those whom he taught.
I foresee despondency on the faces of the readers, they say, Commissioner Qatar launched into a sermon about the observance and protection of chastity. This is not so, the author himself is far from ideal in this matter, having simply lived for more than half a century, he has revised his views on life, which he happily informs the reader about.
Of course, I didn’t become a schema monk or a clique. The world is much more interesting than these extremes, especially if you look at it with your own eyes and feel like a part of it.
I will not bore the reader with my reasoning, I understand that my reader is smart, but I want to remind you: despite the title of this miniature, everyone who has read my other works knows that in the end we will talk about a crime. For those who have encountered me for the first time, I hasten to inform you that the author is just the tip of the iceberg consisting of more than 3,000 army of retired law enforcement officers who are carefully disguised in social networks and represent the OSG - the operational investigative group. When creating a virtual Interpol, I proposed the idea of investigating crimes of the past. Our first works showed that we are interesting to the reader. Today the group unites detectives from more than 100 countries. These are real rexes of detectives who held serious positions in law enforcement agencies many countries of the world. Sometimes it is very difficult for a historian to get into the Vatican archives. However, this statement does not apply to the Carabinieri of Italy or the security officer of the Papal Guard. And so on in all countries of the world. Retired veterans jumped at the opportunity to stretch their bones and air out their attics while investigating the mysteries of the past. And given that we have students who currently occupy high positions in the authorities, the reader receives truly good material. I will say right away that everything is documented in a certain number of copies of the criminal case, compiled according to Interpol standards, and stored in different places. I can happily say that the first courts have finally taken place, to which readers who disagree with our research have turned. This is exactly what we offer to those who are trying to prove our inconsistency by reading the author’s miniatures, which are artistically processed information from these cases. I would like to note that the first “buyers” of our materials also appeared. For example, for the case of T.G. Shevchenko, we were offered a fairly large sum of money. I hasten to inform such businessmen that the materials are not for sale, it’s a shame for our country. Therefore, do not strain your abilities, everything that is collected through the efforts of detectives will definitely see the light of day. And with our old age and pensions, the kefir state is as natural as memories of the dashing operational youth. Keep your money, gentlemen. We love our game and you won't be able to stop it.
However, to the point! The subject of today's investigation will be the right of the first wedding night. It may seem to many that the question is not the most pressing in these times of universal permissiveness and decline in morals. This is not so, our times are no different from the times of the past - people always remain people and the author does not know an hour on planet Earth when the world would live in complete harmony. Therefore, when starting to present the material, I want to remind the reader that the states of Europe are not ancient and were formed as a result of the collapse of the great Slavic empire called Great Tartary in the West and Russia-Horde in Rus' itself. The entire history of Western countries is a complete fiction and human chronology is not as long as it is drawn by historians who are in charge of mythology called “Is Torah Ya”.
Before the 9th century, there were no cities yet, people did not know how to build brick houses, and this time should be understood as a tribal-communal state. Today's date of birth of Christ was determined by the medieval monk Dionysius the Small and is erroneous by more than 1000 years. This is the assigned millennium. The current dates of the birth and death of the Savior are different: 1153-1185. ad.
Therefore, it should be imagined that the great Slavic conquest of the world, which began in the 10th century AD, in the European part of the continent of Asia, did not meet any resistance from the wild tribes inhabiting this part of the continent. Livonia (that’s what Europe was previously called) was colonized in a short time and its modern countries appeared as a result of the wars of the Reformation (the Great Troubles in Rus' at the beginning of the 17th century) in Europe. It was precisely these countries that led separatism with the papal throne in the Vatican that needed new story. Having no other examples before our eyes other than the Slavic empire, numerous reflections of the lives of real kings of the empire were invented, when their lives were passed off as the exploits of antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Moreover, numerous reflections of Jesus Christ (Buddha, Osiris, Pythagoras, Hercules and others) were replicated in the religions of different nations with the sole purpose of confusing humanity by feeding it myths invented in the Vatican.
However, history is not the only falsification of this Judeo-Christian church. The struggle that began in the 14th century for separation from Kievan Rus (which is actually the Byzantine Empire of the Slavs) affected all aspects of human life, including law.
Now you can hear many discussions about the right of the first wedding night of the PPBN, ranging from priestly law to the primitive possession of all women of the tribe. Nonsense! Since their appearance on Earth (approximately 8,000 years from the creation of Adam), people have been monogamous. True, there were more than one wives. There are good reasons for this - numerous wars have killed men.
Considering the PPBN, we will correlate with the materials of the Russian Pravda - the first document regulating legal relations among the Russian tribe. Please note that in Rus' they used Pravda, but in Europe they used laws. That is, Rus' lived according to the truth of God (his teachings), and Europe lived according to the laws invented by the people themselves.
Therefore, I will first talk about Europe, and then finish with Russian truth.
Since the 14th century, the law of the first night in Western Europe has acquired the status of customary legal law. In other words, it becomes something like a tax that can be ceded, transferred, and transformed. The point is that the birthplace of Judaism, Khazaria, defeated by the Slavic princes, was abandoned en masse by its peoples and rushed to Europe and the Caucasus, as the only places where shelter was possible. No ancient Jews ever existed. This is how the tribe of Jews of Khazaria (the state-forming people) began to be called after the decree of Empress Catherine the Great. While traveling around Russia, she was presented with a petition from the Jewish elders of Little Russia, in which the latter asked to replace the word Jew with the word Jew. By the way, Jew is a Slavic word meaning awaiting, awaiting (the Messiah).
European Jews, based on the legend of Joseph (pharaoh's caretaker), gained access to the money of Europe and were considered the best accountants. It was the fleeing Khazars who invented bank interest, which made the producer dependent on the creditor - a clear distortion of any society.
An act of the city of Bigorra, dated 1538, prescribes: “Those who wish to give their daughters in marriage must present them on the first night to their lord, so that he may please himself...”
Subsequently, in return for his girlish innocence, Señor Bigorra receives a chicken, a lamb shoulder and three bowls of porridge. As you can see, virginity was not particularly valuable in Livonia. I understand Señor Bigorre and I will say frankly: if I have to choose between a friendly drinking session with a Lucullus feast and love pleasures, I will choose the first, that is, a chicken, a lamb shoulder and three bowls of porridge. With such wealth, my friends and I, after good libations, will catch more than a dozen ladies, fortunately they do not particularly resist. Of course, this is a joke by the author, but there is some truth in it.
One day, the monks of the monastery of Saint-Feobart inherited the rights of one feudal lord, among which was the right of the first night in relation to the girls of the village of Montoriol. The inhabitants of Montoriol opposed this and asked the Count of Toulouse for protection from the monks. It should be noted that the count whipped the monks and castrated some, rightly believing that Catholic prayer sounds most beautifully from the lips of castrati. By the way, the Count of Toulouse himself was not a Catholic. He is a Cathar, that is, an Orthodox Old Believer or, more simply, an Old Believer.
Article 17 of the legislative code of the city of Amiens from 1507 prescribes: “The husband has no right to lie with his wife on the first wedding night without the permission of the lord, before the said lord lies with the said wife.” At the same time, in the same code a specific price was named in specie - there was no talk of any chickens.
The canons of the Lyon Cathedral demanded that they be given the right to lie down on their wedding night with the wives of their serfs. As you can see, no one was interested in celibacy (celibacy) of the Catholic fathers. It is now more than 70% of papal priests who are fertile homosexuals. The percentage of this offspring in the Middle Ages was much lower, because the essence of this right was not only the material well-being of the church.
It has long been known that a woman stores the type of her first man at the genetic level. Regardless of the father of her children, this is the type that will be inherent in her descendants. Thus, the Catholic Church tried to instill its presence in society at the genetic level of the peoples it conquered.
The right of the first night was replaced for the Augustinian monks by one crown, and for the Bishop of Abbeville - by the sum of 30 francs. I understand the bishop! At his age, a woman's consent looks more threatening than her refusal. Therefore, the prelate had to pay for the peace.
In general, the Catholic Church has always supported debauchery. Needless to say, all the fashionable brothels in Rome belong to the Vatican through dummies. Making money from the vices of society is the everyday reality of this den.
I think that the reader has received the correct idea of the European law of the first wedding night. Enough! Now let's move on to Rus', where this right actually came from.
To search for documents speaking about such a right, I had to turn over tons of manuscripts from different times. For clarity, I will give a small list of the material studied.
Byzantine law
Nomocanon
Judgment law for people
Helmsman's book
Righteous Measure
Russian law
Row (agreement)
Treaties between Rus' and Byzantium
Russian Law
The most ancient truth
Pokon Virny
Charter on cuts
Church Charter of Vladimir
Church charter of Yaroslav
Judicial duel
Local church statutes
Statutory charters
Smolenskaya trading truth
Novgorod treaties
Metropolitan Justice
Novgorod court charter
Pskov judicial charter
Code of laws of 1497
Statutes of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Code of Law of Ivan IV
Stoglav
Cathedral Code of 1607
Cathedral Code of 1649
Vira
Headiness
Flow and plunder
I won’t torture the reader; such a right is not mentioned anywhere. Therefore, I can safely say that there was nothing like European law in Rus'. Without delving into the aspects of this problem, I will say the following: I managed to find a document establishing such a right in Rus'. This will happen during the time of the second Romanov, Tsar Alexei, who will pass a law on the “Fortress” in Rus', that is, on the enslavement of the peasants. Before the Romanovs came to the throne of Russia, there was no serfdom. I wrote in other works that the Romanovs of the Great Troubles are Gorbachevs of the Perestroika times. It was the Romanovs who organized the coup in Rus', denigrated their predecessors and changed the epic, replacing it with European history. True, their reign will end very soon, with Peter the Great, after he is kidnapped in the Grand Embassy. I have already written that Peter the Great and Peter the Great are different people. Peter, who is Romanov, is famous Iron Mask held in the Bastille and Fort Boyard in France. And Peter the Great is a scion of the Anhalt family, replaced by the real Peter. The word Great is one of the surnames of the Anhalt family. He, too, would not rule for long: Peter the Great, his daughter Elizabeth and his niece Federica-Sophia-Charlotte, better known as Ekaterina the Second the Great, princess of the House of Anhalt. By the way, anhalt is translated from German as giant.
With the onset of serfdom in Rus', this aspect of the law under discussion appeared.
However, I found traces of this right in early Rus'. He ascends to Byzantine law. It is now believed that an unknown people lived in Byzantium. Slave! Still like a wingman! These are Slavs! And the alphabet there is Slavic and our speech. It is now believed that Yaroslav the Wise sat on the Dnieper. Liars! Kievan Rus is Byzantium and Yaroslav in the crown of the sevastocrator, in many images the ruler of Byzantium, and not the Khazar town of Sambat. Yaroslav the Wise mentions this right. Coming from Great Rus', Yaroslav knew very well what the lack of a bloody sheet on their wedding night would entail for a young family. Modern Russians, greeting each other with the words “Good morning,” do not understand that this is not a wish, but a question from the groom’s mother, “Good morning or not good?” And the mother asked about the bride’s virginity. The chaste Russian village did not a priori allow a violation of its foundations.
We are all human and sinners. You shouldn’t think that our ancestors were different from us in this way. Love is not yet capable of such things as the hayloft before the wedding night. Let us, following the example of Yaroslav, not condemn the young? Let’s just understand the hopelessness of the situation for a young woman who covered herself with shame on a bad morning. This custom was not the best among our ancestors and led to tragedy. It could only be solved by the cunning of the ruler. So the prince cheated. He ordered the girl and her betrothed, who had repented of their secret sin to him or his boyars, to be put to bed on the first night in the prince's or boyar's upper rooms. In this case, the word of the prince was higher than the evidence of the sheet, and the night in the sovereign's mansion was considered honorable, because the prince or boyar was considered a father to his subjects. This decree was written by him personally and was of a secret nature, fortunately the matter was very sensitive. Judge for yourself the reader how much maiden honor the wise ruler saved.
This fact was distorted in Europe by the Vatican prelates and lords of the Catholic monarchs, who were in fact ordinary governors of the Horde Russian tsar in the lands of Livonia conquered by Russia. It was they who accepted the separatist movement of the Vatican to separate from Rus', which ended with the Peace of Tilset, which established many of the borders of modern European states. Having lied once, the Vatican continued the lie, transforming it into the canon of Catholicism, instilling immorality and indulgence of sin in the peoples of Europe.
There was nothing like this in Rus' before the Romanovs (proteges of the Vatican). It will be later, from the time of Catherine the Great, when the complete enslavement of Rus' occurs, the destruction of its ancient foundations, a “European democratic law” will appear that has nothing to do with the TRUTH.
The nobles of Europe, which poured in after the first Germans, would demand for themselves the “ancient” right of the first wedding night; fortunately, in Europe itself at that time, this right would be almost universally abolished in the 18th century. In Russia (no longer Rus') an orgy of democracy will begin, the desire to change the Russian world not only in foundations and faith, but also in the genotype of the people themselves.
I am a descendant ancient family Russian pillar nobility. I am from the Cathars of Albigensian Montsegur and my ancestors, the same Russian-Horde warriors who conquered Livonia-Europe. Our estates occupied entire districts of modern Russia. Since ancient times, we have been Old Believers and have not accepted Nikonianism in Orthodoxy. My kind of families are strong. One of the readers wrote me a letter telling me about the amazing similarity of my photograph with his cousin and saying that he is my namesake. He tells a story about a certain gentleman who loved serf girls and gave them his last name. He asked if we were related. I have to disappoint him: Old Believers are monogamous and marriages in case of widowhood were allowed no more than three. Talking about flirting on the side in relation to an Old Believer means telling a lie. There are many nobles with the same last name, and my family is no exception. However, my ancestors considered their peasants given to them in a fortress with estates for their service as their children. One of them, according to his spiritual will, gave one million rubles to buy out the land plots of the peasants of the Novgorod lands. And this is the budget of a state like modern Lithuania, only from that time. The second set his peasants free, for which he was exiled to hard labor in the mines of Akatuy. My ancestors did not consider it possible to own their own kind, but they could not fight the state machine of the new Russian (not Russian, but Russian) empire. That is why, knowing the epic of their people, serving them in military labor, they tried in every possible way to make the life of their peasants easier. There are no women in my family who came as wives from serfs. The most ancient clans of Rus' gave us their best daughters as wives, and we gave ours in return. It was thanks to them that the genotype of tall, fair-haired, brave men, ready for self-sacrifice, hereditary warriors known since 1244 as close boyars of their princes, was created in Rus'. The Silver Swan on the family's coat of arms represents its motto: FROM LOYALTY TO GLORY.
Now tell me, reader, do you perceive this family as one that can afford to betray its own foundations, for example, by applying the European law of the wedding night?
Concluding the miniature, I want to say that after the violent overthrow of the Horde Russian tsars by the Romanovs, their distortion of the epics of the Russian people, mockery of their Faith, foundations, truth, and the commission of other crimes against the Russian people, confusion set in in society, which continues to this day. Subsequent troubles that befell the Russian state, starting from the Great Troubles, all the wars of the Romanov dynasty and their heirs from other dynasties, revolutions of all years, the destruction of the latter royal family, the confusion in the official church is precisely the consequence of a crime against their people and their rulers from the Russian-Horde dynasty of the Rurik-Comnenos.
Only a return to the origins of Rus' will return it to its greatness
Take a look at the Encyclopedia Britannica, the cutting edge of 17th century scholarship. There you will see a huge state lying on 4 continents - Great Tartaria. Take a look at the modern world atlas and evaluate the damage to Russian territory, its losses from the wars with Livonia, understand all the lies of the Russian rulers regarding their own epic and evaluate the meanness of Jewish history.
Look and wake up, Russian man! Is it your business to believe the Torah, even dressed in the toga of the Old Testament? Maybe you can take and read the books given in this miniature?
They are online and accessible.
And further. There is such a book called the Facial Chronicle Code. It was written for the royal house, for the son of the undeservedly slandered Tsar Ivan the Terrible. So in it the history of Rus' begins with Vladimir Monomakh and there is not a word of mention of Kievan Rus. That is, at the tsar’s court they simply did not know about the state with its capital on the Dnieper. Moreover, among the titles of the Russian Tsar there is no word Kiev, and of all the modern cities of Ukraine, only Chernigov is mentioned. But in ancient Russian chronicles there is the word KIUV. And it is written with an addition as KIUV-GRAD.. This word means TSAR or the same TSARGRAD, or more simply BYZANTIUS. This is Kievan Rus.
It remains to add that none of the archaeological excavations in modern Kyiv provide a picture of the ancient Russian settlement. Kyiv on the Dnieper is the same myth as Europe itself with its right to the first wedding night.
At that time in Europe there was a custom called the “right of the first night.” Its essence is that the feudal lord had the right to deflower any girl from his possessions who got married. That is why, after marriage, the bride spent her wedding night not with her newly-made husband, but with the feudal lord. If he did not like the bride, he had the right to refuse the first night, or sell this right to the groom. In some countries this tradition continued until the end of the 19th century.
How did this tradition begin? According to one hypothesis, in this way the feudal lord confirmed his right of ownership.
According to another version, the gentleman took on this “difficult” role so that the husband would get a “proven” wife. Some historians see elements of sacrifice in this tradition (virginity was sacrificed to a deity, while the role of the deity in some countries was played by a priest).
Some peoples believed that the blood that appears during deflowering brings evil and disease. Therefore, the ritual was entrusted to a tribal elder or a sorcerer - that is, a strong person capable of resisting the machinations of evil spells. And only after this “purification” ritual was the newlywed given to the groom.
There was such a custom in Scandinavian pagan cults. With the onset of darkness before the first wedding night, the priest of the god of fertility Frey took the bride (of course, a stranger) into the forest, lit a fire and sacrificed a pig. After this, he performed the ritual, and then brought the bride to the groom. It was believed that after this mystery, a woman would be able to give birth to many healthy sons.
Among some tribes in Africa and South America, the act of deprivation of virginity was even performed by women (healers or the wife of the tribal leader).
Celebration of the first wedding night
A very interesting tradition existed in Scotland - there friends and relatives prevented the newlyweds from spending their wedding night in every possible way. They immediately did not allow the young couple to have privacy, and if they succeeded, they made noise and shouted, preventing them from enjoying each other. They could feel all the delights of their wedding night only when the guests were tired of the fun and fell asleep.
In Greece, a child must run around the marriage bed in order for healthy children to be born in the family in the future.
In Germany and France, friends and relatives did the same as in Scotland - they made noise under the windows, placed alarm clocks in the room.
In the Philippines, newlyweds were completely forbidden to have sex on their wedding night, and this is due to the fact that a child conceived on the wedding day could be born sick through alcohol consumption by the future parents.
The Chinese tradition of spending the first night differs from the European one, since here great importance added beauty to the room where such an important event was to take place. The room was decorated with flowers, red and yellow candles in the shape of dragons, the main purpose of which was to drive away evil spirits from the newlyweds. Before entering this room, the newlyweds had to drink wine from glasses that were tied together with a red ribbon.
The most exotic traditions existed in Africa. There, in some tribes, after the wedding, the husband knocked out his wife’s two front teeth on their wedding night. Thus, the husband informed his fellow tribesmen that this girl was married.