Moscow. The city was created by the brave Slavic tribe of Wiatycz, who at the beginning of the 12th century chased the Finno-Ugric population out of this area. The excavations in the Kremlin confirmed that the oldest fortifications in this place were built by the Wiatycz family - and they are considered to be the founders of this city. Okay, but what do Poles have to do with all of this? Contrary to appearances, a lot!
What the books of Gallus Anonymus or the chronicles of Jan Długosz mean to Poles - the Nestor Chronicles are for the Russians ( A novel of bygone years , the so-called year descriptions). The chronicler, a monk of the Pechersk monastery (Lavra) in Kiev, published them in 1113 - describing the history of Ruthenia extensively. So he created them at about the same time when Moscow was founded.
He mentions, inter alia, the above-mentioned brave tribe of Wiatyczów. Let me quote a few fragments:" There were Radymicze and Wiatycze from the Lach family. (…) There were two Lach brothers:Radym and the other Wiatko. And when they came, they sat down:Radym on the Soża River, and from him they were called Radymicze, and Wiatko sat down with his family by the Oka river, and from him they were called Wiatycze. " (Wiatko is a Russified form of the Old Polish name Wiącek, sometimes taking the form of Więcek).
"The Tale of Bygone Years" in the Radziwiłł Chronicle
Some Russian historians try to downplay the above information, writing that Nestor understood the Slavs of Western Ruthenia under the word "Lachy" (Lechici). Meanwhile, Nestor himself in another fragment of his Chronicles defines exactly who the Lachs are:" Slavs (...) sat on the Vistula and called themselves Lachs , and those Lachs were called Polans, others Lachs - Lutyczami, others Mazovians, others Pomeranians ”.
(Lutycze - that is Lędzianie. Hence Ostrów Lednicki, Lednica ... Poland in Lithuanian is Lenkija, in Hungarian is Lengyelország, meaning Lendzierosag, or Lędzian country, and in Persian and Old Turkish it is Lachistan - the land of Lachs. Ruthenians also called us Lachs ... we all know the saying:"Fears of Lachy").
Gniezno in Moscow
The adjective from the word "Lach" is "lacki", hence, for example, the name of the village Kosów Lacki. Hence the name of our nation:Poles, or Po-Lachy. The name of the Podlasie region also does not mean that it lies "near the forest" - only that it is already "under the Lachy Mountains" - because Ruthenia had earlier influence in this region - hence so many churches here. And the Polish elite
with time came to be called sz-Lachta (because they came from the Lachas).
The original fortifications built by the Wiatycz family in the present-day Moscow Kremlin are analogous to those in Gniezno or Poznań (so-called hook structures), completely unknown in Russia. The first settlement was surrounded by an embankment with a moat, there were also a gate and a bridge - according to the Lachs / Lechites' custom.
The text is an excerpt from the book "How we built Russia" (author:Mariusz Świder, publishing house Fronda 2021). Buy now
The famous Polish anthropologist Jan Czekanowski also writes about the fact that Wiatycze comes from the areas of eastern Masovia and Podlasie. He compared the M458 cluster with the R1a1 haplogroup, which proves that the former Muscovites were related to the Mazovians.
Długosz also mentions it, locating the original seats of the Wiatycz family in Mazovia, and the Radymicz family on the San river. Their birthplace was Radymno near Przemyśl. So we founded Moscow ... and only Moscow?
Glade from the Dnieper
Four Russian editions have been published History of Russia From Rurik to Putin , written by the famous St. Petersburg professor Yevgeny Anisimov, author of several dozen history books, host of radio and television programs. And here I saw this well-known book in Poland ... in Polish ... published in 2017 by the publishing house "Inicjał" (translated by Andrzej and Halina Palaczowie). Let me quote two interesting excerpts from p. 10 of the Polish edition:
"The Slavic Polan tribe occupied the lands on the Dnieper in the 9th century. Their capital was the small city of Kyiv, whose name (…) comes from the name of the ruler (leader) of the local tribe, Kija. ”
And the second quote, a few lines further:"Apparently, the Polans living here were quite a weak tribe, a fragment of a once uniform great people who came here from the lands of present-day Poland, known from Byzantine sources as" Lędzianie ", or" Lachy ".
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The text is an excerpt from the book "How we built Russia" (author:Mariusz Świder, publishing house Fronda 2021).