Sergey Zagraevsky
Poor
Knight Templar
(protocols of sittings devoted
to consideration
of the report of Templar Mathias
on his mission in
Published in Russian: Ñåðãåé Çàãðàåâñêèé. Áåäíûé ðûöàðü Õðàìà (ïðîòîêîëû çàñåäàíèé, ïîñâÿùåííûõ ðàññìîòðåíèþ îò÷åòà òàìïëèåðà Ìàòèàñà î âûïîëíåíèè ìèññèè íà Ðóñè â 1145–1157 ãîäàõ îò Ðîæäåñòâà Õðèñòîâà). Ì., 2013. ISBN 978-5-94282-699-4
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The
protocols of the sittings of the Board of representatives of the Emperor of Holy
Roman Empire, the Pope and the Order of Knights Templar, held in Regensburg in
1157, were found in Vienna library/ They were devoted to the consideration of
the report by Templar Matias from Passau on the implementation of his twelve-year
mission in Russia.
Knight
Mathias was, saying in modern language, a well trained and experienced "diversionist
and agent of influence". The Knights Templar Order had sent him to
In
Suzdal Principality, where Knight Mathias had arrived under the guise of a
German bricklayer and searched for deposits of white stone, he met Petrila, a princely
official, who was collecting taxes...
Historical
a novel of Professor, Dr. Sergey Zagraevsky is written on the basis of real
chronicle, architectural and archaeological data and is dedicated for a wide
range of readers interested in history and architecture of Ancient Russia. The
book provides historical reconstructions of the main battles of the civil war of
1146-1154 and the organization of ancient church building.
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The name of
the unit storage: protocols meetings, devoted to
consideration of the report Templar Matias on the implementation the mission in
Document
type: compilation of the 4 protocols.
Storage:
XII-21, acts of the XII century.
The
document number for the library's inventory: XII-21-8357/P.
The source
and date of receipt of the document to the library: archive of the Abbey of St.
Emmeram in
Dating document: 16-20 July 1157.
The volume
of the document: 214 sheets of parchment high quality.
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preservation of the document: it's good.
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and editing of the text was very time consuming. The so-called protocols
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because there would be too many and the text would be unreadable. In many
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participants in the meetings.
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PROTOCOL
THE FIRST MEETING
of the
Council of representatives his Imperial Majesty, his Holiness the Pope and the
order of the poor knights of Christ and Of the temple of Solomon on
consideration of the report of the knight of Matias of Passau on the
implementation of the mission in Russia in 1145-1157 years from BC
(Room on
the inventory of the
In the name
of God, the will of his Imperial Majesty Friedrich, his Holiness Pope Hadrian
and the Grand master the order of the poor knights of the
Present:
Chairman of
the Board – count Wilhelm von Veldhoven, Vice-Marshal of the court of his
Imperial Majesty.
Member of the Board – Bishop Tybalt Surminski, the legate his Holiness
the Pope.
Member of
the Board – knight Henry of Angouleme, commander of the military brotherhood of
The Secretary of the Board Alfred from
The Council
reports knight Matias from
Count
Wilhelm. Power, by the grace of God given to us his Imperial Majesty and the
Holy father, we begin meeting our Council convened to consider the report of
the knight Mathias, members of the military brotherhood of Gaza, and Ascalon of
the order of poor knights of the Temple, of a journey to Russia and run there,
' he orders.
Bishop
Tybalt. In the name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy spirit, bless us begin a good deed and help us safely
complete it with the assistance of Thy grace. You dedicate all the hard the
efforts that they have served for the benefit and salvation of our neighbors.
All participants meeting. Amen.
Count
Wilhelm. I ask the distinguished members of the Council to sit down. Knight
Mathias, do you have any questions, requests before meeting?
Knight
Mathias. Please forgive me, your Excellency, but I don't understand the reasons
why I appeared before such a high Council. Upon returning from
Commander
Henry. My brother Matthias, we have all read your report. But new circumstances
arose, forcing us to revisit your mission and to ask you to tell about all its
intricacies.
Knight
Mathias. My brother, I'm not at liberty to talk about their missions to anyone
except his Holiness the Pope, his Majesty the Emperor and his
the order of the chief, i.e., commander of the brotherhood, or the Grand
master. You it should be well known.
Commander
Henry. But do you know, my brother Matthias, who I am?
Knight
Mathias. I see that you're my robe Templar brothers.
Commander
Henry. I – knight Henry from
Knight
Mathias. I have heard about you and I know that you have a high position in our
order.
Commander
Henry. By the grace of God I am the commander of the order of military
brotherhood of
Knight
Mathias. Eternal memory to our brother Henri, Yes rest his soul with the Holy
saints.
Humbly
kneel before you, my brother, and the Lord, and all thy
powerful hand decorated commander ring brotherhood of
Commander
Henry. So be it.
Knight
Mathias. I'm sorry, my brother, my Lord, but what happens is still a mystery to
me. Accompanying from Kiev to Regensburg, Embassy of the Russian Prince George
(Yuri Dolgoruky – approx. transl.), I, like prescribe our order's rule
introduced the commander of the German brotherhood of the knights Templar
Stefan, got shelter and food in the Abbey of St. Emmeram, wrote a report to the
Grand master of the order of his stay in Russia, gave a report from brother
Stefan and waited for further instructions.
But it has
been almost three months, and guidance is still not received. Now it turns out
that for the consideration of my humble deeds convened such a representative
Council. Could not would you like me to explain what's going on?
Commander
Henry. My brother Matthias, the reasons for the convocation the Board you'll
know in due time, but now such knowledge may affect the accuracy and
impartiality of your narrative. So bless you for detailed and sincere story
about your mission in
Knight Mathias.
I hear and obey, my brother, my Lord.
Count
Wilhelm. Dear knights of the
Commander
Henry. Yes, your Excellency.
Count
Wilhelm. Are you ready, my son Matias, to take an oath on the Holy Bible?
Knight
Mathias. Ready, your Excellency.
Count
Wilhelm. Lead knight Matthias sworn I ask the Bishop to Tybalt.
Bishop
Tybalt. My son Matias, put your hand on The Holy Bible
and repeat after me the oath.
I am humble
and sinful servant of Christ Matias from
Knight
Mathias. I am humble and sinful servant Of Christ Matias from
Count
Wilhelm. Now, knight Mathias, what Protocol your name, age, birth place,
origin, rank.
Knight
Mathias. Matias from Passau, in Bavaria, the son of the free master stone
Affairs Hans, was born forty-four years ago, 1113 Christ, baptized in the true
Holy Catholic faith in twenty-first day of September of the same year. In 1144
knighted.
Count
Wilhelm. When you joined the order of the
Knight
Mathias. In the year 1131 I made pilgrimage to the Holy Land, took monastic
vows and joined the order the poor knights of Christ and of the
For their modest merits before the
Bishop
Tybalt. Why you moved from
Knight
Mathias. It was like the Grand master order, and not for me to discuss his
orders.
Commander
Henry. Your Eminence, I'll answer your question. Faults nothing to do with it,
its members combat brotherhood with necessary, punishes
itself, and does not humiliate other brotherhood translation there guilty. Just the fact that the combat brotherhood of
I hope that
you will keep this knowledge secret, like everything else that you will hear
during the work of our Council.
Count
Wilhelm. Commander Henry, you are missing just to remind his Excellency, that
the knights Templar severely punishes those who gives out his secrets. Please
remember. Bishop Tybalt is a member of Council as you, and similarly gave a vow
of silence.
Bishop
Tybalt. I think, commander, that the rank of legate his Holiness Pope is a
serious guarantee of safety and much more important secrets.
Commander
Henry. Excuse me, your Eminence, but I had to warn you
about the necessity of strict secrecy, it's my duty commander of the order of
the brotherhood.
Count
Wilhelm. Maybe then I warn?
Commander
Henry. Are you kidding me, your Excellency. I never
dared to inform the head of the secret service of the Holy Of
the Roman Empire.
Count
Wilhelm. You flatter me, commander. I lead not all of the Imperial secret
service, and the only one that knows the Affairs of other States. But I
digress. Knight Mathias, when you got an assignment to go to
Knight
Mathias. The task to go to
Bishop Tybalt.
And in
Knight
Mathias. Your Eminence, it was related to my previous job, and I'm not sure
whether me about it to tell.
Commander
Henry. Tell us briefly. I know the job, you performed brilliantly in the
fortress of Alamut, and I have no doubt that the story of it will make a
favorable impression on the high Council.
Knight
Mathias. I hear and obey, my brother, my Lord.
I suppose
his lordship and his grace heard of the brotherhood of assassins. Is it worth
it detail to dwell on its history?
Bishop
Tybalt. I admit, I would be interested at least
briefly acquainted with her.
Knight
Mathias. After the death of godless Mohammed's followers created their faith
disintegrated into two warring camps – Sunnis, who were the majority, and the
Shiites, whom the Sunnis considered heretics.
Count
William. And what the essence of their differences?
Recall, please.
Bishop
Tybalt.
Knight
Mathias. The Shiites, too not one hundred years ago, among them the Ismailis, and they can say, had a special faith. According
to their doctrine, the world consists of two halves, mirror reflecting each
other. And if in earthly life they were bad, they were oppressed, hurt and
robbed, then in the hereafter everything should be Vice versa: they will to
oppress, to hurt and Rob, not only infidels but also Muslims.
One of the
Ismailis, Hassan Ibn Sabbah, at the end of the last century with his supporters
captured the fortress of Alamut – this name is translated from Persian as
"eagle the nest". The fortress is among the
As Ibn
Sabbah knew that his state was too small to contain great and strong army, it
is the troops created in Alamut school of the
assassins – the secret assassin ready to eliminate anyone, anywhere. The
important thing is that instilled in this school, is indifference to his own life and disregard to death. Plus,
of course, all the skills of killing and survival in any conditions.
Selection into this school is very strict, take it not
more than five candidates out of a hundred.
Bishop
Tybalt. And where is the name of the assassins? Rumor has it that from hashish,
which Hasan fooling their supporters.
Commander
Henry. If the warrior constantly dizzy hashish, he
will never master the martial and secret art.
Knight
Mathias. Really this name means only Hasanov, i.e. followers of Hassan Ibn
Sabbah. In Arabic it sounds like "hasanayn". And the pronunciation of
the Christians this took the form of "assassin".
Bishop
Tybalt. But hashish this godless Hasan use? I heard that he could at one stroke
hands to get all the guards of Alamut to jump from the walls of the gorge. I
guess people first need pretty intoxicating, so they all committed suicide?
Commander
Henry. I think your Eminence, that is just rumors:
hardly any ruler so unreasonable disposes of his detention.
Knight
Mathias. Of course, it is only a rumor, similar to what Hassan-I Sabbah had a
lot of doubles, which by his order drugged with hashish, committed
self-immolation under the guise of the Hassan, and then he pretended that he
rose again from the dead. Or the fact that the dish was placed allegedly severed
the head of one of the brothers, and Hassan her "revived". All these
fair tricks, maybe good for ignorant peasants, but in assassins accept
experienced warriors, and deceive them thus, of course, impossible. In Alamut
hashish was used no more than in other fortresses East.
More
importantly, Ibn Sabbagh set for all, without exception, very harsh way of
life, imposed a strict a ban on any manifestation of luxury, nullified the
difference between the lowest and highest sectors of society. He gave his close
personal example, until the end his days leading an ascetic lifestyle. Usually
simple people respect to such rulers.
And, of
course, Hassan was very hard even for Eastern standards. Once he ordered the
execution of one of his sons only on suspicion of violation of the established
laws equality.
Bishop
Tybalt. Similar equality preach and our heretics-the Bogomils. I have no doubt
that all they will burn in hell, like other enemies of the true Catholic faith.
Count
Wilhelm. So be it. And what was your job in the fortress of Alamut, knight Mathias?
Knight
Mathias. My job was to identify the most dangerous of cooking in Alamut hostile
missions and its breakdown.
I got to
the fortress in the the thirty-ninth year, and after a few years he became a
disciple of the school of assassins.
Count
Wilhelm. Judging by the fact that you, knight Mathias, told about strict
selection in this school, it was tough.
Knight
Mathias. Not easy, your Excellency. I came to Alamut
as a lost and half-frozen traveler, he settled in the school of assassins first
cleaner, then cook, gradually became acquainted with many students and mentors.
And when I expressed a desire to study at school, and it was
received kindly. I was twenty-eight years old, at this age in the school
has taken.
Bishop
Tybalt. So you, my son, gave himself for Mohammedan and did all the disgusting
Islamic rites?
Knight
Mathias. Yes, of course.
Commander
Henry. Members of the military brotherhood of Gaza, and Ascalon of the order of
the poor knights of Christ and of the temple of Solomon permitted sham the
adoption of any false faith, and all these sins are remitted to us by
indulgence his Holiness the Pope.
Bishop
Tybalt. My son Matias, forgive my persistence, but the Mohammedans, as well as
the Jews, when making their great God of faith are the rite of circumcision?
Your deception could be disclosed in any bath, which in the East, as I know, a
lot.
Knight
Mathias. My brother, my Lord, may I to answer this question of his grace?
Commander
Henry. I'll answer that. All members of our military brotherhood, preparing for
special missions among Muslims and Jews, circumcision is done.
Count
Wilhelm. I know, commander Henry, that you had been
circumcised, so if you are someone that surprised, only the Bishop Tybalt and,
perhaps, our Secretary Alfred. Tell me, knight
Mathias, the representative of the people you claimed? Appearance you do not
Arab.
Knight
Mathias. A short, thin, blond a lot of people among the
inhabitants of the
I pretended
to be in Alamut for a Turk-Anatolia, whose mother was a native from the
Bishop
Tybalt. My son, you are such an excellent know the Turkish language, which can
masquerade as a Turk?
Knight
Mathias. Yes, your Eminence. I say Turkish as spoken
by the natives of
Count
Wilhelm. And what other languages do you speak the same excellence, knight Mathias?
Knight
Mathias. Arab, Arabian reprimand nomads. After a stay
in
Count
Wilhelm. Knight Mathias, you forgot mention your native tongue and the Latin
which, as I see it, well say.
Bishop
Tybalt. Well, this education deserves respect.
Count
Wilhelm. Continue with his story, the knight Mathias.
Knight
Mathias. After the school of assassins about two years and finally
having gained the confidence of its leaders, I learned that preparing
group sending assassins to the king of France, Louis the Young, to rip prepare
a speech on a crusade.
I was able
to learn the day the departure of these assassins from Alamut, left the
fortress after them, and overtook them and destroyed.
Count
Wilhelm. And how many were there?
Knight
Mathias. Five, your Excellency.
Bishop
Tybalt. You could single-handedly destroy five killers, trained at the school
of the assassins?
Knight
Mathias. Yes, your Eminence. It was possible due to
the fact that they went under the guise of simple peasants in a cart drawn by
mules, and of the weapons they had only axes. So when I caught on the fine
horse, which I managed to get from the stables of the head school two I was able to shoot from a bow.
Commander
Henry. And bow and arrows where did you get brother my? I read your report
about this glorious act, but it does not remember.
Knight
Mathias. Took killed me guard fortress.
Bishop
Tybalt. My God, how much blood shed people in our imperfect world.
Commander
Henry. Suppose, your Excellency, that the murder of a
guard brother Mathias not shed blood, and applied the technique "Look
back". I guess, my brother?
Knight
Mathias. Yes, my brother, my Lord.
Bishop
Tybalt. And what is the reception?
Commander
Henry. To the person sneak up behind him, cover for the neck and jerk back and
to the side. Neck broken, and the head is unable to
control the body. Man can neither move nor to shout nor breathe. After a couple
of minutes from lack of air in his mind go blank and he dies.
Knight
Mathias. Due to the fact that the person still lives a couple of minutes, but
already doomed to inevitable death, the assassins called this technique
"Deprivation of hope."
Bishop
Tybalt. Sounds even more inhuman.
Commander
Henry. And the remaining three of you, my brother Mathias, as I recall from
your report, killed by the sword?
Knight
Mathias. Yes, my brother, my Lord. In school assassins pay much attention to
the secret ways of killing, and much less – fencing and other techniques noble
knight fight. In this sense the level of training in the order of the poor
knights of Christ and of the
However,
with the sword I killed only two. I managed to disarm and to learn from him the
missing information about the impending murder of the French king, and also
about the organization the assassins in the
Count
Wilhelm. And I heard that the assassins are not given their secrets even under
pain of death.
Knight
Mathias. Depending death your Excellency. If the caught
assassin knows that he is dealing not with some of the Imperial executioner,
and with a knight of the
So this
killer told me everything he knew, and received a deserved reward in the form
of an easy death.
Bishop
Tybalt. Are you saying, my son, that if you place this assassin, you too would
have revealed the secrets of their order?
Commander
Henry. We, the Templars, understand that there is torture, which cannot move
anybody. Not because it is impossible to sustain pain itself, but because
sooner or later a person in pain goes crazy and unable to control himself.
Sometimes a man starts to kiss the hands of his tormentor, pleading not even on
the termination of torture, and the protection and patronage.
I believe
that if you your Eminence, subjected known to torture you too would have given
all mysteries of the Holy see.
Count
Wilhelm. Commander Henry, you re forgotten.
Knight
Mathias. I'm sorry, my brother, my Lord, but I also try to give an answer to
his grace. The duty of well-trained and highly experienced knight of the order
of the
Bishop
Tybalt. Thank you for the clarification, son Mathias.
Count
Wilhelm. Valiant knight Mathias, and why after so
laudable deeds you went to
Knight
Mathias. These assassins were soon to meet their accomplices, and I knew that
they will be missed, connects their disappearance with my escape from school,
and then after me will hunt the best forces of their brotherhood.
Commander
Henry. The head brother Matthias was assigned to the small reward.
Knight
Mathias. That is why I went not to the West and the East, directly through the
mountains. I decided that there, in the heart of Baghdad Caliphate, look for me
no one will guess. The going was hard, passes was snowy, and I was weakened by
the wound in his shoulder, received in battle with assassins. But I, with God's
help, managed to reach
Knight from
Henri de Toulouse, the then commander of the military brotherhood of
Bishop
Tybalt. And if it was not severely from the the chiefs of the knights Templar –
after the hot climate of Palestine send knight Matthias to Russia, famous for
its frosts?
Commander
Henry. We, the poor knights of Christ and of the
Count
Wilhelm. But the road to
Knight
Mathias. Of course, your Excellency, some the risk
was, but couldn assassins carefully examine all the caravans, they were not
enough people. Besides, I while in Alamut the school has grown a great beard,
and in Baghdad shaved it off, and get to know me was it is not easy. So I hired
a muleteer to German merchants, who traveled from
I was
knighted, and I was given a sabbatical year that I was able to spend at home in
Bishop
Tybalt. Unless permitted poor knight the order of the
Knight
Mathias. Of course not. But I have built house for his
father. After his departure from the earthly life I this house will inherit and
will give the order.
Count
Wilhelm. And, father, you said that dedicated in the knights? It would probably
be this happy.
Knight
Mathias. No doubt, your Excellency, that it was making
him happy. But the late commander Henry has been pleased to decide that before
the trip to
Commander
Henry. And what did you tell him how where did you get the money?
Knight
Mathias. I told him that earned them engaging in the
Count
Wilhelm. A laudable veneration parents, knight Mathias.
Commander
Henry. Some falsely assume the order of the poor knights of Christ and of the
Bishop
Tybalt. I am moved by the true Christian the relation of the Templars to the
poor, the elderly and orphans, but I know that on the orders their orders
bosses they can't kill that poor, elderly and orphans, and their parents.
Commander
Henry. Your Excellency, can you tell us at least one case of murder Templar
their parents?
Bishop
Tybalt. I specific cases is unknown.
Commander
Henry. Then I ask you not to talk about you do not know.
Bishop
Tybalt. Well, then I ask the question knight Mathias, who is under oath and
must tell the truth. Son my Mathias, if commander
Henry ordered you to kill your father, you would did it?
Knight
Mathias. I'd done my duty.
Bishop
Tybalt. Order or FILIAL?
Count
Wilhelm. Thank God, need to kill the honourable Hans from
Knight
Mathias. Yes, your Excellency. In the spring of forty
the fifth year I was invited to
Bishop
Tybalt. But as Russian masters were in
Knight
Mathias. The great Imperial Cathedral in
Therefore
in
Count
Wilhelm. Was. Let it be known, knight
Mathias, Grand Duke George gave up the Ghost two months ago, in the fifteenth
day of may.
Knight
Mathias. This is news to me, your Excellency. Am I allowed to know the cause of
death of
Commander
Henry. You'll know it at the time, brother my Mathias. Yet, your debt is
detailed and accurate story.
Knight
Mathias. I hear and obey, my brother, my Lord.
What in
Bishop
Tybalt. My son, do Suzdal the Principality is not in
Knight
Mathias. It depends on where to watch. If the Holy Roman
Empire, and Suzdal, and
Commander
Henry. Similarly, the Arabs call us all the Franks, regardless of whether it is
French, German or Italian.
Count
Wilhelm. Clear. But since we're look out Empire, then still, let's call
Knight
Mathias, you asked you define the job that gave you the late commander Henry.
Knight
Mathias. I was ordered to meet by Prince Iziaslav Mstislavich, who then ruled
in the city of
Count
Wilhelm. Why you are told to do such a proposal is Pereyaslavl Prince Izyaslav,
not to Suzdal Prince George?
Commander
Henry. Your Excellency, on this issue can I answer as a sign that preceded the
mission of brother Mathias at
We knew
from our representative at the court of the Polish Prince, Izyaslav Mstislavich
ready to rapprochement with the Holy Catholic Church, and one of the officials
of Pereyaslavl Prince led the negotiations with the Chancellor of Poland.
There were indirect evidence of the readiness of Izyaslav to
accept the true faith. Prince Of Poland Boleslaw Curly
married his niece, the king of Hungary Geza – his sister, kinship Izyaslav had
with Vladislav, Prince of Bohemia (the
And George
at that time was seen as a serious contender for the throne of
Count
Wilhelm. But George was the son of Kiev Grand Prince Vladimir Monomakh.
Knight
Mathias. Yes, your Excellency, but one of the a
younger son, a child having received from the father in the reign of marginal
Suzdal. The Monomakh had many children, and when I was going to go to
Izyaslav
was although not the son and grandson of Monomakh, but a descendant in the
senior line, his father Mstislav Putin also ruled in
Bishop
Tybalt. And who reigned in
Commander
Henry. For five years there reigned not Monomakhovichi and II of Kiev –
Vsevolod.
Count
Wilhelm. Then why didn't you do that the proposal Vsevolod Olgovich?
Commander
Henry. Vsevolod became Grand Prince of Kyiv, if I am not mistaken, in the
thirty-ninth year, and soon in
Therefore,
we made the decision to secretly send to
Bishop
Tybalt. Dear knights of the
Commander
Henry. The son of Oleg Svyatoslavich, cousin Monomakh.
Knight
Mathias. Let me tell you, as before going to
Russian
princes have their the origin of the Norman Rurik, who
lived three hundred years ago. But perhaps it makes sense to start with the
deceased a hundred years ago the great Prince Yaroslav, which the Russians
called Wise, and in which
When Yaroslav died, after he left several sons. According to the customs of
Oriental despotism, all of them, except older, had to be killed, not to create
strife.
Count
Wilhelm. According to the customs of enlightened monarchies, all the sons of
the ruler should be with his father, under his vigilant supervision, and after
his father's death under the supervision of the eldest brother, and only the
most trusted of they can be sent to other areas of the country, not rulers, and
governors.
Knight
Mathias. But in
Father
Vsevolod II Of Kiev was Oleg, son of Svyatoslav
Yaroslavich. Father of George Dolgoruky, and his
grandfather Izyaslav Mstislavich of Vladimir Monomakh, son of Vsevolod
Yaroslavych.
Bishop
Tybalt. How did monotonous Russian princely names. Entirely Izjaslava,
Vsevolod, Vladimir...
Commander
Henry. Yes, and almost all the sovereign princes.
Almost all of them claim to special principalities for their children.
Yaroslav,
dividing the country among his sons, has commanded that
Bishop
Tybalt. During the war even undeniable seniority rarely respected, dominates
only strength.
Count
Wilhelm. I wonder why so short-sighted Prince Yaroslav remained in the memory
of descendants with the nickname Wise.
Commander
Henry. This can only guess, your Excellency.
Bishop
Tybalt. But Vladimir Monomakh, as I I remember that was the sole ruler? Or am I
mistaken?
Knight
Mathias. Monomakh, indeed, gradually conquered a Russian Principality, but not
for long, not fully. For example, ruled in
After the
death of Vladimir Monomakh in 1125, Grand Prince of
But soon
Yaropolk, in the avoidance of displeasure of the brothers, took Pereyaslavl
Izyaslav, and gave him two a small town
Yaropolk
was forced to cede and transfer Izyaslav Vladimir Volynsky, a large city in
South-West
Count
Wilhelm. Not tired yet, your Eminence, from the vicissitudes of Russian strife?
Bishop
Tybalt. In any case, your Excellency. Knowledge of the
knight of Mathias in the history of
Commander
Henry. Yes, your Eminence, and Prince Vladimir Vsevolodovich
Monomakh on the maternal side was the grandson of the Emperor.
Bishop
Tybalt. And George Dolgorukiy why got this nickname? Remember the so-called
ancient Persian king Ahasuerus – for the craving for profit.
Knight
Mathias. George got his nickname, when I was in
Commander
Henry. All right, brother Mathias. And I still add to
your story that Yaropolk Vladimirovich died in the thirty-eighth, and soon Kiev
was captured Vsevolod II – as you know, the representative of another branch of
the descendants of Yaroslav. George Dolgorukiy tried to speak out against
Vsevolod, but to no avail. Soon the great Prince Vsevolod reasonably lost
Izyaslav Mstislavich Pereyaslavl, and in
In the
forty-fifth year, when
Count
Wilhelm. Please, knight Mathias.
Knight
Mathias. Before going to
Then I went
to
Bishop
Tybalt. You went to
Commander
Henry. Your Eminence, if you read carefully the report of brother Matthias, you
could see that under his.
Bishop
Tybalt. I have carefully read the report, but ask those questions that I see
fit.
Count
Wilhelm. It seems to me, commander Henry, that you
again forgotten. I remind you that we need to check how exactly knight Mathias
realized my job, how I did it, and how outlined the progress of in its report.
To do this, we are forced to ask those questions, it would seem, has been
previously received satisfactory answers. Otherwise it would not make sense in
the work of our Council.
Commander
Henry. I apologize to him grace.
Bishop
Tybalt. Commander Henry, your experience for brother Matthias commendable, and
not feel entitled for you to be offended, especially the Savior said, "judge Not, that ye be not judged". Go on, my son
Mathias.
Knight
Mathias. Indeed, it was agreed that the easiest way is not to invent for me a
new name and origin, and I arrived in
Bishop
Tybalt. And this Savva, the second part of the name which I
can't spell...
Knight
Mathias. Nazirovich is a patronymic, your Eminence. The noble and respected
people in
Bishop
Tybalt. This
Knight
Mathias. No, your Eminence, a noble and sovereign
Russian nobleman. In
Count
Wilhelm. But if
Knight
Mathias. Using the mechanics – the way is very long since in
As you
quite rightly noticed, your Excellency, Sava rarely appeared on the site:
mainly, he studied the great Cathedral and received General skills building
calculations from the abbé background Vertern,
I had to
resort to the reception called in our order of "Charge for rescue"
and assassins "Mirage the oasis".
Bishop
Tybalt. And what is the reception with such strange name, my son?
Knight
Mathias. This salvation from the imaginary attack, your
Eminence. I found out what time Savva Nazirovich usually returned to the
Savva was
me immensely grateful, he invited me to his place, we
drank and became friends. The following the day I showed him and his companions
several techniques that facilitate the treatment stone, and they had finally
filled me with respect. About a week we the architect visited each other, I told
him about
Count
Wilhelm. Plinfa? What is it, knight Mathias? In Greek this word means stove.
Knight
Mathias. Your Excellency, plinthite in
Such
construction very cheap and requires no searching quarries: a
good clay cannot be found except in the mountains or deserts. And the
skillful firing of the bricks is very strong, much stronger than many types of
stone.
Bishop
Tybalt. Then why
Knight
Mathias. I dare say, your Eminence, you could ask the same question to any of
our Margrave or Duke, we, too, all the churches are built of stone. This is our
Imperial tradition, established since the times of Ancient Rome. Of brick,
different from plinfy only more precise moulding, we also build, but usually it
is either household buildings or churches in the villages. For example, near my
home
Bishop
Tybalt. In my country, in
Knight
Mathias. But then either they are faced with stone, as the city's Cathedral in
Bishop
Tybalt. Yes, that's right. So it happened the Duomo
Cathedral of St. Ambrose, and St. Michael Church in
Commander
Henry. How do you, my brother Matthias, profound
knowledge in how built the
Knight
Mathias. In my youth, I traveled to
Count
Wilhelm. As we build, of course. And Dolgoruky what was build out of stone?
Knight
Mathias. Dolgoruky wanted to build the same as in the
Commander
Henry. My brother Matthias, this error was not only and not so much your fault.
You before departure in Speyer consulted with the brother He from Caesarea, and
it was he, not once been to Russia had to wonder if George accidentally sent in
Speyer Sava and advise you to make George the same suggestion, what did you do
Izyaslav. Perhaps, then, events would have gone differently.
Knight
Mathias. Brother Arnulf little versed in construction and could not appreciate
the importance the directions of the architect Savva in
Bishop
Tybalt. I'm glad my son Matias, are you ready to admit their mistakes and not
trying to anyone to separate them. But I fear that it is not only one of the
errors committed by you.
Commander
Henry. To err is human, and do not mistake only he who does nothing.
Count
Wilhelm. Not get ahead of ourselves. Tell in order, knight
Mathias. You said that you became friends with Sawa.
Knight
Mathias. Yes, your Excellency. And I learned from
Savva Nazirovich that
Therefore,
Russian the architect was very interested in how to find deposits of stone. But
on the construction Speyer Cathedral, one he could not help: the quarries
around the city appeared two hundred years ago.
I knew, as
being the search for the stone and its production in
Commander
Henry. My brother Mathias, and when you have time learn how we are searching
for deposits of the stone in the
Knight
Mathias. My brother, my Lord, I am the son a stone Mason and studied with his
father until he went pilgrimage to the
We in
So show
Sawa your knowledge in this area I was easy. I hadn't imagined how hard can it be to move from words to deeds and to find the stone
in Suzdal. But then, in Speyer, it was unclear even whether there is generally
in Zalesie but here I not only went to a calculated risk, but honestly warned
architect about the possible failure of the case. For credibility, I even
expressed fear before the possible wrath of the Prince Dolgoruky, if the stone
can not find. On reality, of course, the Prince's wrath I fear it was not
necessary: even if hedecided to put me in prison, I managed to flee.
Bishop
Tybalt. You sound so sure, my son, that you managed to
escape?
Knight
Mathias. Yes, I can escape from almost any prison.
Bishop
Tybalt. Aren't you arrogant? So ? Russian prison –
okay, maybe they're not so strong, but ours, for example?
Knight
Mathias. Your Eminence, I said from almost any. Of
course, the one who knows that it is a member of the military brotherhood
But Savva
Nazirovich believe in my sincerity, assured me of
their support and promised more additional award in the case of finding the
stone. And the salary of the Russian Sotsky was considerable and justified the
risk to any other Mason, if he's in my spot. And soon we went.
Count
Wilhelm. Driving you must be on Rus regular merchant way – through one of our
Northern cities,
Knight
Mathias. Your Excellency, your knowledge extensive, the path of the Holy Roman
Empire to
But we have
not gone North and South by the Danube and the Russian sea (Black – approx.
transl.), since I was invited Sava and his companions to stay at my venerable
parents in
My father
was very happy I'm going to work to
Bishop
Tybalt. And you're not afraid to invite to your home of the barbarians?
Knight
Mathias. Excuse me, your Excellency, Yes what are they barbarians? Nice and
friendly people. Savva Nazirovich well spoke Latin, and two of his
fellow-craftsmen during his stay in
Count
Wilhelm. Suppose the architect Savva and his satellites,
while in
Knight
Mathias. Certainly, your Excellency. Dresses there the
people, in my humble opinion, not worse than in the Empire, and all the
assumptions we have stories about Russian barbarians, dressed in raw animal
skins, – the same, God forgive me, nonsense, as stories about living in China
people with dog's heads. Very different from our only clothes and weapons local
soldiers, and that's more due pointed helmets, which in our army no. About
these helmets are incorrect in hostile areas
Perhaps the
only thing what looks different from the Russian citizens and of our Empire and
the countries of the East, – the fact that in
Bishop
Tybalt. Unfortunately, this Vice has place in our
Imperial cities, and how often, or more often known only The Lord, as it is
impossible to count.
Count
Wilhelm. But if Russian princes have their the origin
of the Norman Rurik, then, probably, the feasts they are in the spirit barbaric
feasts of the tales about
Knight
Mathias. Differently, your Excellency. I seen in
Commander
Henry. Us martial brothers in
Knight Mathias.
Yes, and customs are completely Christian. Of course, there are pagan
traditions, but there is enough and among the peoples of our Empire.
Commander
Henry. Respecting people quickly get used to its customs and its
become in this nation. I am not a deep connoisseur The Holy Scriptures, but it
seems that even our Lord Jesus Christ was talking about in the future there
will be neither Greek nor Jew.
Bishop
Tybalt. Commander Henry, a connoisseur of The Scriptures you really are not,
for it was written by the Apostle Paul in The Epistle to the Colossians.
Count
Wilhelm. Thanks for the clarification, your Eminence, but in General I like the
reasoning of the knights of the
Knight
Mathias. Stayed three days at my venerable parents, we moved on, down the
So we went
with a large merchant caravan down the Danube to the town of
Count
Wilhelm. If my memory serves me, in ancient times the Dniester was a Greek city
of
Knight
Mathias. Quite true, your Excellency. Now it is
Count
Wilhelm. At the same time? And when it happens unsafe?
Knight
Mathias. It depends on the steppe nomads owns the
lower reaches of the
Yet, since
the nomads come from the East, where there is a tradition of integrity
merchants, they prefer to Rob trade settlements and the surrounding area of
southern Russian cities.
Memorable
Prince Vladimir Monomakh caused the nomads a number of severe defeats, and
since they usually attack
Commander
Henry. And sea and river robbers?
Knight
Mathias. My brother, my Lord, such thieves are everywhere – and on the Dnieper,
and the Danube river and the
Commander
Henry. But Savva was not afraid to go through
Knight
Mathias. Savva Nazirovich was well aware of the princely strife, and knew that
at the time Vsevolod was with Dolgoruky although not in the best relations, but
in the world. And, of course, the architect had all the necessary security
certificates.
Count
Wilhelm. By the way, about
Knight
Mathias. In General – perhaps not, your Excellency,
although there are traits that I would call barbaric. They there are both in
Kyiv and in other Russian cities, where I had a chance to visit.
First of
all, of course, for the fortifications, which in
The gate tower in Rusi also wooden, except only a stone's Golden gate in
Count
Wilhelm. Judging by your story, knight Mathias,
fortresses look like the fortress of the ancient Gauls, who in many captured
even the great Julius Caesar in the era preceding the Nativity Of Christ.
Knight
Mathias. I don't have such a profound knowledge of history of fortresses, your
Excellency, but I believe that this is so is. To me this is even more amazed,
because in
Commander
Henry. Yes, you can recall at least fortifications of
Knight
Mathias. And the Northern outskirts of
Bishop
Tybalt. Honor and praise to our masters building so subtly even in
Count
Wilhelm. While the Russian residential construction looks as savagely as
fortresses?
Knight
Mathias. Yes, your Excellency. In
The vast majority of houses and churches of wood. All buildings in the strongest way
bloated due to the fact that almost all the huts have no chimney and are
heated, as they say in
Bishop
Tybalt. And what is house?
Knight
Mathias. Small one-storey log house with a gable roof.
If the house has two floors or more, it is usually called tower.
Commander
Henry. It turns out, apparently
Knight
Mathias. So, my brother, my master, although all Russian cities it produces the
most pleasant impression.
- Building
in Kiev built so that the city is split in two large fortresses, one so called
"the city of Vladimir the Baptist" stone Desyatinnaya Church
dedicated to the virgin Mary, the other "the city of Yaroslav the
Wise" with the largest in Russia stone the Church of Hagia Sophia.
Actually, I'm not a fan of the Byzantine shapes of buildings, but this temple
is very large, the height from the ground forty cubits (
Bishop
Tybalt. The temple dedicated to the Holy Martyr Sophia, mother of Faith, Hope
and love, or Sophia – the Wisdom of God? In our The Holy Catholic Church, both
of these cult not so honored to dedicate the largest city temples.
Knight
Mathias. The wisdom of God, your Eminence.
Count
Wilhelm. I guess the subtleties of Byzantine cults now isn't
important to us. What's more, knight Mathias, you can
tell us about
Knight
Mathias. Strengthening
At the
bottom of Dnipro is the so-called Hem, reinforced only by a palisade. If in the upper town lives, mainly the aristocracy and rich
merchants, the hem of artisans and poor merchants. There are also the
Kyiv trade and monastery of merchants from different countries. There is even a
small wooden Catholic Church. In General Kiev the buildings, as in other
Russian cities, almost entirely of wood, although there are stone towers.
Bishop
Tybalt. You said – "the stone towers", "stone temples". So,
in
Knight
Mathias. I'm sorry, your lordship, I it is said that the word "stone"
in Russia is a generalization: construction of hewn natural stone was carried
out only in the Galician Principality and prepared in Suzdal, and in all other
Russian lands, including in Kiev, plinth is used, sometimes in combination with
small boulders or fieldstone.
Count
Wilhelm. How long are you, knight Mathias, stayed in
Knight
Mathias. Then, in the forty-fifth year – about two months since we Savva
Nazirovich left of the Empire in the autumn, our way to Kiev took more than a
month, on the rivers was about to begin ice on the road came the thaw, and we
had to wait this time in Kiev.
Bishop
Tybalt. What is the ice and slush?
Knight
Mathias. The freeze-up in
So we
waited the freeze-up and thaw in
Commander
Henry. It was difficult used in the famous Russian cold, my brother?
Knight
Mathias. Not more difficult than to get hurt, alone, through the snowy mountain
passes of Alamut in
However,
the late Sava was much older than me, was nice to me and I was grateful for the
imaginary salvation in
Bishop
Tybalt. Late?
Knight
Mathias. Unfortunately, Yes. I had to...
Bishop
Tybalt. I'm sorry, son, I remembered that in the report you wrote about the
unfortunate need to take the life of this architect. It really was such
necessity?
Count
Wilhelm. In any case, it happened later many years. If I am
not mistaken, a year ago. So let's not go that far forward. While we are talking about winter forty-fifth and forty – sixth
years, when
Bishop
Tybalt. Like many other honourable people who fell in
Knight
Mathias. Your Excellency, I only fulfilled the duty of a knight of the
Count
Wilhelm. We are here just for also, knight Mathias, to determine whether you
are in a particular case understood his duty, and what the consequences were
performing their duty.
Knight
Mathias. Yes, of course. Can I go to the story of the Suzdal Principality, or
the high Council are interested in some more details
my way?
Commander
Henry. In Suzdal you by Savva went on frozen rivers?
Knight
Mathias. No, my brother, my Lord. Even with the time
of Vladimir Monomakh of
Bishop
Tybalt. And what is this forest – veticka?
Knight
Mathias. In these forests live Vyatichi – pagan tribes
who owned these lands before the arrival of the South Russian the conquerors,
led by
Commander
Henry. And a lot of you was attacked by robbers?
Knight
Mathias. Little, seven people. But our sledge caravan was small, only five of
the sleigh. However, there were eight of us – I, Savva, two masons and four
Byzantine merchants, while in Suzdal land from
Of course,
I could take from Savva of Nazirovich sword and immediately to deal with the
robbers...
Bishop
Tybalt. And you think you do you could win in open battle with swords seven
robbers?
Knight
Mathias. I think that it would be no more difficult than to win a battle three
assassins trained in Alamut.
Commander
Henry. The fact that the robbers are usually little to
nothing about military Affairs. Most often it is the peasants or
artisans, which unjust way pushed poverty or injustice superior.
Bishop
Tybalt. I think, commander, that you partially justify robbers.
Commander
Henry. Your Eminence, understand and to justify different things. We, the
Templars, we must understand what motivates each person, be it the robber or
the legate his Holiness the Pope.
Count
Wilhelm. Once again you forget yourself, commander.
Commander
Henry. Sorry. I hope it Eminence already understood that should not pay
attention to rude remarks heartless old fighters.
Count
Wilhelm. Commander, I'm older than you, and can to assure you that not less
heartless. But the work of our Council requires sensitivity and shutter speed,
which I all call. I have a question for knight Matthias: why Sawa or Byzantine
merchants didn't hire at least three – five warriors to accompany? I think seeing
armed men, thieves actually dared to attack.
Knight
Mathias. During the time that we had to spend in
Count
Wilhelm. But you went and Byzantine merchants. They also didn't have the money?
Knight
Mathias. The money they had, your Excellency. Anyway, after the rescue, they
gave me very generous. So I think that they just showed carelessness.
And so it happened that no one but me unable to protect my companions
from the robbers.
But once to join with the wicked in battle, in any case, it was unreasonable,
as it was necessary first understand, do not hide in the forest their
associates, which could be Luke and arrows. I didn't want to show his fencing
art on the front Sava Suzdal masters, so as not to cause issues, where a simple
German Mason learned to fight with swords. So I decided to wait. And then I
fell prostrate and begged for mercy with all.
Bishop
Tybalt. But it was risky, my son. Suddenly they all you immediately killed?
Knight
Mathias. Usually, your Eminence, the robbers don't do that. They are either taken
from the merchants product and let them go back home, or take them to the
forest and tortured to see if they had another product, will pay anyone for a
ransom, which the caravans going along this path, and stuff like that. Sometimes tortured just for fun.
However, if
merchants released, in the winter it also usually means death for them, because
are selected not only goods, but also stripped almost naked, because the
clothes are too valuable. And naked man to pass through the
frost a few dozen miles from the nearest habitation, of course, impossible.
Sometimes, merchants lucky enough to stay alive and be sold in the slave
markets, but that is, if they are captured by steppe nomads or sea and
river thieves. The villains are also in the midst of Russian forest with the
slave markets are not connected. So my companions, not wanting to fight, hope
to survive not was no, and I could only wonder at their cowardice, passivity
and short-sightedness.
Count
Wilhelm. And how did you manage to escape?
Knight Mathias.
The robbers took us into the forest. Bind us as we did not resist. Five
villains were under the reins of the horse harnessed to our sledges, and two
customized us. Had to get between the trees, the sled often clung to the
branches and stopped outlaws started to release them, and curiously, my
companions helpful help them, vainly hoping for leniency and mercy.
When
everything once again was busy with the release of the sled, didn't cost me
anything to take a step to the side and hide behind a large tree. No one
noticed my disappearance. After that I just had to miss the caravan by himself,
to follow him and one by one to destroy thieves, starting with the one who led
the last sled.
Bishop
Tybalt. This technique without the shedding of blood?
As he called, I forget...
Commander
Henry. "Look back".
Knight
Mathias. "Look back" I had to use one of those killed me robbers.
After that I took the axe and sledge just cut their heads, one by one, crawling
behind them. So four were killed, were the ones who went ahead with my
companions, paving the way. I loudly asked them to surrender. The nearest of
them rushed at me with a sword, but I easily dodged the blow and then killed
the villain. My companions, inspired by my example and using numerical
predominance, rushed to the robbers and disarmed.
Weak and
cowardly people usually can't suppress my desire to show off on the defeated
enemy, therefore, at the insistence of the Byzantine merchants
robbers were stripped naked brutally beaten, tied to trees and left in woods to
die from the cold.
Bishop
Tybalt. May the Lord have mercy on them wayward Christian souls.
Commander
Henry. Amen.
Count
Wilhelm. And in the end you arrived safely to Suzdal – the capital of George
Dolgorukiy?
Knight
Mathias. Not exactly, your Excellency.
Count
Wilhelm. You have been on the road yet something deserving of the story for us?
Knight
Mathias. No, your Excellency, on the road no more adventures we had, I just
wanted to clarify that about the city Suzdal is not quite true to say as the
capital of Dolgorukiy. Capital in understanding, for example, Constantinople in
The ancient city Suzdal – Suzdal and
By the way,
frequent moves George had created many difficulties for the princely officials,
who also had to up to his master. Savva Nazirovich, for example, told me that
he was not at home, in
Bishop
Tybalt. Your Excellency, may be the story of the knight Matthias about staying
in Suzdal Principality better to wait until tomorrow, when we're less tired and
more attentive?
Count
Wilhelm. I agree with your Eminence. Let's take a break until tomorrow.
Bishop
Tybalt. Lord, we, the unworthy, grateful for Your
great blessings to us. We praise You, we bless, thank
you, much praised and magnified Thy goodness, and with devotion and love You
shout: Benefactor, our Saviour, glory to You!
All participants meeting. Amen.
Count
Wilhelm. The meeting was closed. Thank you all members.
PROTOCOL
THE SECOND MEETING OF THE
of the
Council of representatives of his Imperial Majesty, his Holiness the Pope and
the order of the poor knights of Christ and Of the temple of Solomon on
consideration of the report of the knight of Matias of Passau on the
implementation of the mission in Russia in 1145-1157 years from BC
(Room on
the inventory of the
In the name
of God, the will of his Imperial Majesty Friedrich, his Holiness Pope Hadrian
and the Grand master the order of the poor knights of the
Present:
Chairman of
the Board – count Wilhelm von Veldhoven, Vice-Marshal of the court of his
Imperial Majesty.
Member of the Board – Bishop Tybalt Surminski, the legate his Holiness
the Pope.
Council
member knight Henry from
The Secretary of the Board Alfred from
The Council
reports knight Matias from
Count
Wilhelm. In the name of God, continue the hearing of the report of the knight
Mathias, a member of the military brotherhood of
Bishop
Tybalt. Lord, I ask that You grant me peace, wisdom
and strength. Let me watch the world through the eyes of love, to be patient,
benevolent, gentle. Protect my hearing from all
slander, my tongue – from all condemnation. Be in my heart only good thoughts.
Put me in Your beauty, Lord, so I radiate Your light
and Your love.
All participants meeting. Amen.
Count
Wilhelm. I ask the distinguished members of the Council to sit down. At the
last meeting, knight Mathias, you stopped on that
safely profit in Zalesie together with the architect Savva.
Knight
Mathias. Yes, your Excellency. When we Savva came
Dolgoruky was in
Count
Wilhelm. And what a city
Knight
Mathias. About its base are different gossip: whether
Monomakh, or even
Around
But the
benefits of its location at the mountain between the rivers and ravines created
and inconvenience. The size of the city is quite large, the length of
fortifications is more than a mile (
Bishop
Tybalt. Posad? What's that?
Knight
Mathias. I'm sorry, your Eminence, I forgot to explain that the Posad in
Two gates
in hardwood the towers lead into the city from the West and the East. Deaf
turrets in
Wooden
churches in
Count Wilhelm.
Interestingly, while the main tower is in Russian fortresses?
Knight
Mathias. No, your Excellency. Architect Savva
Nazirovich told me that at the end of the last century Vladimir Monomakh built
a full main tower in the castle ljubech on the
In the
fortresses in
Commander
Henry. But the temples strengthen weak and unreliable, and no serious assault,
no Church not stand: the besiegers, it is easy to sum up the battering RAM and
knock the door, or to impose the building of brushwood and to strangle
defenders smoke.
Count
Wilhelm. But a certain reason to use temples as the main towers still there,
and not coincidentally, many such examples in my native
Bishop
Tybalt. And in Sirmione on lake Garda, the main city
of my diocese, too, there is a Church embedded in the fortifications.
Count
Wilhelm. In any case, if the enemy already were able to overcome the main town
fortifications and capture the city, taking even the strong main tower is just
a matter of a relatively short time. But at least a symbolic main tower of the
fortress is still needed, because during the capture the enemy city walls, the
military commander must be able to lock in any strengthening and, while the
enemy is preparing for his assault, to arrange honorable surrender. And even
the weakest of the main tower is a noble class enough protection during the
uprising of the citizens.
Commander
Henry. Yes, your Excellency, I agree with you.
Count
William. Me by the way, always was interested in this.
I heard that the Apostolic rules and definitions The
Ecumenical councils forbid the monks and clergy to participate in military actions
with weapons in their hands. But it happens very often, that example – if
present here the knights of the monastic order of Christ and of the
Bishop Tybalt
– a profound expert on the sacred texts, maybe he will explain it to us?
Bishop
Tybalt. There is no contradiction, your Excellency. Eighty-third Apostolic rule says: "the Priest, exercising in the
military and wants to keep both, that is, the Roman the authorities and the
priestly office, let him be deposed from the sacred rank. Because Caesar what
is Caesar, and God of gods".
And the
definition of the Fourth Ecumenical Council States: "Clerics and monks
determined not to join any military service, nor in worldly rank, and dared to
this, and not returning with repentance to that first chose for God
anathema".
As you can
see, both cases we are talking only about the ban for the monks and priests to
combine the service of God with service in the armed forces of the earthly
rulers or any other secular service.
Count
Wilhelm. Your theological knowledge truly limitless, your
Eminence. Thank you. And about the strengthening of Russian cities I
would say very unflattering: what are strongholds, these are the main tower.
Knight
Mathias. But fortresses from George was a lot, and the
Prince built them, subjecting a single system: the distance between them should
exceed two days, to catch up to the enemy, if he set out the fortress to get
around. This system includes the Vladimir, Tver,
I must say
that I don't unable not to admire the activity of George Dolgorukiy, which
transformed the hitherto unsettled pagan Suzdal region in a prosperous land, in
which dominates the Christian Church, even if not the papal and Byzantine. And as I heard in the beginning of his reign on the squares of
Count
Wilhelm. Yes, a worthy ruler, nothing say. Continue, knight Mathias, your story about the arrival in
Knight
Mathias. In
Count
Wilhelm. What do you mean "steam"? To sit in the warm and moist a
couple, as in the Palestinian baths? Forgot what they are called...
Knight
Mathias. They are called hammams, your Excellency. But the Russian method of
washing in a bath is very different and hammams, and our hot tubs. In the
Russian baths the air is very hot and the hearth are
large hot stones, abundantly watered, and this is a strong vapor. So in
Count
Wilhelm. And why was that?
Knight
Mathias. I think to strengthen the body and spirit.
Bishop
Tybalt. Strange way.
Count
Wilhelm. I, however, think interesting. Somehow try to arrange a Russian bath
in his castle Veldhoven. My friend, Duke von Oldenburg, have made something
similar and highly praised.
Commander
Henry. Since we are talking about baths, ask a question. My brother Matthias,
shortly before the trip to
Knight
Mathias. Yes, on the left shoulder.
Commander
Henry. You've been hurt before. How much received in battle scars you had when
you came to
Knight
Mathias. God spared me: compared to the many of our other brothers of the scars
I have are few, only six. Later in
Commander
Henry. Yes, it's a bit: I eleven.
Bishop
Tybalt. It's valiant of knights is considered a little?
Count
Wilhelm. A little, your Eminence. I different times
received fourteen wounds.
Bishop
Tybalt. God, how cruel this world...
Count
Wilhelm. Another world Lord we don't provided, have to live in it. Commander
Henry, your question knight Matthias consisted only in the number of scars?
Commander
Henry. Not only that, your Excellency. My brother Mathias, what do you think:
when Sawa saw your scars, one of which, obtained under Alamut, was very fresh,
not have arisen if he had suspicion, you're not who you say you are? For the
knight you have scars, really not very much, but for the average Mason too
much.
Knight
Mathias. When Savva Nazirovich in the bath noticed my scars, he asked me where
they came from. I answered him the same way answered and his father, who asked
me the same questions: supposedly, when I worked construction in
Commander
Henry. And your circumcision Savva noticed?
Knight
Mathias. Unlikely. He could know what it is. However,
in this case I was ready to tell you that in prisoner was
forced to accept Islam, and after fleeing the sin of apostasy was I released my
Confessor as forced.
Count
Wilhelm. Knight Mathias, who else in
Knight
Mathias. Yes, perhaps, no one but The Petryliv Of
Maravich.
Count
Wilhelm. I wonder, I wonder. Tell us about him, please.
Knight
Mathias. Petrila, or just Peter, – attracted me to work for the good of the
Holy Catholic Church and baptized me in the true Catholic faith by a senior
official of George Dolgorukiy. I Petrillo mentioned in the
report written by me.
Count
Wilhelm. The report we read, but we ask you elaborate Petrila.
Knight
Mathias. Listen to and obey, your Excellency.
Petrila
Maravich – almost my age, a year younger than me. It comes from a pagan tribe
under the name "ves", living around the North of the Russian cities –
Beloozero (located in the modern district of Belozersk – approx. transl.). At
birth, Peter had been given the name of Anelim. His father, MERT was the ruler
a small town nestled in the woods in a few days from Beloozero.
Around
Beloozero lives only the whole, but Meria – also pagan tribes, pastoralists and
agriculture. These tribes are much more powerful and numerous, lots of Mary and
around Suzdal,
Years seven
or eight up to my arrival in Suzdal town, where rules father Anelma was ruined
one of the Merya tribes. The ruler of the dead were killed in battle, the
population was slaughtered or enslaved. Anela managed to escape, he wandered
for a long time through forests and barely alive, came even to the Beloozero
and
Prince
George Dolgoruky, who lived then in
Father
Petro, despite that was a pagan, gave his son a good education, so Petrila was
immediately also employed in the princely Treasury.
Commander
Henry. My brother Matthias, what you now told about the origin of the Petryliv,
you only learned from him, or you had other sources of information? Or maybe
you've been under Beloozero among there the Gentiles?
Knight
Mathias. My brother, my Lord, I know that shall carefully check each of whom
are attracted to work on good of the Holy Catholic Church. But to go to
Beloozero and check that told Petrila, there was no way, as only the path to
that the city takes several weeks, it is very far to the North. Distance from
So I just
had for those that asked about Petrila Savva Nazirovich. The architect told me
about the same thing at different times told Peter.
I also knew
that Wisata Nikiforovich, the Supreme Governor of Yuri Dolgoruky, who was in
charge at court and search cases, checked all people taken to court. And since
Petrila occupied a high position in the Treasury and was a gentleman, I decided
that this is enough to read his stories about himself tested.
Commander
Henry. Well, my brother, here to you unlikely to be claims. And what kind of
position at that time held Peter?
Knight
Mathias. He was one of the assistants the Prince's Treasurer
and was in charge of collecting one of the types of taxes in Suzdal
Principality.
Count
Wilhelm. In
Knight
Mathias. Your knowledge is deep, your lordship, and you pronounce these words
correctly. Even their name is mytniki or publicans, but Osmaniye often.
Count
Wilhelm. In addition, you, knight Mathias, drew
Osmania Petrilo to work for the good of the Holy Catholic Church, you and he
were friends?
Knight
Mathias. You could say that, your Excellency.
Count
Wilhelm. And what exactly was your friendship?
Knight
Mathias. In the ordinary understanding of friendship.
I stayed at his house, we went together to the feasts, have soared in the
bath...
Bishop
Tybalt. This friendship with Peter was called any emotional outburst on your
part, my son?
Knight
Mathias. Frankly, your Eminence, Petrila gradually became I cherish. But it all
started with that friendship with anybody did not cause suspicions and eased my
adjustment to life in
Bishop
Tybalt. And you're ready to confirm under oath that your relationship with
Peter was limited to friendship and collaboration actions for the benefit of
the Holy Catholic Church, and there was no carnal relations?
Commander
Henry. Your Eminence, members of our brotherhood in
order to achieve the success of their missions allowed all carnal relations.
Bishop
Tybalt. Including sodomy?
Commander
Henry. Yes, your Eminence, and sodomy too.
Bishop
Tybalt. No wonder they say that two riders on one horse is depicted on the seal
of the order of the poor knights of the
Commander
Henry. I will ask no offensive hints your Eminence.
Count
Wilhelm. Your Eminence, I think now it's your turn to
apologize to the commander of Henry.
Bishop
Tybalt. Yes, of course, I'm sorry and understand that any sin, including
sodomy, can be accomplished by the Templars unless absolutely necessary, and they are pure as the robe of the virgin
Mary...
Commander
Henry. Wow, what a high opinion your grace upholds us, the poor knights of
Christ and of the
Count
Wilhelm. Dear members, maybe we still go back to hear the report of the knight
Mathias? Or maybe better will be given me the power to adjourn the meeting of
the Council and to ask his Holiness the Pope, and the Grand master of the
knights Templar to send other representatives, as these incapable of quiet
business discussion?
Bishop
Tybalt. Commander Henry, again please me and you and the Templar order as a
whole.
Commander
Henry. God will forgive you, your Eminence. Now, my brother Matthias, when
members of the high Council know about your law in necessary to enter into any
carnal relations, don't be shy to tell the truth. There was a connection between
you and Peter?
Knight
Mathias. Yes, he had.
Count
Wilhelm. Knight Mathias, keep up your the story of how
you met Omnicom Petrilli and how you managed to bring him to work for the good
of the
Knight
Mathias. After a couple of days after arrival in
The yard
randomly built wooden towers, in total components of the princely Palace. At a
reception in the great hall of the Palace was a lot of
people, a hundred people, maybe more. The Prince was sitting on a bench on the
hill and talked with one, then another official.
When Savva
entered hall, George immediately saw us, stood with us, hugged
For the
salvation of the Sava Prince has granted me the cloak from his shoulder, that
Then the
Prince spoke with someone else and me began to
approach his entourage, meet and thank you for saving
Count
Wilhelm. It Petrila you were approached, not Vice versa? Remember the good
knight Mathias, it is very important.
Knight
Mathias. Don't understand, your Excellency, why is it so important, but
remember: he came to me and spoke in Latin, although with lots of mistakes. I
was very pleased to hear the Latin, because Russian language I still knew very
little and could not step to move away from
Commander
Henry. And where Peter learned Latin? You asked?
Knight
Mathias. Of course, my brother, my Lord. It was one of
my first questions. He said that education, which his father had given him,
involved study of Latin. Still, the father was the ruler though small and
marginal, and pagan, but of the city.
Count
Wilhelm. Wondered whether osmanica Petrila, as a German Mason, Matthias,
supposedly even non-knightly rank, was able not only to beat and get rid of
several vagrants in
Knight
Mathias. This has interested many. I explained this is because from childhood
he knew how to fight, besides my father hired for me teacher of fencing in the
hope that I'm ever very good a bricklayer, later an architect, and then I
knighted. I told me that when he worked in
Commander
Henry. And your story believed?
Knight
Mathias. Why not? Not quite believing, it seems that only the Supreme Governor Wisata
Nikiforovich. The first time he even put me spies, which I immediately noticed,
but made no sign. No interest in Suzdal I had, I was there only for in order
perfectly to learn Russian language and go to Pereyaslavl to Izyaslav
Mstislavich. So Vysata, seeing that I'm not doing anything suspicious, soon the
messengers withdrew.
Commander
Henry. But if you don't believe Wisata, maybe and someone
else? For Example, Petrila?
Knight
Mathias. I admit, I didn't think about it, your Excellency. No I slippery no
questions asked, all I was praised and thank, I
enjoyed universal respect, and even a couple of times was invited to the court,
despite the alleged absence of noble title. In
Bishop
Tybalt. The test of honor is much harder to pass, my son Matias, than the test
of adversity. Still of blessed memory king Solomon compared the abuse of fame,
abuse of sweets.
Count
Wilhelm. Indeed so, your Eminence. Knight Mathias, how
long after Dating you attracted to Petrilo work for
the good of the
Knight
Mathias. Not at once, your Excellency. It happened
during the search for deposits of the stone.
Commander
Henry. But Peter was Omnicom, that is collected taxes.
What he had to do with the search for the stone?
Knight
Mathias. Actually no, my brother, my Lord. But let me
tell everything in detail, if the high Council so interested in my relationship
with Petroleu Moravicum.
The search
for the stone construction in Suzdal was very difficult. The fact that it the
Principality is very large: it is more or less populated portion of a size not
less Bavaria, along with Northern forests around Beloozero is almost bigger the
whole of Germany. And stone there never was extracted.
Because I
knew deposits of stone makes sense to look first under the cliffs from the
rivers, the first thing I did last winter, at the beginning of the forty-sixth
year, he commanded workers, which the Prince provided us with the Sava order,
to dig from the side of the river Klyazma inclined course under the hill, on
which stands the city Vladimir. Frozen clay first had to break the crowbars,
but then went nepromesa, and it became easier.
If such
excavation was carried out, for example, from the Danube under my mother
I asked
Sava, what other city of
Excavation
was more and more, they were farther and farther away from
In
principle, for me the success or failure of searches of a large stone did not
matter, I still don't was going to stay permanently in
Bishop
Tybalt. What to play, my son?
Knight
Mathias. Excuse me, your Excellency, I did not specify that we have in order of
the "game adder" is called creating visibility of his death.
Bishop
Tybalt. And why so?
Knight
Mathias. Because this snake does so in the moment of danger.
Assassins this technique is called "to live among houris".
Bishop
Tybalt. Thanks for the clarification, keep going my son.
Knight
Mathias. All this time I lived in the side the room of the big house Savva of
Nazirovich in
It's March,
on the rivers the debacle began on the road – slush, drive around the
Principality became it is impossible and we with Savva during this month of
forced break in work began to think what to do next. Long did not invent
anything except almost hopeless continue test excavation.
But once Sawa went Petrila Maravich. He went in its Treasury business,
it was about the allocation of funds for some of the distant fortresses. It
seems to Tver.
Count
Wilhelm. Petrila he went in, or called him Savva?
Knight
Mathias. Don't know, your Excellency, they told me about this is not told. I
was at home, and Sawa invited Petrila, and I to have dinner together. During
this time I began to speak well in Russian, and could to keep the conversation
going.
Peter
asked, as we Savva case, we told him about the difficulties of finding stone
for construction. He wanted to know what all the signs are deposits of stone
can to be, in addition to high cliffs. I said scree below the cliffs. Then
Petrila offered to send the cities heralds and announce a reward to anyone who
will find and bring to Vladimir a stone chip, suitable for construction, and
can reveal where there are still a lot of debris.
Us with
Sawa this idea loved it, and Sawa to celebrate even offered Petrila Maravich
warm up with us in the bath.
Commander
Henry. When you soared, for the first time Peter I saw your scars and
circumcision, my brother Matthias?
Knight
Mathias. Yes, my brother, my Lord.
Commander
Henry. And he asked from all of this?
Knight
Mathias. No.
Commander
Henry. And then asked?
Knight Mathias.
And then not asked.
Commander
Henry. And wasn't it strange that he asked nothing?
Knight
Mathias. I have realized that my report to this high Council had something to
do with Petroleu Moravicum, and I hope sooner or later to find out what it is. But
then no suspicion of the behaviour of Peter I is not
caused. The usual princely official, related with sympathy for the foreigner
and who wants to brush up on acquired in childhood knowledge of Latin. The fact
that he saw my scars and circumcision was not to ask anything that could be
caused by a simple delicacy.
He is
generally very sensitive and educated person, I Templiers even rude sometimes
felt uncomfortable with him.
Bishop
Tybalt. To me you seem to be quite delicate, my son, unlike your commander.
Commander
Henry. Indeed, I sometimes too harsh, your Eminence, but this is primarily due
to the fact that accountable member of my fraternity,
and I feel quite natural concern. And his brother Matias have in front of the
high Imperial Council so, of course, he closely followed every word.
Count
Wilhelm. In General, he drinks, and swears, as Templar? Recently I heard this
saying.
Commander
Henry. It is not so, your Excellency.
Count
Wilhelm. You mean the saying or about habits knight Mathias?
Commander
Henry. And about that, and about something else. Your
Excellency, in the order of the Templars, comes a lot of different people, they do a variety of cases and have very different
habits. For example, the behavior and habits battle-brothers, whose duty is the
protection of the Holy cross in the battles against the infidels in the deserts
of Palestine, very different from the habits and the behavior of members of a
secret brotherhood designed to easily adapt to any conditions and to establish
friendly relations with different people.
If brother
Matthias will to fulfill its mission in the tavern with the fishermen, he will
behave like a fisherman. If he will need to fulfill its mission to wear a
collar, celebrate mass and to confess the parishioners, he will behave like a
Prelate.
Bishop
Tybalt. And in fact, what knight Mathias?
Commander
Henry. It does not matter for the order of the poor knights of the
Count
Wilhelm. I believe that it doesn't matter for this Council, so back to the
report. So, knight Mathias, you Omnicom Petroleu warm up in the bath, he didn't
ask about your scars and circumcision, you tell him anything about them did not
speak... And he has the scars were?
Knight
Mathias. There were a few old scars. Peter later told me that he got them when
he went on military campaigns with his father – the ruler of the town.
Commander
Henry. And he was circumcised?
Knight
Mathias. Of course not. North pagan peoples
circumcision is not carried out.
Count
Wilhelm. Clear. And helped in the end method search of deposits of stone,
proposed Petroleu?
Knight
Mathias. Yes, your Excellency. Prince heralds
announced a reward to those who bring in
I already
spoke Russian in perfection, though still with a foreign accent. But this
reprimand too quickly was missing and I had thought about that soon will need
to "play snake" and go to Izyaslav.
But one day
the courtyard Sava came to artisan from
Of course,
I immediately gathered in
Commander
Henry. That is, to go along suggested namely Petrila, not you?
Knight
Mathias. Yes, it is. I would never came to offer him a ride to the far
outskirts of the Principality, I didn't know about it tax matters.
We went
water by. Savva Nazirovich did not go with us, but sent a few employees that on
the way, had to paddle, and the place to do the excavations. Wisata
Nikiforovich in request Sava gave us a few warriors to follow as the path was
far and ran dangerously close to vyatichskoe forests, where we the architect
was once attacked by robbers.
We sailed
in a big boat about a week – first up on the Klyazma river,
nearly to its source, then rummaging moved to the Yauza, a tributary of the
Count
Wilhelm. Well, it is a sensible idea.
Knight
Mathias. Thank you, your Excellency. And then I thought that it will be
necessary, leaving in Pereyaslavl Izyaslav to leave in Suzdal someone who could
monitor local events and to maintain contact with me.
Then I
caught sight of Peter and me this look seemed caring,
sincere, even in love...
Commander
Henry. Did you think that he'll just studying, says,
couldn't see before?
Knight
Mathias. Hardly, my brother, my Lord: I well versed in the expression. besides, I knew that we could not see before, I have an
excellent memory for faces. That's why I became convinced that I was him care
it like a man.
Bishop
Tybalt. And you already were the experience of carnal intercourse with men, my
son?
Knight
Mathias. I would not like to answer this question, your Eminence.
Count
Wilhelm. Knight Mathias, you have my permission not the answer, as this
question is not relevant to the topic of our meeting. Even if if you were a
virgin, could feel the concerned looks, that's enough.
Knight
Mathias. Yes, that's the look I felt, thought osmanic Petrila well suited for
the work of the
I remembered
that Petrila – former pagan Anelim, which adopted the Byzantine faith recently,
only a few years ago and so is unlikely to have been
deeply religious. So I started gently check his attitude in the faith, saying
at every opportunity and awkward case against the lazy, fat and corrupt priests
the
Of course,
I am not an experienced missionary, but my conversations with Petroleu
Moravicum began to bear fruit: he started a lively interest in the Holy Roman
Empire and the Holy Catholic the Church, especially since he never in his life
did not leave
Sensual
views of Peter I was catching up increasingly and one of the nights on the way
to
Commander
Henry. I say. This method, in order Templar is called "the Bed we have
green."
Bishop
Tybalt. This is from "Song of Solomon"? Such blasphemous use of the
words of Scripture says it yourself. You, my son Matias, joined with Peter in
carnal relations?
Knight
Mathias. Yes, your Eminence.
Bishop
Tybalt. I suggest that the order of the rename this is not "
Commander
Henry. We'll think over your offer grace.
Knight
Mathias. How would this method not called, he gave the result.
Count
Wilhelm. What was it like?
Knight
Mathias. It was already near
Bishop
Tybalt. The strange use of the divine the word
"love". It may be more correct to say that surrendered to the
godless the sin of
Knight
Mathias. If I even for a moment made then such thoughts, your Eminence, I would
not be able to seduce Peter and continue to use it for their own purposes.
Count
Wilhelm. Are you sure that is not Peter seduced you and used for their own
purposes?
Knight
Mathias. It's now hard to remember the details of how we came into that his
grace is fair calls sinful relationship. Now I'm not sure of anything, if the
high Council so interested in Petroleu. But then it seemed to me that
everything went fine, and Peter filled me with warm feelings.
Bishop
Tybalt. And you, Peter?
Knight
Mathias. Of course, quite without it could not do. Otherwise, the people that
are receiving "Box, with we – the greens",
can feel false.
Commander
Henry. This is the risk that reception. The one who
uses it, may be playing in the rough feelings and not notice that the game
stopped being a game. But judged strictly brother Matthias, many years of
carrying out a dangerous mission far from home, I wouldn't, even if his
feelings for Peter were stronger than they needed to business. Let him cast
Matthias stone he who is without sin.
Bishop
Tybalt. Commander, if you remember turned to the sinner the words of our Lord
Jesus Christ, remember and what the Lord said next: "Go and sin no
more". And sodomy knight Matthias, I understand that continued after that
night. Am I correct understand, my son?
Knight
Mathias. Yes, your Eminence. Then we Peter would be
alone every night on the way to
Count
Wilhelm. And your companions as this treated? Or they didn't notice?
Knight
Mathias. We waited until all asleep, and since workers and soldiers were tired
of rowing, they fell asleep quickly. We're with Peter from rowing was free, and
we had a lot, enough for a long and stormy classes. Then together we bathed in
the river in the moonlight.
But even if
someone from satellites and noticed what we were doing, it would not have
produced a stunning impressions: such relationships are not uncommon among
ordinary Russian people, often commute to work in other cities, and even in
other principalities, and separated with families for several months, and even
years. For example, in the same connection consisted of two
riding with us, warrior.
Count
Wilhelm. But the stone in the end you found between rapid classes and swimming?
Knight
Mathias. Yes, your Excellency. We arrived in
Found it
right away. Any the excavation under the hill on which stands the town, and
above and below on the river
To
finally to understand what was happening, we sailed down the
Still had
to check how whole layers, there are no cracks in them, would it be possible to
break them larger blocks. Workers took crowbars and started to go deep inside
deposits, and it turned out that we are dealing almost with the monolith from
which it was possible to obtain blocks of any size. I checked, this stone lends
itself to treatment, everything was excellent. It seemed to me that these
deposits much better what I have seen in
We took out
a few blocks of stone were loaded into our boat and sailed back. On the way
back did a few test excavation under the banks of the
Yauza and Klyazma, but stone was gone.
Sawa was
thrilled seeing brought us blocks. The next day we were taken by the Prince
George, who was also very happy though and noticed that it would be good to
find the stone closer to Vladimir and Suzdal, as in Moscow, he did not going to
build. Sava promised to make more excavations between
Count
Wilhelm. Dolgoruky and fulfilled his promise and gave you a noble title?
Knight
Mathias. Yes, your Excellency.
Bishop
Tybalt. Did the Prince suffered his nobleman –
Catholic?
Knight
Mathias. No, your Eminence. I took the Byzantine faith
in the day when I was granted nobility. My godfather was Savva Nazirovich. My
patron Saint during the Byzantine baptism remains of the Holy Evangelist
Matthew, and in
He spoke in
Russian I that time in full perfection, so that could be considered that the
entering into this the country was successful.
Bishop
Tybalt. Here you are, the Templars, the Byzantine about accept the faith, the
Mohammedan, the Jewish...
Commander
Henry. Only feigned, your Eminence.
Bishop
Tybalt. But you at least repent then?
Commander
Henry. Of course. Each of our brother
continuously and constantly exalts the Lord penitential prayers for their
unintentional sins.
Bishop
Tybalt. I mean given to us by God the sacrament of confession.
Commander
Henry. Your Eminence, we, the humble members of the order of poor knights of
Christ and of the
Count
Wilhelm. By your words, commander, do you think that none of the Templar never
in my life doing no one free of sin. But let's leave theology and continue the
hearing report. Knight Mathias, you found the stone, became a Russian nobleman,
and what you further work proposed by the Prince and Savva? Not a bricklayer to
work the gentleman...
Knight
Mathias. No, your Excellency. I was the proposed work
of the chief quarries.
But it was
time to start essential mission and go to Pereyaslavl Izyaslav Mstislavich. So
I took a week of reflection and time have convinced Petrillo to promote The
Holy Catholic Church and baptized him in the true faith.
Count
Wilhelm. And how did you get him?
Knight
Mathias. I told him that I will not accept the proposal of the Prince, and soon
will leave
Bishop
Tybalt. And what did you tell him about yourself and his mission?
Knight
Mathias. I'm a Catholic Prelate and missionary, and my mission is the
establishment in
I secretly
baptized him in The Klyazma is the same warm, clear night like the one when we
first were together.
Bishop
Tybalt. Very touching, my son. How you baptize him?
You know the prayers accompanying the sacrament of baptism in the true the
Catholic faith?
Knight
Mathias. Yes, your Eminence.
Commander
Henry. All members of the brotherhood of
Bishop
Tybalt. But, of course, is what baptism is not could be true...
Commander
Henry. Your Eminence, I wonder your ignorance of the fact that there is a
secret bull of his Holiness the Pope, sanctifying baptism committed any of the
knights of the
Bishop
Tybalt. I remind you, commander, that about baptism can be not only in the case
of improper the Baptist, but in the case of improper relationship of the
baptized to this Holy Ordinance.
Count
Wilhelm. Dear members, it is not necessary to start a theological argument. Knight
Mathias, you, when baptized Osmania Petrila, haven't opened him being a
Templar?
Knight
Mathias. In any case, your Excellency. If I father't have discovered that I am a knight of the
Commander
Henry. No doubt, brother Matthias, what do you perfectly know the rules of our
order of the brotherhood and know how to keep secret. And how you left Suzdal?
"I played a snake"?
Knight
Mathias. No, it turned out much better. At first I was refused the post of
chief of quarries under the pretext that
Savva asked
me if I want, there is no opportunity to build in Suzdal, to go along with him
in the Federal Suzdal to Galich, where he was invited to hone skills architect:
despite the frequent wars, in Halychyna did not stop the stone construction. But
I said that he did not want to risk, and not Sawa suggest: at this time of the
Kievan Grand Prince Vsevolod II of
I expressed
a desire to exercise the right of free gentleman to go to any Prince, and
showed an invitation from Izyaslav mstislavovitch – search stone for future
construction in Pereyaslavl.
Count
Wilhelm. And when you managed to get such invitation?
Knight
Mathias. I did not received, we Petroleu eve made it to taken from the Treasury
of parchment, which princes used for their documents. A certificate signed by
Izyaslav Peter found somewhere in the Duke's archives, and we've carefully
redrawn the stroke of his pen. However, no one carefully our forgery had not
considered, I just waved it before the Prince and
Prince
Dolgoruky offended that I'm going to work to his foe. But the war between
George and Izyaslav this time they even had a common enemy – Vsevolod II of
Savva, when
I left, walked me to the gate of his house, said, that just gets me, hugged me
and kissed him goodbye, and promised at any time again take me in Suzdal.
Commander
Henry. Of course, this departure was better than to play his death and then
appearing in Pereyaslavl with some invented the story of his life, and even change the appearance.
Knight
Mathias. Absolutely true, my brother and Lord. And keep in touch with us
Petrilli in this case it was easier. About our relationship many guessed, and
Vichate Nikiforovich it must have been known from his informants, so Peter
could send each other letters carriageways with any merchants using our real
names, and no one our correspondence would not have caused suspicion. I just
explained to Peter simple the rules of secrecy of letters.
Count
Wilhelm. For example?
Knight
Mathias. For example, no mention in the letters about we
serve the Holy Catholic Church. Or, for example, if there is urgent business
and we need to meet, then write: "Come, I missed you".
Commander
Henry. Yes, this is normal for relations with converted to the true faith
assistants.
Count
Wilhelm. Drove you to Pereyaslavl without adventure?
Knight
Mathias. Because the Prince was mad at me or something, then an escort of
soldiers he's not singled out, but I didn't care. I could to stick to any
merchant caravan, but it was already June, I was in a hurry to Izyaslav and
didn't want to lose a few days in search of the caravan, and then leisurely
journey. So I went to Pereyaslavl alone, the same by land, which in the winter
we went with Sawa.
Since I was
already Russian nobleman, was riding in full armor, with sword and shield, good
armour, on a fine horse, bought at auction
Bishop
Tybalt. With pleasure, my son?
Commander
Henry. Brother Mathias, of course, exterminated villains exclusively with the
Christian feeling of regret and forgiveness, and the pleasure received from
just that could perfect their highest combat mastery, blunt during work in the
Suzdal Principality.
Count
Wilhelm. I have no doubt that knight Mathias had meant exactly that. Tell me
knight, do you do not prevented safely drive to Pereslavl?
Knight
Mathias. Not interrupting, your Excellency. I they
arrived in June of the same forty-sixth year, he stopped at the
I must say
that The town seemed only a pale shadow of
The main
stone Church the city is built at the end of the last century, the Cathedral
dedicated to Michael The Archangel. It is a large
Church building, built in the Byzantine forms surrounded on three sides by
galleries and several chapels.
Prince's
court is located inside the fortress, it was built back Vsevolod Yaroslavich,
the father of Vladimir Monomakh. Back I the day and went.
The
Prince's
Soon I was
adopted Izyaslav. Had I told him the secret of the Imperial envoy, said that I
am aware of his interest in the acceptance of the true Catholic faith, and said
that I will be ready to make his Grand Duke in exchange for the promise of
subsequent bring them to Rus ' to Holy cross.
Count
Wilhelm. You he just said so? And he's not he was angry that you give it the
conditions?
Knight
Mathias. Not a bit angry. I it seemed that he was to become the Grand Duke soul
to the devil sell.
Bishop
Tybalt. Watch your words, my son. Izyaslav promised to be baptized into the
true Catholic faith, and not to sell his soul to the enemy of the human race.
Knight
Mathias. Your Eminence, I just wanted to describe Izyaslav, and I never would
have thought to compare Christ's baptism the sale of the immortal soul.
Commander
Henry. Do not carp at words, your grace, it's
unbecoming of a servant of the
Count
Wilhelm. Dear Council members, I urge all for peace, though did not expect that
it will have to do me, and more was hoping for the Bishop to Tybalt.
Bishop
Tybalt. Let peace prevail. Knight Mathias explained that meant and this is
enough for me, its commander could not rise to his defense. And why, my son
Matias, you have developed this opinion about
Knight
Mathias. Your Eminence, it is the opinion of the I did
before meeting with Iziaslav. Pereyaslavl this Prince not settled, the Church
building are not kept, people lived in Pereiaslav land much poorer than in
Suzdal, taxes were higher, the army bloated: so many soldiers on the streets I
have not seen anywhere else in Russia. And what Pereyaslavl, as I said, is
located to the South-East of
Well, the
view that Izyaslav Mstislavich of
Count
Wilhelm. I guess with such people is easy to work.
Commander
Henry. Something easy, your Excellency, and something and
hard. Easy at the beginning. But such people
usually try only to use us for their own purposes, without giving anything in
return.
Knight
Mathias. Then Izyaslav Mstislavich so happened. And then I told the Prince
Vsevolod II of
And I asked
Izyaslav learn through his informants, like those of Vsevolod going near
Zvenigorod Galician, and does the Grand Duke to withdraw from the siege and to
return with his army to Kiev. It is desirable to intercept it before return on
a campaign to eliminate the Prince is easier there and the guards
is much less than in the Palace. And if Izyaslav no informants at the
court of Vsevolod, it is possible just to send a messenger to the Grand Duke
for some reason, for example, some warning about the attack of the nomads or
the collection of rati GeorgeDolgoruky, and the messenger in any case indicate
where to find Vsevolod.
And while
Izyaslav will be find out where Colette, I asked to instruct me to find
deposits of stone, although in reality, of course, no one building in Pereslavl
natural stone was not going to. But under the guise of searching I was able to
pay, to openly live in this city under his own name,
and to leave the city for some time: sort of went off to find stone.
Izyaslav
Mstislavich from invited his Treasurer, and commanded to set me up on a salary
of Sotsky and issue the letter that I am search for stone deposits for future
construction. On this the Prince broke up.
I hired a
small house in Pereyaslavl, a little settled down, and after a few weeks was
invited to Izyaslav. The Prince told me that Vsevolod is going to lift the
siege of Zvenigorod and to return to Kyiv.
I was asked
to describe habit of the Grand Duke. Izyaslav, it seems, knew immediately that
it would be about poisoning.
Count
Wilhelm. Indeed, the first such people like Izyaslav, easily.
Knight
Mathias. Very easy, your Excellency. Izyaslav Mstislavich
told me that Vsevolod usually eats one all the food trying his servants. But
when the princes Izjaslav and Vsevolod went on Vladimirka Galitsky a year
before my arrival at Rus, Pereyaslav Prince noticed that the kitchen is the
Grand Prince of
Count
Wilhelm. It is strange that if Izyaslav was so knowledgeable in the protection
of Vsevolod, he is also before he not hired killers.
Knight
Mathias. In
Bishop
Tybalt. In other words, customs in
Commander
Henry. I believe, your Eminence, that it's not only in
morals but also in the fact that in
Bishop
Tybalt. How unfortunate it is, after all, Izyaslav and Vsevolod – close
relatives...
Count
Wilhelm. Your Eminence, I have with sorry to see that the history of the
Catholic world knows, too many unfortunate cases where
it is not the relatives, and siblings each other grass.
Commander
Henry. And I want to remind him grace that Vsevolod II of
Bishop
Tybalt. About times, about customs!
Commander
Henry. Your Eminence, on this subject there is a saying: don't try to be more
Catholic than his Holiness dad.
Count
Wilhelm. Dear members, I will ask you not to be distracted. I am because of
your constant skirmishes already forgot what stopped knight Mathias.
Knight
Mathias. Your Excellency, Izyaslav not only offered me poison Vsevolod, but
wanted to give the poison but I refused, as I wasn't sure how the poison of
Prince Pereyaslav effective and after a time, kills. And here we're going to
calculate accurately. So I said I prefer diamond dust, and asked him to give me
some diamonds.
Commander
Henry. Have you not been with him the poison?
Knight
Mathias. Was of course, my brother and Lord. Around my
neck always hangs a medal with an icon of the blessed virgin, and in hidden
compartments behind the icon is the poison of two types: action and slow
instant. But my mission in
Count
Wilhelm. As far as I know, rats usually poison and crushed glass.
Commander
Henry. Man is not a rat, your Excellency.
Bishop
Tybalt. Finally I hear a speech worthy a good Christian.
Commander
Henry. I'm sorry to disappoint your Eminence, but I in this case meant not that
the person is the image of God, and any murder is a sin. I meant that poison
people the crushed glass is difficult: if the glass is crushed too finely, then
the person swallow it without harm for health, but if
coarsely crushed, you will feel his teeth and spit.
Count
Wilhelm. I have no doubt that knight Mathias can
crushed glass is not too small and not too large.
Knight
Mathias. Yes, your Excellency, so I have istoloch not
all the diamonds a few stashed away just in case. The lack of diamond dust I'm
made up for the crushed glass. And the next day went towards Vsevolod Olgovich.
Commander
Henry. But you have always been in the South Russia only travel from
Knight
Mathias. I went to Pereyaslavl bargaining and hired a guide.
Count
Wilhelm. And that the conductor knew about why you this way?
Knight
Mathias. He hasn't asked just for good price led me to the right way between
Bishop
Tybalt. And whether it was bloodshed?
Knight
Mathias. Your Eminence, no bloodshed was not, as I used a technique known under
the name "Unexpected verdict" approached the Explorer from behind,
threw him on the neck rope and strangled. This was a necessity as I had to
prepare for the penetration in the camp is Vsevolod II of
Count
Wilhelm. Knight Mathias, and was not risk that is, the conductor then miss in
Pereyaslavl and will ask you where it is missing?
Commander
Henry. Your Excellency, such a mistake probably not commit to even a novice of
our brotherhood of
Knight
Mathias. Yes, of course. Before going on bargaining for a guide, I changed into
Mohammedan merchant dress, hunched and tied the cheek, supposedly a toothache. And
had not a nobleman Matthew Hanovice and spree Turkish merchant Abdel Latihan,
which in
Count
Wilhelm. I never doubted the abilities of the Templars, whatever they may
perform. And like you, knight Mathias, entered the camp of Vsevolod II of
Knight
Mathias. It was easy, your Excellency. The rest of the
day I wandered through the woods along the road. And when the army encamped on
the bed, I passed the sentries, which were few, and found the tent of Vsevolod.
Tent guarded well, and I don't think I could sneak in there. But nearby was another
tent, the kitchen, and as I said Izyaslav Mstislavich, it is almost not
guarded: around it there were only one guard. The
Grand Duke was just going out to dinner, and between the tents scurrying
servants.
It was
almost dark. I crept to the kitchen on the opposite side of the guard slipped
under the fabric and was inside. Hiding between the rear curtain of the tent,
and some great chest, I watched, from which we obtain food are of a great
Prince, and of what mechs poured the wine. I understand from the conversations
of the servants that cooked on morning.
Then, when
all works stopped, and the Prince Vsevolod and the servants went to bed, I
poured in the wine, designed for Prince in the morning, diamond dust and
crushed glass. I rubbed them and in the bread and smoked meat. Then got out again safely behind guard.
Count
Wilhelm. But perhaps the Grand Duke was not afraid poisoning? Izyaslav was told
that all of his food pre-tasted.
Knight
Mathias. Tried, your Excellency. But diamond dust and
crushed glass do not cause immediate death. Only through a few hours a person
feels pains in the stomach, and only a few days die. To be sure, I added the
wine a little bit of slow poison action of my little bag – just in case Prince
would not drink to the bottom. Diamond dust is deposited on the bottom, and the
poison dissolves well.
Bishop
Tybalt. That is, together with Vsevolod II you sent to the other world and
faithful servant, tried the food? And, perhaps other servants, who had eaten of
his master?
Commander
Henry. In my hometown of angoulême, where a lot the quarries, there is a
saying: when you cut the stone, fly around debris.
Bishop
Tybalt. Commander Henry, you have to be humane even in the shower.
Commander
Henry. We, the Templars, the soul is very humane, only in life you can't always
apply our rare humanity.
Count
Wilhelm. I'm deeply touched arguments about the kindness of the knights of the
Knight
Mathias. Perhaps your ladyship. But he died if any of
the boyars or of the ambassadors, I don't know. Vsevolod gave his soul to God
through three days after his return to
And I'm
left Hiking camp Vsevolod went to Pereyaslavl to warn Izyaslav Mstislavich,
Grand Prince remained only a few days, and have urgently prepare
the army. Thanks to this, the Prince spoke at a
The younger
brother of Vsevolod Olgovich Igor and Svyatoslav went against Izyaslav only
with their squads and a very small militia.
Bishop
Tybalt. My son Matias, please explain what is the squad and militia.
Knight
Mathias. Your Eminence, the squad – permanent cavalry
troop, which is every Prince. The militia – army collect from residents and, if
necessary, and peasants. The guards – horse warriors.
The militia – often on foot, although it can be and horse riding.
To clarify that the militia is divided into two parts. First in case of
war, calls upon the Prince and arming on your funds. Second are
volunteers, if the enemy is directly threatened peace of their towns and
villages. These arming themselves, they usually have no armor, no swords, just
axes, but instead copies of the spears and sharpened stakes. The team of Keeper
of the great Duchy may consist of several hundred people, and the militia – a
few thousand.
Count
Wilhelm. It's like our knights and foot soldiers?
Knight
Mathias. In General – Yes. Igor II Of Kiev trying to
gather the militia, but the people of
A battle
between the forces Izyaslav and Igor happened near
The
ol'govichi had fled. Junior brother Igor II of
Izyaslav
solemnly moved into
Commander
Henry. Why haven't you participated in the battle?
Knight
Mathias. We decided Izyaslav Mstislavich, to avoid any suspicion that I'm doing
something else, except searches of building stone under Pereyaslavl.
Count
Wilhelm. And how did you communicate with Izyaslav?
Knight
Mathias. He gave me an audience, ostensibly to reports on the search for the
stone.
Count
Wilhelm. Thank you for reminding me about the audience, knight Mathias. Forgive
me, dear members, but tomorrow I will be an audience with his Imperial Majesty,
and I have to it to prepare. Continue the meeting without me.
Bishop
Tybalt. Your Excellency, without you the meeting will not only incompetent, but
also pointless.
Commander
Henry. I will add more risky, so as no one is constantly to act as a
peacemaker. Maybe your Excellency, complete our
meeting today?
Count
Wilhelm. But tomorrow I won't be able to pay attention to the report of the
knight of Mathias.
Bishop
Tybalt. Then we can continue tomorrow. I like
Count
Wilhelm. Well, I'll see you day after tomorrow at the same time. Today's
meeting is closed. Your Eminence, not will you read us a prayer? Better than
you, it will not work for anybody.
Bishop
Tybalt. Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty Who is, was and is to come. And
may He be praised and exalted by us forever. You are worthy, o Lord our God, to
receive praise, glory, honor and blessing. Bless all the works of the Lord,
praise say to God, all you His servants, you who fear Him, the small and the
great. Glory to the Father and the son and the Holy Spirit, as it was in the
beginning, is now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
All participants meeting. Amen.
Count
Wilhelm. The meeting was closed. Thank you all.
PROTOCOL
THIRD MEETING
of the
Council of representatives his Imperial Majesty, his Holiness the Pope and the
order of the poor knights of Christ and Of the temple of Solomon on
consideration of the report of the knight of Matias of Passau on the
implementation of the mission in Russia in 1145-1157 years from BC
(Room on
the inventory of the
In the name
of God, the will of his Imperial Majesty Friedrich, his Holiness Pope Hadrian
and the Grand master the order of the poor knights of the
Present:
Chairman of
the Board – count Wilhelm von Veldhoven, Vice-Marshal of the court of his
Imperial Majesty.
Member of the Board – Bishop Tybalt Surminski, the legate his Holiness
the Pope.
Member of
the Board – knight Henry of Angouleme, commander of the military brotherhood of
The Secretary of the Board Alfred from
The Council
reports knight Matias from
Count
Wilhelm. I welcome all the participants, and again, I apologize that because of
my urgent matters at court had to be postponed our meeting. In the name of God,
continue the hearing of the report of the knight Mathias, member of the
military brotherhood of
It has become
a good a tradition that his Eminence before the meeting reads parting prayer.
Bishop
Tybalt. Soul of Christ, sanctify me, body Of Christ, save me blood of Christ,
give me water from the side of Christ, wash me, the suffering of Christ,
strengthen me. O good Jesus, hear me, in the wounds Your hide me, never let me
be separated from Thee from the wicked foe defend me, in the hour of my death
call me and bid me come to You to Thy saints praise Thee forever and ever.
All participants meeting. Amen.
Count
Wilhelm. I ask the distinguished members of the Council to sit down.
Bishop
Tybalt. Allow me, your Excellency, to ask a question knight Mathias. Remember,
at the last meeting we focused on the fact that the Holy the Church in the
person carrying out their mission Templar Matias performed their obligations to
the great Prince Izyaslav Mstislavich. And started whether Izyaslav to fulfill
its obligations to our Church?
Knight
Mathias. When, two weeks after joining Prince Izyaslav in
The
previous Metropolitan Mikhail by the time he died, and Izyaslav was going to
make the Metropolitan monk Clement The smolyatych,
known in
Count
Wilhelm. It turns out, everything was going well?
Knight
Mathias. First – Yes. But after the failure Clement Izyaslav dramatically
changed the attitude to me, and to bring
Bishop
Tybalt. Why failure? Clement in fact, as far as I know, was put in
metropolitans.
Knight
Mathias. So I could justify their point of view on the ordination of Clement, I
would like to talk about the events forty – seventh and forty-eighth years in order.
I hope it doesn't take much time.
Count
Wilhelm. Tell in order, knight Mathias.
Knight
Mathias. Members of the high Council, of course, I know that right after
Izyaslav Mstislavich in the forty-sixth year began the great Prince, began a
large civil war that lasted many years. Fleeing from the battlefield Sviatoslav
II of
Count
Wilhelm. And I thought that George was the initiator of the big civil war that
he could not endure that his nephew Izyaslav became Grand Prince of bypassing
seniority.
Bishop
Tybalt. Knight Mathias, recall, please, how these
relations are called precedence princely in
Knight Mathias.
Absolutely, your Eminence, in
But when
Izyaslav only vanailla in Kiev, Sviatoslav was able to convince Dolgoruky to
start a war, promising him in case of victory of the great Kiev Principality,
and recognizing his seniority. Though in fact, Sviatoslav II of Kiev Georgy
Vladimirovich – the same generation, their grandfathers were
the sons of Yaroslav the Wise, Svyatoslav and grandfather were older.
Commander
Henry. How do you, brother Mathias, information that
Svyatoslav promised George not to claim the great reign?
Knight
Mathias. It was not to anyone in
At the end
of the forty-sixth the year I moved to
In December
the Izyaslav invited me to the Palace and asked to slowly eliminate Igor
Olgovich, the benefit this should be easy: in prison, the Prince has fallen ill
from the dampness, cold and malnutrition and very poor. I said that it would be
a mistake to make him Martyr, moreover, even if it will die
from the disease, his death still blame the Grand Duke. So I advised
Izyaslav to treat Igor, to take vows as a monk and imprisoned in some
monastery. Then, even if it suddenly run away from the monastery, the people
will perceive it as his wild plan, andgreat reign, he is unlikely to qualify.
Izyaslav
thanked me for the Council, said that will follow him, and went with his army
North to fight with Svyatoslav Olgovich. Indeed, in early January, Igor cut in
monks and imprisoned in the Kiev Theodorov monastery. I slowly checked out
there is security, everything was fine.
Towards the
end of January to
George
Dolgorukiy in it time fought in the Ryazan Principality. Peter then told me
that it Izyaslav convinced of the Ryazan Prince to attack Suzdal. But
Ryazantsev was broken, and George even set to reign
his son, although only a couple of years.
In April
the forty-seventh year George Dolgoruki met with Svyatoslav Olgovich and
concluded an
However,
when the end summer started another war between the princes of
Count
Wilhelm. Thanks for the detailed story knight Mathias, but the main question
is: did Izyaslav Mstislavich their promises?
Knight
Mathias. In the forty-seventh year, one of the promises he fulfilled: in July,
the Council of Russian bishops elected Metropolitan of Rus The
Kliment Smolyatich. Opinions at this Council were divided, and the debates were
very hot, but in the end prevailed of the bishops of lands subject to Izyaslav.
But the
victory of the Grand Duke turned out to be illusory.
Bishop Tybalt.
You wanted to say – a Pyrrhic victory?
Knight
Mathias. Yes, your Eminence, Pyrrhic. And a Ghost too. Izyaslav Mstislavich hoped that the
influence of
It was the
first Pyrrhic victory Izyaslav. Second – the murder of Prince Igor Olgovich.
Count
Wilhelm. The one cut in the monks?
Knight
Mathias. Yes, your Excellency.
Bishop
Tybalt. And it-why to kill?
Knight
Mathias. Apparently, Izyaslav Mstislavich for some reason continued to consider
him a dangerous opponent. I do not know. As you remember, I told the Grand Duke
from killing Igor.
Commander
Henry. You see, your Eminence, sometimes and
bloodthirsty Templars are against murder, especially senseless.
Knight
Mathias. Moreover – are harmful. Murder Igor has led to the fact that in
But,
nevertheless, the instigation of Izyaslav Igor was torn to pieces by a crowd of
Commander
Henry. Are you sure that it was done it was at the instigation of Izyaslav
mstislavovitch?
Knight
Mathias. Sure, my brother, my Lord. Of course, throw in the crowd thought that
the ol'govichi to plot, was not so hard, and it could
do not only a month, but any other Prince. It was enough to hire people who
would be screaming about it on the streets, or went home and promised money for
participating in the riots.
But who are
the princes could it but Izyaslav? Chernihiv rulers?
But Igor II of
Count
Wilhelm. But Dolgoruky?
Knight
Mathias. Too complex a plan for him and his Supreme commander
Vyshata Nikiforovich. It is very serious training was required, and then
take it from distant Suzdal was hardly possible. So only a
month. Let's not forget that the name Izyaslav shouted the crowd, going
to the Theodorov monastery, where he was kept Igor.
Count
Wilhelm. Knight Mathias, you are considered the possibility that the weakening
of Izyaslav and strengthening the civil strife
Knight
Mathias. Considered, your Excellency. But such a state
would be in
Commander
Henry. Well, my brother Matthias, even if your conclusion is wrong, all the
same arguments in support of it you brought enough.
Knight
Mathias. Yeah, I forgot to mention one important detail: just before the murder
of Igor was disarming with shared kitchen and shared lounge monastery.
Commander
Henry. How did you know?
Knight
Mathias. I myself was in this monastery, when killed Igor.
Count
Wilhelm. And how did this happen?
Knight
Mathias. While living in
And once in
the middle Sep forty-seventh year, I saw that Torg is literally buzzing on it,
scurry some people cry that the ol'govichi had plotted the lime of the Grand Duke
Izyaslav, and Igor need to kill, as all the threads of the plot are drawn to
him. And I have to say that Izyaslav in
I knew that
Igor does may not be the heart of the conspiracy though, because barely drags
his feet, but still is under close guard. In fact, I could not intervene in
this matter, but since the beginning of the year had on this topic with Izyaslav,
and understand the murder of Igor will be extremely harmful for the Grand Duke,
then decided to go in the Theodorov monastery and
check how it is protected. Even the great Prince in this time was with the army
somewhere in the
What was my
surprise when, on arriving at the monastery, I saw the gate open, and about
them – not a single guard. Inside, too, there was nobody, except some monk,
hurrying about their business. I asked him where to find the hermit Gabriel: so
it was the monastic name of Igor. The monk pointed to one of the cells. I
opened the door and I look inside. The Prince was lying on the bench and seemed
to be asleep.
Then I went
to look for Abbot.
Count
Wilhelm. Who is this Abbot?
Bishop
Tybalt. In the Greek Church so called abbots, your
Excellency.
Knight
Mathias. Going out into the yard in search of the Abbot, I saw the gates flew
three riders, one of whom was very young, fifteen years old, in a scarlet cloak
of the Prince. I recognized him: it was the younger brother Izyaslav, son of
Mstislav Vladimirovich from his second wife. His name was
Jumping off
the horses, they rushed up to me and asked where the Abbot. I said I was
looking for it too.
The Prince
shouted that the crowd already coming to the monastery, and he doesn't know
where security. The cries ran the elderly Abbot, and said with trembling voice
that came before the messenger with command to remove the protection.
And outside
the gate were already the noise of the angry crowd. The Abbot in horror and
disappeared behind the door.
I realized
that Igor Olgovich urgently needs to be rescued, and proposed to Vladimir
Mstislavich plant the deposed Prince on a horse and take out from the
monastery, and I and the two princes while the fighters tried to detain a crowd
at the approaches to the gates. I was armed vigilantes too.
But the
Prince said try to hold the crowd by force is too risky for me and the guards better he try to pacify the people of
In short, I
had only to step aside. Vigilantes brought Igor out of his cell and took him to
the Cathedral, Prince Vladimir was at the door of the
temple.
Count
Wilhelm. The courage of this young man, of course, it is hard to deny.
Knight
Mathias. Unfortunately, your Excellency, the courage of Vladimir Mstislavich
was reckless. As I expected, gates burst into the crowd of two hundred people
were already angry enough that wide open gate of her monastery did not appease.
The Prince
from the steps of the temple tried to appeal to the people of
As soon as
Igor Olegovich accompanied by young Macesich and vigilantes came out of the
temple, they immediately attacked the crowd. Vladimir and vigilantes closed
Igor with their bodies, fought sheath and the handle of the swords. A tangle of
human bodies was rolled out for the gate of the monastery and rolled into the
gate of the courtyard of the Princess. It seemed that salvation was close.
But then
Vladimir Macesich tripped and fell, he was almost trampled, the guards rushed
to rescue him and I left Igor in the lurch. A few minutes later the crowd
dispersed, and opened this picture:
Then the
body was dragged to bargaining and dropped there. The next day he read the
burial service in the Cathedral, Holy Sofia and buried in the Simeon monastery,
on the outskirts of the city.
After a few days on the trade rumors about the miracles allegedly
committed during the funeral service Igor Olgovich. About how the Prince began to speak
about the great Martyr Simeon the monastery began almost a pilgrimage. And, by
the way, three years later Igor was canonized. And since his death, all blamed
only Izyaslav Mstislavich, Grand Prince was in the
role of Svyatopolk the Damned.
Bishop
Tybalt. And what kind of Sviatopolk?
Knight
Mathias. Was in
No wonder,
after hearing about the death of Igor Olgovich, George Dolgoruky and the
When
Izyaslav at the end autumn returned to
Commander
Henry. This attitude in itself speaks volumes.
Knight
Mathias. Yes, my brother, my Lord. Only the beginning of the forty-eighth year,
I was finally admitted to the Grand Duke.
Talked to me Izyaslav Mstislavich very rudely and angrily. Any of my thoughts on the
consequences of the murder of Igor Olgovich he even didn't want to listen.
Count
Wilhelm. He was in his own right: regardless of whose
the orders nor Igor was killed made was not to return.
Knight
Mathias. Of course it is, your Excellency. But when I spoke with Izyaslav
Mstislavich that it is time to think on the direction of the Holy Roman Empire
of the Embassy for negotiations on all Church enterprises and preparation of
the adoption in Russia of the papal legate, the Prince began to yell at me and
stomp their feet. In this angry I have never seen. All the Russian princes used
to command troops, they have a powerful voice, and
shouted Izyaslav so loud that I even thought that it will be heard in the
street.
Izyaslav
claimed reeling underneath the throne that Metropolitan Kliment Smolyatich
rests only thanks to his great reign, and that in such a desperate situation
any communion with the Catholic Church will only lead to the fact that Russian
people just cast aside all of us stones.
Count
Wilhelm. I guess he was not far from the truth.
Knight
Mathias. Unfortunately, Yes. I had just to say that I would expect from him is
good news, and be off.
Commander
Henry. You told the Grand Duke to resolve his enemies as well as eliminated Vsevolod
II of
Knight
Mathias. It was too late to do it. Against Izyaslav and his younger brothers
stood not only George Dolgoruky, with all sons and Svyatoslav II of Kiev, but
also cousins, Svyatoslav, Izyaslav and Vladimir The Davidovich and nephew Svyatoslav
Vsevolodovich and his elder brother George – Vyacheslav, son of the younger
brother George – Vladimir Andreevich, and then Galician Prince volodymyrko
Volodarevych. Too many princes would have had to remove it would take many
years.
Commander Henry.
As we say in the brotherhood, ruler to kill – not a puppy drown.
Bishop
Tybalt. As it is cynical.
Commander
Henry. Against the rulers or to puppies?
Bishop
Tybalt. Commander, it's not in the rulers and not in puppy. If
you don't understand just how cynical the General meaning of this phrase, to
explain it to you, I'm afraid I can't.
Count
Wilhelm. Dear members of the Board, your attention, please. Puppies are here
exactly to do with it. And what you decide to do knight Mathias, after this conversation
with Izyaslav? It was not you thoughts to return to the Empire for the new
regulations?
Bishop
Tybalt. Why was the knight Matthias to hurry back? Lived in
pleasure in
Knight
Mathias. The reasoning of your grace sound unfair and insulting to the poor
knight of the
Commander
Henry. The knights of our brotherhood this broad powers to make decisions
during the execution of multi-year missions away from the homeland.
Knight
Mathias. And since already in February the forty - eighth Izyaslav Mstislavich
decided to preempt his opponents, went to
Count
Wilhelm. And as the war went on?
Knight
Mathias. With varying degrees of success. Siege
And in the
spring on the side Izyaslav went the eldest son of Dolgoruky, Rostislav G.,
offended by what the father gave him in the Suzdal land, no cities to
independent reign. Of course, this position George was right on point of view
of the unity of his Principality, but the transition Rostislav was a heavy blow
to enemies of Izyaslav mstislavovitch.
Later,
however, Rostislav he returned to the father, and was received with joy.
Bishop
Tybalt. The return of the prodigal son, very touching.
Count
Wilhelm. It's really touching, but, maybe knight
Mathias will go to the story about future relations with the Omnicom Petroleu?
Knight
Mathias. Yes, of course, your Excellency. In the
summer I received from the Petryliv the letter that he missed me, and asks arrive
in
Bishop
Tybalt. Given your relationship the word "miss you" was probably not
only the secret, but a direct sense, and the desire to see you was mutual.
Knight
Mathias. I will not hide, your grace, I was delighted with the letter of Peter.
Commander
Henry. We, the Templars, the warm feelings are not banned if they do not harm
our charity case.
Count
Wilhelm. Damaged warm feelings of a knight Mathias his mission or not, we still
have to find out. Keep your story, knight.
Knight
Mathias. After receiving the letter of Peter, I went in
Commander
Henry. Why did you go by river, and not land?
Knight
Mathias. My brother, my Lord, I could not to come to Zalesie under your name,
so I needed time to to change the appearance. That was easy: it was enough to
grow a beard and make a rough winded, peculiar to simple Pereyaslavl carpenter
Pron, who I was. I was hired as a rower to the boat in a large merchant
caravan.
Bishop
Tybalt. But it's black, heavy and thankless job.
Knight
Mathias. Absolutely, your grace, but precisely this work I needed: river paths
inside
The work of
the rower really very hard: no rest except the few hours of sleep on the bare
ground or bare boards with its own cap under the head instead of a pillow,
tasteless soup for lunch, a piece of stale bread for Breakfast and dinner. But
this work went good for me, as for the time spent in Pereyaslavl and
Commander
Henry. And you're not afraid to impersonate carpenter? This task requires many
skills.
Knight
Mathias. My brother, my Lord, any Mason needs to know carpentry,
and my father in childhood he was taught.
Commander
Henry. And what were you told when you asked why Pereyaslavl carpenter Pron
goes to Zales?
Knight
Mathias. In Zalesie the common people lived better than in Pereyaslavl, and to
seek happiness in a foreign land was driving many. So no I really was not
questioned, all were clear.
Count
Wilhelm. And you told Izyaslav mstislavovitch about his departure?
Knight
Mathias. I thought for a long time, to notify or not. But there was a risk that
Izyaslav forbid me to go, so I did not do that. Only warned the Grand Butler
that supposedly go in search of building stone, and I won't be in
About a
week after the departure from the capital, up the Dnieper, we reached
Then from
the Dnieper we turned in the Vyazma river, were large and inhabited portage
(now at this place is the town of
In
Since then
Peter many times visited me, and sometimes even stayed overnight.
Bishop
Tybalt. Wow, what a warm relationship the sodomites.
Knight
Mathias. Your Eminence, I do not think have the right to challenge you to a
duel, since you are much older than me and consist in the spiritual rank. Therefore,
only ask the high Council to protect my knight honor.
Commander
Henry. Your Eminence, you have caused an insult to knight Mathias, and it is an
insult to the more hard that he is informed in the execution time of the
mission had to engage in carnal relations with women. There is a significant
difference between the sodomite and man forced to commit sodomy for the benefit
of the
Count
Wilhelm. Your Eminence, you are a brave people, it turns out. I, for one, did
not dare so easy to take and to insult a knight of the
Bishop
Tybalt. I sincerely apologize to knight Mathias. I
didn't know he had during their charitable missions to enter into relations not
only with men but also with women. Accept my Episcopal blessing, my son Matias,
and go on with your story, not paying attention to grumbling old-fashioned
Minister the Lord.
Knight
Mathias. Well, your Eminence. Petrila told me that the
Suzdal land came to Novgorod Bishop Nifont and had with George for a long
period of negotiations. Suzdal and Novgorod had previously fought with each
other, and at negotiations it was a question of the conclusion of peace, the
exchange of prisoners, the return of the Novgorod town of New marketplace (now
Torzhok – approx. transl.), but most importantly – the adoption by Russia of
the Catholic faith in case of victory Dolgoruky over Izyaslav Mstislavich. Niphon
dismissal of Kliment Smolyatich was to become the Metropolitan and immediately
send for the papal legates.
Commander
Henry. Yes, impressive story, first just respect the wishes of the Duke and the
Bishop to receive the legates of the Holy dad. But how did Peter know all this?
The negotiations certainly had a secret.
Knight
Mathias. He said that he was able to bribe the Prince's bath attendant in the
city of
Bishop
Tybalt. And what does the attendant?
Knight
Mathias. In
Bishop
Tybalt. Not only obscene but also not a pretty sight.
Commander
Henry. We, the Templars, in their work often forced to use the most obscene and
ugly side of life.
Knight
Mathias. Indeed. Petrila told me I bribed the attendant, who gave him the
opportunity to eavesdrop on what was said George Dolgoruky and Nifont, the
Bishop, when soared in the bath after the consecration The
renovated Niphon the Suzdal Cathedral, built under Vladimir Monomakh. By the
time they've almost all managed to discuss and clarify small details, but about
the acceptance of the papal legate, the conversation was clear and unambiguous,
despite the fact that both had pretty inflated
Commander
Henry. And you checked what I told them Petrila Dolgoruky's readiness to
receive the legates of the Holy see?
Knight
Mathias. Was going to check, and thought how to do it. Indirect confirmation of
the story of Peter I already had: the desire George to build in Suzdal hewn
natural stone, that is our Imperial technique. Direct
confirmation I could try to do Savva Nazirovich.
But then
Izyaslav Mstislavich sent to me killers.
Count
Wilhelm. Here's how! And as it was, and where did you know it was Izyaslav?
Knight
Mathias. It was shortly after my arrival in
Commander
Henry. In your house was able to quietly come in? And quietly sneak up on you? How
could this happen to a member of our the brotherhood,
which while sleeping not even a mouse should be chosen?
Knight
Mathias. It's my fault, my brother, my Lord, I was
tired after the training with Peter.
Bishop
Tybalt. As it turns out, sodomy is still harm?
Knight
Mathias. Yes, your Excellency, I I agree and heartily sorry for having lost
vigilance.
Bishop
Tybalt. It would be better not to enter into a
Count
Wilhelm. As the saying goes, what's done is done.
Commander
Henry. And what did Peter at the moment when you crept?
Knight
Mathias. Lay beside me, he also threw on the neck of the loop. All the
attackers were three in the dark to distinguish their faces it was impossible. One
I kept, one was a noose on my neck, one on the neck of Peter.
Commander
Henry. And you couldn't escape?
Knight
Mathias. Could not, as I immediately began choke, not trying
anything from me to find out. Choked steadily and
unstoppably. Make sudden movements and try to free himself
– meant only worsen without that desperate situation, so I thought I "play
snake". Slightly resisted, pokhriyal and
pretended that I lost consciousness, that is fully relaxed and only
occasionally passed over my body, cramps similar to the death throes.
Count
Wilhelm. And at that time was Peter?
Knight
Mathias. I didn't see since it was dark, to also had to roll my eyes to the
plausibility of images of death. Heard only his wheezing.
Apparently, he too was strangled.
Then I
heard that one of the killers said that it's done, the Germans went to hell. Another
asked what to do with Petroleu. And the third – apparently, their leader
replied that the Grand Duke Izyaslav Mstislavich commanded to kill only the
Latin, and Petrila, though a sinner, but good Orthodox, so let him live.
And
finally, I got a blow with a dagger. Apparently, the villains wanted to make
sure I was dead.
Commander
Henry. But, as we see, you're not dead. Where did they hit you?
Knight
Mathias. Labeled in heart.
Commander
Henry. But do not hit the same once you were alive?
Knight
Mathias. Missed. The dagger only slid along the edge
and had me pinned to the bed.
Commander
Henry. My brother Matthias, not did you suspect that you by accident strangled
to death, and for good reason tried to finish so clumsy? Do you remember what
"the Arrow flying by"?
Bishop
Tybalt. And what is it?
Commander
Henry. So we called trying the murder, which, as it accidentally, but
deliberately ends failure. Used for different purposes, most
often to intimidate.
Knight
Mathias. Of course, I remember what it is. For assassins it's called the
"False Cobra". But I saw no reason at Izyaslav which would be
beneficial to intimidate me. So to kill to kill, time to end
all obligations to the Holy Catholic Church. So I decided that these
murderers were just not experienced enough.
Commander
Henry. But if they were inexperienced so that you are unable either to stifle
or to get a dagger in the heart, how they got to hunt down? Have you thought
about that?
Knight
Mathias. I thought about this and even suspected they are still in
Count
Wilhelm. What if they do not Izyaslav sent?
Knight
Mathias. Then who? Who would want to kill me?
Bishop
Tybalt. And Petrila?
Knight
Mathias. You mean what happened to Petroleu? He lay next to me and wheezed.
Commander
Henry. And you didn't chase murderers my brother Matthias?
Knight
Mathias. I wanted to rush, but first had to be released from the stranglehold,
pull out the dagger, and yet free from the stranglehold stertorous Peter. During
this time the villains are already out of the house. I was without clothes,
filled blood, so to run like this on the street did not: I could be caught
guard, and there would be too many questions why simple Pereyaslavl carpenter
Pron the Prince spends the night a high-ranking official Petrila Maravich.
When I
freed Petrila from the stranglehold, he gently hugged me with words of
gratitude. Apparently he hasn't heard the killers spared him, and decided that
this time I saved him. I did not to argue, as his gratitude was the key to
greater loyalty.
The next
day we it thought about it and weighed everything he knew.
Izyaslav
sent to me the murderers, then, for his efforts in establishing in
George
Dolgorukiy in conversation with Niphon talked about bringing
Serious
contenders in the struggle for the throne of
That is,
the position at Dolgoruky was strong, and we Petreley decided to elevate him to
the great Kiev Principality. Then it required only one – to eliminate Izyaslav
Mstislavovitch.
Count
Wilhelm. And George knew that you chose to eliminate Izyaslav?
Knight
Mathias. No, your Excellency. Peter said that Prince
Dolgoruky – the implacable enemy fratricide, and no what it will not do. For us
it was enough that he was in conversation with the Niphon unequivocally expressed
its intention to adopt Catholicism.
Commander
Henry. My brother Matthias, when you went to
Knight
Mathias. What are you, my brother, my Lord, I not some young novice, to so
flagrantly violate our order rules. Of course, informed. Immediately wrote
three letters detailed explanation of the reasons. The letters have used our
secret code. As required by the rules, set deadlines: if there is no response
within three months, you feel entitled to act at their own risk.
Bishop
Tybalt. And why three letters, son my?
Knight
Mathias. To be sure, to be sure, came at least one. So we write letters of
special importance. On the road with letters anything can happen.
Bishop
Tybalt. A secret code could cause suspicion, if the letter read is anyone a
stranger?
Knight
Mathias. Hardly, your Eminence. For encryption uses
verses from Scripture, and the letter looks like a set of theological dogmas.
Count
Wilhelm. And how you gave the letters knight Mathias?
Knight
Mathias. The wound inflicted by the knife, became inflamed, and I am two weeks
was bedridden. Petrila treated me, taking care of me. So these letters I could
not convey myself, and Peter did. He sent them from different merchants, which
were upon arrival in the Empire send them the
monastery's mail in our order's Abbey.
I waited in
Commander
Henry. It is not surprising. Did not reach us no from these
letters. Or all three merchants for some incredible coincidence not
drove to Empire, Petrila or not handed your letters.
Knight
Mathias. He told me that he had passed, and I I was sure that it was true. But
now I'm not sure of anything.
Bishop
Tybalt. This is correct, the excessive confidence can
grow in self-confidence.
Count
Wilhelm. Tell me more, knight Mathias. You have to wait for your letters...
Knight Mathias.
While I was in Vladimir, waiting for an answer, in the fall of forty-eight all
Chernigov princes, headed by Svyatoslav II, frightened by the betrayal
Rostislav Georgievich, made peace with Izyaslav, Prince of Suzdal was one
against Kiev and Pereyaslavl.
At the end
of the year, winter, troops Izyaslav Mstislavich invaded
Petrila
told me that in the late spring or very early summer Dolgoruky will appear in
the campaign below to strike back at the very heart of possessions Iziaslav –
Commander
Henry. And why in the course of the war?
Knight
Mathias. Many times I have been in the Kiev Grand-Ducal the Palace and knew
that there was very strong security. So it was easier to kill the great Prince
or on a hike as Vsevolod II of
So I said
goodbye to Petroleu and, once the ice flow, one of the first caravans of the
merchant ships went to
Count
Wilhelm. Also hired a rower?
Knight
Mathias. Yes, under the guise of the same Pereyaslav carpenter Pron who went to
Zales to look for happiness in a foreign country and not found. And as soon as
he came ashore in
Bishop
Tybalt. In that arming the Prince, or the one that is arming itself?
Knight
Mathias. At first, your Eminence. In
other words, from the princely army. Unsuccessful carpenter who came in
Kyiv simple oarsman, could not be neither weapons, nor
money, so I became a mercenary warrior.
Bishop
Tybalt. And in actual fact you have the money was my son?
Knight
Mathias. Of course, your Eminence. On
These
caches are intact, so if any of our brethren will carry out the mission to
Bishop
Tybalt. I wonder if there is a description of where these hiding places how to
find them if necessary?
Knight
Mathias. All the places geocaching was me reflected in the report that I wrote
upon returning home. So demand our the order's rules,
and I have fulfilled them.
Bishop
Tybalt. I don't recall that in your the report, my
son.
Commander
Henry. Your Excellency, according to our the order's
rules, report of the recesses is written on separate sheets and not applied to
the main report. This is because clades often cause unhealthy interest even in
people who are admitted to many of the mysteries of the
Bishop
Tybalt. What you're implying, commander Henry?
Commander
Henry. For your interest in this part of the report brother Matthias, your Eminence.
Bishop
Tybalt. Commander Henry, I'm asking those questions which I
think is necessary.
Count
Wilhelm. His grace has the right to ask any questions. But the report of the
knight Matthias about caches is not a topic of the meeting of our Council. Interestingly,
and in
Knight
Mathias. No, your lordship, paid very little, we slept on bare boards, we were
fed bad – bread and soup. But promised a share of the
spoils of war and almost every night generously watered
He
commanded our regiment Rate Ratio, the old combatant of Izyaslav
mstislavovitch, who served during Vladimir Monomakh. It was evident that in his
youth he was a very strong warrior, and if I met him in battle in his best
years, I would not be sure a favorable outcome of the match. And I did not
portrayed the awkwardness and ineptitude, as he tried not to stand out among
the other militias ability to deal with weapons, Rate his experienced eye
immediately spotted me and wanted to appoint a foreman. But I refused, so as not to attract undue attention.
Bishop
Tybalt. And you're not afraid that you anyone recognizes Matthew Gansovich?
Knight
Mathias. No, your Eminence. I took simple but reliable
precaution: when portrayed Pron, had a beard and when was Matthew Hanovice,
then shaved it. This change appearance for inattentive glances was quite
enough. More attention in the form of a Pron I'm not attracted to, as being a
rower on a boat, and a soldier in the militia, behaved quietly, with no one
argued, and not fought properly perform its duties. Yes, and in General
appearance I inconspicuous.
Commander
Henry. We are trying to dial in order military brotherhood of
Knight
Mathias. Yes, my appearance never down. But I will continue, with the
permission of the high Council.
In July,
forty-ninth year Prince George Dolgoruky made in the campaign and came under
Pereyaslavl. Sviatoslav II of
Commander
Henry. Behavior worthy is that whore.
Bishop
Tybalt. I would not be so sharply expressed, commander. Still, Prince is the
Prince, and if the interests of the people of his Principality demand to join a
stronger ally, but the sin of betrayal becomes forgivable.
Commander
Henry. I believe that the traitor is a traitor regardless of whether he is the
Prince or Hiking militia. We, the Templars, often forced to use in their work
the fruits of treachery, but not cease to despise traitors. What would on this
subject may be said to the theologians.
Count
Wilhelm. Again please stop the unnecessary dispute. Knight Mathias, we listen
to your story.
Knight
Mathias. Izyaslav Mstislavich with a team and the militia acted towards Mr.
Putin. All the soldiers Izyaslav given blue ribbon we tied on helmets.
Bishop
Tybalt. Ribbons and why?
Knight
Mathias. To distinguish in combat from their strange, your
Eminence.
Bishop
Tybalt. And without ribbons it is not clear?
Count
Wilhelm. When as. Generally speaking, signs the distinction
is necessary because even a small army has several thousand people,
and all each other know in person can't. And once in battle
to look at the faces. When the troops join in the battle and shuffled,
each a warrior must know who was there – friend or foe, and every warlord must
watch for those who oppresses, and give the commands. If you
fight between different countries and peoples, different troops and armor, and
clothing, and weapons. And during the civil wars, you have to have all
sorts of colored tape.
Bishop
Tybalt. Why the
Knight
Mathias. This color was the coat of arms of Iziaslav Mstislavovitch. The troops
of George Dolgorukiy was the red ribbons – the color of his the coat of arms. Many
citizens, supporters of this or that Prince, too, wore such colored tape.
Count
Wilhelm. Just like Hippodrome party in Ancient Rome – "green",
"white", "blue", "red". Only
here, instead of horses, it turns out, was the Prince.
Bishop
Tybalt. Your Excellency, here is correct it would be to remember Byzantium,
where, until recently, also there are the party, which acted not only on
racetracks, but also had an impact on many aspects of life. I wonder whether in
Knight
Mathias. Constantly – no, but if during princely feuds the city Council had to
decide which Prince to serve, that such party appeared.
Bishop
Tybalt. What it is the chamber?
Knight
Mathias. The Council of citizens, your Eminence, like
our municipalities.
Count
Wilhelm. Yes, it's interesting. So, the knight Mathias, are you staying on that
"blue" was released in the campaign towards "red".
Knight
Mathias. I was going to eliminate Izyaslav Mstislavovitch on the campaign, but
this proved impossible: the Grand Duke has taken into account the experience of
the predecessor of Vsevolod Olgovich and took strict security measures and your
camping tent, and food. Of course, most of all he feared poisoning, and its
cuisine was closely guarded food was tried the day before, how to serve the
Prince, then about the food stood guard, and before serving to the Prince table
this food again tried. I even thought that Izyaslav know what I'm after attempt
could stay alive and now will take revenge.
Count
Wilhelm. And if at all he gave no attempt?
Knight
Mathias. Then it could have alerted my the
disappearance from
At the end
of August (23 numbers – approx. transl.) under Pereyaslavl was a battle.
Before the
battle George Putin offered Izyaslav Mstislavich the world, moreover, was
willing to acknowledge its Grand Duke, leaving himself Zales and Pereyaslavl. But
Izyaslav refused. By the way, when I learned about George Izyaslav, I
remembered what he said Peter: what Dolgoruky will never go to fratricide and
soon will give way the enemy, the great reign.
The troops
of George and Izyaslav stood, separated by the river and the old ramparts,
built in pre-Christian times for protection from nomads.
Count
Wilhelm. Something like the great Chinese wall?
Knight
Mathias. Yes, your Excellency, but on Russian lad – in
the form of a low, gentle, fallen from the time shaft without walls them.
Then
Izyaslav Mstislavich crossed the river, Georgy passed the old ramparts, the
troops moved closer and another stood opposite each other. When the sun already
began to fall into sunset, George used a deceptive maneuver: he pretended that
he refused battle, and started to deploy the army. Izyaslav decided that
Dolgoruky was frightened and retreats, and went after him. But the shelves of
George, trained much better Izyaslavovych, immediately turned around again and
hit forward. Neither Izyaslav or his soldiers did not
expect.
Regiment of the
Bishop
Tybalt. Really one person can lift panic, in General, the shelf?
Count
Wilhelm. Even as you can. When the regiment tensely
waiting for the approaching enemy, it is enough to shout: "Surround!"
or "Treason!". I just experienced this, when
led to battle their knights and Pesci. The main thing – right
to kill traitors, alarmists and cowards.
Knight
Mathias. Quite true, your Excellency. That is why for
those who want to sow panic, it is important to cry out "Surround!"
not too early that the generals did not have time to kill, and not too late
when the troops are back together: then, in the terrible thunder of the battle,
no one will hear, scream – don't scream.
It is
difficult to sow panic when before the battle is a skirmish archers, and
warriors are busy reflection of arrows. But in the battle of Pereyaslavl
shootout was not, Kyiv the militia was already confused because of the sudden
attack George, and my cry about the environment took
effect.
So when
Izyaslav Mstislavich with his mounted retinue hit on the right flank, pushed
left flank George, and then looked back at his army, saw the troops almost no
Dynamo in horror perivale his blue ribbon and ran, and behind them the rest of
the Pesci. So Izyaslav had only to shout squad to fled
as best they could, turning the horse and rush aimlessly.
So again
please him Eminence Tybalt: George victory was almost bloodless, running no one
pursued – apparently, Dolgoruky was forbidden to do it. Yes, and it was getting
dark already.
Bishop
Tybalt. Well as it turned out, my son Mathias, you didn't have to take the
extra soul a sin to kill Iziaslav: he so lost the battle.
Knight
Mathias. I can not agree, your Eminence. Would have killed – there would be far
more bloody internecine continue war.
But then, of course, no one this still might not know. The
Again, I
became Matthew Hanovice and returned to his
During the
time that we don't see, Petrila have time to marry.
Commander
Henry. You see, your Eminence, and you say sodomite.
Bishop
Tybalt. Not a sodomite, just fallen if the fall of the knight of Mathias in
your order is considered forced and forgivable, that nothing Osmania Petrila it
does not to say.
Knight
Mathias. If we consider the behavior of The petryliv from
this point of view, I would say that he married not for love but for money. The
bride was not young, not beautiful, but very rich, and most importantly – this
marriage was made related to Peter Andrew, son of
Twenty years before Suzdal boyar Stefan a Bunch of owned villages along
the
Children of
George Bunch took with him in
Bishop
Tybalt. You're probably upset because of the marriage The
petryliv?
Knight
Mathias. I admit, disappointed. And my the disappointment
was even more intense because Peter never told me the desire to marry. However,
he explained that this marriage is for him arranged some sort of matchmaker
quite suddenly, and it was so beneficial that it was necessary to immediately
accept and almost immediately to walk down the aisle.
Agrippina I
did not seen, she remained in
Bishop
Tybalt. In what sense were you visiting?
Commander
Henry. In the same, your Eminence. We already knew
that you are an implacable opponent of
Count
Wilhelm. Yes, your Eminence, we will not wasting time on repetitive reading of
morality, we are not children, except only the children of Christ. Knight
Mathias, your personal relationship with Omnicom Petroleu understandable, but
did it increase the success of your main business – to help bring
Knight
Mathias. We Petreley decided that I will living in
Commander
Henry. And don't you think Petrila was too hard to influence the acceptance
decisions?
Knight
Mathias. He was a high-ranking Prince official, better than I've seen the
overall situation in
Bishop Tybalt.
Well, as we say in the
Commander
Henry. Your Eminence...
Bishop
Tybalt. Silent, silent.
Count
Wilhelm. And I want to ask a question knight Matthias: did you know that
Izyaslav Mstislavich after the expulsion from
Knight
Mathias. Such rumors to
Bishop
Tybalt. Until the sale of his immortal souls to the enemy of
the human race. Yes, we heard it, and it is not necessary to repeat in
vain blasphemous words.
Commander
Henry. I guess it's for knight Matthias not can be claims.
Bishop
Tybalt. You mean enunciation blasphemous words, commander
Henry?
Commander
Henry. No, I mean that brother Mathias rightly did not draw conclusions about
the desire of Izyaslav to take the true faith of his requests for assistance
addressed to the Catholic countries. In our the time
relations often appear and stop regardless what faith someone adheres to. For
example, during the internecine struggle Izyaslav and George was a war between
Bishop
Tybalt. Yes, I remember this strange the
Knight
Mathias. Moreover, on the side of the Empire were and George Dolgorukiy. Izyaslav
stood for the Hungarians, that is against our The Holy
Roman Empire. And then Dolgoruky entered into an
So I the
desire could not make the military of the princely unions any conclusions about
the desire or unwillingness to accept the true faith. It's still
a princely feuds, and not the Crusades.
Commander
Henry. Even in the Crusades alliances with among the infidels against other
infidels – business as usual.
Knight
Mathias. So I lived in
Bishop
Tybalt. That is lived for pleasure, have watched and not intervened.
Knight
Mathias. Again hurt the poor knight Of the temple,
your Eminence. And for good reason. You can describe
what happened in
Count
Wilhelm. We will listen carefully, knight Mathias.
Knight
Mathias. I will begin the story with that Izyaslav Mstislavich shortly after
fleeing from the field of the battle of Pereyaslavl showed up in Vladimir
Volynski. Began to collect troops and found allies – Hungarians, Bohemians and
poles, about it we already talked. I was about to go to Volyn to eliminate it,
but here in
Commander
Henry. Why?
Knight
Mathias. Because if I killed Izyaslav mstislavovitch, it would be unclear who
would become a great Prince, and not worked whether I'm in favor of not George
and Vyacheslav, which then nothing was known, except the fact that almost all
my life, with a few interruptions, he procmail in town Turov and, according to
rumors, was not distinguished by any special abilities or strong character. But
any Prince personal deficiencies can be replenished wise approach, so all the
rumors about the weakness of Vyacheslav I took no particular faith.
At the end
of the forty-ninth year, under the Christmas, Izyaslav Mstislavich made from
Volhynia with all the army, including allies of the Catholics. In January
George moved him meet from
Poles and
Hungarians joined in talks with George and left Izyaslav, this is what I have
said. So George moved on to Volhynia. In early February, he laid siege to a
small town
Defended Lutsk Prince Vladimir Mstislavich – the young man, Macesich who
tried and failed to save from punishment of Prince Igor Olgovich. The army of Macesich went out to
meet to the enemy, but was repulsed by George and his son Andrew. The basic
forces Izyaslav Mstislavich was constrained by the Galician Prince Vladimirko. So
Izyaslav was forced to sue for peace.
The peace
Treaty was signed in March. George left the Grand Prince of
Count
Wilhelm. And is George away from his troops legitimate
prey and gave Izyaslav?
Knight
Mathias. Of course not. Apparently, it was one of the
reasons that peace only lasted a few months.
Bishop
Tybalt. No wonder greed is one of the the seven deadly sins.
Commander
Henry. I think there were other, much more serious causes. Hardly Izyaslav
pleased need to obey Dolgoruky and to settle for psychology.
Knight
Mathias. Of course, so, my brother, my Lord. In
addition to Izyaslav moved Vyacheslav Vladimirovich, resentful the fact that
his younger brother, George not only became Grand Duke in the bypass of
seniority, but did not even bother to invite him to peace talks.
And in may Izyaslav The great secretly made in the campaign, not
George declaring war, at least in spirit Prince Svyatoslav Igorevich.
Bishop
Tybalt. And what is the Prince and how he declared war?
Knight
Mathias. He was the father of
Count
Wilhelm. It is in the spirit of the ancient Romans.
Knight
Mathias. Yes, your Excellency. Izyaslav Mstislavich
went to
So in the
beginning of June Kiev at night the uproar, began to
panic, and the next morning the people of
However,
Dolgoruky in
Commander
Henry. Why?
Knight
Mathias.
Count
Wilhelm. But taxes in
Knight
Mathias. You are absolutely right, your Excellency.
Count
Wilhelm. It turns out that
Knight
Mathias. It turns out, Yes. At this time, by the way,
the Prince and received the unflattering nickname "Dolgoruky". But
Peter's work was so, tax collectors, and we have few loves.
Bishop
Tybalt. Any work can be treated in different ways, my son. The Holy Apostle
Matthew was also a publican, and our Lord Jesus Christ feasted with publicans
and sinners.
Commander
Henry. Humans are imperfect, unlike Of The Lord Jesus.
Count
Wilhelm. Let's not only theology, please. Knight
Mathias, you stopped on June fiftieth year, when few people in
Knight
Mathias. Yes, very few. Dolgoruky was gone. It later emerged that he fled to
the North, in horodets ' Osters'ke, a small town in the Chernigov Principality.
Disappeared and Petrila: then I found out that he had that left in its Treasury
Affairs in Vitichev, a town about thirty miles (
I was going
again pretend to be a carpenter Pronom and go to the
Commander
Henry. And you feared that Izyaslav try to deal with you?
Knight
Mathias. No, my brother, my Lord. I understand that
Izyaslav in the first weeks and months of his great reign is not up to me, even if he somehow finds out I'm alive, healthy and are
in
They are
unlikely long decide someone who has to obey, and in the end nothing is finally
decided, as a month later came the news that George with all of your allies
Vladimirka Galician and Chernigov princes – came to Zvenigorod.
Bishop
Tybalt. Under Galich?
Knight
Mathias. No, your Eminence, near Kyiv. Zvenigorod in
After
learning that George went to Zvenigorod, I was going to join the
In August,
Zvenigorod the battle took place, almost exactly repeating the battle of
Pereyaslavl, only this time the first ran is not
Bishop
Tybalt. What has been will be, and that is done is that which shall be done:
and there is nothing new under the sun.
Commander
Henry. Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, vanity of vanities.
Count
Wilhelm. Left only me and the knight Mathias begin to
demonstrate their knowledge of the Scriptures, and we do never finished our
meeting.
Knight
Mathias. In any case, your Excellency. But really, everything
was back to normal. At the end of August George again came to
Petrila
came from Vitichev, briefly came to me and said I was waiting for news from
him, and goodbye. Even for the night left.
So I lived
in his the ' house waiting for some news from Peter. They were a long time.
Commander
Henry. What do you want from him to know?
Knight
Mathias. At least that is where Izyaslav.
Count
Wilhelm. Maybe he knew, but not reported you, because not really wanted to end
the war?
Knight
Mathias. Think about where Izyaslav Mstislavich, did not even
know himself George Armstrong. Then it turned out that Izyaslav fled to
the Hungarians and poles, gathered an army, and again struck an unexpected blow
in
Bishop
Tybalt. There's nothing funny, son Mathias, when shed Christian blood. Because
all Russian Christians, though professing the Byzantine faith.
Knight
Mathias. Of course, your Eminence. And all well, I
confess, I was even funny when all the events repeated almost exactly.
At the
beginning of the fifty - the first year Izyaslav Mstislavich with the
Hungarians and poles spared troops Andrew G. and the vladimirka Volodarevich,
extended to the West as a barrier, and unexpected the shot was captured
Belgorod, a town near Kiev. Dolgoruky even tried to lock in the capital and
wait approach Andrew and volodymyrka: his squad was too small, and dissatisfied
with his rule
Count
Wilhelm. Unhappy
Knight
Mathias. Indeed, your Excellency. And March, George
left
Peter also
left capital. Before leaving, he sent me a birch-bark manuscript with the words
the Holy Scripture: "That thou doest, do quickly." It was easy to
understand what it was about elimination of Izyaslav mstislavovitch.
This time
of the day the entry of Izyaslav in
Bishop
Tybalt. Finally.
Count
Wilhelm. During the solemn meeting, perhaps it is best to get close to the
Prince in the crowd and stab the dagger?
Commander Henry.
Your lordship, the Prince was surrounded by a team, therefore, attempted to hit
him with a dagger would be for me suicidal. A
Count
Wilhelm. I'm glad, commander Henry, that you ready to
give such valiant knights, as Mathias.
Commander
Henry. My knights know what I'm not hesitation, give
my life for any of them.
Knight
Mathias. So, my brother, my Lord. But if you go back
to plotting the death of Izyaslav mstislavovitch during his the gala entrance
to Kiev, I would say that try to hit him with a dagger was it is unreasonable
not only because I would have been immediately killed by his guard. To stab so a skilled warrior sitting on a horse, generally very
difficult. He could be in the mail that a dagger could not penetrate. By
the way, then it turned out that it was in the mail. And to cut his throat, the
Prince certainly did not give . So I just would have
died in vain.
Commander
Henry. When the commander solemnly enters the city, it is best to shoot him
with a crossbow from the roof of any of of the houses along the street.
Knight
Mathias. That's what I decided to do. The only mistake was that I chose the
crossbow, not the bow. Crossbow beats more accurately and at a greater
distance, but of archery I had to do two, and then three shots, and tried to
get the Prince in the chest and in the neck or even in eyes. With a crossbow,
which recharges longer, I could make just one shot, and I had to aim probably.
When
Izyaslav Mstislavich, surrounded by a retinue and meet a joyful crowd of
Commander
Henry. And even the guards they were not?
Knight
Mathias. There were some places not. In fact the house caretaker was, and I was
ready, if necessary, to kill him, but at the moment it in the yard was not:
apparently he came out to look at the entry of the Prince. Only huge dog tried
to block my way.
Bishop
Tybalt. And you kill a dumb creature of God?
Knight
Mathias. Your Eminence, I have one weakness: I love animals, and I kill people
much easier than a dumb animal.
Bishop Tybalt.
I heard that lonely and ill people often vent their unbridled love for our
smaller brothers.
Count
Wilhelm. What about the saying of the knights Templar, which recalled commander Henry: ruler to kill – not a puppy drown?
Knight
Mathias. Your Excellency, if need be, I and the ruler will be killed, and the
puppy drown, but without will not need to do any one or the other. In
I have been
told that in Russian cities nearly all houses are not on the street, and in
depth, in high fences. So the shooting distance was big, and to aim at the head
or neck Izyaslav was useless, especially as the Prince looked on parties that
somebody was nodding. It was possible to shoot only in the chest or when the
Prince will pass by in the back. But the back of the Prince was covered with
warriors, and I shot in the chest.
Commander
Henry. And hit?
Knight
Mathias. Got, of course. But Izyaslav took such
precautions, I did not expect him. He put not only leather armor, round metal
plates, but thick armor under them. Looks like under the armor still had the
coat-padded armour. In short, the Prince dressed as if going to battle.
Arrow I let
so exactly what she hit between the plates. But armor % only Izyaslav knocked
from his horse. The Prince fell, but immediately stood up, pulled out the arrow
stuck in the mail, and went on foot, surrounded by guards. In the crowd, few
understand what happened, people thought that the Prince had just dismounted,
to to be closer to the people.
Count
Wilhelm. Strong man this Izyaslav Mstislavich.
Knight
Mathias. A true warrior, your Excellency. That the
Russian princes did not take away, they all are.
Commander
Henry. And for you, I guess, immediately began hunting?
Knight
Mathias. Probably started, but I didn't wait while the guards will know which
side the arrow came from, and begin to comb the surroundings. I dropped the
crossbow off the roof, fed the dog remains happy meat and went home, unnoticed.
Izyaslav
again, once again, became the Grand Duke.
Commander
Henry. And Vyacheslav Vladimirovich?
Knight
Mathias. He came to
Count
Wilhelm. Duumvirate, just like Ahmadov and Eurypontid in
ancient
Knight
Mathias. Yes, but with the enthronement of duumvirate the war is not over. In
April to
At the end
of may fifty the first year of the army Izyaslav acted
towards George. I was in
Commander
Henry. And nobody in the regiment not recollected, in the battle of Pereyaslavl
you panic?
Knight
Mathias. Some recalled. I justified by the fact that allegedly first appeared
in battle and was scared. Fortunately, Rate Ratio was seriously wounded at
George
stopped in front of
Then the
"black hoods" pretended that left Izyaslav Mstislavich, Grand Prince
retreated to the walls of the city. All this, too, was military cunning, to
force George to believe that his enemy is weak. In fact, Izyaslav there was a
huge preponderance of force.
Between
enemies were negotiations in what have not resulted. George tried to attack
Izyaslav, but was easily repulsed near the river Lybid. Our regiment stood in
reserve, and I don't could neither affect the tide of battle
or get to Izyaslav.
In the rear
of the Dolgoruky there were "black hoods", he retreated from
Commander
Henry. Well, even if brother Mathias tired March was
really heavy.
Bishop
Tybalt. I don't doubt it.
Knight
Mathias. Near the river Ruth, inflow of ROS', George tried complex movements of
the troops to avoid a battle, but it did not managed. And he built his
exhausted warriors to meet at least exhausted soldiers Izyaslav.
Izyaslav
ordered the army to take his example and with his cavalry brigade moved forward
on the enemy. In
Broke out
the strongest carnage, I such even in
Commander
Henry. Imagine a knight Mathias, making its way among enemies. You can consider
me a heartless old warrior, but what a beautiful sight!
Bishop
Tybalt. This time I say nothing because bloody Sich is hardly described in all
the books of the old Testament.
Count
Wilhelm. Even if the Bishop Tybalt decided to remain silent, then I will
support the commander of Henry and also allow myself openly to Express admiration. And as the burning eyes of the knight of
Mathias when he tells! Oh, if I was younger, would necessarily have caused it
at the next joust for the noble bloodless fight with such a fighter would be
fun to grab!
Knight
Mathias. Win your lordship would doubtless your martial art known throughout
the Christian world, and for his limits. And then, in the battle of the Rut, I
realized that I walk in Izyaslav not to keep up, and I can lose sight of it:
George's troops retreated, and the great the Prince fought far ahead. I jumped
on the horse, remaining from someone the dead Prince's men, and continued to
move forward riding.
And I soon
saw that Izyaslav fell from his horse – dead, or wounded. I rushed to him to if
you need to finish. But then, as luck would have it, on my way for the first
time in the whole battle met a strong opponent.
Count
Wilhelm. A mounted combatant?
Knight
Mathias. Imagine just Hiking the warrior opposing the
people of Kiev Chernihiv militia. Of course, I had immediately notice that all
around him lay several dead horses and bloody riders, and to be careful. But,
unfortunately, in the heat of battle I didn't pay it attention and made a
serious mistake: we underestimated the enemy.
Count
Wilhelm. If you see before you strong opponent, then it is not necessary to
immediately close. It is better to apply an elongated hand, far off, a few
light bumps deceptive, to understand what he can and what not can, and then
reduce the distance and beat lightly.
Knight
Mathias. Quite true, your Excellency. I was given the
opportunity to choose any distance to the enemy: I was on horseback and he on
foot. But I was in a hurry to the crash site of Izyaslav, Chernihiv the warrior
stood in my way, so I immediately pulled up close to him and swung sword, to
cut from shoulder to waist. But he saw my swing and easy and fast movement
dodged the blow.
While I
re-raised the sword, the enemy had time to strike his blow. I expected that
this impact will be sent to me, and closed the shield. But he hit me and my
horse. Right in heart. The poor beast didn't even
stand up on its hind legs, and immediately fell to the side, straddling my left
leg.
If I did
not make a dramatic movements, the leg would remain intact, perhaps slightly
stretched. But Chernihiv the warrior was pulling the sword for the next blow,
and this time he was sent to me. My shield was also pressed against the horse,
and to defend them I could not.
I realized
that in another second and will be killed. Then I force twisted the leg,
breaking the Shin, and clung to the carcass the fallen horse.
Commander
Henry. And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off, for it is better to die
one of your members, and not all the body was cast into Gehenna.
Bishop
Tybalt. If you decide to remember the words The Scriptures, commander
Henry, do it at least accurately and to the point, and do not compare the great
Testament of our Lord Jesus Christ with a momentary the need to survive knight
in a bloody battle.
Knight
Mathias. However, your Eminence, I also remembered these words when he was laying next to a dead horse, and prevailed against the
severe pain in the leg.
CHernigovets
did not expect that I will be able to pull away in the direction of the price
of a broken tibia, and his sword whistled there where I was for a split second
before. Perhaps the next time, he would have killed me. But he turned around,
he saw that his companions retreated far away, and thank the Lord, didn't want
to finish.
Bishop
Tybalt. Wow, what a kindness.
Count
Wilhelm. No special humanity not here. Knight Mathias with a broken leg, was for him no longer dangerous, and to finish on the
battlefield defeated and harmless the enemy, especially fellow Muslims, not
will no one experienced and self-respecting warrior. And the CHernigovets,
according to the story knight was like that.
Knight
Mathias. Besides, your Excellency, he decided not to risk it because he had to
catch up with the retreating Chernihiv and Suzdal troops, and should not have
to waste time. So he turned and ran after her.
Around me
all was quiet, I released a broken leg and stood up,
leaning on some piece of the lance. Place where Izyaslav Mstislavich fell from
his horse, I had time to notice, there was a lot of bodies, living no one
around to be seen. The battle has gone far ahead: the warriors George fled, the
soldiers Izyaslav, led by the Supreme Governor Shvarna Letiche, pursued them.
And I
hobbled to the place where he fell Izyaslav. The
Prince lay motionless, bleeding, but alive and
consciousness. It was splendid armor the Venetian work, and they saved him:
kick axe went through his thigh, but the bone is not cut, just cut muscles. He
was wounded in the arm, but the wound looked easy and harmless, though this is
probably the shot threw the Duke from his horse. Near Izyaslav was lying a few
dead and wounded warriors in rich armour, apparently all the guards of the
Prince were killed in battle. And since the rest of the Prince's entouragewas
fond of the chase, the moment to kill the Prince was perfect.
Izyaslav,
of course, could not to get to know me: not only have I grown a beard, but the
whole was flooded with someone else's blood. But my helmet was blue ribbon, and
he decided that he was dealing with a friend, not an enemy.
Propped on
her elbow, he shouted: "I am a Prince." I hit him with a sword,
intending to cut the head. But Izyaslav was an experienced and skilled warrior,
and despite his condition, managed to bend over forward and I hit him on the
helmet.
Count
Wilhelm. Indeed, we can see a seasoned warrior. Inexperienced recoiled, and
knight Matthias would be easy to reach out a little ahead and get it.
Knight
Mathias. Very experienced, your Excellency. I beat
strongly, almost cut through a helmet. But the Prince was unharmed, lost
consciousness and began to crawl away. I hobbled after him, raising the sword
for another blow. From the it probably looked funny
two cripples, one of which barely stands on one leg and the other can't stand,
chasing each other.
Another one
of my kick, too hit the helmet. The third strike to gave me back the princely vigilantes. Izyaslav again cried
out that he was the Prince, took off his helmet, and recognized him. I nothing
remained as soon as fall before him prostrate and beg for forgiveness, saying
that allegedly did not recognize him, because he just said, "I am a
Prince", not specifying what.
Around
there was joy,
Izyaslav
Mstislavovitch raised, bandaged his wounds, gave or water, or
Count
Wilhelm. Yes, a true warrior. Although, of course, it would be better Izyaslav
Mstislavich don't have civil war than then curse her, mourning a dead relative.
Knight
Mathias. For the Russian princes, your lordship, generally
characterized by a duality of conduct.
Commander
Henry. Unfortunately, not only Russian princes, but for many
Catholic rulers.
Bishop
Tybalt. Who do you mean, commander?
Commander
Henry. List the names of your Eminence? Themselves
will record, or our Secretary in the Protocol will bring?
Count
Wilhelm. Dear members, let's let alone the Affairs of Catholic countries, us,
Commander
Henry. I agree with your lordship. The more it's late, and we can ask the
Bishop to Tybalt to read the sign reconciliation evening prayer.
Bishop
Tybalt. O Lord our God, all I have sinned this day in word, deed and thought,
You are as gracious and humane forgive me, peace and stay late, let me send an
angel Your guardian, protecting and preserving me from all evil. For You – The
guardian of the souls and of our bodies, and we praise You, Father, Son and
Holy Spirit, now and always and forever.
All participants meeting. Amen.
Count
Wilhelm. The meeting was closed. Thank you all.
PROTOCOL
THE FOURTH MEETING
of the
Council of representatives his Imperial Majesty, his Holiness the Pope and the
order of the poor knights of Christ and Of the temple of Solomon on
consideration of the report of the knight of Matias of Passau on the
implementation of the mission in Russia in 1145-1157 years from BC
(Room on
the inventory of the
In the name
of God, the will of his Imperial Majesty Friedrich, his Holiness Pope Hadrian
and the Grand master the order of the poor knights of the
Present:
Chairman of
the Board – count Wilhelm von Veldhoven, Vice-Marshal of the court of his
Imperial Majesty.
Member of the Board – Bishop Tybalt Surminski, the legate his Holiness
the Pope.
Member of
the Board – knight Henry of Angouleme, commander of the military brotherhood of
The Secretary of the Board Alfred from
The Council
reports knight Matias from
Count
Wilhelm. In the name of God, continue the hearing of the report of the knight
Mathias, a member of the military brotherhood of
Bishop
Tybalt. Our Lord, for all the gifts of Your love thank
You. All our days bless the Lord, his glory to give, be always in us, o God.
All participants meeting. Amen.
Count
Wilhelm. I ask the distinguished members of the Council to sit down. At the
last meeting, knight Mathias, you in your story
stopped on that field of battle near the river Ruth you were not able to
resolve
Bishop
Tybalt. Recall, please, when happened this battle.
Knight
Mathias. In early June, 1151 from Christ, your
Eminence. Unfortunately, I don't remember exactly.
Count
Wilhelm. Thanks to the joy of winning
Knight
Mathias. No, your Excellency. While Izyaslav
Mstislavich was recovering, I tried to slowly disappear, but the terrorists and
the militia did not give me to do it.
Arrived the
Supreme the Governor Shvarna, Letic, and told him about the incident. He didn't
believe my explanations, and this is not surprising: even if the Prince was a
stranger, and not its what the volunteer mercenary
will try to kill him, not take prisoner, to get a huge ransom? And, it was hard
not to know Izyaslav mstislavovitch in rich armor, scarlet cloak of the Prince
depicted on the helmet of heaven patron of the Prince – Saint Panteleymon, and
most importantly – on the blue ribbon. She shots from the helmet Izyaslav fell
off, but lay next.
And then
there's someone from approaching
So I was on
orders Swarna was taken to
Count
Wilhelm. And why put?
Knight
Mathias. With a broken leg, which I don't could even attack, it was impossible
to arrange an escape from prison. So I needed time the leg had a little bit to
coalesce, and I was able to run. He a fracture of the tibia would not hurt me
to interrogate, torture and execute, and I had to
pretend to be sick with fever to delay the interrogation.
Bishop
Tybalt. Is it possible to pretend to be sick with fever? Any physician would
understand that the alleged sick-no fever sweat, frantic heartbeat.
Commander
Henry. The members of our order of the brotherhood
Bishop
Tybalt. I guess this technique is called like something like
"Hellfire".
Commander
Henry. Your Excellency, this time you almost guessed. "Hell
hour".
Knight
Mathias. "Hell hour" helped me. The doctor went to
the prison very rarely, and pay little attention to the condition of
prisoners, and me this and we had. My "Hell" he believed and told the
jailers that I you can't question until I recover. I am grateful to this doctor
more and the fact that he skillfully set the broken bones of the leg and put a
splint.
So I'm
about a month lay on a dirty straw and healed the leg. She healed slowly
because of the damp and bad food, but to heal. And I was on her neatly to come
when I came, tied his hands and led him away for questioning. Of course, I kept
that foot almost fused, and the guards dragged me almost dragging.
The
questioning led in charge investigative cases Sotsky Gregory Patetic, the
assistant Supreme commander Swarna Leticia. I was afraid that I will drag
directly to Izyaslav Mstislavich, and he me know, but apparently Shvarna and
Gregory decided first to understand, and then to report to the Grand Duke.
I began to
tell that I'm a carpenter Pron from Pereyaslavl, but Gregory I immediately
interrupted, saying that has no time to listen to my tales. It turns out that
while I was lying healed leg, he was sent to
Pereyaslavl his man, and he walked in the city all carpenters named Pron. They
were few, and none of them came in
I refused
to speak, and Gregory Patetic ordered to torture me. Summoned
the executioner, who with two assistants he dragged me into the dungeon.
Soon there came to Gregory's Secretary.
First, as
expected, I showed the instruments of torture and offered himself
to be honest with her.
Count
Wilhelm. Just as we do.
Knight
Mathias. Yes, your Excellency, only guns torture is much more primitive. The
rack, the whip, the fiery tongs and brooms, which light and rolled over the
skin. Far from our "witch chairs", tensile machines and funnels for
filling the stomach with water.
I again
refused to say it was important, that they began to torture, then
they would have to untie me to take off my clothes. It just happened.
With a sore
leg I could hardly attack it is difficult for me to cope with five, but no one of them was not a weapon, and I could do it.
Commander
Henry. I wonder how?
Knight
Mathias. When I was made in a torture dungeon, I saw in the corner of the block
and the axe: apparently, the executioner had more there is nowhere to store
them. And when I was untied, I wriggled out of the hands of men jumped to the
side and grabbed the axe. It was important for me to cut off the enemy from the
door, so they can't get out and call for help, so I have time to kill only one
of them, and with the other four started a game of cat and mouse: they tried to
break the door, I drove away. One of the assistants of the executioner grabbed
red-hot tongs and lunged at me, but this was his undoing: he was killed
immediately.The other three huddled in the far corners.
Count
Wilhelm. A scream, to call for the guards they tried?
Knight
Mathias. Tried, but to no avail: the torture dungeon was deep, the guards were
only upstairs, and cries to it is not heard. And if any
sounds came, they would take for the cries of the tortured.
Commander
Henry. And how you dealt with them?
Knight
Mathias. I with a voice of thunder commanded them not to leave the dungeon for
two hours, and went to the stairs, slamming the door behind him. Of course,
they did not wait and immediately ran after me. But I got up immediately behind
the door, and as soon as it opened, killed two more.
The only survivor Sotsky Gregory Patetic. He ran again into the dungeon. I offered him
to change clothes and to make a clean break, not to chase him with a sick leg. He
agreed on the condition that I will swear not to kill him. I swore. We changed,
then I killed him, as he relaxed and approached rather close.
Bishop
Tybalt. And even perjury.
Commander Henry.
Unfortunately, it's business as usual when our hard work, your Eminence. In
cases when it is necessary to break the vows, we are justified by the fact that
our Lord Jesus commanded us not to swear, but simply to say "Yes" and
"no".
Bishop
Tybalt. Saint Gregory the Theologian said, that is very bad and give the oath,
and to require it: in both cases the insult the truth. And St. John Chrysostom
believed that if swear – it devilish then what
punishment will expose us to the crime of vows?
Count Wilhelm.
Your Eminence, I'm impressed your knowledge in the writings of the Church
Fathers, but back to the story of the knight of Mathias.
Knight
Mathias. Clothing Sotsky I passed the guards and went outside.
Count
Wilhelm. But you could hardly walk due to legs, it really is not aroused the
guards suspicion? And certainly a large beard overgrown, some of you could get
a princely official, even in good clothes?
Knight
Mathias. I used a technique which we have called "False alarm".
Bishop
Tybalt. What's that?
Knight
Mathias. Just a false alarm. In order the distraction
of the enemy.
Bishop
Tybalt. I thought you all have graceful names.
Knight
Mathias. It's the assassins this technique called elegantly "the Flight of
the moth to the light."
Commander
Henry. And as you raised the false alarm?
Knight
Mathias. Burning coals from the brazier torture I burned in the dungeon all
that could burn, face smeared in soot, and when thick smoke, opened the door
and yelled, "Fire!". The guards rushed down,
the dungeon I'm in total confusion easily slipped past and went outside. But I
knew that after a few minutes I will miss a run because of my leg not could. Could not even quickly to go.
But I was
lucky: the street rode some rider, I ran to him as if for help, he stopped and
asked what happened. I grabbed his hand, a sharp jerk
pulled off the horse, jumped on her and rode. It was in front of passers-by,
noise from the dungeon guardian popped up and soon me
began the chase. But it was by day, the city gates were opened, I left the city
and rode to the
Try to swim
across the river it was useless: Dnipro high hills of
Count
Wilhelm. But you could swim across, holding the neck of the horse. I have not
once had with his cavalry, so to overcome the river.
Knight
Mathias. Your Excellency, the Dnieper at
Commander
Henry. The pursuers did not combing the reeds?
Knight
Mathias. Of course, scoured, and how. But I used a technique called
"breath of air".
Bishop
Tybalt. What is it?
Knight
Mathias. I am fully immersed in the water, and breathe through the torn up reed
stem. I could find only stepping on me, and that could only happen when the
biggest bad luck. A couple of times the pursuers had taken place very near,
but, thank God, nothing happened. So I hiding until
dark, wondering what to do next.
Commander
Henry. Can you apply "Box we have greens"? Don't worry, your
Eminence, in relation to women, not men. That is, to find a
lonely widow to seduce her and stay with it until you stop searching and go
limp.
Knight
Mathias. My brother, my Lord, because of that in Russia the last years there
was a civil war, a lonely woman could find only in the city, under the
protection of fortifications. To the tenements, where ever there was a risk of
ruin, settled only the most desperate, and they were all less and less.
Bishop
Tybalt. Indeed, as stated in the Holy Scripture, if a Kingdom is divided
against itself cannot stand that Kingdom.
Commander
Henry. You said, your Eminence.
Bishop
Tybalt. Life-giving word of the Lord is not a sin and repeat.
Count
Wilhelm. Then I repeat my request not fond of theology, and to listen carefully
to the story of the knight of Mathias.
Knight
Mathias. As rightly remarked his Eminence, divided
So I
decided to get to Suzdal, to George Dolgorukiy. Night found some fishing boat,
crossed the
Count
Wilhelm. And than you this time he ate?
Knight
Mathias. To steal food in the villages are not was it because of watchdogs: to
disarm them I couldn't because of sore feet and the lack of weapons, to lure
them was nothing. Managed only once to steal some food from
the merchants camped for the night. So picking
mushrooms and berries. Frogs were caught. In short,
with God's help, to feed, albeit skinnier. However, after prison, where
he was given only bread and water, tomati have much longer.
But I
sooner or later be reached, of course. If I'm with a
much more serious wound at the time got on the snowy mountain trails from
Alamut to
Count
Wilhelm. And the wolves and bears? I heard that
Russian forests with many wild animals.
Knight
Mathias. In August they're full, I walked along bustling trade routes, so they
are at this time of the year for people not there attacked, they do not need to
take the risk.
One time,
however, early in the morning I was out of the woods a few wolves. But I was
raising a lot of females, which in the beginning broke down and used it as a
crutch, and went with them. They I felt that I was not afraid of them, decided
that I was strong and armed, and preferred hiding in the woods. Now, if it was
in the late winter or spring, they told me, of course, devoured.
However, I
then still not came to
Commander
Henry. How so? You were going secretly.
Knight
Mathias. Yes, my brother, my Lord, was I very cautiously and secretly, still
only at night, because he knew that Chernigov land some princes stand for
George, some for Izyaslav, and whose soldiers had to meet, God knows.
But I could
not imagine myself that Izyaslav and Shvarna guess to put in vyatichskoe
forests is not just night patrols, and secret night patrols, not posing any
fire, campfire or unified sound. One of these patrols on a clear moonlit night
and I caught. Weapons I didn't have to run I due to sore feet couldn't, so I
immediately grabbed.
I was bound
hand and the legs, in the morning carefully considered. All the signs matched
the growth medium, blonde hair, blue eyes, aquiline nose, thin, limping on the
left leg. It was all clear. It turned out, for my head was a big reward.
And I threw
over saddle strapped to horses and taken to
Bishop
Tybalt. I remember the first meeting you we was told that a Templar in any case
should not surrender alive. How did you give up, especially knowing that you
will surely face torture? And after failed attempts to eliminate Izyaslav in
battle on the river Ruth you also gave to take himself
in prison. Are there any contradictions in your story?
Knight
Mathias. Your Eminence, after the battle of Rute, I was sure that sooner or
later will be able to escape if not from the dungeon, so under torture, which
eventually did. The enemies didn't know how dangerous I am, and very carefully
I was not guarded. Probably thought was a spy of
Commander
Henry. To withstand not too skillful torture teach in our brotherhood, and the
brotherhood of assassins. The most important thing is to force yourself to love the pain and wish myself even more pain.
Bishop
Tybalt. And what is it called, I wonder, the Templars and assassins at godless
this method of achieving resistance to torture?
Commander
Henry. We have to "go with the flow", and assassin – I don't know. Brother
Mathias probably knows, after all he was trained in Alamut.
Knight
Mathias. Yeah, I know. "To race at the mad
stallion".
But when I
grabbed vyatichskoe in the middle of a forest, all, of course, was much worse. I
knew that the Governor Shvarna, Letics will never forgive me the death of
Gregory Patetic, and I will have to wait particularly sophisticated torture and
then a painful punishment – something like quartering or planted on a stake. Escape
me too, most likely, will fail: since Shvarna threw such force into my search,
and protection to me, he put most reliable. Most likely, I will not untie.
So, if I
had a gun, I probably would've killed myself. But weapons were not. And the
amulet of poison I did not have time to open I was immediately tied up.
Bishop
Tybalt. I heard that in the secret brotherhoods there are methods of suicide
without a weapon, even with bound hands and feet, – heart and breathing with an
effort of will. As these techniques are called?
Commander
Henry. They are not called, your grace, because it does not exist. To commit
suicide by the heart stops and breathing with an effort of will not able to no one. Even with a successful stop in some point he loses
consciousness, the will weakened, and the heart will again start beating, and
chest – breathing. So such methods of suicide – just legends.
Bishop
Tybalt. And smash my head against a dungeon wall?
Commander
Henry. To break down, of course, possible, but death will not come, only
poluchitsa consciousness. There have been unfortunate cases where someone who
banged her head against the wall, went crazy and started to give out its
secrets without torture. And we don't encourage our brothers to use this
technique.
Knight
Mathias. Indeed. So, when I drove through vyatichskoe forest, I could only pray
to the virgin Mary, heavenly the patroness of our
order. And, apparently, she has sent me salvation.
Bishop
Tybalt. I'm glad that even hard-hearted soul Templar in difficult times visits,
God-pleasing prayer.
Commander
Henry. And how to you it the salvation of the blessed virgin,
my brother Matthias?
Knight
Mathias. In the form of a dozen foot soldiers, came out of the woods. It is the
warriors, not robbers, it was clear from their
clothes, arms, posture and gait.
Count
Wilhelm. And how many of the guards carried you knight Mathias?
Knight
Mathias. Five, your Excellency. When they stopped,
came out of the woods yet half a dozen men blocked their way back.
No colored
ribbons on their helmets no foot, no horse. But the leader of those who came
out of the woods, a loud voice asked my guards, for whom they are: George or
Izyaslav. The main guard said in Izyaslav. Then foot soldiers drew swords and
offered to surrender. But the horsemen decided to try to break through. Four
got a wedge in front, and the one who drove me to the middle.
The fight
was short-lived. Pesci fought skillfully, and three riders galloped ahead,
died, having to hit just one of them. But two, including the one to which the
horse was is bound I broke.
Then I
realized that I need to take salvation into their own
hands. Made a sharp jerk to the side, and the horse stumbled. One more push,
equally sharp, and she fell, crushed me under him. Rider managed to get out,
wanted to hit me with a sword, but beating the horse he was interrupted. And
back already ran up the attackers. His companion stopped, they sat down
together on one horse and rode away.
Commander
Henry. Just like the riders on the seal of our order.
Knight
Mathias. Yes, my brother, my master, and then, when I lay there and recovered,
I thought about that, too. But then I was not up to thoughts that what it looks
like, as the horse I was not just crushed, and again I broke the same leg. Right in the healing fracture. The pain was so strong that I
lost consciousness.
Woke up on the cloak, stretched between two branches. I was carried to the camp of the
attackers.
Count
Wilhelm. And who were these saviors? Warriors George
Dolgorukiy?
Knight
Mathias. Not exactly, your Excellency. Served Dolgoruky berladnika.
Bishop
Tybalt. Who are they, my son?
Knight
Mathias. Many in
Commander
Henry. Something like a brotherhood of assassins?
Knight
Mathias. Not so, my brother, my Lord. Have berladnika, as far as I know, no
school secret murders, it's just the soldiers-mercenaries.
Count
Wilhelm. Berlad. I've heard the name. It somewhere in
Knight
Mathias. This is not true, your Excellency. This city
is located between
Commander
Henry. Free city?
Knight
Mathias. You could say that, but Berlad differs from our Northern free cities
of
Count
Wilhelm. It comes out and it's not exactly, and that is not entirely true. And
how is managed this strange city Berlad?
Knight
Mathias. Robber, elected ataman, your Excellency.
Commander
Henry. And groups of mercenaries being managed?
Knight
Mathias. Also the chieftains.
Count
Wilhelm. And these chieftains are elected, or all of them prescribed Burlada?
Knight
Mathias. Unfortunately, your Excellency, is I could
not figure out. I don't even understand exactly how to create these units do I
need in order for them to join, visit Berlage or to be hired anywhere. With me
because they are not very Frank: I was their a
stranger.
Commander
Henry. And what they told about themselves?
Knight
Mathias. What are Matvey Hanovice, German by origin,
by satsim George Dolgorukiy. Worked for the Duke in Zalesie, then
The
commander berladnika did not have any questions because similar stories
happened with many nobles Dolgoruky, for different reasons delayed in
Count
Wilhelm. And the leader was from Burlada?
Knight
Mathias. Imagine, your Excellency, the leader was a Russian Grand Prince Ivan
Rostislavich, a descendant of Rurik and Yaroslav the Wise, relative and
Izyaslav, and George.
Count Wilhelm.
And as a descendant of Rurik and Yaroslav got to vyatichsky forest?
Knight
Mathias. Then, already in
About a
year before as I came to
Then he and
his squad, retinue, was hired to serve the Grand Prince Vsevolod The Prince, after his death, to his brother Svyatoslav, and
then to Smolensk Prince Rostislav Mstislavich, brother of the great Prince
Izyaslav. And finally became to serve Dolgoruky. First, the team of John fought
against
By the way,
later occurred a curious story. When he died the
Prince of Galich, Vladimir, John reiterated of law to reign in
Commander
Henry. But if this John fought at Beloozero, he could hear his father osmanica
the Petryliv and devastated the town where is the rules? You didn't ask Prince berladnika about it?
Knight
Mathias. No, my brother, my Lord, I do even in a head has not come. I doubt if
Prince John could hear around Beloozero a lot of small pagan settlement, and
the area is so vast that there probably could easily accommodate the whole of
Bavaria, and then with Austria.
Count
Wilhelm. What a huge country this
Bishop
Tybalt. And how sad that did not manage to bring her to the
Holy true cross. How much time our brave Templar was at berladnika
instead of act?
Knight
Mathias. Your Eminence once again in vain oppresses the poor knight of the
Because I
was a burden for Bereznikov, they soon sent me to
In
Completely
recovered I only by the end of November. Dmitri told
me that Georgy after the defeat in the battle of Rute tried to resist at first,
in Pereyaslavl, and then Horodets ' Osters'ke, but everywhere was knocked out
and was forced to make peace with Izyaslav Mstislavich, leaving himself only
Zalesie and in the South – small town Kursk. Back in September in Suzdal,
Dolgoruky decided to build several temples, and he needed a lot of stone, so
that the money from
Feeling
quite recovered, I was going to go to
Commander
Henry. What is this white stone?
Knight
Mathias. My brother, my Lord, this is the the building stone, which I found
near
Bishop
Tybalt. And the Russians were able to establish themselves work the quarries?
Knight
Mathias. Could, your Eminence, Yes it is it was not very difficult. When I was
in the forty sixth year, has refused to become chief quarries and was going to
leave Vladimir to Pereyaslavl Izyaslav Mstislavich, the chief appointed the
Prince of Yan Sotsky lukić. Architect Savva Nazirovich asked me to tell
Yanyu, all I know about the extraction of stone, and I complied with his
request. Yes, and Savva had been in our Imperial quarries and saw how to
produce building stone.
Yan is not
very happy when she saw me, apparently afraid that I may take his place. But I
immediately said him that food in
Bishop
Tybalt. I've never seen how stone, and it would be interesting to listen to.
Knight
Mathias.
Layers of
stone are horizontally, and underground development is almost complete seizure.
For support the ceiling is made of wood lining, but I told him to leave columns
of nevermannia stone: so it turns out much stronger.
Behind the wreckage white stone neatly laid here in a dungeon, leaving
narrow passages.
The height of the Stopes and passages depending on the thickness of the seam
ranges from two to four elbows (1,5–3 meters – approx.
transl.). Saws in
Starting to
work with monolithic wall, the miners first of all strikes the top of the wide
cavity depth approximately to the elbow (a little more than half – approx.
transl.) and such same width, in order to drive the crowbars and wedges. Punch
cavity rough stone just crumbled. Then, by setting the width of the future
units, punched vertically the entire height of the wall deep indent – more than
half the depth of the block. Since white stone is very viscous, not used rare
heavy blows into the monolith, and multiple and mild, mostly not chopping and
cutting, that is not at right angles to the plane. Then punch and the
horizontal indent, and it is already starting to break
the blocks.
Bishop
Tybalt. Indent – clear, as if they limit the size of the future block. A
cavity-why?
Knight
Mathias. Without this cavity impossible to break down the
first block: it is necessary to get close to its rear surface, and indent too
narrow. Generally speaking, the breaking away of the rear surface block
is the most complicated and time-consuming work. First to the surface of the
scrap do not pick, you have to hammer a wedge through this the cavity. It
becomes easier only when broken for several blocks vertically: space is formed,
into which you can shove crowbars.
Bishop
Tybalt. I, frankly, still little is understood.
Knight
Mathias. Quarrying to describe very difficult, there are many subtleties.
Count
Wilhelm. Doesn't matter now, we don't going to get a stone. And if suddenly
will meet, then call the special meeting, knight Mathias will tell us
everything in detail.
Bishop
Tybalt. Good joke, your Excellency. Imagine members of the high Council,
overgrown beards, dressed in peasant shirt, extracting stone in the darkness,
dampness and the cold, the uncertain light of the torches, or whatever the
quarry highlights.
Commander
Henry. Tough and heavy physical labor humbles the soul and strengthens the
body, and all of our orders brothers must pass an obedience
– producing stone, tilling fields, herding oxen, excreting skin, plotnica,
performing other peasant and handicraft work.
Bishop
Tybalt. Indeed, such work is pleasing Our Lord Jesus, before his Ministry
worked as a carpenter, as the righteous Joseph, the betrothed husband of the blessed virgin Mary. But still every needs
to do his own thing, and no wonder the Apostle Paul wrote in the Epistle to
Galatians: "but let Every man prove his own work, and then shall he have
rejoicing only in itself, and not in the other."
Count
Wilhelm. Dear members, we first distracted by quarries, then moved to theology,
and quite distanced from the theme of our meeting. Knight Mathias, we realized
that in
Knight
Mathias. He soon established a winter road, and I went to
Commander
Henry. And what was the mood of the Prince Dolgoruky after the expulsion from
Knight
Mathias. When I arrived in
Georgy,
leaving
Count
Wilhelm. Wait, do not understand. Why Russian the people in the fifty-second
year, feared the arrival of the Antichrist?
Knight
Mathias. Your
Bishop
Tybalt. In
Count
Wilhelm. Now I understand, thanks for explanation. We have 666 year too was
panic, just that, thank God, the distant past.
Bishop
Tybalt. The panic we had in the year 1000 after Christ, and in 1033 – the
Millennium of the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ, and many times, despite
the fact that the Savior told us not to try to calculate the time it The second
coming, and to watch constantly, because the genus of the wicked and adulterous
the unknown day and hour when shall appear the sign of the son of man in
heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will see Him coming on the clouds of
heaven with power and glory great.
Commander
Henry. Like in the book of revelation some calculations cited.
Bishop
Tybalt.
Count
William. But in revelation, remember, was the word that the Lord is coming
soon.
Bishop
Tybalt. What is "soon" the Lord, your Excellency?
Count
William. In theological issues here, you have no equal, your Eminence. But man
is weak, the temptation to define the time of judgment is great and I'm not
surprised that the Russians were so afraid of three sixes in 6660 year,
especially after years of the bloody civil war.
Knight
Mathias. According to the Byzantine chronology the new year
begins on the first day of September, at the end of the year 1151, when I
arrived in
Bishop
Tybalt. Rather than a detailed drawing is different from the layout? New layout, probably not for long.
Knight
Mathias. As far as I know, the layout gives only a General impression about the
future of the building, and then when it's approved by the Prince, required on
its basis to draw the building in detail, with accurate calculation sizes, and
sometimes even masonry porjadovki. When the drawing is approved, the architect
feels safer, as it is already responsible for it the execution and does not
depend on the possible whims and moods of the Prince. If the Prince suddenly want something significantly change, it must be prepared and
approved by the new detailed drawing.
Furthermore,
with such the drawing easier to work on the construction, as artisans can
immediately see that what they have to do and don't need to explain every
little detail and follow up their every move.
Bishop
Tybalt. Yes, I know about these drawings on them we build large churches, but
in Russia, probably could not do detailed drawings and after approval by the
Prince of the layout immediately, keeping only the common features and
proportions of the building. I think the layout could not to imagine and to
explain that the new temple will be similar to one already built. Or even ask
to take a word that the future of the building will be very beautiful.
Knight
Mathias. You are absolutely right, your Eminence, in
So Savva
preferred to build several, almost identical, but beautiful and reliable
temples than different but ugly and unreliable.
And I have
to say that temples of George Dolgorukiy was really beautiful and reliable
though small: their size in terms of, in my estimation, thirty to twenty cubits
(20 x15 meters – approx. transl.), that is much smaller and
Bishop
Tybalt. Weird. If the Prince spent so much effort to
find the white stone and the build of the same material as in our Empire, why
the churches did not look our way, and in Byzantine?
Knight
Mathias. It's a reasonable question, your Eminence, and of course, I asked him
to Savva Nazirovich. The architect replied that he I was glad to build such a
Basilica as in the
Bishop
Tybalt. Why easier?
Knight
Mathias. I too at first did not understand, so as are
just a bricklayer, not the architect. But Savva explained to me that as in our
Basilica, no heavy drums, the pillars of support only the arches which can be
made not only from stone but also from wood. It turns out that our Basilica you
can build almost any size, with any the number of pillars. In Byzantine
churches the pillars under the weight of the drums strive to separate the
sides, and this limits the size of the buildings. Is there still a lot of
subtleties that Sawa not even tried to explain to me, knowing that I
don'tunderstand. But overall, I think I caught the essence.
According
to Sava The nazirovich, he tried to explain it to
Count
Wilhelm. Did Dolgoruky could not affect your Bishop?
Bishop
Tybalt. After we have blessed Concordat of worms of the
earth, the rulers also not always able to influence on bishops.
Commander
Henry. For anyone blessed, and for who and is not very good, your Eminence.
Count
Wilhelm. Let's not dwell on such a long events in 1122 we were too young to
directly participate in them.
Knight
Mathias. I was a small child, your Excellency. In addition, the relationship
between Dolgoruky and Bishop Nestor, you can immediately understand, without
going into any theological subtleties and not referring to the decisions of the
concordat of
By the way, when George finishing in the fifty-fifth year the Grand Kyiv
throne, got rid of Clement immediately – in the fifty-sixth – staged
displacement of Nestor the new Metropolitan Constantine. Just sent from
the Byzantine Greek Constantine, naturally, without the insistence of the Grand
Prince would not have made such a hasty decision to depose the Bishop of
Rostov.
Count
Wilhelm. Relationship George and Nestor now everything is clear, but it is
unclear other: if Izyaslav put Clement to independence of the Kyivan
Metropolitanate of the
Knight
Mathias. I attribute this to the fact that Izyaslav and Clement, even if it
sought to gain its independence from the Church Constantinople, then in any
case was not going to go into our the Catholic faith.
Bishop
Tybalt. Maybe Bishop Nestor wanted to act against his Metropolitan by saying
that you mentioned commander Henry: to be more
Catholic than the Holy father?
Commander
Henry. Probably still easier. Nestor a protege of
Clement, ally Izyaslav, that the Bishop and let Dolgoruky everything that
Prince did.
Bishop
Tybalt. Yes, we can only guess, and divination displeasing to the Lord.
Count
Wilhelm. And how many churches began to build George?
Knight
Mathias. Five, your Excellency. Three in old towns –
Vladimir, Suzdal and Kideksha, and two in new laid – Pereslavl Zalessky and
Georgieva Opole.
Count
Wilhelm. Well, it's a little, we only
Knight
Mathias. But for
And, of
course, was still the two went to study in
Bishop
Tybalt. In our God-saved Empire the dependence on intoxicating beverages is
also, unfortunately, not uncommon.
Count
Wilhelm. And as
Knight
Mathias. Even in the autumn and winter fifty first, during preparation for
construction, he used the most experienced masters for training novice builders masonry walls and Teske white stone. A month later
the students under the supervision of coaches not only are well worked with
stone, but was taught by others: such a quick absorption helped carpentry
skills that the local people, as they say, in the blood. Thanks the same
carpentry skills any difficulties with the installation of formwork and
scaffolding for erection of arches arose. And for such a complex and demanding
partconstruction works like putting "sails" – curved transitions from
poles to drums and going to see Sam Savva.
Basic
training took place in
And later,
when in spring began the construction of temples, I
was one of four top aides Savva Nazirovich. A rich merchant Yakov Osipovich was
in charge of all deliveries materials, Sotsky Yang lukić had charge of the
quarries, a young nobleman Miroslav Chudinovich recruited builders, and I
checked as heads of construction sites do the work. I was a good reviewer,
because I was impossible bribe: I was sent to
Bishop
Tybalt. My son Matias, are you in fact were sent to
Commander
Henry. Suppose, your Excellency, the construction of
churches in the Catholic stone technique in itself brought Suzdal Holy true
Church.
Bishop
Tybalt. This, of course, well, nobody argues. But the temples would be built
without the knight Mathias, also from the construction white stone churches
before the adoption of the legate his Holiness the Pope is still very far.
Knight
Mathias. Your Eminence, I had first of all find Petrillo of Maravich and find
out refused the Prince George from her desire to accept the true Catholic faith
in the case voknyazheniya in Kiev. If with the mood and plans Dolgoruky
everything was still, I could would calmly return to
But, as I
said, the time of my arrival in Vladimir Peter wasn't there. Savva told me that
osmanic returned to Suzdal from the South of Russia, along with
At the same
time
Count
Wilhelm. So we finally came to the Bulgars. Knight Mathias, tell us what you
know about them.
Knight
Mathias. Don't understand, your Excellency, why are
you interested in these godless Mohammedans, but of course, I will obey. However,
I know about this country a bit, in
Commander
Henry. My brother Matthias, you're not better than me understand
that the underestimation and poor knowledge of the enemy is one of the greatest
errors.
Knight
Mathias. Have mercy, my brother, my master, what our opponent is
Count
Wilhelm. Not so simple, knight Mathias. So tell us
about
Knight
Mathias. I first heard about it back in Alamut, talking about her as the most
Northern country of the Mohammedan world. I at first did not understand what
was going on, knowing only
City in
Strong
government
And when
the winter fifty first to fifty – second years, the Bulgars came on their ships
on the Volga to the Yaroslavl, looted the area and besieged the city, in order
to discourage them does not even need the fighting: when they hear of the
approach of the squad George and Rostov militia, Bulgars boarded the ships and
left, taking with him booty and prisoners.
So their
attack was for Dolgoruky more than a mosquito bite. But for me it was strong
impact: as it turned out, among the prisoners were Petrila.
Commander
Henry. How Petrila, being in
Knight
Mathias. He then told me everything. Went in
Commander
Henry. Wounded?
Knight
Mathias. No, but in the unconscious condition. He was subdued with a blow of
the sword on the head flat.
Count
Wilhelm. And someone was with him who could to confirm his story?
Knight
Mathias. There were some satellites, and security was not alone riding such a
high-ranking Royal official. All was killed, only he survived due to the fact that were richly dressed, and the Bulgars hoped to get
him a large ransom.
However, I
was not trying to find confirmation of the story Petryliv: not on purpose, he
surrendered Mohammedans.
Count
Wilhelm. Who knows, who knows. And then he escaped
from captivity?
Knight
Mathias. No, your Excellency.
Bishop
Tybalt. Friendly? Do you mean that you met as friends?
Knight
Mathias. So, your Eminence. As friends and colleagues,
and more carnal relations was not involved.
Bishop
Tybalt. Why?
Knight
Mathias. Because he finally moved his wife from
Count
Wilhelm. Well, as they say, it everyday. And something important for your
mission he said?
Knight
Mathias. Your Excellency, it so happened unfortunate
that shortly before his return
So Petrila been able to clarify only in the beginning of the next, the
fifty-third year.
I had the entire fifty-second be ignorant and do have
Bishop
Tybalt. But the churches you built with though Savva?
Knight
Mathias. Yes, your Excellency, all five. Of course, these churches still have a
lot to cover the arches lead dome – gold-plated copper, to make copper or tiled
floors instead of the time wooden vygostky, to paint Church frescoes, to put
icons and Church utensils. But it is left for the next years, as, it seems,
And we with
Sawa Nazirovich built two fortresses in the new cities – Pereslavl Zalessky and
Georgieva Opole. Savva asked me to look out for their construction, since he is
everywhere no time, and I fully trusted. And I have to say that always
justified his confidence.
Bishop
Tybalt. Apart from the fact that few years you killed
Commander
Henry. Your Eminence, the irony here irrelevant,
because we, the Templars, does not get pleasure from killing those who love us
and trust us.
Knight
Mathias. One thing – the implementation of charitable missions in
Count
Wilhelm. Why Dolgoruky suddenly decided to move the capital from
Knight
Mathias. It is not known, your Excellency. Even Sawa
is not precisely known. And
Whatever it
was, George Dolgoruky decided to build a new capital and started on a desolate
plain near Kleschina lake (now
But when I
last time was in Pereslavl Zalessky in February of the fifty-third, inside the
longest, much more than a mile (about2500 meters – approx. transl.), shafts
stood only the white stone Church of the Transfiguration of our Lord Jesus
Christ, humble the Prince's wooden Palace, and very few scattered towers and
the huts. It seemed especially modest because the Church of the Transfiguration
is not in the middle of the city, and around the shaft: in the middle of the
Prince were going to build a great Cathedral, and the Church to leave as the
house.
By the way,
in other cities Dolgoruky is also built of white stone churches in their yards
or standing apart from cities like
Count
Wilhelm. Reasonable arrangement of the Prince's court.
You can swim and sail on the river, not driving through the city without
attracting attention and not disturbing the residents. In the case of the
uprising of the urban population or the capture of the city by the enemy the
Prince and his court can escape on the ship.
Bishop
Tybalt. And in the middle of other cities Prince also going
to build large churches?
Knight
Mathias. In Suzdal and Vladimir was already these temples from the time of
Monomakh, and in Kideksha and Georgieva – Yes, I was. In anyway, Savva
Nazirovich told me about it. From George Dolgorukiy had big
plans that went awry.
Bishop
Tybalt. People make plans, but the Lord decides true or not.
Count
Wilhelm. Importantly, the plans did not initially was unrealistic, and that the
Lord is unlikely to help. Knight Mathias, you, by the way, didn't tell us about
Suzdal, Kideksha and Georgiev. These cities deserve of our attention?
Knight
Mathias. No, your Excellency, nothing special. Ordinary Russian city. Suzdal is one of the largest and oldest
cities in
The ancient
fortress Suzdal, fortified by the length of a little less than a mile (about1.4
km – approx. transl.) takes a steep bend of the Kamenka river.
The shaft is quite small height – no more than three cubits (
Urban
development here much unattractive than all I've seen of Russian cities: the
Palace quite little huts too little, as people got used since ancient times to
live in is covered wooden roofs of the pits (pit-houses – approx. transl.), and
lives.
Kideksha is
near Suzdal, a couple of miles two or three (
Well,
Georgiev was laid simultaneously with the Pereyaslavl Zalessky. Trade routes away from him are, but is spread around corny
And the
Bishop
Tybalt. Indeed, Zalesskii city diversity does not differ. And when you went to
Knight
Mathias. In Pereslavl Zalessky, your Eminence. Yes, in
February I was still there, but headed South soon,
spring. Petrila Maravich I was told that soared in the bath with son George
Dolgorukiy, and learned from Andrew G. that his father time and again mentioned
about the convergence with the
Count
Wilhelm. Is it Petrila was so friendly with the eldest son of George?
Knight
Mathias. They're about the same age, Andrew over Peter the entire three or four
years. And most importantly – they are brothers-in-law.
Bishop
Tybalt. What is the in – laws?
Knight
Mathias. In
Bishop
Tybalt. But, in my opinion, even Byzantine the Church forbids to marry her
sister.
Count
Wilhelm. Apparently, knight Mathias has in mind what
the in-laws are called the husbands of two sisters.
Knight
Mathias. Quite true, your Excellency. Have executed
nobleman pile had two daughters, one of them is married
to Andrew, other Petrila. Therefore, the friendship of Andrew and Peter are
quite natural. Yes, and the osmanic Petrila Maravich by that time was already
so important to the Lord that Prince Georgy Vladimirovich not once feasted in
his house. So everything told Peter, I trusted, and I had to go to
The award
for white stone construction I were not such generous, as once detection
deposits of stone near
Commander
Henry. And Sawa how did you explain your departure?
Knight
Mathias. I told him that since temples almost over, and new construction not
yet in sight, I want to go to home
And I with
my ship joined a large caravan going to
In the
caravan I gave myself for the German merchant Mathias from Reisbach: this town
is in
So, Matias
from Misbaha, I arrived in
Count
Wilhelm. And like this time you changed your appearance, knight
Mathias? Izyaslav Mstislavich know you as a nobleman
Matthew Gansovich, without a beard, the Governor Shvarna – as volunteer Pron,
with a beard. And when you become a merchant with a beard made? Repainted?
Knight
Mathias. No, your Excellency, just trimmed your beard
neat, on-kupecheski, dressed as a foreign merchant, did the kind that speak
Russian poorly with a thick German accent. And settled in
Since I
gave myself a German Catholic, who is and really, enjoyed visit available in
the hem of the Catholic Church, and even confessed to there the Abbot Ferdinand
in some small sins, all German merchant. The Prelate
Ferdinand, by the way, also a Bavarian, of
So I
started the fifty-fourth year, was expected in Kiev Izyaslav mstislavovitch.
Count
Wilhelm. Where was Izyaslav?
Knight
Mathias. Punishing former allies Dolgoruky. First we
went to Novgorod Severskiy Svyatoslav Olgovich on, then to
Commander
Henry. And what were you doing in
Knight
Mathias. Traded fur goods the money purchased gold, allegedly intending to
carry it into the
Count
Wilhelm. And why gold?
Knight
Mathias. Because gold is really it was profitable to buy in
Bishop
Tybalt. I heard that the poor knights of Christ and of the
Commander
Henry. Absolutely, your Eminence. If you are going to
the
Bishop
Tybalt. Thank you, I'll know. But how tie it in with the expulsion of our Lord
Jesus Christ the merchants from the temple?
Commander
Henry. Caesar's to Caesar, God – gods. So says the bull of his Holiness the
Pope, who blesses the taking of our money for the benefit of the
Count
Wilhelm. Again, the theology! How can ask to do without him?
Knight
Mathias. Your Excellency, in
Count
Wilhelm. All the same hiding places, which is so interested in Bishop Tybalt?
Bishop
Tybalt. Well, your Excellency, you heard it was, why repeat the unfounded
allusions of commander Henry?
Count
Wilhelm. Now it's my turn to ask pardon, your
Eminence.
Bishop
Tybalt. You, your Excellency, it is too a great honor for me. Actually I was
not interested in hiding places, and actions knight of Mathias. Of course, not for accumulation of wealth, and Troubleshooting
Izyaslav Mstislavovitch.
Knight
Mathias. The ability to do this I have appeared only in the spring of
fifty-fourth, when
Commander
Henry. Izjaslav was a widower?
Knight
Mathias. Yes, my brother, my Lord.
Bishop
Tybalt. But not too late Grand Duke decided to remarry? He certainly was
already many years.
Knight
Mathias. By the standards of the battle-hardened, a strong
and prolific body of Russian princes – not too much, less than sixty. For
example, George in the same year 1154 was born the son of Vsevolod, in the
Christian the baptism of Dmitry, in whose honor the Prince called the founded
city Dmitrov, which I seem to have mentioned. And it was in that year Dolgoruky hardly not sixty, he, too, was in a second
marriage.
Count
Wilhelm. So befits brave warriors. I also entered into a second marriage about
the same age, and six months ago I the will of the Lord son was born.
Commander
Henry. I heartily congratulate you, your Excellency. As it is written in the
Scriptures, but will see he offspring blessed.
Bishop
Tybalt. Your Excellency, accept my congratulations, just the commander Henry
again incorrectly reported the words of Scripture. Have the prophet Isaiah
said, "He shall see life eternal".
Count
Wilhelm. In any case, thank you, dear the members of the Council. But I
digress. Knight Mathias, you were at the point heard about the upcoming wedding
of the Grand Duke.
Knight
Mathias. And I finally figured out how lime Izyaslav Mstislavovitch. Mercury.
Count
Wilhelm. Mercury? Remember, it's a special metal love
our alchemists, although not know that they are from him trying to do.
Knight
Mathias. I don't know how exactly use mercury the alchemists, but my mission
this metal possessed two most valuable properties: it is liquid, and a pair of
his poison.
Bishop
Tybalt. About how alchemists use mercury, I heard mercury is considered as one
of the original elements, and they are trying to use it for gold. It is unclear
however, how profitable it is, because mercury is much more
rare than gold, and so much more expensive. And it for something is used
by doctors, but the Lord me spared to experience it myself.
But I
didn't know that mercury liquid, and that it is able to evaporate. Is it the
metals?
Knight
Mathias. Therefore, mercury is special metal. She rolled into small balls, like
drops of water, only thick and heavy, silver in color.
Count
Wilhelm. But how were you able to get in
Knight
Mathias. This metal is not so rare, your Excellency. Extraction
of mercury is accompanied by the extraction of cinnabar, used to make all known
bright red paint.
Bishop
Tybalt. I remember something about mercury mining in
Knight
Mathias. Absolutely, your Eminence. Deposits
of mercury is in
Commander
Henry. It's all you in Alamut learned brother my
Mathias?
Knight
Mathias. Yes, my brother, my Lord. Assassins often used mercury for secret
murders. In our order of the brotherhood of
Commander
Henry. Now will train and we're brother Matthias, talk about this later.
Knight
Mathias. I hear and obey.
Count
Wilhelm. First let knight Mathias us all tell. So, if
mercury is mined so widely, it is possible to just buy on the marketplace?
Knight
Mathias. Exactly, your Excellency. Of course, not in
any bargaining, but on the large, which attracts merchants
from many countries. But
Merchants
at
Commander
Henry. And how exactly did you use mercury for eliminate Izyaslav? It had
something to do with his wedding?
Knight
Mathias. Yes, it is. Russian weddings, like our own, in addition to the
Christian wedding there many rituals and customs. Basically, these rites came
from pagan times. For example, the bride and groom must sit at the wedding
table along with married men and married women, but not allowed to touch the
food and drink. In sign of prohibition of the bowl placed in front of them is
empty, the spoon tie a red ribbon, bowls for drinks turned upside down. And the reason is that the bride and the bride is not
entitled to take part in a common meal with married relatives,as
to the wedding night can not be considered married, in spite of the fact that
already married. And many other prohibitions in the same
spirit.
It was important
for me where the Grand Duke and Duchess will conduct the first wedding night. In
Bishop
Tybalt. Do the first wedding night the Grand Duke took place in the barn or the
sheepfold?
Knight
Mathias. Of course not. For wedding Izyaslav
Mstyslavych built a special hut. It was built high marriage a bed of flour
sacks and sheaves laid on wooden flooring. Under the boardwalk put the poker,
logs, branches, or Rowan, or juniper. It all also connected with some ancient
superstitions, it is believed that the poker protects from the evil forces, ash
is still something useful, sacks of flour and bundles – something logs too.
Count
Wilhelm. Because among those present only I am not a monk, married and having
weddings of their sons and daughters, then I will explain that Rowan needs to
ward off evil spirits, sacks of flour and bundles symbolize wealth and
prosperity, and the more under the bed to put logs the more children born in a
marriage. In my native
Knight
Mathias. Thank you for the clarification, your Excellency. So I knew that the
first night the newlyweds built a new hut.
I tracked
what pub walks servant who washed the floors in the
I asked the
washer the sexes do not tell anyone, especially the guards Izyaslav
mstislavovitch, as they have their own protection from the secret forces, their
amulets, and they may not allow to put under the bed of the charm of the bride.
Then I met
this servant in the dead end of a narrow deserted streets, gave a Deposit and
the balls of mercury.
Commander
Henry. And is the servant of the nothing in the first place?
Knight
Mathias. Even if suspected, the they amount of money
was fairly solid, and most importantly – he was promised so much after running
an errand. Of course, I took the risk that he will break the protection the
Grand Duke, and I the transfer of the second part of the money grab, but this
risk was not very large: even if the members of the high Council never saw
mercury, then so sweeping the floor in the Palace – even more so. In addition,
heavy silver balls mercury looked very attractive.
So when this servant mopping the floor in the house for the newlyweds,
he scattered under the bed these balls.
Count
Wilhelm. But what was the point if it's a couch it was only on the wedding
night, and then Izyaslav with his wife still slept in the bedroom of the
Knight
Mathias. Your Excellency, the point of this was, to test this servant. At first
I gave him quite a bit of mercury, and then, when the wedding night has passed,
the hut was empty and the guards removed from it, I snuck in there and check. Mercury
under the bed lay: sweeping the floor the trick did.
Then when I
transfer the servant of the remainder of the money promised still the same, and
then the same again if he will do the same in the Grand bedroom. And gave much more mercury. He did everything right.
Commander
Henry. I hope when the last part of the money you killed him, so he suddenly
changed his mind and was not given?
Knight
Mathias. Of course, my brother, my Lord. At the
meeting in the same dead end deserted streets I stabbed him with a dagger, took
it the purse that everyone thought that it was an attack of robbers, and left. If
even his death was alerted of the masters
investigation, I still was sure inspect the cracks between the boards of the
floor under the marital bed of the Grand Duke they will not conceive.
By the fall
of fifty fourth year in
And
finally, the Grand Duke Izyaslav gave his soul to God. It is, if I am not
mistaken, on the thirteenth day of November. Said he lost his hair and teeth,
the body completely relaxed, and he's not could neither eat nor drink nor move,
and then not be able to breathe. It should be when mercury poisoning: no wonder
the assassins this technique is called "Premature old age".
Bishop
Tybalt. A truly scary story. And the
wife the Grand Duke?
Knight
Mathias. She survived her husband, as was much younger, and the female body in
General is less susceptible to poisons. But survived for a
while.
Bishop
Tybalt. Peace to the ashes of this unhappy woman.
Count
Wilhelm. And the ashes of the brave warrior Izyaslav also, of
course. But still remained alive second duumvir
– Vyacheslav Vladimirovich?
Knight
Mathias. Yes, your Excellency. He not only alive, but
also tried to create a new duumvirate with Rostislav Mstislavich, younger
brother Izyaslav. The end of the fifty-fourth year arrived in
It was
necessary to remove and Vyacheslav. I knew that without him against George not to stand neither tourists nor another contender for the
throne of
Bishop
Tybalt. My son Matias, please specify seniority for Prince the ladder, and then
I'm confused again. With Rostislav Mstislavich all clear, he was the nephew Dolgoruky, that is a generation younger. But Izyaslav
Davidovich was a cousin of Svyatoslav Olgovich, then, was on the same level
with him on the ladder. It turns out, and on one level, with Dolgoruky. And if
Svyatoslav, as you told us, not claimed to be the great reign, Izyaslav
Davidovich, it turns out, claimed?
Knight
Mathias. Absolutely, your Eminence claimed. But in
Commander
Henry. But George seems to be not loved
Knight
Mathias. The mood of
And in the
midst of winter, Christmas, Vyacheslav Vladimirovich has died. In the evening
feasted, went to bed and never woke up.
Bishop
Tybalt. And how did you kill him?
Commander
Henry. I felt your Eminence, that you did not read the
report of brother Mathias. Vyacheslav is dead himself.
Bishop
Tybalt. I have an abundance of murders already so wearied in the eyes that I
lost count.
Commander
Henry. Not Christian as it sounds, your Eminence. Every living soul is sacred.
Bishop
Tybalt. Well, now you want to be more Catholic than his Holiness the Pope.
Commander
Henry. Don't compare yourself with him Holiness, your Eminence.
Bishop
Tybalt. It's just a saying, commander, you yourself remembered.
Count
Wilhelm. A good saying, by the way. I have never had
to hear it, will have to remember. Knight Mathias, and
how much old was Prince Vyacheslav?
Knight
Mathias. More than seventy in any case it was time to move to a better place.
Bishop
Tybalt. It is not for us to decide who must go, and The Lord God.
Commander
Henry. So the Lord decided. Easy death all we would like this.
Count
Wilhelm. So be it. Knight Mathias, and that was in
Knight
Mathias. As I expected, the next princely strife, but much
smaller than those of Izyaslav Mstislavich with Georgy Vladimirovich. The
Grand Duke remained Rostislav Mstislavich, and the war with him immediately
began Izyaslav Davidovich.
I, like
most
Georgy
Vladimirovich was in a hurry. In January, fifty-fifth, he put him to reign in
In the
twentieth day of March, Palm Sunday, Dolgoruky solemnly entered
Bishop
Tybalt. Wait, wait, my son Matias! George settled in the same Palace, where
previously lived Izyaslav?
Knight
Mathias. Yes, your Eminence. Settled and lived until
he was built a new Palace.
Bishop
Tybalt. And Izyaslav Davidovich to him there lived? And
Rostislav Mstislavich?
Knight
Mathias. Yes, they are.
Bishop Tybalt.
So there in the bedroom was full mercury! Not poisoned princes?
Knight
Mathias. The fate of Izyaslav Davidovich and Rostislav mstislavovitch me, I confess, a little worried. But I think that if they
and we breathed the fumes of mercury a short time in
Dolgoruky,
of course, the case was different. I had immediately after his triumphant entry
to
I have no
doubt that Wisata heed my letter, when I a year and a half left from
Count
Wilhelm. Unfortunately, about Dolgoruky it is impossible to say. Tell me more,
knight Mathias. You stopped at that George solemnly entered
Knight
Mathias. Yes, your Excellency. Soon arrived and almost
all boyars Dolgoruky, including osmanic Petrila Maravich, and the architect
Savva Nazirovich.
A couple of
weeks and I merchant Mathias from Reisbach turned into a nobleman Matthew
Gansovich. Beard shaved, changed clothes, moved to hem in the city of
Savva, as
always when my return, was very pleased. I was again assigned a salary Sotsky,
and I continued the search for the stone near
In addition,
I helped Sawa in the construction of two large Grand-Ducal palaces of time: one
in the city of
Petrila
Maravich again became Kiev Omnicom, occupied a large mansion, mercilessly
kicked out someone from the boyars of the late Izyaslav mstislavovitch, then moved to
Count
Wilhelm. Knight Mathias, but it's from The petryliv you heard about the
conversation of Bishop Nifont and George that they will be allow the Rus to the
Holy true cross in the case voknyazheniya Dolgoruky in Kiev. And then you heard
that Andrew G. had allegedly led the same conversations with his father. And
what steps in this direction have taken Dolgoruky became Grand Prince?
Knight
Mathias. Unfortunately, the entire fifty-fifth year – no.
However, this year has been hectic, George went to the steppe nomads, then
suppressed the last napocensia his princes: in the Volyn region – sons of
Izyaslav Mstislavich, in
But at the
end of the year arrived, as they say in
Later, in
the early summer fifty-six, before me came the bad news: it turns out that a
year before that George sent to Byzantium Embassy for Metropolitan. That
Clement The smolyatich was deposed immediately after
voknyazheniya George I, of course I knew. But what Dolgoruky will not
re-convene a Church Council, not will insist on the election of Metropolitan
Niphon, or even any of the Russian bishops, and will return to the Russian
Church under the Byzantine rule, and I even imagine not until the Rus has not
arrived Metropolitan Constantine, put the Patriarch of Constantinople.
In fairness
I will say that, overall,
I figured
that either George was only half serious with Niphon and Andrew's readiness to
accept the true the Catholic faith, or have since changed your mind, or Petrila
something wrong.
Commander
Henry. Either this man do you deceived.
Knight
Mathias. I confess, my brother, my master, I was having such thoughts. But I
drove them away: deception on the part of the Petryliv would be for me too much
tragedy. Nor could I just suspect the deception of his close friend and
colleague was serious the evidence they have is still not there.
In any case
it was necessary to decide what to do next. And I came up with a plan: to push
Dolgoruky to the invitation of the architect of the Holy Roman Empire, and this
architect has it would be easier to send to
Count
Wilhelm. This plan you have developed and carried out by themselves,
without the Petryliv?
Knight
Mathias. Yes. Didn't want to bother Peter Maravich from
public Affairs.
Count
Wilhelm. Therefore, this plan and managed to at least partially.
Knight
Mathias. I don't quite understand your Excellency.
Count
Wilhelm. Now you understand everything, knight
Mathias. Just tell us more about your plan as you have it performed.
Knight
Mathias. My amulet was still a lot of poison: I almost never used, only
Vsevolod II of
I played
concerned friend and never left his bed, hoping that George Dolgorukiy decide
to visit my sick architect. And happened: we met with the Grand Duke at the
bedside of the
Actually,
of course,
A few days
Savva gave his soul to God. After his funeral service at the Hagia Sophia I
managed to approach George and say that I have the opportunity to arrange an
invitation to
I told
Dolgoruky that I want to tell about something important, but before that, while
he was alive Savva Nazirovich, make this could not, as
it was inconvenient to the late architect. Allegedly, when we Savva was in
Savva is
supposedly kept in secret, because he feared that he was Imperial architect to
push it to shadow. And feared rightly, as the construction of
Empire is conducted in much higher level than in
(The
difference really large: the size of the Cathedral in
And I
assured the great Prince, what if the Empire will be sent to the Embassy with a
request to send architect, I'll be ready to go to
Bishop
Tybalt. And in fact, was a man at the Imperial court?
Knight
Mathias. Of course not, your Eminence. But I was sure
that the ambassadors of the Grand Duke would in any case received with honour,
and some the architect is found, as it could to help bring Russia to the Holy
true cross. Besides, I'm no risk: even if the ambassadors were not even
accepted at the court of his Majesty, she would go home, do not worry. In any
case, I would be grateful that I traveled to the
While
preparing Embassy, George, inspired by the idea of the invitation of the
Imperial architect, received the Metropolitan Constantine blessing decoration
temples same stone sculptures of people, animals and monsters, as in our
Empire.
Count
Wilhelm. And why in the decoration of churches with statues we needed some
special blessing of Metropolitan?
Knight
Mathias. Not sure, your Excellency, it has something to do with the Church
dogmas.
Count
Wilhelm. May be, his grace to us explain?
Bishop
Tybalt. The decoration of churches with statues, indeed, it is directly
concerned with Church dogma, and not even at the level of Apostolic
decrees, but at the level of the Second Holy commandment: "do Not create
unto thee any graven image..."
About
iconoclasm all present, probably heard.
Commander
Henry. Heard. If I'm not mistaken, it was that in
Bishop
Tybalt. It is indeed, commander. Seventh Ecumenical Council, convened in the
year
For our
Holy the Catholic Church such ornaments, indeed, are something yourself
granted, but the
Commander
Henry. I must say that we have many decent people are opposed to this jewelry. For
example, ten years ago I had the privilege of conversing on this subject with
the late Bernard of Clairvaux, God rest his soul with the Holy saints. This
great inspiration the Crusades and the establishment of our order believed that
the unimaginable stone freaks with multiple heads and tails distract the monks
from reading the The Scriptures, and was worried to explore the colourful world
of stone images for many brothers is more interesting than thinking about the
commandments of God.
Count
Wilhelm. But nevertheless, in
Knight
Mathias. Your Excellency, liked it and George
Dolgoruky. But in the fifty-second year, when they built Suzdal white stone
churches, the Byzantine Church has not yet allowed the Prince to decorate the
buildings statues: I have been told, what difficult was his relationship with
Rostov Bishop Nestor, not to mention the Metropolitan Clement Smolyatich. There
before weaning George from the Church barely it never came, what there the
statues.
Commander
Henry. I think receiving a blessing from Metropolitan Constantine on the
decoration of churches with statues can be considered a big success in bringing
Count
Wilhelm. Big is success or not will be seen time. Finish your story, knight Mathias, we need to go to summarizing the work of the
Council.
Knight
Mathias. At the end of the fifty-sixth year the Grand Embassy was sent to the
I said
goodbye to Petrilli and promised that will soon return to
To Regensburg Embassy have reached without adventures. On the way up the Danube a few days
we stayed in
The rest, I
think, the high Council knows. I brought the ambassadors in
(And talks
success: the Rus came the Imperial architect. Yuri
Dolgoruky he did not have time to build due to the death of Grand Prince, but
was adopted in Suzdal the earth Prince Andrei Yurievich. According to the
largest Russian historian of the XVIII century V. N. Tatishchev, the architect
erected the assumption Cathedral and Golden gate in
I told the
Russian the ambassadors that allegedly received the news of his father's
illness, and needs quickly to go to his native Passau and Russia will come to
you as only a father by the will of God will recover or not God forbid, will go
to the other world. Said goodbye to the ambassadors, then again met the knight
He and had fully explained to him the situation in
Count
Wilhelm. Well, I think it's time to tell the knight Mathias, why we were not
satisfied with written report and convened this high Council.
The fact
is, knight Mathias, we have a contact in
The letter
is written in Arabic, I language is not strong, so please read the commander Henry.
Because you, commander, well know Arabic?
Commander
Henry. Of course, your Excellency. For we, the knights
Templar, whose main activity is in
Bishop
Tybalt. I will ask the commander immediately to translate into Latin because in
the Arabic language I do not wise Lord, and our Secretary will be easier to
strike that from the record.
Commander
Henry. "Report of Khoja Abu-l-Sanidine Muhammad Ibn Tarkhan that Allah
made them in
What is in our the chronology? You need to calculate.
Knight
Mathias.
Commander
Henry. Yes, thank you, brother Matthias.
"In the name of Allah, the merciful, the compassionate. Pasha Abdullah al-Hakim Ibn Palamu,
the head of the brotherhood Hasanov in the great city of Bulgar, the pillar of
Islam, the infidels storm, invincible warrior", and so on. The usual colorful Mohammedan appeal. And
then more much in the same spirit.
Bishop
Tybalt. And humanity – those whom we called assassins?
Count
Wilhelm. So. Commander Henry, I I think that will be
enough to read what relates to the mission of the knight Mathias.
Commander
Henry. Yes, I'm looking for this place. Here it.
"Last
fall George Long hand suffered a defeat in the South of Russia and returned to
Zaleski the ground. Izyaslav, Mstislav, bin won, and even Mathias, the godless
knight of the prophet ISA and the
Bishop
Tybalt. Who convinced who we are?
Commander
Henry. Apparently, the Emir of Bulgar. With your
permission, read on.
"But I
hope Mathias and I don't regret not sending him to hell as soon as I saw his
scars and understand that it is the wicked spy-Templar, which we wanted for
murder our righteous brothers-Hasanov from Alamut, Yes they will attain their
deserved eternal bliss.
I am glad I
blagostanje by the will of Allah, managed to convince Matthias in need destroy
the great Prince Izyaslav to Mstislav Ibn. It wasn't easy. I I had to first
make a disgusting Mathias "Luring in your seductive," and then to
think that George Long hand and Novgorod Bishop Nifont allegedly move the Rus
from one false belief, Byzantine, to another, Latin. Templar is immediately
pricked up your fucking nose like a hound dog, smelling game. And after the "False Cobra roll", which I managed to
holdname Izyaslav, Mathias and fell to my feet like a ripe fruit.
This
Templar and sent it appears the Latins naive to think that it is to persuade or
force someone from the Russian Grand princes to accept their beliefs as the
whole of Russia from go to the Latin. They do not realize how deeply the
But
attempts to lead
The long
hand of course clever and cunning, he will try to equip
That's all
that for brother Matthias.
On the
assassin, we better call Petroleu because his real name too hard to say, asks
not to hurry with the ransom for his mock prisoner and to give it a rest until
at least the summer. Well, there's a lot of different things, and again the
abundance of praise the godless Mohammedan rulers.
Count
Wilhelm. As you know, knight Mathias, after receiving
this letter, it was impossible not to convene the Council and not to hear your
report.
Knight
Mathias. Damn it! I swear the womb Christ, this malevolent dog was just
pretending to is in the thrall of Bulgars, and in fact was just wasting time
with your damn hosts!
Bishop Tybalt.
I understand your feelings, son my Matias, but this is not a reason to swear.
Knight
Mathias. Guilty, your Eminence, accidentally broke. But
how could I be so wrong? Petrila wasn't even cropped...
Commander
Henry. Have you forgotten, brother Mathias, what in
the Koran nothing about circumcision does not say, for example, according to
the teachings of Imam Abu Hanifa, the Mohammedans circumcision is desirable but
not mandatory? Remember: when you he studied at the school of the assassins, were all circumcised?
Knight
Mathias. Not all...
Count
Wilhelm. Knight Mathias, there is another bad news. As we gathered our Council,
news came from knight Arnulf of Caesarea, who is now in
You need to
explain?
Knight
Mathias. No need, your Excellency. Please again send me to
Count
Wilhelm. It may no longer be alive. According to the report of the knight
Arnulf, after the death of Dolgoruky of Kiev rushed to Rob and kill Suzdaltsev.
The hated tax collectors in such cases die first.
Commander
Henry. It is doubtful that assassin could not escape from the crowds. And if
Petrila alive, it will be possible to get to work on The Holy Catholic Church
is not hypocritical enough to threaten him that otherwise we will show his
letter to any Russian Prince, and the assassin will be immediately executed.
Count
Wilhelm. Yes, commander, it's a good idea. (Could or not the Templars to
recruit Petrilo is unknown, but according to chronicle in 1174, one of the
organizers of the conspiracy that led to the death Prince Andrey Yuryevich
Bogolyubsky, was Peter, Kuchkov son – approx. transl.).
It is time
for us to complete meeting, and I ask the distinguished members of the Council
to Express opinions about how knight Mathias fulfilled
its mission.
Bishop
Tybalt. Well, your lordship, I favors.
Of course,
assumptions about treason of the knight of Mathias the Holy Catholic Church
cannot be considered confirmed, no treason here. There is a chain of serious
errors consisting primarily in the fact that Mathias went on about their sinful
instincts came into Sodom connection with the Bulgarian scout Petrilli, trust
him, stopped supporting Izyaslav mstislavovitch and sided George Dolgorukiy, to
protect which in the end could not.
The mission
has failed miserably, twelve years have been lost in vain, in bringing
Commander
Henry. In justification of brother Mathias ask
question to your Excellency. Izyaslav I of
Bishop Tybalt.
No.
Commander
Henry. So were not going. And George Dolgorukiy was still hope, and in the end
he Embassy of the Empire of the architect did send.
Of course,
Bulgarian assassins Petrila managed to fool brother Matthias, but this error is
forgivable for any Templar, as Peter, as we have seen, the enemy is very strong
and threat. He almost immediately knew who this Mathias, and not directly
opposed his mission, just gently and slyly pushed it in a certain direction. This
technique is called "Drop wears away the stone." Not remember, brother Mathias, as it is called assassins?
Knight
Mathias. Remember, my brother, my master, remember. "Quicksand".
Could I imagine that in the sand I plunge the man I thought was my friend...
Commander
Henry. Calm down, brother Mathias. Overall, I assume
you were driving the correct line, but met with insurmountable circumstances –
unfortunate and persistent failure of the Russian princes to take the true
Catholic faith.
Count
Wilhelm. I thank the Bishop of Tybalt and commander
Henry for consideration. To summarize.
Guilty
knight Matthias I not here, and the number of errors committed by them during
the twelve mission in
But anyway,
the results the mission is deplorable, and
On further
work in this country we will think at another time and in another place.
As for knight Mathias, the grounds for punishment, I do not see,
but also to reward him for that. One can say that the knight fought bravely,
but the battle was lost.
There are
objections from the members of the advice?
Commander
Henry. No, your Excellency.
Bishop
Tybalt. An evaluation of the knight Mathias – no. There
is a General claim on the activities of the order of the
Commander
Henry. Your Eminence, it is not only your right but a Christian duty to report
to his Holiness that consider it necessary. The order
of the poor knights of Christ and of the
But I think
his Holiness the Pope will be interested to know which house on the street the
Church was visited by nearly every evening, the Bishop Tybalt during your stay
in
Bishop
Tybalt. Whore, commander Henry, too need to preach
Christ. These are the lost sheep, the return of which is on the right path
especially glad for the good shepherd.
Commander
Henry. No doubt, your Eminence. But no doubt in the
fact that his Holiness the Pope will ask the good shepherd of the lost sheep
question of what funds were paid out to these lovely lambs award hearing the
preaching of Christ, and why the money that the pastor had to convey to the
rector of the Cathedral in Regensburg as a contribution of the Holy see when
the temple was transferred by nearly half.
Bishop
Tybalt. I have no complaints about the order Templar. I hope that the knights
Templar understands that all the money for repairs Regensburg Cathedral was
transferred in full, and that famous house on the street the Marienkirche never
visited a single Bishop.
Commander
Henry. Of course, your Eminence.
Count
Wilhelm. That's nice. Maybe ask Bishop Tybalt to read goodbye to something
befitting the occasion prayer? For example, "I'm not worthy"?
Bishop
Tybalt. Prayer of
Lord, you
know and I confess that I am not worthy that You loved
me, but truly You are worthy so I loved You. Although I am unworthy to serve You, but are You worthy to serve the creature Your. For this
grant me, o Lord, from Thy dignity, and I will be worthy from my unworthiness. Created
by Thy will that I have left sins and have served You
as it should. Make that when death came to me a dream with peace safety,
security, eternity.
All the participants of the meeting. Amen.
Count
William.Thank you you, your Eminence. The meeting closed,
the report of the knight Matthias accepted our Council's work is over.
The END
A list of
historical figures mentioned in the book
Aurelius Augustine of Hippo (354-430) Bishop, philosopher, preacher,
Christian theologian and politician.
Adrian IV (approx. 1115-1159) – Pope 1154-
Andrey (Yuryevich), nicknamed Bogolyubsky (C. 1111-1174), the son of
Yuri Dolgoruky. Prince of Vyshgorod (1149 and 1155), Prince of Dorogobuzh
(1150-1151), Prince of
Artaxerxes
I – Persian king, rules in 465-424 BC, but the Greeks called it Dolgoruky.
Bernard of
Clairvaux (1091-1153), Abbot of the Abbey of Clairvaux, mystical theologian
direction, spiritual writer, prominent public and religious figure.
Bertrand de
Plansfor (approx. 1109-1169) – Grand master of the Templar order in 1156-1169
Boleslav IV
the Curly (1120/21–1173) – representative of the Piast dynasty. The Prince of
Mazovia (with 1138), Krakow, Kujawy,
Boris,
baptized as Roman (approx. 986-1015) – Prince of Rostov (C. 1010-1015), the son
of the Kiev Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich.
Vladimir
Andreevich (?-1170) – Prince of
Vladimir (
Vladimir Vsevolodovich, surnamed Monomakh (1053-1125), in baptism
Basil, Grand Prince of
Vladimir
Davidovich (?-1151) – Prince of
Vladimir I
of
Vladimir
Sviatoslavich, also St. Vladimir, Vladimir the Great, Vladimir The Baptist and
Vladislav
II (approx. 1110-1174) – Duke of Bohemia from 1140 year, 1158-1172 years – king
Mstislavich Vsevolod (in baptism Gabriel) – Prince of Novgorod
(1117-1132, 1132-1136), Prince of Pskov (1137-1138). The Son Of
Mstislav Vladimirovich The Great.
Vsevolod II
of
Vsevolod
Yuryevich the Big Nest, the baptism of John (1154-1212) was the Grand Prince
Vladimir with 1176. The son of Yuri Dolgoruky, the younger
brother of Andrew Bogolyubsky.
Vsevolod, in baptism Andrew (1030-1093) – Grand Prince of
Vyacheslav Vladimirovich (approx. 1083-1154) – son of Vladimir Monomakh
the older brother of Yuri Dolgoruky. Rules in
Geza II
(1130-1162) – king of
George
(Iurii) Vladimirovich, nicknamed Dolgoruky (1090-e – 1157) – the sixth son of
Vladimir Monomakh. With 1113 years (according to another version, with 1096
year) until the end life rules Suzdal Principality. In
1149-1151 years and 1155 until the end life – the great Prince of Kiev.
Gleb Vladimirovich, in baptism David (approx. 987-1015) – Prince of
Murom (1013-1015 approx.). Son Kiev Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich.
Gleb Yurievich (?-1171) – Prince of Pereyaslav and
Davyd
Svyatoslavich (CA. 1050-1123) – Prince Pereyaslav (1073-1076),
Igor II of
Izyaslav Davidovich (?-1161) – Prince of
Izyaslav Mstislavich, in baptism Panteleimon (approx. 1097-1154) – the
eldest of the grandsons of Vladimir Monomakh, Grand Prince of
Izyaslav
Yaroslavich, in the baptism of John (1024-1078) – Prince of Turov (up to 1054),
Of Novgorod (1052-1054), Grand Prince of
John Rostislavich (?-1162) – Prince of Zvenigorod and Galich (1144), the
grandson of Volodar Rostislavich. Nicknamed Berladnika in the
Moldovan city of
Kliment
Smolyatich (?–after 1164) – Metropolitan of Kiev in 1147-1155 years, protege
Grand Prince Izyaslav mstislavovitch, after whose death has been displaced by
Yuri Dolgoruky.
Constantine IX Monomakh, according to another account, X or XI (C. 1000-1055)
– Byzantine Emperor (1042-1055). Gave his daughter or another
close relative to a Russian Prince Vsevolod Yaroslavich.
Pile (heap) Stepan – Suzdal boyar, in the first quarter of the XII
century who owned the area around
Louis VII, called the Young (1120-1180) – the French king
(1137-1180).
Michael II
– Metropolitan of Kiev and all
Mstislav
Vladimirovich (1076-1132), in baptism Theodore, later nicknamed Great. The son of Vladimir Monomakh, the
older brother of Yuri Dolgoruky, the father of Izyaslav Mstislavovitch. Grand
Prince of
Nestor– the Bishop of Rostov 1147 (according to another version, with
1149). Origin Greek. According to one version, a
protege of Clement Smolyatich. A displaced Metropolitan Constantine in
1156.
Nicholas of
Myra (CA. 270–about 345) was a Bishop of Myra, in Catholicism and Orthodoxy
revered as a Saint, a miracle worker.
Niphon (?-1156) – Bishop of
Oleg Sviatoslavich (Gorislavich), in baptism Michael (approx. 1053-1115)
– Prince Volyn (1073-1078), Tmutarakan (1083),
Petrila – osmanic (tax collector). According to the Russian Chronicles, osmanica
the Petryliv feasted Yuri Dolgoruky before death. Middle name
Maravich – the author's fiction.
Rostislav I of
Rostislav
Yurevich (?-1151) – Prince of
Rurik(?–approx.
879) – the founder of the princely dynasty of Rurik.
Svyatopolk Vladimirovich, the baptism of Peter (CA. 979-1019) – Prince
Turov (988) great Prince of Kiev (1015-1016, 1018-1019).
Svyatoslav (approx. 1123-1194) – Prince of
Svyatoslav
(942-972) – Prince of
Sviatoslav
II Of Kiev (?-1164) – Prince of Novgorod (1136-1138, 1139-1141, 1142-1144),
Kursk (1138-1139), and Starodub, Belgorod (1141-1146), Novgorod-Seversky
(1146-1157), Turov (1149-1151), Chernigov (1157-1164). The
son of Prince Oleg Svyatoslavich.
Svyatoslav
Yaroslavich, the baptism of Nicholas (1027-1076) – Grand Prince of
Thietmar of
Merseburg (975-1018) was a German chronicler.
Ulita
Kuchkova – the daughter of a nobleman pile, the wife of Andrei Bogolyubsky.
Frederick I
of Hohenstaufen, nicknamed Barbarossa (1122-1190) –
Emperor The Holy Roman Empire from 1155, the king of
Hassan Ibn
Sabbah (ser. 1050-x – 1124) was a prominent Ismaili leader (the Shiite branch
of Islam), a founder of the nizari, known as the
assassins.
Shvarna–
known for the Chronicles of the Governor of Izyaslav mstislavovitch. Patronymic, Letic – author fiction.
Yaropolk
Vladimirovich (1082-1139) – Prince of Pereyaslavl, great Prince of Kiev with
1132. Son Vladimir Monomakh.
Yaroslav,
called the Wise (C. 978-1054), in baptism George, – the great Prince of Kiev
(1016-1018, 1019-1054).
Yaroslav
Vladimirovich (Vladimirovich), nicknamed Osmomysl (approx. 1130-1187) – Prince
Halych (1153-1187). The Son Of Vladimir Volodarevich.
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