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The Capture of Kazan and the Armenians
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/country22268.html
Published: 15:30:52 - 18/06/2011
It is a historical fact that an Armenian regiment in the army of Ivan
the Terrible participated in the capture of Kazan. The story is: when
the troops of the Russian tsar reach Kazan, the Armenians learn that
there were Armenians among the troops defending the town, and their
commander was Armenian. They suggest Ivan that they get near the town
and ask the Armenian gunmen not to shoot. This is how it was. The
Armenians agree with one another, the Armenian gunmen in Kazan shoot
into the air, enabling the Russians to come up to the wall surrounding
the town and easily capture it.
The same story holds that the people of Kazan set to fire the houses
of the Armenian gunmen. For his part, Ivan the Terrible orders to hang
the Armenian gunmen and their commander along with other defenders of
the town.
Since loss of statehood, and particularly in 15th to 18th centuries,
the Armenians held significant positions in the military, world trade,
crafts in different parts of the world. The so-called `global Armenian
system', as Vazgen Ghazaryan says in his interview with Lragir.am,
declined when it was time to make mental efforts, the medieval status
quo no longer satisfied the global players.
Now we have a state, and again it is time to make mental efforts
because the global status quo has changed. Now in Kazan the head of
Armenia must prove that he is the head of an independent country and
is guided by his country's interests only rather than agree to
`compromise' between the Russians and Turks. Because the story of
capture of Kazan shows how it ends up.
From: Baghdasarian
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/country22268.html
Published: 15:30:52 - 18/06/2011
It is a historical fact that an Armenian regiment in the army of Ivan
the Terrible participated in the capture of Kazan. The story is: when
the troops of the Russian tsar reach Kazan, the Armenians learn that
there were Armenians among the troops defending the town, and their
commander was Armenian. They suggest Ivan that they get near the town
and ask the Armenian gunmen not to shoot. This is how it was. The
Armenians agree with one another, the Armenian gunmen in Kazan shoot
into the air, enabling the Russians to come up to the wall surrounding
the town and easily capture it.
The same story holds that the people of Kazan set to fire the houses
of the Armenian gunmen. For his part, Ivan the Terrible orders to hang
the Armenian gunmen and their commander along with other defenders of
the town.
Since loss of statehood, and particularly in 15th to 18th centuries,
the Armenians held significant positions in the military, world trade,
crafts in different parts of the world. The so-called `global Armenian
system', as Vazgen Ghazaryan says in his interview with Lragir.am,
declined when it was time to make mental efforts, the medieval status
quo no longer satisfied the global players.
Now we have a state, and again it is time to make mental efforts
because the global status quo has changed. Now in Kazan the head of
Armenia must prove that he is the head of an independent country and
is guided by his country's interests only rather than agree to
`compromise' between the Russians and Turks. Because the story of
capture of Kazan shows how it ends up.
From: Baghdasarian