The names that the peoples of the North Caucasus bear are considered homogeneous. They are formed on the basis of the same principles for all mountain peoples and have much in common. At the same time, each Caucasian nation has its own naming traditions. In our article, we will consider what origin and meaning Ossetian names have: female and male. Here we will tell you which of them are the most popular and modern for boys and girls of Ossetia.
All the names of the Ossetian people can be divided into three large groups. Their formation was influenced by various factors, such as religion or capture by other peoples.
The first group includes primordial or national names associated with the heroes and characters of the Nart epic. In the tales of the adventures of the Narts, the heroes-bogatyrs possess unprecedented strength and courage. Famous Narts from the legends were called: Atsamaz, Soslan, Akhsar, Akhsartag, Warhag and others. Therefore, it is no coincidence that parents give their children just such Ossetian names: male or female.
The second group includes names, the appearance of which is associated with the development of Christianity. Moreover, during their formation, two forms were formed at once: Russian and Georgian. These are the names: Michal, Dimitar, Vano, Vaso, Ilia and others. Most of them remain popular today.
The third group includes names that were formed under the influence of the Muslim religion. Most of them were of Arabic origin (Murat, Alikhan, Amina, Muslim) and Turkic (Dengiz, Uzbek, Abai). Many Ossetian names came from the Iranian peoples, who are considered the ancestors of the Ossetians Roksolan, Roksolana, Sarmat).
Today, such Ossetian names for boys are popular:
The list contains exactly those names that, according to statistics, are most often called newborn children in Ossetia. But recently, parents began to pay attention to the original and national ones, which were worn by ancient sledges.
Many female names among the Ossetian peoples are associated with the names of precious stones or emphasize certain character traits of its owner.
Popular Ossetian names (female):
Beautiful names of the Ossetian people are called not only those children who were born on the territory of these republics. Throughout Russia, you can increasingly meet children whose names are Timur, Tamerlane, Rustam, Sati, Alana, Zarina, etc.
Ossetians are an Indo-European people in the Caucasus. In total, there are up to 700 thousand Ossetians in the world, of which in Russia (mainly in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania) - 528.5 thousand. Ossetians are also the main population of the independent, partially recognized state of South Ossetia.
Ossetians are direct descendants of the Alans - Sarmatian tribes who participated in the Great Migration of Peoples. At the beginning of the 5th century AD. The Alans, in alliance with the Vandals and the Suebi, invaded Spain, from where the Vandals and part of the Alans moved to North Africa, where they created their kingdom. Those Alans who did not take part in the Great Migration of Nations created the state of Alania in the foothills of the North Caucasus, which was destroyed by the Mongol-Tatars in the 13th century, and the Alans fled from the plains to the mountainous regions, where over the next centuries the Ossetian people were formed by mixing Alans with local hill tribes.
Originating from the language of the Alans and Scythians, the Ossetian language belongs to the Iranian languages, but it has very little in common with other modern Iranian languages.
The majority of Ossetians are Orthodox, while part of the Ossetian people professes Islam.
22nd place: Marina Bitarova- Ossetian model and aspiring singer. VKontakte page - https://vk.com/mvbitar
21st place: Alana Khubetsova- Ossetian model. Height 178 cm, figure parameters: chest 84 cm, waist 60 cm, hips 90 cm.
20th place: Zarina Kairova(born December 19, 1982, Beslan, North Ossetia) - an actress, whose most famous role is Karina in the Voronin series. "VKontakte page - https://vk.com/id50712105
19th place: Dina Bekoeva- soloist of the Moscow dance ensemble "Alania". Dina's VKontakte page - https://vk.com/id244615100
18th place: Bella Magkoeva(born January 20, 1991, Moscow), better known as Isabelle Magkoeva- in the past, a model (her model parameters are 81-59-86 with a height of 173 cm), and now an activist of the Russian Socialist Movement. She graduated from the Russian State University for the Humanities with a degree in Oriental Studies, a specialist in ancient Japanese literature, speaks Japanese and English. Instagram page - https://instagram.com/isabelmagkoeva/ Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/isabelle.magkoeva recently wrote: I pray to the Ossetian gods ".
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17th place: Diana Dzugutova- model from Moscow. Height - 176 cm, figure parameters 88-60-89.
16th place: Christina Tskhovrebova- Ossetian model. Filmed for the magazine "Wedding in Ossetia". Instagram - https://instagram.com/kristina__tshovrebova/
15th place: Elena Mrikaeva(born April 23, 1994) - model, finalist of the Miss Pantheon Finance 2014 contest. VK page - https://vk.com/sinorita_miss
14th place: Amina Gutsunaeva- Four-time world champion in aesthetic gymnastics. Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001474808554
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13th place: Zarema Abayeva- soloist of the Moscow dance ensemble "Alania", the wife of the Ossetian football player Alan Dzagoev, who plays for Moscow CSKA and the Russian team.
Zarema Abaeva and Alan Dzagoev:
12th place: Bella Morgoeva- photographer. VK page - https://vk.com/id1373965
11th place: Elana Alborova- singer. Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/elana.alborova
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10th place: - Ossetian TV presenter and model. VK page - https://vk.com/id18460674
9th place: Nonna Bazieva- soloist of the Moscow dance ensemble "Alania".
soloists of the dance ensemble "Alania": Nonna Bazieva (left) and Dina Bekoeva (right; see 13th place in the ranking):
8th place: Elizabeth Galueva- Ossetian model. VK page - https://vk.com/id201106436
7th place: Regina Abaeva- Ossetian model. VK page - https://vk.com/id9929150
6th place: (born October 12, 1992, Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia) - winner of the television humanitarian Olympiad for schoolchildren "Clever and clever" in 2009. Graduated from MGIMO. Fluent in the following languages: Russian, Ossetian, English, Greek (modern), Icelandic. VK page - https://vk.com/ursus_philosopher Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/agunda.bekoeva
5th place: Zarina Maliti(born September 4, 1984, Vladikavkaz) - opera singer (soprano). Works with the famous German band Gregorian under the stage name Eva Mali. In 2011, she was recognized as one of the most beautiful girls in Russia by the American magazine "Complex". Official website of the singer - http://www.evamali.com
Gregorian & Eva Mali - World Without End
4th place: Bella Totrova- model. She took part in the television project Dom-2, but stayed there for less than a day. VK page - https://vk.com/bella_totrova
3rd place: Alisa Gokoeva- photographer. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees in photography from Kingston University in London. Official site - http://www.alisagokoeva.com/ VK group - https://vk.com/alisa_gokoeva
2nd place: Zalina Badzieva- Ossetian model. Photo shoot for the magazine "Wedding in Ossetia" - http://svadba-osetia.ru/#/Portfolio/three
The most beautiful Ossetian is a model. Page on Instagram - http://instagram.com/aniaguri
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In December 2008, the North Ossetian information portal "15th REGION" summed up the results of the "Our Heritage" project, which aimed to identify the most famous Ossetian. The founder of Ossetian writing and writers Kosta Khetagurov won the largest number of votes, for whom 908 people voted. Maestro Valery Gergiev, chief conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre, scored 824 votes. In third place is the legendary intelligence officer, Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel-General Khadzhumar Mamsurov, who received 541 votes. The project "Our Heritage" was carried out by analogy with those that were carried out in many European countries, including Russia ("Name of Russia").
The life path of Kost (Konstantin) Levanovich Khetagurov - the founder of Ossetian literature and language, educator, poet, playwright, publicist, sculptor, artist, public figure - is difficult and tragic. His personal life consisted of hardships, hardships, constant moving. The restless poet was repeatedly expelled “into Russia” by the authorities. But the folk singer, as Costa liked to call himself, always considered a person to be a sacred being, and violence against a person is criminal and disgusting.
In Soviet times, Khetagurov was considered an atheist and almost a Bolshevik. In fact, Kosta was a true Christian, a deeply religious person, proud of the fact that his Ossetian people, even before the Baptism of Russia, set foot on the path of Orthodoxy. Costa painted pictures on religious themes, painted temples in the mountains of Ossetia.
... Kosta Khetagurov was born on October 15, 1859 in the family of an ensign of the Russian army Levan Elizbarovich Khetagurov in the very heart of Ossetia - the Nar basin, where Ossetians live on the break of the Caucasus Range, on its southern and northern slopes.
Costa's mother, Maria Gavrilovna Gubaeva, died shortly after his birth, entrusting his upbringing to a relative, Chendze Khetagurova (Plieva). Levan Khetagurov married a second time when Costa was about five years old. Costa later said of his stepmother that she “didn't love him. In early childhood, I ran away from her to various relatives.
Khetagurov studied at the Nar school, then, having moved to Vladikavkaz, at the gymnasium. In 1870, Levan Khetagurov, at the head of the landless Ossetians of the Nar Gorge, moved to the Kuban region. He founded the village of Georgievsko-Ossetian (now Kosta-Khetagurovo) there. Missing his father, Costa dropped out of school and fled to him from Vladikavkaz. His father hardly got him into the Kalanzhinsky primary village school.
From 1871 to 1881 Khetagurov studied at the Stavropol provincial gymnasium. From this time, only two of his poems in the Ossetian language (“Husband and Wife” and “New Year”) and the poem “Vera” in Russian have survived.
In August 1881, Khetagurov was admitted to the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, receiving one of two scholarships that were paid by the administration of the Kuban region. It was not possible to finish the Costa Academy: in January 1884, the scholarship was stopped. Costa attended classes at the academy as a volunteer for two more years, but in the summer of 1885 he was forced to return to his father's house without completing the full course of study.
Until 1891 he lived in Vladikavkaz, where a significant part of his poems were written in the Ossetian language. Since 1888 he has been publishing his poems in the Stavropol newspaper "Northern Caucasus".
In June 1891, for his freedom-loving poems, he was exiled outside of Ossetia. Two years later he moved to Stavropol. In 1895, a collection of works by Khetagurov written in Russian was published in the publication of the newspaper Severny Kavkaz.
Soon Costa becomes ill with tuberculosis and undergoes two surgeries.
By this time, Costa was already well known throughout the Caucasus. He dedicated one of his best poems to the great Russian poet Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov.
At the opening of the monument to M.Yu. Lermontov in Pyatigorsk in 1899, Kosta Khetagurov laid a wreath on the pedestal from the Caucasian youth.
Persecuted by the authorities, supervised Costa in 1898 came to Pyatigorsk after an operation to be treated with mud baths and stayed here for several months. He immediately joins the public life of the city. Actively cooperates with the local press. From here he sends articles to St. Petersburg. And, of course, the sociable and open-minded Costa immediately made numerous friends among the Pyatigorsk intelligentsia.
On May 29, 1899, the poet arrived at the place of his new exile in Kherson. In December 1899, Costa received a telegram announcing the exile, but was only able to leave in March 1900. He first settled in Pyatigorsk, then moved to Stavropol to resume work at the Severny Kavkaz newspaper.
In 1899, when Khetagurov was still in exile, a collection of his Ossetian poems, The Ossetian Lira, was published in Vladikavkaz. Many verses were changed by censorship, while some were not included in the book.
The poem "Mother of Orphans" from this collection, perhaps more expressively than all his works, shows the poverty and deprivation of the people. Costa describes one evening in the life of a mountain widow with many children from his native village of Nar. A woman kindles a fire, and around her are her five children, barefoot, hungry. The mother comforts them that the beans will be ready soon, and everyone will get plenty. Exhausted children fall asleep. Mother cries, knowing that they will all die. The end of the poem is shocking:
She said to the children:
"Here the beans boil!"
And she cooked
Stones for kids
In 1901, Khetagurov fell seriously ill again. Illness prevented him from completing the poems "Weeping Rock" and "Khetag". In the autumn of the same year, the poet moved to Vladikavkaz, where the disease finally bedridden him.
And again - Pyatigorsk, which the Ossetian poet loved especially passionately, dreamed of buying a modest house here. The last time Costa visited the city was July 3, 1903, shortly before his death. He, who was absolutely ill, was brought by his sister Olga to be shown to the professor of Kharkov University A.Ya. Anfimov. The doctor found the poet's condition hopeless.
In 1905, Kosta was transported by his sister Olga to the village of Georgievsko-Osetinskoye, where he died on April 1 (March 19), 1906. Later, the poet was reburied in North Ossetia-Alania. Now Kosta Khetagurov rests on the territory of the Ossetian Church in Vladikavkaz. The House-Museum of Kosta Khetagurov works here, in front of the building of the Ossetian Drama Theater there is a monument to the poet. The longest street in the city, Costa Avenue, is named after him.
The name of the poet is the largest higher education institution of RSO-A - North Ossetian State University named after K. L. Khetagurov (founded in 1920).
Kosta Khetagurov today is a symbol of the struggle of South Ossetia for freedom and independence, a symbol of the unity of the entire Ossetian people, divided by borders.
During the August war last year in South Ossetia, many of his fiery lines were on their lips:
I didn't know happiness
But I'm ready for freedom
I'm used to
How to cherish happiness /
Give one step
Which would the people /
I could ever
Pave to freedom.
“God's gift to the Ossetian people” called Kosta Khetagurov Chairman of the Union of Writers of South Ossetia Meliton Kaziev.
According to him, “Kosta raised the Ossetian language and literature to hitherto unattainable heights. The whole world knows the poetry of Costa, the work of Costa. After him, after it became clear that the Ossetian people are rich in talents, the extermination of the best sons of Ossetia began, and this continues to this day.”
The revival of the heroic Tskhinvali is just beginning. During the recent tour of the South Ossetian State Drama Theater named after Kosta Khetagurov to the Tambov region, the play "Julius Caesar" based on the tragedy of the same name by William Shakespeare in the Ossetian language was played by nine actors. Their speech was translated into Russian by the artistic director of the theater, the Minister of Culture of the independent state, Tamerlan Dzudtsov.
The minister said that the building of their theater had been destroyed by shells from Georgian tanks and thanked the Tambov builders who had built an entire street in Tskhinvali called Tambovskaya free of charge.
In the future, Ossetian artists intend to put on a performance about love based on the play by Kost Khetagurov "Fatima" in the educational theater of Tambov University,
The competition for the best design of the emblem of the Jubilee Year has recently ended.
The comprehensive plan of events for the celebration of the 150th anniversary of Kost Khetagurov includes holding philological, art history, ethnographic conferences, publishing the works of the poet himself, special photo albums, scientific, methodological and children's literature.
During the anniversary days exhibitions and special expositions will be organized in museums, libraries and schools. They will be attended by professional artists and pupils of children's art schools. In addition, concert programs, reader disputes, meetings of writers with schoolchildren and university students will be organized.
Theater groups will show performances based on plays by Kost Khetagurov. Numerous competitions, literary, musical and folklore festivals, demonstration of films based on the works of Costa will be held.
In September, the Art Museum named after M. Tuganov in Vladikavkaz - here the largest collection of paintings by the great Ossetian enlightener in the Russian Federation - will open an exhibition of artworks by Kost Khetagurov.
The museum has 18 of his paintings and graphic works. Among them is the genre art composition "At the school bench of life", as well as a gallery of portraits of contemporaries painted by him.
According to the director of the museum, Alla Dzhanaeva, the funds also contain icons painted by Kosta Khetagurov - “Grieving Angel”, the biblical story “Prayer for the Chalice”, another icon “The Savior Not Made by Hands”, which was previously stored in the museum in Tskhinvali, is today in the Local Lore Museum of Vladikavkaz.
Anniversary events will be held not only in North and South Ossetia, but also in Stavropol, Pyatigorsk, Karachay-Cherkessia, St. Petersburg ...
In October 2009, Days of Ossetia will be held in Moscow, timed to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the birth of Kosta Khetagurov. Within their framework, a gala concert “Together with Russia, united and strong” will take place.
“The anniversary of Kosta Khetagurov, whose name is known to all of Russia, is also of great patriotic significance,” stressed the head of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Taimuraz Mamsurov. - We need to breathe life into the current situation of routine and anxiety, do everything so that people have life optimism. The celebration of this important historical event should become such an incentive.”
... The poems and poems of Kosta Khetagurov, who liked to repeat "... I write what I can no longer restrain in my sick heart," have been translated into almost all languages of the former Soviet Union, into dozens of languages of the world. Many phrases from them have become winged.
So, far beyond the borders of the homeland of Kost Khetagurov, the following lines are known:
The whole world is my temple
Love is my sacred
Yet
Brave mountain leopard
Diverse Russia: notes about the Ossetian people
The natives of this land are known for their fearlessness, selflessness and nobility even in battle. It is no coincidence that in the coat of arms of North Ossetia-Alania, a golden leopard strides so proudly against the backdrop of silver mountains. More from
From the Scythians and Sarmatians, the Slavs inherited perhaps boundless spaces, and also, according to some sources, the Don Cossacks inhabiting these steppes. And Ossetians - Alans, as they now call themselves - took with them from the steppes to the mountains of the Caucasus and an unusual - more "Nordic", unlike other Caucasians - appearance, irrepressibility of temper and talent, a complex voiced language that gave names to many the rivers of Eastern and even Central Europe: the Don, the Danube, the Dnieper, the Dniester - in each of these names one can hear the ringing, fresh, beating word “don” in jets and drops - the ancient Scythian name for water.
Here are the Britaevs, two famous writers not only in North Ossetia, but throughout Russia - the playwright Elbazduko Tsopanovich and the storyteller Sozryko Auzbievich, were born at the end of the 19th century in the mountain village of Dallagkau on the banks of the Fiagdon River, which flows into the Ardon River - hear this again restless running of water: "don-don-don-don"?
I remember the name of the Ossetian writer and literary critic Sozryko Britaev from early childhood, when for my next birthday I was presented with his book Ossetian Tales.
I will not offend the tales of other peoples, all tales are good, and it is unlikely that you will find at least one stupid one, but these were not only colorful, detailed, informative (only the concept of “fyng”, a three-legged table, is new for the Russian reader - what is worth! ), but they also masterfully taught how to live.
In another tale, a boy-hero is born to a widower and his second wife, whom his parents call Tsard. The kid is growing by leaps and bounds and at the age of about the youngest kindergartner, but by the looks of it, he already mounts a horse as a warrior and sets off. “Whether he rode a lot, you never know, who knows. He sees - the tower shines with gold, and its top props up the sky. At the tower, the young man dismounted, unsaddled his horse, put the saddle under his head, covered himself with a cloak and fell asleep. In the morning he woke up and saw an old man looking at him from the tower.
Oh father, good morning! Tsar tells him.
Let your father rejoice at you! the old man answers.
Friendly exchange of greetings? Not only. In two phrases of the fairy tale, the word “father” sounds twice with respectful and approving intonation, and a simple but important thought penetrates into the mind of the child reading the fairy tale: “Father is the main thing in this life.”
In many languages, the concept of "native land" is expressed by the words "mother's land" or "father's", but for some reason not everyone hears the root "father" in the Russian word "Fatherland", just as not everyone understands that in the name Cinderella in Russian or Popelyushka in Bulgarian are "ash" and "ash". Ossetians listen attentively and hear everything: the father - the fatherland - the holy land, not to protect which is a mortal sin.
Here is what the historian and ethnographer Georgy Alexandrovich Kokiev, a scientist of tragic scientific and human fate, wrote about his people: “Ossetians showed a keen interest in everything related to the society of which he was a member. If anyone attacked a given society, all men capable of bearing arms considered it a sacred duty to act in defense of the interests of their society. Not a single adult man remained indifferent during a public alarm - "faedis". Each man, grabbing a weapon, galloped to Nykhas and, without dismounting from his horse, asked: “Cirdoma fades?” ("In which direction are the enemies?"). Having received an answer from the elder Nykhas, he rode against the enemy, who broke into the borders of this clan with villainous goals.
"Nykhas" in Ossetia was called a certain unofficial meeting of elders, "fathers", which played an important role in the life of society. As a rule, the old people sat for a long time somewhere in the center of the village, talked, thought, knew everything in the world ...
The Russian Empire considered it an honor when brave highlanders took part in the hostilities of His Majesty's troops.
An Ossetian considered himself offended when someone touched his headdress: “A hat, according to the concepts of a highlander, is a sacred and inviolable thing,” G.A. Kokiev explained. - Therefore, the highlanders did not care about any other item of their clothing as they did about their hat ... When they wanted to shame a man for cowardice, they told him that he was not worthy to wear a hat and let him change it to a scarf, and then there would be no complaints against him, presented in general to a man.
It smacks a little of male chauvinism, but these traditions are not invented today, in the age of feminism! After such instructions and prohibitions, could the Ossetian youth even think about slipping away from what he was entrusted with? Especially when it concerned the defense of the Fatherland?
At the end of July 1942, Adolf Hitler approved the plan for Operation Edelweiss. The name of this beautiful, delicate, fluffy (so as not to get burned by mountain ultraviolet!) flower, which the Swiss call, in a free translation, “white nobility”, was chosen for the grandiose throw of several German and one Romanian army through the Caucasus mountains and bypassing them with " noble" goal to seize the oil fields of Grozny and Baku, and ultimately link up on the border with 26 Turkish divisions, which were just waiting to enter the war against the USSR.
The self-confidence of the Third Reich was so great that before the operation "Edelweiss" some oil firms received an exclusive contract for a 99-year exploitation of the oil fields of the Caucasus.
On November 1, 1942, the Nazis entered Gizel, a suburban village of the capital of the North Ossetian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, the city of Ordzhonikidze, the former and present Vladikavkaz. The Germans were in it for ten days and managed to rejoice that the way to Ordzhonikidze, and therefore to the entire Caucasus and to the passages in Transcaucasia, was open. But it didn't work out. The local population, together with the Red Army, put up such resistance that this very place, the approach to Ordzhonikidze from the west, can be considered a turning point, in the literal sense of the word, in the battle for the Caucasus.
The whole of North Ossetia has risen. Fighter detachments and ten partisan detachments were created. The inhabitants of the republic dug anti-tank ditches. The defender of the Caucasus, a veteran of the 34th Infantry Brigade of the Marine Corps, an honorary citizen of the village of Mayramadag P.G. Donskoy told reporters: our defense. Thanks to the joint actions of our fighters and the local population, the German and Romanian units were stopped and defeated.
In the defense of the village of Mairamadag and the Suar Gorge, in addition to the Red Army, local residents took an active part: from centenarians to teenagers. The names of Khatsako Bigulov, Alikhan Bazrov, centenarian elder Tasoltan Bazrov are mentioned. 14-year-old teenager Vladimir Galabaev brought ammunition to the fighters, went on reconnaissance: he knew the area well. Each of them acted in battle in such a way that his father was proud of him, his elders were proud.
North and South Ossetia, belonging to different republics of the USSR, gave many Heroes of the Soviet Union. Ossetian Issa Pliev and Russian Ivan Fesin, who served in Ordzhonikidze before the war, became twice Heroes of the Soviet Union.
A very accurate image of the Caucasus region was given in the novel "Evening at Claire's" by a prominent writer of Russian abroad, Ossetian by nationality Gaito Gazdanov. The father of the hero spent a whole year sculpting a relief map of the Caucasus from plaster with the smallest geographical details. And the boy, her son, accidentally smashed it to smithereens. “My father came to the noise, looked at me reproachfully and said:
Kolya, never go into the office without my permission.”
The new relief map of the Caucasus was ready only by the end of the second year.
God forbid that this image never materialized.
“It was customary to judge the degree of upbringing of a person in Ossetian society primarily by his attitude towards elders and the ability to behave in society,” this is Kokiev again. - At the table, Ossetians occupied a place appropriate to their age and strictly observed table etiquette, consecrated for centuries. They sat for a long time, but ate little, because, according to the concepts of the Ossetians, it is a shame to eat a lot, and to show gluttony is a shame. As a result of the drunk Ossetians, however, were cheerful, but in view of the fact that they knew the measure, it was impossible to meet a single drunk. For a young man who drank excessively, even if he was from a good family, no one would marry his daughter. (It is no coincidence, apparently, in the famous and very tasty Ossetian pies, there are such thin shells of dough and a lot of filling - so as not to overeat with flour).
But the Ossetians also brought up their daughters with great severity: they taught their daughter order, respect for her husband, “trained” at the hearth where food was prepared, so that the guy considered it an honor to intermarry with her family, respecting itself as a family.
“I just want to say that life is fuller and more beautiful,
When we are able to pray and love…”
One of the most dangerous periods in the life of Mikhail Bulgakov fell on Vladikavkaz: he was abandoned by his “friends” from the White Army, where he served as a military doctor, suffered from relapsing fever, worked hard and chaotically, and finally fled to Moscow by a roundabout way. However, the residents of Vladikavkaz are still grateful to him for participating in the creation of the theater department of the art institute. Bulgakov wrote a letter to the local Narobraz: “I ask you to urgently deliver to us a list of Ossetians who want to study at the folk drama studio of performing arts. The studio will start functioning these days”, and then gave lectures to students. Not so long ago, the only monument in the Russian Federation to M.A. Bulgakov was opened in Vladikavkaz, and a memorial plaque was installed on the nondescript house where he and his wife lived.
Ossetians, as far as I know them from university and work, are distinguished by their straightforwardness and barely restrained irascibility. Suffice it to recall the sad story of Vitaly Kaloev, who lost his entire family in a plane crash over Lake Constance and did not forgive the air traffic controller responsible for this tragedy. From the Swiss prison, where Kaloev served only a quarter of the term assigned to him for the murder, he took out more than 15 kg of letters, and almost all of them were in support of his terrible decision to lynch law ... But after the hostage-taking in Beslan in 2004, there were no cases of revenge. Only violently expressed grief. Ossetia is so child-loving!..
Apparently, from here, from this fiery temperament of the Ossetians, their passionate attitude to art is born.
The nature of Ossetia is beautiful, although very dangerous. The mountains. Gorges. Glaciers… Back in the 19th century, the development of the Sadon deposits of polymetallic ores began. The first silver ingots were used to make church vessels for St. Isaac's Cathedral, which was under construction in St. Petersburg. In 1922, the largest in the USSR Sadonsky lead-zinc plant was built and successfully operated for decades, and with it the Electrozinc plant (Vladikavkaz). However, the deposits were depleted ...
But, as I.V. Doev, Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of North Ossetia-Alania under the President of the Russian Federation, told me, now Electrozinc OJSC has become part of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company and continues to work successfully. It receives from other places the so-called "tolling" raw materials, and the plant still produces lead and zinc ingots.
And now, - Irbek Vladimirovich emphasized, - fine technologies are developing in the republic. Joint Stock Company "Keton", which is almost a monopoly in Russia in this area, produces high-tech PET film. Its purpose is very different: from domestic use to electrical engineering. The Baspik Scientific and Technical Center on the basis of the North Caucasian Technological University produces microchannel plates that are used in the space industry, in the nuclear industry, in the defense complex, etc. There are only five or six enterprises in the world that produce such products. As for agriculture, the agro-firm "FAT" of the Ossetian group "Bavaria" is successfully developing here. She creates the North Caucasian regional center for the production of seed potatoes. Their greenhouse complex began to produce products. Bavaria itself produces award-winning beer, bread kvass and mineral water, such as the well-known Tbau in Russia. The Master-Prime-Beryozka holding, located on the lands of the Ardonsky district, is engaged in dairy and beef cattle breeding. In the republic and throughout Russia, the holding is known as the largest producer of dairy products: milk, sour cream, yogurt, cheese, melted butter, cottage cheese, etc. Now it has launched an agro-industrial tourism project.
I looked at the news feed. The latest news regarding North Ossetia came from Tehran. The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation S.K. Shoigu recently visited there.
The resumption of close Russian-Iranian cooperation will give impetus to the development of the economies of the countries of the Caucasus and Central Asia, in particular, the Russian republics of the North Caucasus.
The main thing is the agreement between the states.
For people to work, smile and be satisfied with politicians.
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Introduction
Who were the ancestors? Everything is mixed up...
Perhaps pharaohs and kings...
Or maybe you got the slave gene...
Now, go ahead, try it, figure it out...
I heard that some kings, princes and other famous people had Ossetian relatives. It became very interesting how and where the character of the Ossetians is found in the outstanding personalities of Russia. For example, such as Alexander Nevsky, Ivan Kalita, Dmitry Donskoy, Ivan the Terrible, Vasily Shuisky, Alexander Pushkin, Natalia Goncharova and many others.
The trace left by our direct ancestors, the Scythian-Sarmatian and Alanian tribes in world history is great.
It leads to the ancient civilizations of Egypt, India, China, the Urals, Galilee, Medieval Europe, and the Caucasus.
Many Ossetians are not even aware of their possible relationship with the geniuses of our country. As a result of my interest in this issue, I learned that the celebrities I have listed above are a link in one progenitor. This Maria Shvarnovna is the wife of Vsevolod the Big Nest, the daughter of the Alanian prince, governor Shvarn.
According to the surviving information, the Alanian nobility of that era was distinguished by a high level of education. So, David-Soslan knew Greek, Latin, Arabic, Tatar, Georgian languages, was the author of Georgian books.
The women of Alanya were also very well educated. For example, Borena (see Fig. 12), daughter of the Ossetian king Urdur (see Fig. 11), wife of Bagrat IV, queen of Georgia and sister of the Alanian king Durgullel the Great, whose portrait and poems are depicted on the wall of the Gelati Cathedral, was so educated that she knew well the Latin, Greek and Georgian languages, the history of these peoples. This smart woman was born and raised in Alanya, she received all her enlightenment and education in her homeland. The wife of the famous Alanian king Khudan, the grandfather of Queen Tamara, taught the Alans to read and write in Greek, Arabic and Georgian. Her daughter, Princess Burdukhan (see Fig. 14), according to the Georgian chronicle, “surpassed all women in her kindness, wisdom, intelligence, beauty ... Georgia had never seen a bride like her. From her only such a woman as Queen Tamara could be born. Burdukhan, spoke Greek, Latin, Arabic, Georgian. Free to read and write. Maria Alanskaya (Yassskaya) was also highly educated. All these historical figures were born and raised in Alanya, they received all their education and enlightenment in their homeland.
I would like to proudly emphasize that since ancient times, the Alans have been distinguished by good breeding, had a significant influence on their famous husbands, which takes place in the historical documents of the era.
They probably inherited it genetically from their Amazon ancestors.
As a result of my theoretical, bibliographic research, I learned about many other genetic connections between the heroes of the historical past, outstanding personalities of Russia, who are known to the whole world. It was important for me to find out what trace they left in Russian history.
Using archival materials, works of historians and scientists of the world, a lot of things in my research became a discovery for me.
I am proud of the Ossetian people who gave to mankind: the great ancient philosopher-Anacharsis, the leader of the people Sdalin, the Arctic pioneer Yuri Kuchiev, the invincible knight - the commander of the Middle Ages Tsarazon David-Soslan, the brilliant poet Kosta Khetagurov, the outstanding scientist of our time Vaso Abaev, the unsurpassed Balo Tkhapsaev, the first in the world, the female conductor Veronika Dudarova, the world star Valery Gergiev, Kazbek Gora Temyrbolat Dudarykoevich, the two-time Olympic champion Soslan Andiev, the family dynasty of wrestlers Dzgoevs Aslanbek and his son Taimuraz and many others, which I will quite possibly talk about in my next work.
I am very proud that I am Ossetian. I am very pleased that it is possible for a millionth part of the probability, somewhere I have a chance, to leave my mark in the history of our great country.
But, unfortunately, we do not know our history, the history of our ancestors, their merits. A deeper knowledge of this topic, for unknown reasons, was subject to restrictions in the Soviet historical school, for which Aryanism and the Indo-European roots of the Ossetians were an annoying topic, and which, despite the extensive material available, is currently not researched and forgotten. As a result of unreasonable restrictions, the history of a once multi-million people is easily subjected to ideological and scientific distortions, which allow us to attribute all sorts of labels to Ossetians, representing our ancestors as “savages”. Even the "Nard epic" was studied by scientists for a long time before it found its descendants - the Ossetians.
This is probably envy, the harmfulness of other peoples has led to such a situation. There was a time when the involvement of the Ossetians in the heritage of the Scythians was seriously disputed. Today, everything falls into place thanks to the indisputable facts that are systematized in the long-term works of V. Abaev, J. Dumezil, V. Miller and other scientists.
It remains for us to show curiosity and interest in our own history.
Chapter 1. Genetic connection of Ossetians with prominent historical figures of Russia.
Elena is the wife of Yaropolk.
In 1116, the squad of Yaropolk, the son of Grand Duke Vladimir Monomakh, was returning to Kyiv from a military campaign with a bride of extraordinary beauty, an Alanian princess, taken prisoner by the prince in a hot battle, during a battle with the valiant warriors of the Alanian state.
In marriage, she was named Elena, and later became the Grand Duchess of Kiev. She was beautiful, smart and yet had a noble character.
She captivated the minds and hearts of all who knew her. The rumor about her went everywhere, having no territorial boundaries. Her influence was so great that the elder nephew of Yaropolk from his brother Mstislav - Izyaslav, the grandson of Mstislav - Yaroslav, as well as the younger nephews of Yaropolk, the sons of his brother Yuri Dolgoruky, Andrei and Vsevolod, wished to further connect their fate with the female representatives of that nationality , which belonged to the Alanian princess.
Subsequently, Andrei Bogolyubsky married Alena Yasskaya, and Vsevolod married Maria, the daughter of the Alanian prince Shvarn. Prince Mstislav Vsevolodovich Chernigov connected his fate with Elena's cousin Maria.
1.2 Alena Yasskaya - wife of Andrei Bogolyubsky.
The court of the prince of North-Eastern Russia, Andrei Bogolyubsky (1157-1174), was firmly associated with the Alans-yases.
Even in his youth, he became famous for his military exploits in the south.
One of the close people, his fighting comrades-in-arms, was Yas, named Ambal, whose sister, Alena Yasskaya, later became his wife.
As we can see, representatives of noble Alanian families: Alena Yasskaya, Maria Yasskaya, close relatives of Queen Tamara through her mother Burdukhan, were Alanks by origin.
Bayare staged a conspiracy against Andrei Bogolyubsky and his Alanian wife.
Prince Andrei was killed, and his wife, Alena Yasskaya, and her brother, Yassa Ambala, were drowned in the lake, considering them to be the inspirers of many of his undertakings.
Prince Yuri Bogolyubsky, named George in Georgia, was the son and heir of Prince Andrei and Princess Alena.
The Russian chronicles left us information that he was forced, fleeing the persecution of the boyars, his enemies, who killed his parents by violent death, to flee to his mother's homeland, to the North Caucasus, to the Sunzha River and seek refuge there and salvation from his inevitable death.
Subsequently, by the will of fate, he met in these places with the eristavis of Georgia, and in 1185, he became the first husband of Queen Tamara, a half-Alanian by blood, the daughter of the Alanian Queen Burdukhan.
The marriage lasted only 2 years.
1.3. Maria Yasskaya - wife of Vsevolod the Big Nest.
“All those interested in Russian and Alanian history are well aware that Maria (see Fig. 4) was an Alanian princess, the daughter of a prince who owned the capital city and principality, the wife of the Grand Duke of Vladimir, the son of Yuri Dolgoruky, whose name is associated with the foundation of the Moscow principality and subsequent dynasty - she was the wife of Vsevolod III the Big Nest (1154-1212) (see Fig. 5). This couple is the ancestors of the dynasty of the Moscow Grand Dukes and Tsars. Alexander Nevsky (see Fig. 2) is their grandson, Ivan the Terrible, a distant descendant. Among the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Maria Yasynya are several dozen saints of the Russian church, not to mention herself. Among the descendants of this line of Rurikovich are a huge number of outstanding figures of Russian history and culture. Therefore, her image acquires colossal significance in the current conditions of the revival of Russian and Alanian cultural traditions and those ancient historical, natural ties that some time ago turned out to be not very relevant. In her image, for all of us, a genuine, real, with a deep meaning history is concentrated, which allows us to better understand and see what is happening today, as well as better predict the future,” emphasizes the scientist Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Director of the Institute of History and Archeology of the RNO -Alania Ruslan Bzarov.
Maria (1158 - 1209) married Vsevolod as a very young girl (the first, but not the last, mention of her in Russian chronicles dates back to 1176, when she was 18 years old).
She gave birth and raised 12 children, including eight sons, and raised them in the traditions of her homeland, Alania, where chivalry and brotherhood were valued above all else. And all this "Big Nest" was born, raised and raised by Maria Shvarnovna. Maria Alanskaya, Maria Yasynya, the daughter of an Ossetian prince, is not the only one, but probably the brightest of the Ossetians who married Russian princes.
All the sons of Mary were brave warriors, and her grandson Alexander Nevsky became a famous Russian commander. Wise and prudent was Maria Yasskaya (see Fig. 1). She will have many descendants - 115 absolutely Russian clans went from Vsevolod Yuryevich, nicknamed the Big Nest for having many children and an abundance of sons.
According to the historical and chronicle facts of Russian and Alanian history, we know that Maria was an Alanian princess, the daughter of a prince who owned the capital city and principality, the wife of the Grand Duke of Vladimir, the son of Yuri Dolgoruky, whose name is associated with the foundation of the Moscow principality and the subsequent dynasty. They are rightfully considered the ancestors of the dynasty of the Moscow Grand Dukes and Tsars.
Among the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Maria Yasynya are several dozen saints of the Russian church, not to mention herself. The descendants of the Rurik line include prominent figures in Russian history and culture. The image of the Great Mary Yasynya is becoming increasingly important in the current conditions of the revival of Russian and Alanian cultural traditions and those ancient historical ties between our peoples, which some time ago seemed not as relevant as they are today.
The reign of Vsevolod the Big Nest was the time of the highest prosperity of the Vladimir-Suzdal land.
Maria was involved in charity work. She generously gave gifts to the poor, sick, orphans, helped the needy, brought generous gifts to the church. She was a support, support and comfort for many. Maria tenderly took care of the widows from countless relatives, whom Vsevolod Yuryevich gave shelter.
Mary delved into the needs and concerns of the common people, built temples and monasteries, tirelessly doing good. Wise and prudent was the Alanian princess Maria Yasskaya. Considering all her merits, she was canonized among the first Russian saints.
Once again I dare to list their names that have gone down in world history: Alexander Nevsky, Ivan Kalita, Dmitry Donskoy (see Fig. 3), Alexander Pushkin, Natalya Goncharova, Ivan the Terrible. This list should also include another Russian tsar, no less famous in history, Vasily Shuisky, who ruled during the Great Troubles (1606 - 1610).
Clear in mind, noble in heart and steadfast in spirit, Maria Shvarnovna lived a righteous, but not too long life - about fifty to fifty-five years. From the last - the twelfth birth, she never recovered, and for the last seven years, she was seriously ill, which is why she decided to go to the monastery.
Her husband, children, monks from all monasteries and the whole city accompanied her to the monastery.
Everyone cried - they felt sorry for the infinitely kind Maria Shvarnovna.
Shortly after 18 days after being tonsured a nun, in 1205 she died. .
The chronicler Karamzin talks about Mary's teaching simply and majestically:
"... Preparing to die, she called her sons and conjured them to live in love, reminding them of wise words
Great Yaroslav, that civil strife destroys the Princes and the fatherland, glorified by the labors of their ancestors; advised children to be pious, sober, generally friendly, and especially to respect the elders, according to the saying of the Bible: wisdom in many times, knowledge in many lives.
Chapter 2. Historically significant personalities of the Ossetian people and their world fame.
2.1. Alanian ties with Georgia and Armenia.
Tzarazon David-Soslan.
David-Soslan, is an Ossetian prince, the son of Tzarazon, a direct descendant of the Ossetian ruler.
David, in the eyes of his contemporaries, was known as a talented commander, the king of Kartli, since 1189, the husband and co-ruler of Tamara. During the period of the highest prosperity of feudal Georgia, he served as commander-in-chief of the troops.
David-Soslan belonged to the Ossetian branch of the Bagrations.
He was brought up at the Georgian court by the childless "widow of the Prince of Ov", Tamara's aunt, Burdukhan-Rusudan's sister.
The first historian Tamar Kartlis Tskhovreba, the author of The History and Praise of the Crowned, in connection with the second marriage of the queen, says: “A knight from the sons of Ephraim, (that is, Ossetians), men powerful and strong in battles, came to the palace of Queen Rasudan. Since he was brought by Rusudan as a relative of her aunt, the daughter of David (King of Georgia in 1089-1125 David the Builder) married to Ossetia, Rusudan brought him to her own palace for education.
Those who came there and saw that this young man, by his father and mother of royal origin, was well-built, broad-shouldered, handsome in appearance, moderate in height.
Already from childhood, he was distinguished from his peers by his beauty, strength, intelligence, and heroic physique.
Subsequently, having matured, David-Soslan (see Fig. 6) became a brave warrior, a powerful knight, unparalleled as a shooter, enterprising.
He was a well-educated young man: he spoke Ossetian, Greek, Latin, Tatar, Georgian and other languages.
His education and enlightenment made him worthy of Queen Tamara, and they got married.
David-Soslan is a famous commander, an outstanding statesman of the Middle Ages in the Caucasus. His courage and military talent were not only recognized and highly appreciated by his contemporaries and descendants, but also reflected in poems, novels, songs, legends that have survived to this day ... In 1207, David Soslan died (according to some sources, he was killed) . In the same year, Queen Tamara placed her son George-Lasha on the throne as co-ruler.
The burial place of David - Soslan and Tamara (see Fig. 7) remained a secret. It was the dying request of the Georgian queen, the daughter of Khudan and Burdukhan.
Queen Tamara is the daughter of the Alanian princess Burdukhan.
In the middle of the 12th century, the king of Alanya Khuddan (see Fig. 13) married his daughter Burdukhan (see Fig. 14) to the Georgian king George III. In this way, he established a close relationship between Georgians and Ossetians. From this marriage, the great Queen of Georgia Tamara was born, whose husband and co-ruler in 1189 was the Ossetian prince David-Soslan (see Fig. 7).
Tamara, crowned during the life of her father, ascended the throne of the kings of Georgia in 1184.
It all started with the fact that the king of Georgia, George III, to whom God did not give male heirs, decided to transfer the throne to his eldest daughter, Tamar. Moreover, to do this while still alive, in order to stop the intrigues of ill-wishers. It is not known what Tsar George felt as a father when he doomed his young daughter to such a difficult fate, but as a ruler he turned out to be wise and far-sighted: after his death in 1184, a serious struggle unfolded around the throne. But through the efforts of Tamar's followers, and especially her paternal aunt Rusudan, the young queen took her place. She was not even twenty that day.
Tamara's grandmother was the wife of the famous Alanian king Khudan, the grandfather of Queen Tamara, who taught the Alans to read and write in Greek, Arabic and Georgian. Her daughter, Princess Burdukhan, according to the Georgian chronicle, “surpassed all women with her kindness, wisdom, intelligence, beauty ... Georgia had never seen a bride like her. From her only such a woman as Queen Tamara could be born.
The Supreme Council, convened to elect Tamara's husband, having gone through all the possible suitors (and there were a lot of them among the princes and princes, Byzantine, Asia Minor, Ovsetian and other states), settled on one, namely: the Russian prince Yuri - renamed in Georgia as George , the son of a strong prince, Sovereign Andrei and Princess Alena of Yass.
But Tamara's marriage did not last long, and after some time after this divorce, she married David-Soslan for love.
Some historians claim that Queen Tamara fell in love with him as a girl, but one thing is clear to us for sure - their marriage turned out to be extremely happy and harmonious. Since then, the name of Tamara has been closely associated with the name of David. Thanks to him, Tamara won all the loudest victories and fought brilliant battles. She herself did not participate in the battles, this is not a woman’s business, but the faithful Field Marshal Zachary and her beloved husband David led the troops, and Queen Tamara was the inspirer of victories. Such a tandem was invincible.
War trophies and a huge tribute from the occupied territories made Georgia the richest country in the medieval world, but the wise ruler turned the received treasures into new fortresses, monasteries, roads, bridges, ships, schools. Tamara understood that her subjects must be given a good education if she wants her undertakings to be continued by her descendants and for Georgia to reach a high world level. She made sure that the quality of education in Georgian schools was unusually high, and even in our time the volume of the school curriculum is amazing: theology, philosophy, history, Greek, Hebrew, the interpretation of poetic texts, the study of polite conversation, arithmetic, astrology, writing poetry .
Queen Satenik - the wife of the Armenian King Ardashes.
Satenik - is the heroine of the Ossetian Nart folklore epic (Satans - Shatans, Ossetian version), which in the 1st century AD arrived in Armenia from Alania, accompanied by the royal retinue, led by Barakad, to marry the king of Armenia Artashes.
From the Ossetian "Nart epic" it is known that Satan was the daughter of Uastirdzhi, born of the dead Dzerassa, who grew by leaps and bounds: in a month she grew like in a year, and in a year - like in three years.
Among the Nart girls, she had no equal in beauty (see Fig. 8). Her beauty was dazzling, from the light of her face the dark night turned into day, and her words were sharper than a sword.
Satan is the key figure of the epic, not a single important event can do without it. She is the protector of the interests and security of the Narts. Putting on men's armor, she fights like a real brave warrior. Nothing escapes her eyes and the celestial mirror, with the help of which she learns everything, sitting in a seven-tiered tower.
Questions whether Satan was a Satenic were addressed by V.I. Abaev, G. Kh Salakaya, J. Dumezil and other scientists. Armenian historian G.Kh. Sargsyan in the notes to the text "History of Armenia" Khorenatsi notes that "Satinik - in all likelihood, this is the name of Satan (or Shatana) of the heroine of the epics of the North Caucasian peoples." G. Salakaya draws attention to the history of this issue: “Some researchers consider it possible,” he writes, “to compare the name of the Nart heroine with the name of the Alanian princess Satanik, mentioned by the Armenian historian of the 5th century Moses Khorensky.”
In the Armenian epic tales of the times of the medieval Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi (5th century), there is a very common legend about Satenik - who is an Alanian princess, an Armenian queen, the wife of the King of Great Armenia Artashes I (III-II century BC).
“The legend of Artashes and Satenik tells that the Alans attacked Armenia. But King Artashes was able to repel the attack. During the battle, the Armenians managed to capture the Alanian prince.
The Alanian king had to ask for reconciliation in order to free his son from captivity. He sent envoys to Artashes, with promises to fulfill all his wishes, at the same time he proposes to conclude an oath alliance so that from now on the Alanian braves would not raid the lands of the Armenians.
But Artashes did not agree to reconciliation, and refused to return the young prince.
The only thing left for the king of the Alans was to prepare for the start of a new fierce battle.
In the camp of the Alans there was also an Alani princess - the beautiful Satenik. Upon learning that her brother was captured, she comes to the bank of the Kur and turns to Artashes, who is on the other side of the river, appealing to him for mercy to let her brother go.
Fascinated by the wise speech and beauty of the princess, Artashes falls in love with her and sends matchmakers to her father, but the king of the Alans harshly refused him.
Artashes kidnapped Satan. She unwittingly became his wife.
From the folk songs recorded by Movses Khorenatsi, excerpts about the luxurious wedding of Artashes and Satenik have also been preserved:
Rain of gold fell as Artashes got married. A rain of pearls fell as Satenik got married.
2.2. Alanian philosophers of antiquity.
Anacharsis
Anaharsis (about the 7th-6th centuries BC) is a distant ancestor of modern Ossetians.
By origin, he is a Scythian, the son of King Gnur and the brother of King Savlius and Kaduit.
He was in many countries, saw a lot, learned a lot, was in Athens, where he met with other noble Scythians of that time, including doctors, philosophers, sages ...
He is one of the seven wise men of the world. He is the author of many inventions and wise sayings. More than 50 wise sayings of Anacharsis (see Fig. 10) on various topics have gained fame all over the world.
Even in our time, the sayings of Anacharsis are a reference book and guide to the lives of many famous people. In them, the sage-philosopher reflects on the behavior of people; about relationships between people; about protecting one's own dignity; about envy; about the meaning of language; about navigation; about gymnastics; about politics and social structure; about guilt and the dangers of drunkenness, etc.
There is reason to believe that it is Anacharsis who is the inventor of the ship's sail, anchor, and improved potter's wheel.
The famous Scythian has seen many countries and in each of them, left a trail of great wise sayings. The Scythian sage and philosopher Anacharsis was one of the most brilliant and great people of his era, and Ossetians can proudly pronounce his name, knowing that he is a distant ancestor of the Ossetians, Alans and Sarmatians.
But, unfortunately, according to the writings of Herodotus, upon returning to his homeland, he was killed by his own brother for performing a foreign religious rite.
Anacharsis has seen many countries and has shown his great wisdom there. On the way back to the Scythian borders, he had to, sailing through the Hellespont, land on Cyzicus. The people of Kizikene were solemnly celebrating the feast of the Mother of the Gods at that time. Anacharsis made such a vow to the goddess: if he returns home healthy and unharmed, he will sacrifice to her according to the rite, which he saw among the Cyzicenians, and establish an all-night festival in her honor. Returning to Scythia, Anacharsis secretly went to the so-called Hylaia (this area lies near the Achilles' stadium and is all covered with a dense forest of various types of trees; the lower reaches of the Dnieper or Don). So, Anacharsis went there and performed the full rite of celebration, as he happened to see in Cyzicus. At the same time, Anacharsis hung small images of the goddess on himself and beat tympanums (copper plates). Some Scythian spied on the performance of these rites and reported to King Savliy. The king himself arrived at the place and, as soon as he saw that Anacharsis was celebrating this holiday, he killed him with an arrow from a bow. And to this day, the Scythians, when asked about Anacharsis, answer that they do not know him, and this is because he visited Hellas and adopted foreign customs.
Before his death, he said his famous words: “Thanks to my mind and knowledge, I returned whole from Greece, and thanks to envy, I perish, having returned to my fatherland.”
But the philosopher Anacharsis was the glory of his fatherland. It was not for nothing that Herodotus wrote: “We cannot indicate a single tribe from those living on this side of Pontus that would stand out for wisdom, and we do not know a single learned man, with the exception of the Scythian people and Anacharsis.”
Here are a few quotes and sayings Anacharsis:
The law is a web: small insects die in it, while large ones safely make their way. An evil person is like coal: if it does not burn, then it blackens you.
It is better to have one friend of great value than many of little value.
In order not to become a drunkard, it is enough to have before your eyes a drunkard in all his ugliness.
The market is a place specially appointed to deceive and rob one another.
Language is something that is both good and bad in a person.
2.3. Genetic connection of World political leaders with Ossetians.
Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich.
The real name of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, Dzhugashvili.
In history, his name is associated with Soviet state, political and military activities (see Fig. 9). The Soviet people for many years called him "the father and leader of the people", the Generalissimo of the Soviet Union (1945), and during the Great Patriotic War, he was usually referred to simply as "Comrade Stalin".
The original form of the surname Dzhugashvili is the Ossetian surname Dzugaev.
One of the conditions for baptism in Georgia was the change of fatimilia to the Georgian way, where the Georgian “shvili” was added to the last name at the end. According to this version, Stalin's ancestors are no exception.
The transformation of Ossetian surnames into Georgian surnames was facilitated by the voluntary desire of a certain part of the Ossetians who found themselves as a result of migration processes.
Translated from Georgian, "shvili" means son.
There is information that Stalin's father and other relatives called him Soso. It turns out that at birth he was given an Ossetian name, Soslan. But since his two older brothers died in infancy, on the advice of the elders, they decided to change the boy's name to Joseph.
According to reliable information, Stalin spoke the Ossetian language as his native language.
For example, in conversations with the Ossetian, General I. Pliev, he freely spoke with him in the Ossetian language.
Also, the Ossetian origin of Stalin in the book "The Leader's Granddaughter" is confirmed by Galina Dzhugashvili, his granddaughter.
The victory of our troops over fascist Germany is connected with the name of Stalin.
Under him, the first metro in the USSR was built. He was interested in everything in the country, including the construction of the Moscow State University named after Lomonosov, paying great attention to the development of Soviet science.
At present, there is no such Russian who would not know and have not heard about Stalin. Some houses keep his portraits. Participants of the Great Patriotic War proudly tell their grandchildren and great-grandchildren about it.
And we must not forget about our great Stalin. Be grateful to him for the victory! Because we are alive and free today! For the world that we are now obliged to preserve and protect!
I was given for safekeeping the medals and orders of my great-grandfather, participants in the Great Patriotic War, so that we would know and remember the exploits of our ancestors and never betray them.
Conclusion
He who does not know his history, Who forgets his glorious ancestors, It is difficult for him to live in the world, To create his own history. So we will never forget, About those glorious past years! And we will teach children How to love the Motherland.
As a result of my research, I realized that many people do not even have an idea about the genetic connection of Ossetians with outstanding personalities of the world. And in general, many do not even know who Maria Yasynya, Anacharsis, Satenik and many other prominent personalities of our world were.
On the advice of my supervisor, I conducted a survey of schoolchildren with her, in which I asked questions about famous people, how familiar they are to children of my age and even older. But, unfortunately, the result was very expected. Knowledge about historical events and heroes of past centuries, who made such an invaluable contribution to our development, did not even reach 1% (Appendix 1).
I was invited to the library at 283 Costa Ave., where I periodically turned to the local history department for literature, to read my report. My listeners were students of 6 classes of 36 schools, library staff and ordinary visitors who were interested in my topic (Appendix 2).
I was very worried about how they would meet me, whether they were interested in my topic at all, whether they would listen to me. An hour has passed unnoticed (Appendix 3). I was received very well. Listened to me with great curiosity! The library administration gave me a "Gratitude" for my interest in studying the history of the Ossetians. It was nice (Appendix 4).
After my report, girls from school 36 approached me and asked them to come to school for a history lesson. A woman who works as a history teacher at a private school came up and asked if I would mind being invited to her school. She was interested in my topic, its novelty and significance.
I will definitely continue to study my topic. My peers should know and be proud of their ancestors. Unfortunately, the questions I study about the genetic connection of Ossetians with outstanding personalities of the world are not studied and are not considered within the framework of the school curriculum.
Thanks to the class teacher, at the class hour I was able to tell my classmates about our noble ancestors. Everyone was very curious, interesting and informative. I think that they will tell about it at home, friends, relatives.
I'm sure my work didn't stop with research. The information I have passed on will go from mouth to mouth. Doubters will have a reason to expand their horizons on the Internet or the library. The main thing is that they started talking about it and thinking about it.
No wonder they say that even small stars shine. May the stars of all peoples shine brighter in the fraternal constellation of the Motherland!
Russian and Ossetian - in fact, brothers, the same blood flows in them. I would like the glory of the Ossetians to be known by the culture, history and great spirit of our ancestors.
In our difficult political time, the time of constant political provocations, it is important to know that you are part of your state. The part that stood at the origins of the state was its support, friend and brother.
As part of the Russian state, our republic is perhaps the smallest, both in terms of territory and in terms of the number of indigenous people, and all the more surprising is its significant role in the history of the country.
This explains why the Ossetian people in any war stood for Russia not for life, but for death. That is why there are more heroes of Russia in our small republic than in others.
How many interesting and exciting pages from the history and culture of the small but proud Ossetian people we have read, and how many have not yet been read!
Each people of our vast Motherland is worthy of respect.
But I am very proud that I am Ossetian. I am very pleased that it is possible, for a millionth part of probability, somewhere I have a chance, to leave my mark also in the history of our great country.
I would like the glory of the Ossetians to be known by the moral and aesthetic values, culture, history and the great spiritual heritage of our ancestors.
Our work will continue. As a result of my research work, I learned about many more interesting personalities of our planet who have a genetic connection with the Ossetian people. I will talk about them in my next works. I realized that this is important not only for me.
List of used literature.
Chelekhsati K.S. "Ossetia and Ossetians" Vladikavkaz, 1994;
Diogenes Laertes "On the life, teachings and sayings of famous philosophers" Moscow, 1986;
Kuznetsov V.A. "Journeys to Ancient Iriston". Moscow, 1974;
Kuznetsov V.A. "Essays on the History of the Alans". Ordzhonikidze, 1984;
"Ossetia in the world of sports" Vladikavkaz, 2002;
Movses Khorenatsi "History of Armenia" Yerevan, "Hayastan", 1990;
G.H. Sargsyan in the notes to the text "History of Armenia" by M. Khorenatsi;
Ruslan Bzarov, speech at the conference "Maria Yasynya";
Chichinadze Z. "History of Ossetians according to Georgian sources" Tskhinval, 1993.
Anacharsis. Electronic resource: http://www.omg-mozg.ru/avtory-anaharsis
Figure 2. Alexander Nevsky. Artist Yuri Pantyukhin.
The left part of the triptych "For the Russian Land!"
Figure 3. Dmitry Donskoy and Sergius of Radonezh.
Artist Yuri Pantyukhin.
Figure 4. Maria Yasynya.
Figure 5. Grand Duke Vsevolod the Big Nest.
Artist Elena Dovedova
Figure 6. Tzarazon David - Exiled
Figure 7. Tzarazon David-Soslan and Queen Tamara.
Wall paintings in the refectory of the Alan Epiphany Convent
Aslana Khetagurova and Zakhara Valieva, nominated for the K. Khetagurov Prize.
Figure 8. Statue of Shatana, Syria.
Figure 9. Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich.
Figure 10. Philosopher Anacharsis.
Figure 11. Ossetian king Urdur.
Lived in 980-1020.
He was a famous, wise and calm king.
He was a friend of Bagrat IV, later married his daughter Borena to him.
Figure 12. Borena, daughter of King Urdur, wife of Bagrat IV.
The Ossetian Bagratids are the descendants of her son Dmitry.
Figure 13. Ossetian king Khudan.
He was a close friend of Tsar Dmitry and his son George Kuratpalat.
George married the daughter of Khudan, Burdukhan.
Figure 14. Burdukhan.
Wife of Tsar George, daughter of the Ossetian king Khudan, mother of Queen Tamara.
A prominent woman in the life of Kartli.
Annex 1. Sample Questionnaire-survey of classmates.
Annex 2. Information stand for the report.
Annex 3. Report to the city
library for 9th grade students.
Appendix 4. Thanks for reading the report.
