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In the 1970s, among the Soviet creative intelligentsia, it was possible to try the images of the noble nobility, separated from the plebs by a high origin. In creative companies, it has become fashionable to regret "Russia, which we have lost". At a time when the "underground rehabilitation" of Romanovs in creative circles was gaining momentum, there was thunder. Valentine Pikul's book "The Impure Force" has been published, "Arguments and Facts."
"The bloody reign – and the most colorless"
In the early 1970s, Pikul tackles a subject that seems to be studied but, paradoxically, little known. The domination of the last Russian emperor in the USSR has always been considered exclusively through the prism of the activities of the revolutionaries.
Pikul dismissed the Social Revolutionaries, the Bolsheviks, the Mensheviks, the Romanovs themselves, and the Russian elite of the late nineteenth century. Unlike earlier eras, this time interval was captured in the memories of contemporaries who had different political views
From these testimonies appeared a portrait of the era of the disintegration of the great empire, when Grigory Rasputin became the main figure of the life of the country. "The lecherous camarilla, which hatched Grishka from his church egg in his court incubator, seems to have no idea of what will result from it." And in the parables of Solomon, it says, " Have you seen an agile man in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand in front of the simple. "Rasputin has understood this Bible truth well."
– And for me to stand before the people to trample on it? I'll sit down … Better, I'll get up before the kings. the garbage can be fat, with only one crumb of the Tsar's age, you will be well fed! ..
Arguments and Facts
Among the claims that will be made against Valentin Pikul in relation to the "Force" of Evil ", there will be accusations of insubordination.In fact, everything is exactly the opposite – it is probably the most documentary book of all that Pikul has created.The bibliography of the manuscript of the The author contains 128 titles, including memoirs of newspapers from this period, as well as reports of interrogations and testimonies of 59 senior ministers, gendarmes and officials of the Russian Empire given in 1917 by the Extraordinary Inquiry Commission of the Provisional Government.The monarch, who To keep the country in his fist, leave the throne to his son, who is not endowed with the character of his father, but who tries to copy the manner of his administration. The growing crisis is compounded by the presence of the wife of the new emperor, whose nature has not been tolerated even by the closest people. The problems of the Empress have pushed her towards mysticism, looking for a messiah, for which she becomes an intelligent peasant, a drink lover and a drinker, Grigory Rasputin. Not having any education, but able to influence Rasputin people, begins to skillfully manipulate the royal couple, becoming for them an indispensable figure. And all this in the context of the deterioration of the state government of the empire, the inability of the monarch to follow the path of timely reforms.
Valentin Pikul did not invent anything in this novel. He just brought a mirror in which he reflected all the state of the last emperor's reign. This did not correspond to the popular print, created at the same time in the kitchens of Soviet creators who "fell ill" with "lost Russia".
"They will kill me for Rasputin"
Forgive this writer for not being able to. The job was created in 1972-1975, and even then Pikul encountered threats.
"This novel has a very strange and complicated destiny," wrote the author himself. "I remember that I did not start writing this book I started getting filthy anonymous letters, warning me that they would kill me for Rasputin." Threaters wrote that you have written on any matter, but do not touch Grigory Rasputin and his best friends. "
Pikul for" evil spirit "was from two sides – threats from fans of the imperial family of" creative cuisines " dissatisfaction with the party's main ideologue Mikhail Suslov . Leonid Brezhnev .
"Many years pbaded, around my novel and my name there was a void of disturbing silence – I was simply silenced and I did not print Meanwhile, historians sometimes told me: do not understand why you were beaten? After all, you did not discover anything new, everything you described in the novel was published in the Soviet press in the 1920s … ", says Valentin Pikul. "The evil spirit." However, he did not realize that a few years later an unofficial taboo was announced on the book of Rasputin and the Romanovs.
Truth Inconvenient
The canonization of the imperial family turned the "Impure Force" into something blasphemous in the eyes of a certain public. At the same time, the hierarchs themselves noted that the Romanovs had canonized for martyrdom and not for the way of life they led.
But those who came from the kitchens of the '70s creators' are ready to declare war on anyone. Romanov.
The popular RSFSR artist Nikolai Gubenko who staged "The Impure Force" at The Commonwealth of Taganka Actors in 2017, collected all charges of defamation of the imperial family
. with the novel, those who accuse the authors of the play ignore the main thing e – it is based solely on the testimonies and documents of the time.
The "anointed of God" have already become so degraded that Rasputin's unnatural presence under his "high dignitaries" was considered a normal phenomenon of autocratic life. Sometimes it even seems to me that Rasputin was sort of a drug for the Romanovs. It has become necessary for Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna in the same way that a drunkard needs a glbad of vodka because a drug addict needs a regular injection under the skin … Then they come back to life, then shine their eyes again
The moment – against a backdrop of "dashing 90s" frames Grishka Rasputin's boots, invisible but present, squeaks on the stage.
There was no "Russia we lost". She destroyed herself, Pikul baderted in her best novel
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