transfers to relationships, from the words of my latin american friends, who really don’t like, say, american freemasons, because they are much richer, they come when they come to latin america, they have such a finger and so on, latin american freemasons, they have very rich traditions , i also say, since the time of the struggle for independence, they, i think, are much closer to the masonic spirit than any american freemasons, who... the founders of the usa were freemasons, the last ones there, say, george bush were definitely freemason this is a historical podcast russia-west on the swing of history, we understand an interesting topic. freemasonry. we need to go back to russian freemasonry, to the times of catherine, when this golden age of freemasonry began, to figure out what this is connected with, why exactly under catherine, these secret societies. began

to actively develop, here, of course, the spirit of such a noble love of freedom manifested itself, because here the trigger, as it seems to me, was the manifesto on the freedom of the nobility, then the grant of a charter to the nobility, when the nobility began to emancipate, there is a well-known theory of the 19th century about the emancipation of the class, that the emancipation of the class in russia took place from top to bottom, it all started with the nobility, and a manifestation of this freedom-lovingness of the nobility was the emergence of these secret societies, the desire of the nobles to find what... what something else besides public service, the same idea of ​​self-improvement, and then the ideals that seemed to creep into masonic ideology, i mean the ideals of freedom, equality, fraternity, which then became ideals of the french revolution, here of course we need to talk separately about novikov, but this is a separate big topic, everything is correct, i completely agree with you, but just remembering this about the freedom of the nobility, well, simply, well, what was mostly read at petre? military regulations, a manual on

metallurgy, a manual on shipbuilding, these books stood on the shelves, free nobles already, he could afford to read any books, including philosophical, political science and so on, esoteric and mystical literature, yes, this is the broth on which russian freemasonry grew, so to speak. here i will make one more remark, we have the idea that the freemasons were banned by the soviet government, well, this is partly true, about another generation of freemasons, because trotsky was such an ardent opponent of freemasonry, i think he has the first article ever in her youth she was initiated, but actually this happened under catherine, then, so to speak, a lot was kept silent, one of the founders of slavophilism. ivan kirevsky, he complained,

speaking about navekov nikolaich, many have not even heard of this great man and freemason and writes that here, in terms of the scale of his activities, he is comparable to the american freemason franklin, well, the face is familiar to everyone from the hundred dollar bill, but at the same time about navikovye we, to unfortunately, there is very little to know, but he was truly... an outstanding figure, several hundred book titles were published on his direct initiative, a significant part of which were translations, and a significant part of which were mystical and near-masonic literature, when catherine began to ban the activities of navekov, why now we will look into it, then , in my opinion, half of the books published forever that related to the french enlightenment, but related to this very mystical masonic literature, of which there was a lot, fell under the ban. also published christian literature, by the way, that,

yes, whatever he didn’t publish, in fact, he wanted to create a reader in russia, and therefore he published literature not only for highbrows, he believed that robenzun cruz russia needs him just as much as razma of rotterdam, he published whoever he published, he published russian history, the famous bethleophics, he published, in general...

they were both in power and remained on their own, there was such a famous freemason, senator ivan lopukhin, he said that true patriotism does not lie in russians being like the french or english, but in being as happy as they can, and for the time being for the time being, catherine was quite happy with this, yes, for the time being this suited me, because, strictly speaking, the enlightened empress and so on, my god, in her era volitarianism came to russia, and she invited the jesuits.