Аннотация: The Fairy Tale of how Stierlitz was making history
The Fairy Tale of how Stierlitz was making history
Stierlitz goes along the corridor. And somehow it isn't good at him at heart:
"The suitcase is being looked at densely from all sides. They are exploring it. Fingerprints are getting off!"
"It won't end well!"
Suddenly sees a door. In the lock - keys. He comes in. Phones.
"Fo-o-oh!" - Stierlitz has with relief sighed. Dials number and agrees about an urgent confidential meeting.
In half an hour the car, very respectable, approaches. At windows - curtains.
The front right door opens.
Stierlitz gets into the car.
The inside of the car is partitioned off by confidential glass partitions on several parts.
- I have considered a situation, - Stierlitz hears a voice behind. - Give me guarantees of the proper building of the relations with the English and American allies.
- I'll send with a special mission pastor Schlag! - Stierlitz answers.
After some pause the glass partition, separating back sitting, has a little passed down, and Stierlitz has seen the thin folder was handing to him.
The car has stopped. The driver has reported: "The trip is over!"
Stirlitz got out of the car, moved into own automobile and went to his mansion in the suburbs of Berlin.
And here he at home, in the own office-room. He have locked a door, have downed curtains.
Opens the folder. In it - two documents.
"So! Two Confirming certificates".
He reads the first:
"The Confirming certificate
This Confirming certificate testifies and proves that:
1. Qasim Khanate was the vassal state. Moscow princes allocated this territory for the Tatar "tsars" and "tsarevitches" ("princes"), who was coming into Russian service.
2. The Kazan prince Qasim khan (d. 1469), the son of the first Kazan khan Olug Moxammat, who has received the special land plot from structure of Russian lands under the peace treaty of 1445 and has formally passed to service to the Grand Prince Vasily II of Moscow, was the first possessor of the Qasim Khanate. However, there is written evidence that the the Grand Prince of Moscow paid a tribute to the Kasimov khans. The last mention of such a tribute dates back to 1553.
3. Under Ivan IV Vasilyevich the Kasimov Tsar was Simeon Bekbulatovich (d. 1616). By the will of Ivan IV Vasilyevich Simeon Bekbulatovich was declared in 1575 "Grand Prince of All Rus' " and was the nominal ruler of the Russian state.
Ivan IV Vasilyevich ordered to write the official letters and the petitions, with addressing to Simeon.
4. In the course of the historical process there was a merger of the Qasim Khanate and the Russian centralized state.
Signature. Seal. Date."
Stierlitz looked respectfully at the seal and signature. He has though that the situation did not allow to thank the interlocutor for his consent to the meeting.
Stierlitz has put before himself the second document.
"The Confirming certificate
This Confirming certificate testifies and proves that:
1. The Qasim Khanate and Simeon Bekbulatovich are assignees of the Golden Horde, of all her right predecessors and all her assignees.
2. In connection with merge of the Qasim Khanate and the centralized Russian state in appropriate cases the Russian centralized state is considered as the assignee of the Qasim Khanate.
Signature. Seal. Date."
Stierlitz has looked at the second signature with smaller respect: "Clearly, who needs to be thanked!"
"Of course, Ivan IV Vasilyevich has put Simeon Bekbulatovich as the Moscow tsar and crowned him with an imperial wreath, and himself was called Ivan Moskovsky. Ivan IV Vasilyevich "left" the city and began to live on Petrovka; he has given all the imperial rank to Simeon, and himself went simply as the boyar, using a simple horse vehicles, and every time when there came Simeon, Ivan IV Vasilyevich located together with boyars far from a tsar's disposition". "However, clear who gave the command!"
But something was missing.
Stierlitz has remembered the article of Wikipedia about the historian Nikolay Mikhaylovich Karamzin. The Russian Emperor Alexander I appointed him a state historian. In 1816, Karamzin removed to St Petersburg, where he spent the happiest days of his life, enjoying the favour of Alexander I and submitting to him the sheets of the Karamzin's great work "History of the Russian State", which the Emperor read over with him in the gardens of the palace of Tsarskoye Selo. Stierlitz has read also some materials from the electronic version "From the Ancient Russia till the Russian Empire".
"It is necessary to write the e-mail to N.M. Karamzin. He is a human of modern times. He will give the answer by e-mail!"
Really very quickly the answer came from Karamzin.
The text of "The expert historical opinion" was rather big.
Stierlitz has missed the preface, the text of a research and other parts of the text. He immediately looked into the final lines.
"Conclusion: in appropriate cases, the Russian centralized state can be reasonably considered the assignee of the Mongol Empire."
Stierlitz went to the balcony. Smelled like spring.
He got into the car and headed for Berlin.
A far radio station was transferring the "Ode to Joy". "From the fiery mirror of truth//She smiles upon the researcher...", - with pleasure remembered Stierlitz.
"What?!" "Suitcase ... Fingerprints ..." - Stierlitz thought and touched fingers the folder lying nearby. Confirming certificates and "The expert historical opinion" were in folder. "Ivan Vasilyevich looked far ahead!"- Stierlitz philosophically thought.
After a short time he was in Berlin.
"Stierlitz goes along the corridor!"
28 July 2018 16:57
Translation from Russian into English: July 29, 2018 21:58.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский "Сказка о том, как Штирлиц делал историю".