There is no such saying: “Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar.” What does the expression “scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar” mean? - So they have something to do with today’s Tatars

“Scratch a Frenchman, an Italian, and you will find a Jew.” Is there no such saying yet?

“Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar”...

And I started digging. I discovered a lot of interesting things. The quote is more than popular; as usual, everyone is named as the author famous personalities ranging from Homer to Panikovsky. But most often those who quote, without further ado, simply declare it a proverb. For example, Putin, almost our everything, put it this way: “We, you know, say: “If you rub every Russian properly, a Tatar will appear there.” In general, it seemed that there was no way to find the end - they blurted out the quote and used it. But there are no barriers to an inquisitive mind, especially if this mind does not want to shake a rattle in front of the heiresses, justifying itself by preparing for a radio appearance.

I’ll go straight to the main thing - I finally dug up the original source.

The great Russian writer N.S. It was not for nothing that Leskov said that if you scratch a Russian, you will find a Tatar.
http://www.musakov.ru/cgi-bin/ubb/ultim ... 2;t=000007

And when Dostoevsky wrote: “scratch any Russian and you will see a Tatar”
http://wct.by.ru/v7/index_r.htm

A.S. himself Pushkin said - Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar
http://forum.intrance.ru/index.php?s=a7 ... 10276&st=0

As Klyuchevsky used to say, scratch a Russian and you will see a Tatar
http://info.rambler.ru:8101/db/news/msg ... =260004288

Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar (as in Shestov).
http://www.medbrat.ru/cgi-bin/ikonboard ... postno=183

Ivan Bunin's remark - if you scratch any Russian, you will find a Tatar
http://www.kazpravda.kz/archive/07_08_2002/k.html

Scratch any Russian - you will scrape off a Tatar, Gogol said
http://press.try.md/print.php?iddb=Inter&id=37549

It’s, as Kuprin said, scratch any Russian, you’ll get a Tatar
http://www.azerros.ru/pnhtml/gazeta28/n28_1205.htm

paraphrasing the statement of V.V. Rozanov (“Scratch any Russian, and you will find a Tatar”),
http://www.postindustrial.net/content1/ ... sian&id=58

“Scratch any Russian, you will find a Tatar,” President Vladimir Putin said not so long ago.
http://www.materik.ru/print.php?section ... 047f3a6f6a

This is an arctic fox. Complete and comprehensive. Soon there will not be a single Russian classic who will not be credited with the authorship of this nasty and bad phrase. For - Hryun Morzhov himself, no bullshit!

Here is an enlightened European opinion about the Tatars:

“The Tatars surpass us not only in abstinence and prudence, but also in love for their neighbors. For among themselves they maintain friendly and good relations. The slaves they have only from foreign countries they treat fairly. And although they were either captured in battle or [acquired] for money, they are not kept [in captivity] for more than seven years. This is how it is ordained in the Holy Scriptures, Exodus 21. But we hold in eternal slavery not those obtained in battle or for money, not strangers, but of our kind and faith, orphans, the poor, married to slaves.

And we abuse our power over them, for we torture, maim, execute them without a legal trial, on any suspicion. On the contrary, among the Tatars and Muscovites, not a single official can execute a person, even if convicted of a crime, except for the capital’s judges; and then - in the capital. And in all our villages and cities, people are sentenced.

Until now, we take taxes for the protection of the state from only the poor townspeople and poorest farmers subject to us, bypassing the land owners, while they receive a lot from their latifundia, arable land, meadows, pastures, gardens, vegetable gardens, fruit plants, forests, groves, apiaries, fisheries, taverns, workshops, trades, customs, maritime taxes, piers, lakes, rivers, ponds, fisheries, mills, herds, labor of slaves. And it would be much better for military affairs to proceed and for us to collect the taxes we need, which would be collected from each person, if the begun measurement of all lands and arable land [belonging] to both the nobility and the common people came to an end. For the one who has more land would contribute more."

(c) enlightened European

The Koran begins with the words “There is no God.” "It would be a big mistake to think..." V.I. Lenin

Received mixed reactions from readers.

What upset me: some readers continued to actively oppose the facts and observations presented by Custine.

Although we were talking about Russia at the beginning of the nineteenth century. 19th century! 1839! This is the Russia in which the Decembrist uprising took place not so long ago.

I saw a country shackled by fear, and St. Petersburg practically living according to military regulations. Not canceled in Russia yet serfdom. And it’s not just him: in Russia at that time there was only one right - the right of the sovereign. It stood above the law. Above everything.

And this despite the fact that the result of the revolution in France was the establishment of democracy. No wonder that everything he sees seems to him wild barbarism.

So that you understand who he is, let me remind you of the saying “scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar,” which is attributed to him. And this, again, is significant, because, in reality, he did not say this phrase, but he said this:

“The morals of the people are the product of the interaction between laws and customs. They do not change with the wave of a magic wand, but extremely slowly and gradually. The morals of the Russians, despite all the claims of this semi-barbarian tribe, are still very cruel and will remain cruel for a long time. After all, a little more than a hundred years ago they were real Tatars. And under the external veneer of European elegance, most of these upstarts of civilization retained the bearskin - they just put it on with the fur inside. But just scratch them a little - and you will see how the wool comes out and bristles."

But this statement, taken out of context, sounds too harsh and biased. What served as food for such conclusions? Did they really appear out of nowhere? Not at all.

“I was walking along the embankment of a canal, cluttered, as usual, with barges with firewood. A quarrel suddenly began between the loaders unloading one of the barges, which soon turned into an open brawl. The instigator of the fight, feeling that his business was bad, sought salvation in flight and with With the dexterity of a squirrel, he climbs onto the high mast of the ship. Until this moment, the scene seemed quite funny to me. Having mounted the yard, the fugitive mocks his less agile opponents, who, seeing themselves fooled, forget that they are well-bred subjects of the Russian Tsar, and show their rage with wild screams. Attracted by the screams of the combatants, two policemen on duty come to the scene of military action and order the main culprit of the violation of public silence to come down from his perch. He refuses to obey; the policeman rushes onto the deck of the barge and repeats the order; the representative of the government himself climbs the mast and does it so successfully that he manages to grab the rebel’s leg. And what do you think he does? He pulls him down with all his might, not caring about the consequences. The unfortunate man, despairing of his fate and apparently deciding that he cannot escape retribution, surrenders to the will of fate. Unclenching his hands, he flies down like a stone, from a height of twice the height of a man, onto a stack of firewood, where he remains motionless.

You can imagine how hard the fall was. The unfortunate man's head hit the wood with all his might. I heard the sound of an impact, although I stopped about fifty steps from the scene. It seemed to me that the fallen man was killed on the spot; his whole face was covered in blood. However, he was only severely stunned, and, having come to his senses, he rose to his feet. As far as one can see under the streams of blood, his face is deathly pale.

The rebel is carried away, although he puts up desperate and rather prolonged resistance. A small boat with several police officers moored to the side of the barge. The prisoner is tied up, his arms are twisted behind his back and he is thrown nose down into the boat. This second fall, not much easier than the first, is accompanied by a hail of blows. But the torture doesn't end there either. The first policeman, the martial arts hero on the mast, jumps on the back of the defeated enemy and begins to trample him with his feet, like grapes in a wine press. The unheard-of execution first breaks out the inhuman screams and howls of the victim. When they began to gradually subside, I felt that my strength was leaving me, and I took flight. All the same, I couldn’t stop anything, but I saw too much.

This is what I witnessed in broad daylight on the streets of the capital.

What outrages me most is that in Russia the most refined grace coexists next to the most disgusting barbarity. If in life secular society there was less luxury and bliss, position common people would have inspired me less pity. The rich are not fellow citizens of the poor here. The facts told and everything that is hidden behind them and which one can only guess about would make me hate the most beautiful country globe. All the more do I despise this painted swamp, this plastered swamp. “What an exaggeration! - the Russians will exclaim, “what loud phrases for trifles.” I know that you call this nonsense and that’s what I reproach you for! Your habit of such horrors explains your indifference to them, but does not at all justify it. You pay no more attention to the ropes with which a person is tied before your eyes than to the collars of your dogs.

In broad daylight, in front of hundreds of passers-by, beating a person to death without trial or investigation - this seems to be in the order of things to the public and police investigators of St. Petersburg. Nobles and burghers, military and civilians, rich and poor, big and small, dandies and ragamuffins - all calmly look at the disgrace happening before their eyes, without thinking about the legality of such arbitrariness. I saw no expression of horror or reproach on any face, and among the spectators were people of all classes of society. In civilized countries, the citizen is protected from the arbitrariness of government agents by the entire community; here arbitrariness protects officials from just protests of the offended. Slaves do not protest at all.

Emperor Nicholas drew up a new code. If the facts I have told do not contradict the laws of this code, so much the worse for the legislator. If they are not legal, so much the worse for the ruler. In both cases, responsibility falls on the emperor. What a joy it is to be only human, taking on the responsibilities of the Lord God! Absolute power should be entrusted to the angels alone.

I vouch for the accuracy of the facts I conveyed - I did not add or subtract anything from them and wrote them down under a fresh impression, when all the smallest details had not yet been erased from my memory."

Well, what did it turn into? In the phrase “scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar.”

Praise

I promised that if readers want to continue, I will introduce them not only to Custine’s criticism, but also to what he liked when visiting Russia.

If in St. Petersburg Custine admits the futility of searching for a beautiful female face, then on the way to Moscow he finally finds one:

"Finally I saw some female faces perfect beauty. The color appears through their skin, which is distinguished by its transparency and extraordinary tenderness. Add to this the teeth of dazzling whiteness and - a great rarity - lovely, truly antique mouth lines. But the eyes, mostly blue, have a Mongolian cut and, as always with the Slavs, they look roguish and restless."

The word “antique” that flashed across here is interesting. What ancient, what Greek male profiles are he writing about back in St. Petersburg? If all Slavs are Tatars and barbarians?

What do you think of this strange line?

“Russians are apes in everything related to secular customs, but those of them who think (such, however, in contrast) turn into their own in an intimate conversation Greek ancestors endowed with hereditary subtlety and sharpness of mind."

This is what Custine writes about - the ancestors of the Russians are not Tatars, but Greeks! The ease with which he throws out this phrase in passing suggests that in the 19th century many knew something that today we can only guess about. What is this? Translator's mistake, did the marquis speak allegorically?

In contrast to the St. Petersburg society, Custine positively likes the Moscow society more. Apparently, the proximity of power and the status of the capital negatively affects the city’s residents.

"The society in Moscow is pleasant. The mixture of patriarchal traditions and modern European ease is, in any case, peculiar. The hospitable customs of ancient Asia and the graceful manners of civilized Europe made a date with each other here and made life is easy and pleasant. Moscow, lying on the border of two continents, is a stopover between London and Beijing. The spirit of imitation has not yet erased the last traces national characteristics. When the sample is far away, the copy appears to be the original."

The marquis does not have a bad opinion about the common people either.

"The Russian peasant knows no obstacles. Armed with an ax, he turns into a wizard and again finds cultural benefits for you in the desert and forest thicket. He will repair your carriage, he will replace the broken wheel with a cut tree, tied at one end to the axle of the cart, and with the other end dragging on the ground. If your cart completely refuses to serve, in the blink of an eye he will build you a new one from the fragments of the old one. If you want to spend the night in the middle of the forest, he will put together a hut in a few hours and, having made you as cozy and comfortable as possible, will wrap himself in his sheepskin coat and fall asleep. on the threshold of an impromptu overnight stay, guarding your sleep like a faithful sentinel, or he will sit down near a hut under a tree and, dreamily looking up, begin to entertain you with melancholy tunes, so in harmony with the best movements of your heart, for innate musicality is one of the gifts of this chosen race. But the thought will never occur to him that, in fairness, he could take a place next to you in the hut created by his hands."

"The sad tones of the Russian song amaze all foreigners. But it is not only sad - it is also melodic and complex to the highest degree. If in the mouth of an individual singer it sounds rather unpleasant, then in choral performance it acquires a sublime, almost religious character. The combination of individual parts of the composition, unexpected harmonies, a unique melodic pattern, the introduction of voices - all together makes a strong impression and is never stereotyped. I thought that Russian singing was borrowed by Moscow from Byzantium, but I was assured of its native origin. This explains the deep sadness of the tunes. those who pretend to be cheerful by their lively pace. Russians do not know how to rebel against oppression, but they know how to sigh and groan..."

And here, once again about beauty and an interesting turn about the Russian language:

The closer you get to Yaroslavl, the more beautiful the population becomes. I never tired of admiring the subtle and noble features of the peasants’ faces. If we ignore the widely represented Kalmyk race, distinguished by snub noses and prominent cheekbones, Russians, as I have repeatedly noted, are an extremely beautiful people. Their voice is also remarkably pleasant, low and soft, vibrating without effort. He makes euphonious a language that in the mouth of others would seem rude and hissing. This is the only European language that, in my opinion, is losing in the mouths of the educated classes. My ears prefer street Russian to its salon variety. On the street it is a natural, natural language; in living rooms, at court - it is a language that has recently come into use, imposed on the courtiers by the will of the monarch.

Yes, Pushkin introduced, so to speak, fashion for the Russian language in Russia. But even in Pushkin, Tatyana writes her famous letter in French because she does not dare to explain her thoughts in Russian. Who defeated whom in 1812?

An interesting note, by the way - Custine constantly mentions that business is being conducted in Russia in a strange way and even the customs officers translated his French into German and from German into Russian. That is, the service people only speak French, they don’t know the language, and they can’t even find a translator from French to Russian. At the same time, many people understand German.

Custine also tried to describe the mysterious Russian soul; I don't know how well he did it, but it seemed to be funny.

“When Russians want to be nice, they become charming. And you become a victim of their charms, against your will, despite all prejudices. At first you don’t notice how you fall into their network, and later you can’t and don’t want to get rid of them. Express In other words, what exactly their charm consists of is impossible. I can only say that this mysterious “something” is innate among the Slavs and that it is inherent to a high degree in the manners and conversation of truly cultured representatives of the Russian people."

But enough, I won’t lie, every positive opinion of Custine ends with the same bitter pill of harsh criticism, nullifying the approval or praise just expressed. I won’t once again anger the patriots, if you don’t see the shadows of the past in the images of the present, I won’t draw such parallels, but I’ll end with another quote from Custine:

“I have led you into a labyrinth of contradictions. This happens because I show you things as they appear to me at first and second glance, giving you the opportunity to reconcile my notes and draw your own conclusions. I am convinced that the path of your own contradictions is the path of knowledge truth."

Note that Custine criticizes the king, the government, the system, but not the people. He is infuriated by monkey attempts to imitate the West in everything but not Russian traditions. The common people, except for the smell of sauerkraut and onions, do not disgust Custine, on the contrary!

Some foreign authors of the 19th century saw Russians as barbarians, only slightly covered with a veneer of civilization:
— James Gallatin, Secretary to the US Envoy to France: “Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar”(1821)
— Publicist Jean Anselot: “Russians...: under the shiny shell of civilization that so prematurely covered them, it is not difficult to discover the Tatars” (1827)
— Louis-Antoine Caraccioli, French writer: “Scratch even the most educated Russian and you will see a bear’s skin under his skin.”(late 1820s)
— From the memoirs of Jeanne-Louise de Campan, published in 1824, “Napoleon said that if you scratch a Russian, you can see a barbarian”
— Astolphe de Custine: “Many of these upstarts of civilization (Russians) have retained a bearskin under their current elegance; as soon as you scratch them, the fur appears again and stands on end.”("Russia in 1839")

« It is difficult to explain these hostile feelings in Western peoples... Malevolence ... is obviously based on two reasons: on a deep awareness of the differences in all principles of the spiritual and social development of Russia and Western Europe and in involuntary annoyance at this independent force...

"(A.S. Khomyakov, article “Foreigners’ Opinion about Russia”, 1845).

Khomyakov was there, so it is difficult to expect an objective assessment of the situation from him. Perhaps the reasons for the West's more than cool attitude towards Russia are simpler. The weak do not like the strong. And Russia was a strong state, much more powerful, primarily militarily, than its neighbors in the West. So the West’s hostility towards Russia, apparently born in the first half of the 19th century, was the result of fear of its powerful army, the vastness of the territory, the large population, the political system - autocracy, cruelty towards its own people - serfdom, and towards others peoples - continuous wars in the Caucasus, in Central Asia, suppression of the Polish liberation movement, revolutionary uprisings in Hungary and Austria.

“Gendarme of Europe”, “prison of nations” - this is how Europeans saw Russia in the 19th century. This is how she remains in their understanding today.

it is believed that the founder of the noble family of the Karamzins was the baptized Tatar Karamirz

• Pushkin - from Ethiopians
• Lermontov - from the Celts
• Dostoevsky, Tsiolkovsky, A. Green - from the Poles
• A. Rubinstein, Pasternak, Brodsky - Jews
• Bellingshausen, Krusenstern, Litke - from the Baltic Germans
• Bering - Dane
• Balakirev, Rachmaninov, Scriabin, Taneyev, Bulgakov, Derzhavin, Karamzin, Turgenev, Chaadaev, Yazykov - from the Tatars

Regarding the scientific nature of the statement “scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar,” it is not confirmed by scientists. A study by the medical genetic center Genotek, which made an ethnic “portrait” of the average resident of Russia, showed that 89.5% of the genome of Russians was inherited from Europeans: 67.2% comes from the Central and Eastern Europe, 22.3% - in the West, Asia accounts for 9.7%.

However, I’m lying. Once during my vacation, I did move further than a hundred meters from home.

This is me to Agavr agavr went to Radio Culture to discuss Bushkov’s book “Genghis Khan. Unknown Asia". The book is complete, sorry, ge with a capital G, but that’s not what I’m talking about now.

The cover of this book by a famous whistleblower of historians is decorated with a quote:

“Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar. A. Pushkin».

I didn't like the signature right away. No, no doubt, after Lenin was abolished, all quotes are traditionally attributed to our everything, but I somehow doubted that Pushkin was engaged in Tatar research.

And I started digging. I discovered a lot of interesting things. The quote is more than popular; as usual, all famous personalities ranging from Homer to Panikovsky are named as authors. But most often those who quote, without further ado, simply declare it a proverb. For example, Putin, almost our everything, put it this way: “We, you know, say: “If you rub every Russian properly, a Tatar will appear there.”

An aside - I wonder if I’m the only one who thinks this saying evokes allusions to the fairy tale about Aladdin, where the role of the lamp is Russian, and the role of the genie is Tatar?

But I digress. In general, it seemed that there was no way to find the end - they blurted out the quote and used it. But there are no barriers to an inquisitive mind, especially if this mind does not want to shake a rattle in front of the heiresses, justifying itself by preparing for a radio appearance.

I won’t bore you with the history of my searches, I’ll go straight to the main thing - I finally dug up the original source. And as a result, he added to his collection of distorted quotes.

You know, I am becoming more and more convinced that there are practically no exact quotes left in popular use. At all. All catchphrases or shamelessly distorted, or cut off to the point of distorting the meaning, or originally had a completely different meaning.

“Russian with Tatar,” as it turned out, belong precisely to the third category. To make it clear what this category is, let me remind you of the famous: “Religion is the opium of the people.” Formally, the quotation from Marx is practically not distorted (he said “Religion is the opium of the people”), but de facto the meaning has been considerably changed. In the original, the bearded mind spoke not about the intoxicating, but about the analgesic properties of opium (Religion is the sigh of an oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world...), which, you see, considerably shifts the emphasis.

So, about the Tatars. As a result of the research, it turned out that Putin was wrong. This is not what we say at all.

The expression “Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar” came to us from French, and in the original it sounds like this: “Grattez le Russe, et vous verrez un Tartare.” This saying is also very popular there, so much so that the authorship has still not been accurately established. catchphrase this was attributed to various historical figures: Joseph de Maistre, Napoleon I, Prince de Ligne, etc.

But the meaning put into this saying by the French is very specific and completely different.

In fact, the phrase about the Russian and the Tatar is just a short version famous quote from the famous composition "La Russie en 1839". The same one that was given to the world by the famous marquis, freemason and pederast Astolphe de Custine. For those who haven’t read it, let me remind you that the book “Russia in 1839” still retains the title of “the bible of Russophobes.” Well, Custine speaks, naturally, about his own, about his obsession. This is how his thesis sounds in expanded form:

“After all, a little more than a hundred years ago they were real Tatars. And under the outer veneer of European elegance, most of these upstart civilizations retained the bearskin - they just put the fur on it inside. But just scratch them a little and you will see how the wool comes out and bristles.”

It is as a kind of quintessence, a kind of distillation of Russophobia, that our European educated classics loved to quote the phrase “Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar.” In particular, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky often sinned with this, exposing the machinations of evil Europeans - both in the “Diary of a Writer” and in “The Teenager”... It was from their writings that this aphorism went to the people.

Well, our people, as usual, have distorted everything. As a result, the dubious maxim “Under the thin shell of feigned culture, Russians still hide cannibalistic savages” turned into a peaceful and generally true thesis “A Russian and a Tatar are brothers forever.”

Sorry if I'm afraid

Before exposing this fake, which has settled in the fragile minds of Russians with the help of our tolerant “friends,” let’s see what ethnic Russian people really look like:

One of the most ancient and famous Russophobic myths, firmly entrenched in people’s consciousness. Most often, this myth is associated with the invasion of the “Tatar-Mongol yoke” and the mass rape of Russian women by the invaders. Supporters of this myth are silent about the fact that these women usually died from an overdose of iron in the body. Also, these arguments are more than refuted by geneticists, since Russians have Asian genes at the level of European statistical error. So let's look at the possible sources of this historiographical stamp on the Russian people.

Genetics. Homogeneity of European ethnolinguistic communities (Germanic, Slavic, Celtic and Roman) according to mtDNA:

Analysis of mtDNA variability in Europe also made it possible to draw a number of conclusions about the formation of the gene pool European peoples: When analyzed using the multidimensional scaling method (Fig. 3A), four clusters clearly emerged. The first cluster included only the Sami, which is not surprising given their genetic diversity (Cavalli-Sforza et al., 1994; Tambets et al., 2004). The second cluster included those populations on the eastern borders of Europe in which the frequency of East Eurasian haplogroups was increased. The third cluster included populations of Western Asia and the Caucasus. All other populations from the main territory of Europe (from the Volga to the Iberian Peninsula) were included in the fourth “pan-European” cluster, the small size of which on the graph indicates low interpopulation variability. These results confirm the homogeneity of the gene pool of Europe (Simoni et al., 2000), but indicate the uniqueness of the gene pools of the Urals and Western Asia.

In addition, a conclusion was made about the comparative homogeneity of the gene pool of European ethnolinguistic communities (Germanic, Slavic, Celtic and Roman) according to mtDNA. The gene pool of the Turkic and Finno-Ugric peoples is characterized by the greatest heterogeneity: photo 2

Also, the research results do not confirm the assumptions about the presence of a Mongoloid component in Russian populations: Analysis of the interaction of Caucasian and Mongoloid populations in the vast zone of the steppe strip of Eurasia, carried out using cartographic analysis, revealed only a slight influence of the Central Asian gene pool, limited to the southeastern steppe regions of Europe. In Russian populations, a noticeable (above 1-2%) “Mongolian” component is not detected either on the Y chromosome or on mtDNA, and is a typical indicator for northern peoples Europe.

O.P. Balanovsky
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The famous saying “Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar”
This phrase itself is attributed to... really EVERYONE. And Pushkin, and Karamzin, and Turgenev, and further down the list.

We recently compiled a complete selection of this fake:

“Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar” (Karamzin)

“It was not for nothing that the great Russian writer N.S. Leskov said that if you scratch a Russian, you will find a Tatar.”

“And when Dostoevsky wrote: “Scratch any Russian and you will see a Tatar”

“A.S. Pushkin himself said: “Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar.”

“As Klyuchevsky used to say, scratch a Russian and you will see a Tatar.”

“Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar” (as in Shestov).

"Ivan Bunin's remark - if you scratch any Russian, you will find a Tatar"

“Scratch any Russian and you’ll scrape off a Tatar,” Gogol said.”

“It’s like Kuprin said: scratch any Russian and you’ll get a Tatar.”

"To paraphrase the statement of V.V. Rozanov, “Scratch any Russian, and you will find a Tatar,”..."

“Scratch any Russian, you will find a Tatar,” President Vladimir Putin said not so long ago.

“Everyone has probably thought about Derzhavin’s saying “Scratch any Russian and you will find a Tatar” at least once.”

This is an arctic fox. Complete and comprehensive. Soon there will not be a single Russian classic left who will not be credited with the authorship of this nasty and bad phrase)))

In fact, the phrase is French. Grattez le russe et vous verrez le tartare. She also has many fathers - she was attributed to Napoleon, and the Prince de Ligne, and the Marquis de Custine, and Joseph de Maistre. You can understand the French - they were hurt too badly. All that was left was to hiss through his teeth. And fill up the quotation books of Russo-haters with vileness.

Russians and Tatars.

By the way, the Kazakhs have a saying: “Scratch a Tatar, you will find a Russian.” And, oddly enough, unlike the craft “Scratch a Russian, you will find a Tatar,” it is consistent with reality, because The Y-chromosomal haplopool of the Tatars is very specific. It contains lines that are rare for the region, such as J-L283, Q-L245. In addition, lines such as R1a-Z93, N-P43 are common for Tatars. Where are all these lines for the Russians? They simply don't exist. Common to Russians and Tatars are the typical Slavic lines R1a-Z280, R1a-M458, I-M423. Their presence in the Tatar haplofund reflects the influence of the Slavs on the Tatars, but not vice versa. In other words, Russians and Tatars sit on the same Slavic substrate, which suggests that the Tatars were assimilated by the Russians, but the Russians were never assimilated by the Tatars.

The Tatars themselves have significant Balto-Slavic, Germanic, Finno-Ugric, East Asian, and Western Asian components. Genetically, it is a wild hodgepodge. Initially, their ancestors may have been a subject population of the Hunnic Empire, who later switched to the Turkic language.

The anthropological diversity of the Tatars is also very high. Here you have Northern Europeans - descendants of the Germans, Balts and Slavs, and Western Asians - immigrants from the Caucasus and Central Asia, and completely Mongoloid types (with the exception of the Volga-Kazan Tatars).

Russians and Germans.

Identification of mitoDNA in Russians, whether it is European or Asian.

Female haplogroups among Russians are also completely Slavic, as evidenced by their comparison with the same haplogroups among Poles. (See http://aquilaaquilonis.livejournal.com/18058.html)

A similar uniformity is demonstrated by a comparison of MitoDNA between the Russian and German peoples. Data taken from Europedia. Obviously, the genetics of German women are Slavic, which allows us to draw some conclusions...

Frequency of occurrence of haplogroup R1a (Aryan) in men of various nations, in descending order (according to one of the foreign studies):

Poles........50%

Russians.......50%

Slovaks......47%

Belarusians.....39%

Czechs........38%

Slovenians......37%

Latvians........41%

Lithuanians.....34%

Norwegians......31%

Ukrainians......30%

Mari............29%

Estonians......27%

Germans......23% Hitler is rolling over in his grave!!

Hungarians......22%

Lapps........21%

Icelanders......21%

Romanians......20%

Swedes........18%

Chuvash......18%

Yugoslavs......16%

Dutchmen........13%

Bulgarians......12%

Finns........10%

East Anglians....9%

Greeks........8%

Scots............7%

Danes............7%

Georgians.......6%

Armenians.......6%

Turks............5%

Frenchmen........5%

Belgians......4%

Ossetians......2%

Cypriots.........2%

Spaniards........2%

Italians......1%

Portuguese......1%

Irishmen......1%

Cornish.........0%

Basques........0%

Algerians......0%

North Africans...0%

The figures are given within a reasonable error of 5%

Our Svidomo “brothers” are actively spreading the myth of Finno-Ugric, Mongolian or Tatar admixture among Russians. But, according to famous saying, it is the thief himself who shouts “stop the thief” the loudest.

About the difference between Western Ukrainians and Eastern “Ukrainians” (Russian Little Russians)

Currently, anthropology, paleoanthropology, genetics (data on blood groups, classical markers, autosomal DNA, Y chromosome, mtDNA, etc.), as well as historical science and archeology, and other branches of science, have accumulated enough data to make a reasonable conclusion about that (Western) Ukrainians genetically belong to the circle of “Balkan” populations, and the ancestors of (Western) Ukrainians migrated to the territory of modern Ukraine, probably from the territory of modern Romania, and originally belonged to the Thracian (Geto-Dacian) ethno-linguistic group.

According to anthropology, Western Ukrainians belong to the Alpine race, dominant among the “Balkan” populations (South Slavs), and not to the Baltic and Nordic races, dominant among the Northern Slavs (Great Russians, Belarusians, Little Russians, Poles).

Ukrainians are part of the Dnieper-Carpathian group of populations. This also includes... Slovaks and partly Czechs, Serbs and Croats, southern, central and eastern Hungarians.
This is a rather tall, darkly pigmented, brachycephalic population characterized by a relatively broad face.

Still at the turn of the 19th - 20th centuries. a complex of signs, powerful people of the central Ukrainian anthropological region (middle and high age, brachycephaly, dark eyes and hair, a very straight nose shape, medium development of the third hairline, etc. in.) formerly described by the American anthropologist V. Replay under the name “Alpine race". Occupying an intermediate position between modern and modern Europeans, members of this complex are characterized by the presence of numerous varieties. So, V. Bunak, despite the power of the Alpine, having seen similarities with the Alpine and Carpathian races, signs of which, in his opinion, are more important among Ukrainians.
http://litopys.org.ua/segeda/se03.htm

“It is more anthropological for a Pole, a Belarusian or a Russian to stand even closer to one another;
The Ukrainian, in his turn, is already growing apart from all his neighbors and, from an anthropological point of view,
I see, it occupies a completely independent place” (in the ed. of Rudnitsky, art. 182).

“Ukrainians,” by far the most controversial, show
modern and hidden (after the blame of the Poles) words "yanami" (ed. F. Vovka, art.
31).
http://www.ukrcenter.com/%D0%9B%D1%96%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0 /%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80-%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2 /19903/%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%96%D1% 87%D0%BD%D1%96-%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%96-%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BE%D0% B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%96-%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0#text_top

Also see: Average Russian anthropological type in comparison with average Ukrainian: http://aquilaaquilonis.livejournal.com/18058.html

The presence of significant Turkic (Mongoloid) admixture in Ukrainians is an indisputable fact based on data from many branches of science (and anthropology, linguistics, genetics). Discussion:http://slavanthro.mybb3.ru/viewtopic.php?t=798

Svidomo often say that Muscovites are “descendants of Tatars, Udmurds, Ugrofins,” and they themselves are purebred Slavs. However, judge for yourself

Ukrainians: up to 20% Mongoloid admixture in mtDNA

There is no such nation as “Ukrainians” (just as there is no such nation as “Russians”). Alas, it didn’t work out. Nation building is a separate interesting topic, I will only say that Ukrainians had neither the time nor the opportunity due to the difference in mentality, history, culture, language, religion, etc. build a united nation even at the political level. Like other sectarians, Ukrainian Svidomites are divided into three categories:

1) Honest, but ignorant. These are the ones who are being deceived (ordinary people, mostly Westerners)
2) Knowledgeable, but dishonest; Their calling is to deceive the “younger brother.”
3) Knowledgeable and honest. These people are deceiving themselves.

By the way, how Svidomo rewrite history: can now be found in public library an essay by Kostomarov, in which the hand of an unknown Ukrainian forger made “corrections.” Tom wears number 31, 117/2:X.
On pages 292, 293 it is printed: “The Grand Duchy of Russia.” “Russian” is crossed out, “Ukrainian” is written on top.
Printed: "The Grand Duchy of Russia." “Russian” is crossed out, “Ukrainian” is written on top.
Printed: “with office work in Russian.” Crossed out “Russian”, handwritten “Ukrainian”.
In this form, the dissected history is presented to the common man in the street, who will never check the accuracy of other people’s works or history textbooks rewritten by Svidomites.