The Sketch about the new Russial historians, histo

The Sketch about the new Russial historians, historic factories and gateways


Not everything is fine in "the far kingdom".

Suddenly "historical gateways" opened. Like the era of end of the 1980th - the beginning of the 1990th.

At first sight – it is interesting. Read – a lot of a new.

Puzzles are piecing together and create images... There is material for publications…

There was such historian – Pavel Eliseevich Shchyogolev. The Internet in "Shchyogolev's times" was not, yet. Shchyogolev was a real personality, wrote real books, these books were bought by real buyers. Books became a subject of real discussions.

The discussion was really real. For example, was identified the attempt to hoax (the attempt of a mystification of) readers, the audience from side of Pavel Shchegolev.

But those times passed long ago.

You meet some a publication on the Internet. You do not know who – an "author" is (it is theoretically possible that it is literary or historical factory). You do not see real books. There are no real discussions …

It seems, and articles are interesting ones... There are an interesting biographic coincidences … But in different articles is felt, also, a something a similar …

Or here historical article about authors of the "Diploma of the cuckold".  The "Diploma" was recieved in due time by Alexander Pushkin.

I reflected on "diploma" and on its "authors" - using the material of the book (with a good documentary basis), - the book by Pavel Shchyogolev (about the Pushkin's duel), and some other works.

The trail went to the "top". What difference by whose exactly the hand wrote the text of "diploma": footman, dignitary or somebody else?. These are details …

But destinies of the talented people who got to (who were involved into) millstones of the Nikolay Pavlovich’s regime (including, such persons as Pyotr Vladimirovich Dolgorukov, Ivan Sergeyevich Gagarin) were to some extent an identical, a similar…

But we will return to "new" "historians".

I open the list of publications of "author".

I counted 34 works.

All works are devoted to five (six) subjects.

1. "Diploma of the cuckold".

2. Makarenko (teacher) and Krupskaya,

3. Hitler and Blavatskaya,

4. Turgenev and his mother (options – Turgenev and the imperial power, Turgenev and his funeral) (!),

5. Saratov peasants and trade in human hair (!) …

There is an attempt, probably, which did not gain movement (a one time intention - if to take into account the appeared list):

6. About a star of the Soviet cinema to Tamara Makarova.

Curious enthusiasm of "new" Russian "historian" … a Good "historian"!... What would be told about it by Pavel Shchyogolev?

Would Pavel Shchyogolev prepare the letter mystification from Andrey Kurbsky to the State Duma – about need of adoption of law against historical fakes?

Just the other day Alexander Pushkin was fined 30,000 rubles (part 3 of article 20.2 — distribution on the Internet of information insulting human dignity and expressing a clear lack of respect for the state authorities. This article appeared in the administrative code on March 18, 2019).

There is a wish to ask: and who will protect Alexander Pushkin (together with Ivan Turgenev) from historical fakes?

But it is better not to ask such questions … Not everybody understand irony …

If to generalize, are necessary:

1) The normal national book market,

2) Normal publishing houses (including historical) (and other participants of the book market),

3) Normal real authors (including – historians),

4) Normal books (including – on historical subjects),

5) Normal, real discussions of historical themes and of historical researches …

Under such conditions, not a talkings without end and without beginning there will be put on the forefront, but will occur brilliant talents, as "historiographer" Alexander Pushkin, outstanding writers and literary researchers, as a talented and enthusiastic Pavel Shchegolev.


June 6, 2019 21:37


Translation from Russian into English: June 7, 2019 11:39.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский «Скетч о новых российских историках, исторических фабриках и шлюзах».