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A tutorial of a writer's success. Part I. Heinrich Schliemann and his lessons.

Once (it was October 2016) we wrote a book (in Russian) about the Laws of Success by Heinrich Schliemann. («Учебник писательского успеха. Часть I. Генрих Шлиман и его уроки», 180 с., ISBN 978-5-4483-3250-0 (9785448332500).
"The Textbook on the success of the writer. Part I. Heinrich Schliemann and his lessons", 180 p., ISBN 978-5-4483-3250-0 (9785448332500).)

It is logical to believe that the translation of this book (even if not all, but only a several pages) into English will be interesting for a part of the reading audience.

Here the translation of Chapter 1 from this book.



A tutorial of a writer's success. Part I. Heinrich Schliemann and his lessons.


© VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH ZALESSKY, 2016


Heinrich Schliemann was a businessman for about twenty years. Then, he became a millionaire. After that, he became a scientist, a writer. A legendary archaeologist. Heinrich Schliemann's lessons show how success is achieved. Success in all areas of life. A writer's success.

Table of contents
A tutorial of a writer's success. Part I.

Chapter 1. Heinrich Schliemann: paradoxes and comics. (Instead of a preface)
1.1. Paradoxes of Schlieman
1.2. Schliemann and the Comics. Why the author was writing this book
1.3. Is it possible to “learn to Schliemann”?

Chapter 2. Hansa - Ankershagen - Pompeas
2.1 Ankershagen: "A distant settlement" or a fabulous intellectual center?
2.2. The ship-broker J. F. Wendt of Hamburg, the benefactor
2.3. Ernst Schlieman: Pastor, Teacher, Father. A home (parent) learning
2.4. Distant Hansa, close Pompeas

Chapter 3. Plant an Astrakhan apple tree near your home in childhood

Chapter 4. Save yourself ... by the keg

Chapter 5. Become ... a university
5.1. Higher education at the "Earth planet" university
5.2. Heinrich Schlimann's self-development system

Chapter 6. Fabulousness is a powerful method
6.1. Five reasons to apply a fairy tale’s approach
6.2. The fairy worlds of Heinrich Schliemann

Chapter 7. Be able to interact with the future
7.1. Signs
7.2. The ability to feel and to anticipate the future
7.3. Dreams

Chapter 8. Sinbad the Sailor and the System of Personal Independence

Chapter 9. Play the win-win game
9.1. "To uncover Troy". A purpose as a historical sequence of events. (1818-1867).
9.2. A financial capital for digging Troy
9.3. "To uncover Troy". A purpose as a historical sequence of events. (1868-1870).
9.4. The energy of a name ("Schliemann", "Culvert")
9.5 .. "Priam's Treasure". Odyssey from Athens Pallada. (1871-1873-1875).
9.6. Mythological "Kidnapping". "Troyan War". Archaeological Peace
9.7. Forecast, financer, budgeting specialist, leader of public archaeological diplomacy
9.8. "To uncover Troy". A purpose as a historical sequence of events. (1876)
9.9. The energy of a name ("Julius", "Heinrich")

Chapter 10. Transform, adapt, reincarnate

Chapter 11. It is easier for a woman to believe not a prophecy about the future but the reality of the present
11.1. The Prophet Jona and Catherine: The ways in different directions
11.2. Cunning Odysseus and Sophia: Lives connect

Chapter 12. Looking at pennies, do not lose sight of rubles

Chapter 13. Control your diseases

Chapter 14. Creative tycoon Heinrich Schliemann, genius poet Alexander Pushkin, innovative titan Howard Hughes
14.1. A home parent learning
14.2. An early goals
14.3. A relationship with family and land
14.4. A personal development systems
14.5. A fairy tales approach
14.6. An ability to interact with the future (signs, feelings)
14.7. A personal independence: with and without system
14.8. The understanding of own mission
14.9. A transformation, adaptation, reincarnation
14.10. "Save your family until the last possibility, but don't become a victim"

Chapter 15. Schliemann, Troy: present, future (instead of afterword)
15.1. A historical-cultural-collection-archaeological complex of Heinrich Schlimann: "Gift" plus Trojan collection plus museum halls named after Heinrich Schlimann
15.2. On the sacred properties of the Trojan collection of Heinrich Schlimann

List of information sources


Chapter 1. Heinrich Schliemann: paradoxes and comics. (Instead of a preface)
1.1. Paradoxes of Schlieman

Getting acquainted with the life of Heinrich Schliemann, we find many paradoxes.

Heinrich Schliemann - is a self-made man. This slightly cocky words applies, rather, to the American way of life. Heinrich Schliemann was born and raised not in America, he is a native of the German Baltic, of a quite feudal Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Heinrich Schliemann made his large fortune in tsarist, serf, Russia.

Heinrich Schliemann is the son of a Lutheran pastor. He became related (through his second wife, Sophia) with an Orthodox Greek bishop.

The Christian Heinrich Schliemann learned the Arabic language, knew and could read by heart in Arabic the surahs of the Koran, made (disguised) a pilgrimage to Mecca.

Wearing a long expensive fur coat, a bowler hat, playing with a walking stick in his hand, he skillfully made a fortune in the tsarist bureaucratic Russia of the era of Nicholas I, where the calmness of peaceful inhabitants was guarded by "a thousand-eyed system of justice." But it was available for him to, in the style of the heroes of Jack London - with a glitter of gold - holding a colt and a dagger at the ready, to double his fortune in 1851-1852 during the gold rush in California.

He communicated with the first persons of states, with emperors and kings, knew what world fame and great wealth were, but he considered the time of childhood and adolescence to be the happiest when he lived in Mecklenburg. All his life he maintained good relations with fellow countrymen.

He didn't feel from a women a very favor attitude. He did not belong to the number of men with a great beauty. But he was married twice: to women 4 years younger than him and 30 years younger. And the greater the age difference, the happier the marriage turned out to be. At the time of his death, he had four children: two sons and two daughters.

He became a millionaire, a rich man, but was not satisfied with the role of a traveling rentier, changed it to the activities of a scientist, writer, archaeologist.

He did not complete the full course of the gymnasium, did not have a diploma of higher education, but became a doctor of philosophy (University of Rostock), an honorary doctor of Oxford, a member of many honorary scientific associations. His main academic title was "discoverer", and his main awards were numerous gold archaeological finds discovered in Troy and Mycenae.

He was the object of ridicule, irony and even - in part - persecution, but he became a generally recognized scientific and cultural world authority.

Almost constantly he was ill with very serious and dangerous diseases, but he lived a bright, productive, and successful life, saturated with physical and nervous stress. Sport, movement, hardening were his way of life. And they were combined with fairly frequent treatment periods.

He was perceived by those around him as a very, very unusual person, who was even called "crazy" in private correspondence, but he lived in relative harmony both with the international elite of his day, and with the environment of people of physical labor.

He was often inconvenient in communication, participated in conflicts, but maintained long-term and friendly relations with many very different people (from different social strata, from different countries).

It happened that he expressed a critical attitude towards his father. But at the same time, he always emphasized that it was his father who gave him, the child, the (rather expensive) "The World history for children" by G. L. Herrer, which, in a sense, became the roadmap of his (Heinrich's) life path.

Gradually enriching himself, he did not forget to help both financially and with advice to brothers, sisters, and father who were in a difficult material situation. Received advices from his father. He listened to the advice of his father and other relatives regarding changing investment strategies, invested a significant part of his fortune in Parisian houses and land plots in Athens, which, if to see on his will, he never regretted. The ambassadors of France and Greece, as well as the ambassadors of Germany, America, the Ottoman Empire, participated in his funeral, recognizing the late Heinrich Schliemann as a fellow countryman (co-citizen).

He died as a "great Schliemann", whom many still perceive with confusion, measure "with their own yardstick", and look at the results of their measurements with dismay.

Heinrich Schliemann was so paradoxical, unusual and successful that it is quite natural to ask: what is the System of Success, what are the laws of Heinrich Schliemann's fabulous success?

And it is this the System of Success, these laws that are one of the main topics of the book that a dear Reader is now reading.

In the second half of his life, Heinrich Schliemann became not only a scientist, archaeologist, but also a writer. We can confidently say that his "System of Success" is useful for a stockbroker, for example. Or - for a man of physical labor. Nevertheless, the predominant concentration of Heinrich Schliemann on creative researches, on a literary activity makes it reasonable to add the word "writer's" to the title: "A tutorial of a writer's success."

Maxim Gorky mentioned the massive requests for a textbook of literature. He assessed this type of textbooks as a "useful" (M. Gorky "On How I Learned to Write"). (The textbook is not the exotic thing, but a mainstream!) M. Gorky was a supporter of progress; the progress of the genre of "textbooks of literature" means - as a step up a notch upper (or as a leap up several steps higher) - the emergence of a textbook of literary success. It is logical to assume that M. Gorky would rate such a textbook of success with the next, higher score: as “very useful”.

With a reasonable application, Heinrich Schliemann's "Success System" can be useful to a person of almost any profession (writers, people of intellectual and physical labor). Thus, the title can be read as "A Textbook of Success".


1.2. Schliemann and the Comics. Why the author was writing this book

I will answer the question that at some point the author asked to himself. The author read, once, a good statement by Igor Bogdanov: "... the details of the biography of this person can be recreated only as a result of many years of collective efforts" [Шлиман Е., Письма. С. 25] [Shlieman E., Letters. P. 25].

For what a purpose? Why did I start writing?

My first emotional impulse that directed me to study the details of the life of Heinrich Schliemann and to the written recording of reflections on this topic were the words from M. Meyerovich's book about the departure of 10-year-old Heinrich from his father's house to his uncle Friedrich Schliemann: “The family fell apart forever” [Мейерович М. Л. С.23] [Meyerovich M. L. P. 23]. These words caught my attention, as if some kind of dramatic catastrophe of fate was hidden in them. (In his Autobiography, Heinrich Schliemann calls the events that followed after his departure, and associated with the resignation of his father, "a great catastrophe" [Шлиман Г. Илион. Т.1. С. 41] [Schliemann G. Ilion. Vol. 1. P. 41]). As I read Meyerovich's book, the words “fell apart forever” seemed unfair to me.

Continuing reading, I discovered that M. Meyerovich himself cites fact by fact, refuting the thesis about the "breakdown" of the family. The fictional and documentary description, probably, cannot be free from some tragic stylization, which poses a complex educational-popularization-motivating-enlightenment task. I believe that any reader with benefit and pleasure will read the talented book by M. Meyerovich.

Having felt disagreement with the thesis about the "breakdown of the family" I began to read more attentively, and although I did not notice such a habit of writing right in the margins of the book, I wrote a list of page numbers, of those pages, on which information was stated opposite to the thesis about "breakdown".

Probably, not knowing this yet, at that moment I began to write this book, and its first lines (not letters, but numbers) were located not in this text, which is in front of you, dear Reader, but on page 23 in the book of M. Meyerovich “ Schliemann ", published in 1966. (The book by M. Meyerovich, probably back in 1966, was bought by my father; my father had passed (already) into the Other World for almost six months by that time, but the book I had not read was on the shelf until November 2015, when I, on the advice of the seller, bought a disc with "travel films"; one of the films was German - the most excellent, filmed with tremendous sympathy for the main character - the fictional (not a documentary!) film "The Mysterious Treasure of Troy" ( "The Treasure of Troy") (2007) - about Heinrich Schliemann. And so, having watched this film on November 3-4, 2015, I took off the book of M. Meyerovich and began to read. And, sometimes, to write - in the father's room and behind his writing table). At the same time, there was an acquaintance with the Wikipedia articles "Schliemann, Sophia", "Schliemann, Heinrich", and with the others; even later - with books by I. A. Bogdanov, A. K. Gavrilov, D. N. Egorov, C. W. Ceram, Irving Stone, Heinrich Alexander Stoll, and with the other information sources (see the list of information sources).

I also received books (three voluminous volumes) by Heinrich Schliemann himself, excellently published in Russian by ЗАО «Центрполиграф»: "Ilios" (in two volumes) and "Troy". With pleasure I opened the covers of these books, looked at the maps and illustrations, read ... I was surprised: how could Heinrich Schliemann find time to write these meaningful and voluminous works with the general employment, even overload, of their author. At the moment of receiving the named three volumes and their initial inspection, for a moment a picture of an unfamiliar, unusual, beautiful world arose in my mind. And I thought: "This is a completely different world!"

To summarize, the initial impulse of the author's activity was my disagreement with many conclusions regarding the life and work of Heinrich Schliemann, or with the absence of (correct) conclusions on the most important issues.

Then I noticed that in the life of Heinrich Schliemann there was a certain inner logic. His life was increasingly successful, although, perhaps, even Heinrich Schliemann himself "from the inside" sometimes thought otherwise.

(Books on the rules and patterns of success are interesting and useful. One of the confirmation of this thesis may be the writing by Eratosthenes (c. 276-194 BC) of the treatise "On the Art of Living Without Grieving").

This increased my interest in Heinrich Schliemann and my motivation to write the book.

The choice of the path of development is the result of educational influences, of the influence of the social environment, the play of chances, the result of rational and intuitive choice. The person making the choice is at a certain chronological point. An emotional past, a dynamic present, an unclear future affect his assessments and opinions; he is visited by moments of bitterness, doubt, disbelief. Moving along the path of success, Heinrich Schliemann in one of his letters on the eve of 1857 wrote: “... I have only one memorization [the ability to memorize], in which memory helps me, (...) to be able to compose even a little, by myself [autonomously], this I can never, to Unfortunately, I will not come to this ... ” [Гаврилов А. К. С. 122] [Gavrilov A. K. P. 122]. Only summing up the results of his life, realizing how successful his life turned out to be, Heinrich Schliemann exclaimed: "Glory to Pallas Athena!" This makes it clear the importance of analyzing the life of Heinrich Schliemann as a whole, taking into account the opinions of a significant number of biographers.

One of the creative results of such a retrospective analysis is the expression of the author's judgments regarding the laws (rules) of Heinrich Schliemann's success.

Having started writing this book, I took steps to obtain the most significant Russian-language publications (on Heinrich Schliemann) at my disposal. It turned out that some of my thoughts were already - in some form - exist in other works. But a kind of positive inertia of the creative process appeared, and it was too late to "reverse", to "turn back".

Moreover, by that time I had already (fortunately) managed to formulate a number of rules of success by Heinrich Schliemann (then only for myself). One of these rules says: "Write, publish."

There were also some mystical - guiding - phenomena that gave the initial impetus and helped to overcome the initial doubts.

As I became immersed in the process, it became interesting to write this book. And this is also a motive.

Some slight "psychological braking" appeared after reading the question "..." Why you not love Schliemann so much? " (This question will arise in my mind more than once, when someone comes up with the idea of arranging an exhibition, putting on a film about Schliemann or writing an article about him, or even - well, how many people do not like Schliemann - and composing a book, and precisely “ compose "!)" [Богданов И. А., 2008 а. С. 21] [Bogdanov I. A., 2008 a. P. 21].

The problem, which Igor Bogdanov spoke about, is of course ripe. There is a such a problem. It can be assumed that this "tradition" of avoiding a qualitative literary description of outstanding people dates back to the 19th century: "the most gifted and prominent writers of the 19th century did not give a single sufficiently vivid portrait of their relatives, such as, for example, Creusot [Adolphe Schneider], Krupp, Singer, Nobel and other “heroes of the era”, organizers of the military industry, sea transport, heavy industry, mechanical engineering, etc. Among these “heroes”, people of undoubtedly strong will, true masters of life, there were, of course, “poets of their own affairs "" (Maxim Gorky "Once again about the "History of a young man of the XIX century"").

By the way, I myself could ask such a question (“Why you not love Schliemann so much?”) based on the results of my acquaintance with the biographies of Heinrich Schliemann. For example, one of the biographies shows that, it turns out, on the basis of a “negative interpretation”, on the addition of suspicious conjectures, one can build a whole monograph (a monograph with the selection of facts - conscientious, thorough, but with conjectures and interpretations - of dubious quality). The effect of a smart mixer: the reader “falls away”. Perhaps this is typical of the descriptions of the life of researchers of ancient civilizations? Regarding Champollion, it is said about the appearance of "shameful, offensive - for our senses - works " [Керам. С. 81] [Ceram. P. 81]. Of course, the integration of comic strip elements into the biography makes it easier to read by the general public (and this deserves a positive assessment); but the formatting of the biography of a serious civilizational figure according to the rules for constructing and presenting a comic is no longer perceived as popularizing complex issues of the cultural development of mankind, but as a manifestation of stylized misinformation of the reader and as a profanation of complex cultural topics in order to increase reader demand and increase citation. The attractiveness of such nice things as the book's marketability and its high citation rate must be “framed” [keep within civilized boundaries] by an understanding of the difference between civilization and savagery. I asked myself the question: is it ethical to make links onto such kind of hybrid (combining the properties of careful scientific work and comics) book? As a result of some reflections, I came to the conclusion: without life, work, diaries, letters, archives, books, archaeological achievements of Heinrich Schliemann himself and without the help of those conscientious people who ensure the preservation (and development) of Heinrich Schliemann's legacy, "hybrid" labor is not could take place (and let's not forget about the positive, nevertheless, effect of popularization). (The author of the "hybrid" work was even photographed at the grave of Heinrich Schliemann's mother in the Ankershagen cemetery; posted the photo in his book; in the city of Ankershagen, we note separately, the Heinrich Schliemann museum is organized). So - when necessary - quoting is ethical. ("Take away the dross from the silver..." [“Separate the impurity from the silver ...”] (Пр 25:4) (Proverbs 25: 4).  "9 He ... has given to the needy, || His righteousness is standing forever, (...) 10 The wicked sees, and has been angry, || He gnashes his teeth, and has melted, || The desire of the wicked perishes!" (Пс 111:9—10) (Psalm [Bible (Literal Standard Version)/Psalms] 112: 9-10)).

Let's return to the question "Why you not love Schliemann so much?" Thinking about the word “so” (“not to love so much”), I continued to read (read “in parallel”) two informative books by Igor Bogdanov, published in 2008; met the words of Heinrich Schliemann: "... I will write books all my life ... Anyone who writes books is happy, satisfied, focused ..." [Богданов И. А., 2008 б. С. 124] [Bogdanov I.A., 2008 b. P. 124]. After reading these words of Heinrich Schliemann, I decided to switch from thinking about the meaning of the word "so" to concentration, contentment and happiness.

Having written 40 percent of the book you read, dear Reader, I have come to the conviction that the contribution of Heinrich Schliemann is described in the mentality of his first biographies. These biographies are of high quality. Schliemann studies would not have moved forward without them. But almost a century has passed since their writing (the end of the 19th - the first half of the 20th century). We live in the 21st century. Heinrich Schliemann's contribution requires some “translation” into the “language of modern mentality”, some “modern decoding”.

Concluding these reflections, I will cite the following motive for writing this book: to learn a lot of interesting things, to become more successful and - in some sence - more perfect, to feel more confidence in yourself, to organize your life more correctly.


1.3. Is it possible to “learn to Schliemann”?

The question is natural; anyone can and wants to be successful.

But: what do you mean? Comprehensive mastering of rules and skills? Or fragmentary?

If only fragmentary, then - yes, you able to learn up. If you mean a mastering in whole, then it is unlikely.

"... The most valuable prerequisite for Schliemann's method: throwing students into the North Sea ..." [Гаврилов А. К. С. 325] [Gavrilov A. K. S. 325]

A comprehensive "learning to Schliemann", accompanied by throwing the student into the cold waters of the North Sea, gives him (the student) the opportunity to either swim out or drown. Moreover, not everything will depend on the student himself: will there be an empty barrel on the next wave, which can be grasped, in order the student could save himself?

Let's take into account modern realities: in 1841 the North Sea was relatively clean; in our time, a student may find himself in a zone of environmental pollution.

But doubting the reality of a comprehensive "learning to Schliemann", one cannot deny the benefits of mastering the seperate rules, the laws of success of Heinrich Schliemann.

As follows from the fictional (with a documentary basis) film "The Deep" (2012 film) (directed by Baltasar Korm;kur; Iceland; nominee for the Audience Award of the European Film Academy 2013), after one of the ordinary shipwrecks, an Icelander (Icelandic fisherman) Gu;laugur Fri;;;rsson [Gudlaugur Fridtorson] became a widely known man. He, on March 11, 1984, managed to swim about six hours at night along the North Atlantic Ocean (north of the North Sea, into which Heinrich Schliemann was "thrown" on December 12, 1841) at a water temperature of about 0 degrees Celsius and a negative air temperature [«Премия»] [" Prize "] [Шрамко] [Shramko].

In the dark, focusing on the cries of seagulls and talking to them (not with Odysseus, of course, but still), “having concluded something like a treaty,” Gu;laugur Fri;;;rsson swam to Iceland, climbed (barefoot) to the rocky coast, and he managed to reach a house (in the cold) in wet clothes and without shoes. Its anomalous  resistance to cold was established by experiments at a hospital for naval officers and soldiers in London (the episode of the adversarial experiments involving an Icelandic fisherman and British marines is almost as emotional as the film version of a fisherman's swim at night in winter ocean water).

Perhaps this Icelandic fisherman surpassed Heinrich Schliemann in his ability to swim in icy sea water. Who knows, maybe you, dear Reader, will read this book, try to apply the rules of success of the great archaeologist, and find that you have not only mastered these rules, but are superior in successfulness to Heinrich Schliemann or you can surpass him. Wishes for your success!

But let the fate of a certain broker Lessing be a warning example for you.

Heinrich Schliemann and the broker Lessing swam “out of habit” “every morning” in the Gulf of Finland. And in one of the letters (dated June 12, 1848) of Heinrich Schliemann, the phrase appears: “... Yesterday at 6 o'clock in the morning we were together in the water, but the wind was blowing the coldest; L. must have caught a cold, for he died a few hours later ... ”. Igor Bogdanov makes a note: “A certain Friedrich Lessing (1813-11 June 1848) was buried at the Smolensk Evangelical cemetery in St. Petersburg [Богданов И. А., 2008 а. С. 179] [Bogdanov I.A., 2008 a. P. 179].

Before the swimming in the North (or Baltic) Sea "together" with Heinrich Schliemann, or like Heinrich Schliemann ("if he can, why can't I?"), consult your doctor and determine who you are: Gu;laugur Fri;;;rsson or Friedrich Lessing.

Depending on the convenience of presentation, the book uses the concepts of “system of success”, “laws of success” and “rules of success” by Heinrich Schliemann as synonymous.

Of course, the laws of success existed, they were applied both before and after Heinrich Schliemann, and during his life. But he managed to compose from them an interconnected effective system, which manifested itself in practice in the form of outstanding achievements and increasing successfulness.

“When we made our last walk around the island, we noticed a gallows on which three corpses were swinging. The executed were hanged by the heels. We asked the residents why these people were so severely punished? And we heard in response that these were travelers who, upon their return, deceived their neighbors, describing to them a places they had never been, and telling tales about the countries and people they met.

You know the softness of my nature, my dears, but I must confess that those who were hanged by the heels did not cause any pity in me, because, myself always adhering to facts, and only facts, I strictly demand this from others. " (Э. Распэ. Вечера барона Мюнхаузена) (Rudolf Erich Raspe. Evenings of Baron Munchausen).