Exactly until then. Sinister prophecies of the monk Abel

Going to a stadium in Russia has always been a challenge. Going to Rostov for a World Cup match turned out to be a real feat.

The match started in the afternoon, it was +33 outside, there was no shade, but the expensive police were not dozing. Surprises began on the bridge near the stadium. Only pregnant women and the disabled could go down the empty elevator, and no one could use the stairs that led from the stadium to the embankment. It was allowed to go directly to the central alley of the stadium.

The surprises didn't end there. If you needed to go to the D stand (where I was located), for this you had to bypass the stadium almost completely. Some miserable 1.6 km instead of 100 m directly and you are already at the stadium. And it was still hot outside.

At the stadium itself, we have to admit, everything was decent and clearly organized. This is a photo from my location.

And this is the main banner from the match between Uruguay and Saudi Arabia. Steaks and wine from Uruguay:

Everything was fine exactly until it was time to leave the arena. The happy spectators of Grandstand D were invited to go towards the rowing pools. Severe riot police allowed only the elite to pass through the territory of the stadium, which, as the policeman explained to me, turned out to be representatives of the police “in civilian clothes”.

The rest were forced to immediately leave the stadium and go either to the shuttles on the other side of some sports reservoir, or go somewhere towards the road. Where exactly no one knew yet. At first they walked along broken and poorly laid tiles, after 100 meters fresh asphalt began, into which some protruding pipes were rolled up, and after another 200 they walked along a narrow path past some kind of sports base.

Further, the path ran through the fields along the viaduct, through some kind of sewerage structure, past the stairs leading from the fields directly to the highway. As a result, in such a roundabout way, everyone went to the S1 shuttle parking lot and the transition to the intercepting parking lot.

But guys, this is really bad. Are you seriously? That's how we left the stadium, just shine!

Why was it impossible to get to the shuttles and the underground passage directly through the stadium? After all, this is how people initially walked from the parking lot at shopping center. Why couldn't this wretched circular path, evoking melancholy and despondency, be made a little more attractive?

That year at the Confederation Cup in Sochi, everything was completely different. It was possible to approach the stadium from any direction, exit in any direction through any exit, but now.

The World Cup is again about safety and reinsurance, and not about the convenience of the fans. No matter what happens, we'll be patient. It's just embarrassing in front of the guests.

Rogova Anastasia 28.04.2019 at 9:40

Every Russian knows Nostradamus and his prophecies. Although in reality this medieval poet and physician was not a soothsayer, and his so-called "prophecies" are known, rather because of their inflated popularity, and not for real value. A true soothsayer, capable of not only foreseeing the future with amazing certainty, but also writing entire books of prophecy, lived with us in Russia. This man was Vasily Vasiliev, who became famous as the monk Abel. His dark and terrible predictions predicted the death of many Russian emperors.

Predictions for rulers are a special article. Since ancient times, every ruler always had his own court seer. Predictors of the future were especially in demand in the east, because even the founder of medicine, Avicenna himself, made horoscopes and studied the influence of planets on the fate of people.

There were enough prophets in Russia too, but the most amazing and, perhaps, the most famous is the monk Abel. According to historical records and archival documents, all his predictions about the emperors of Russia came true with incredible accuracy. However, the figure of the monk Abel is so overgrown with myths that it is not known whether some facts about his life are true or fiction.

Here in the biographical dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron is: "Abel is a monk-soothsayer, born in 1757. Peasant origin. For his predictions of the days and hours of the death of Catherine II and Paul I, the invasion of the French and the burning of Moscow, he repeatedly went to prison, and spent all in prison for about 20 years. By order of Emperor Nicholas I, Abel was imprisoned in the Spaso-Efimevsky Monastery, where he died in 1841." A short, dry reference, behind which is almost the fate of Russia.

The future prophet was born in the village of Akulovo, Tula region. And he lived for himself, like all the peasants of that time, not shining with talents, until the age of 28. Toward the middle of his life, Vasily suddenly abandoned his family and went to the Valaam Monastery, where he took the tonsure under the name of the monk Adam. The reason for leaving was that the parents forcibly married Vasily, who himself had no desire to get a wife and was generally considered an unsociable person (which did not prevent him from having three children).

Adam lived in a monastery for a year, and then asked the abbot for leave and went to the skete. And it was there, escaping in prayer and loneliness, that Adam received the gift of prophecy. He himself wrote in his books that he had visions, as if a certain voice called him to heaven and showed him a book there, which contained many secrets. earthly world. Adam read from there what concerned the Romanov dynasty and Russia - to the very end, and then the voice told him to convey what he had read to the emperor, more precisely, to Empress Catherine the Great, who then ruled Russia.

In order to fulfill the will of unknown forces, Adam went across Russia, and when he ended up in the Nikolo-Babevsky Monastery, he wrote his first book there, in which he said in plain text that Catherine would rule for only 40 years (and the fortieth year had just come her reign), that the throne is inherited not by her beloved grandson Alexander, but by her son Paul, and stuff like that.

When Catherine found out about this, she became furious and ordered the monk to be caught, cut and put in the Peter and Paul Fortress. Adam was indeed cut off and taken into custody. He was under arrest until the empress died at the time he predicted ...

Of course, Paul I, who generally believed in all sorts of mystical phenomena and prophecies, became interested in the prophetic monk. Prince Kurakin, after the death of Catherine, became the Prosecutor General of the Senate - it was he who brought the book of predictions of this newly-born prophet to the emperor. As a result, a conversation took place between the ruler and the Tula defrocked monk.

What they were talking about, no one knew exactly then, and today it is completely unknown. But it is believed that Adam directly told Paul the date of his death: “Your reign will be short. in the Gospel: "The enemies of a man are his household," - this is how some sources quote this revelation.

However, most likely, this is a beautiful invention. If the monk had predicted such a death to Paul, it is unlikely that Paul issued on December 14, 1796 the highest rescript, commanding, at Adam's desire, to tonsure him again as a monk.

During the second tonsure, Vasily Vasilyev received the name by which he is known as one of the most sinister and accurate predictors in Russia - Abel. After that, the monk went on a journey - he first lived in St. Petersburg, then ended up in Moscow, where for some time he prophesied and predicted for money to everyone, and then briefly returned to Valaam, where he wrote his second book.

In this work, he predicted the death of the emperor who warmed him. And then he showed his creation to the abbot. He was frightened and sent the book to St. Petersburg Metropolitan Ambrose. Ambrose gave the book to the right person, and lo and behold, it ended up in the hands of Paul. The book indicated not only the death of the emperor and its detailed description and time, but also said why he was destined for such a death - for broken promise build a church and dedicate it to Archangel Michael. Paul, according to the monk, has as much left to live as there should be letters in the inscription above the gates of the Mikhailovsky Castle, which is being built instead of the promised church.

Paul, of course, was indignant at such ingratitude and ordered Abel to be imprisoned again in the very fortress from which he released him. And he spent as much time there as during the previous imprisonment - ten months and ten days. Exactly until this prediction of his came true ... True, it is believed that Paul, although he was angry with the monk, nevertheless ordered all his prophecies regarding the Romanov dynasty to be written down and locked in a casket, which was allowed to be opened exactly after a hundred years after the death of the king.

Abel himself, under escort, was taken to the Solovetsky Monastery and forbidden to walk around Russia and confuse minds. But Abel was not going to wander - he sat down for new book, in which he described the fire of 1812 and other horrors of the war with the French. These predictions shocked those who read them so much that the third book of Abel fell into the hands of the third emperor, Alexander I. The young tsar was also not happy with such a prophecy and ordered Abel to be imprisoned in Solovki and not released from there until the predicted came true.

In Sukhovlyany, near Skidel, people are asking for help: after the rain, they can’t walk or drive through the village. But even when it dries up, there is nothing to rejoice at. The road is more like a grater: all in bumps and pits. And if you can still drive on a gravel road in a passenger car, dusting everything around and risking suspension, then in the second half of the village, where there is a dirt road, there is nothing to meddle. It's only there for tanks, the locals joke.

Journalists came to the village to report.

Like a grater

The headman of the village Valentina Shandrokha asked the correspondents of "Perspektiva" to reflect in the newspaper how they have to travel. Not only representatives of the newspaper came to Sukhovlyany, but also the chairman of the village executive committee Sergei Sidorovich, the head of the "Skidel" section of the "Grodnodorozhnik" branch, Yevgeny Ignatyuk. I couldn't see the "grater". Before arriving, a grader walked through the village. The locals did not hide their surprise.

Imagine what event. So many requests - no result. Today even the part of the village with the dirt road has been graded. We don’t even remember when the equipment appeared there at all, - says the headman.

For a picture?

Indeed, the technique worked during our arrival. Accordingly, the street looked better than usual. 30 people came to the meeting, and everyone was interested in the question: when will the road problem disappear from the agenda? People noted: once there were no problems with grading. If the carriageway was knocked out, they called the road workers, they sent the equipment. Now, don't ask. The head of the site objected: the street is graded once every two months. The locals immediately retorted: for the whole of last year, the grader appeared in Sukhovlyany 3 times. The Village Council this year also gave several applications to the service organization. There was no reaction.

Today, after the grader has passed, deep holes are not visible, we used to fill them up with stones. Everyone poured gravel in front of their house, because all the dirt flies onto the fence when the car passes. Look, all the fences are in the sand. Locals know these traps, they drive slowly, and strangers fly. No speed limits, no road signs at all.

Do you know what the road builders said? Allegedly, we do not have the right to close up these pits ourselves, otherwise they will be fined, because they are responsible for covering, - says a local resident. - For 10 years we have been asking you to put the road in order.

Need finance

Last year, the villagers applied to the regional executive committee and received a response. It reported that the road has a gravel surface and belongs to the fifth technical category and the fifth level of requirements, respectively, "during the operation of the gravel road surface, dust formation and the appearance of a" comb "occurs, which is the norm for this type of coating." It was also reported that, given the limited funding, the program of work includes roads with heavy pavement wear and heavy vehicle traffic. For this reason, this road is not included in the list of local roads, the repair of which is planned in 2018-2020.

"It takes approximately 400,000 rubles to install a solid improved surface on a 1.7 km long road. It is not possible to find them. The Grodnodorozhnik branch regularly carries out cyclic profiling of the gravel surface," the response says.

Only now the road builders appear less and less, and the road is getting worse. Yevgeny Ignatyuk promised: once a month they would let a grader into Sukhovlyany. But the specialist admits that grading cannot solve the problem for a long time. Until the first rain. People joke that without the help of a local resident Uncle Vanya - nothing. It is he who helps out, taking turns pulling cars out of the swamp with his tractor. At least organize a business.

Before the journalists arrived in Grodno, the headman called: “You don’t know how to find the road builders? While you were here, the grader worked, you left, and he left. He didn’t even finish the job, he left an embankment in the middle of the road. Cars can't turn around." That's how we live...

Start hiccuping on public transport, tear your pants in some busy place, open the toilet door and find that there is already someone there, confuse a pregnant girl with just overweight - all this is terribly embarrassing. Now imagine how something from this list also happens in the circle of colleagues with whom you will then have to work. Any of these oversights can seriously damage the reputation.

An awkward situation makes us feel embarrassed and uncomfortable. But it is not all that bad. If you look at it from an unexpected side, you can understand that it can bring a lot of benefits.

Embarrassment and awkwardness are emotions that we experience in relation to other people when we make a mistake or behave inappropriately for social norms and standards accepted in society. Emotions that are associated with shame and guilt are often seen as negative when in fact they are not.

Susan David, Lecturer in Psychology at Harvard University

The Positives of Awkward Situations

1. Increasing the level of trust

People who get into uncomfortable situations and feel embarrassed and uncomfortable because of it will have much more credibility just because they care about what impression they are. There is also a high probability that their embarrassment will be forgiven and forgotten much faster than the embarrassment of a person who is indifferent to the opinions of others.

2. Preliminary preparation for difficult life situations

Imagine that you have to tell a future client about your product. To make a good impression, you will try to prepare as best as possible and think over the answers to all the tricky questions in advance.

Potentially possible pitfalls encourage us to try harder so as not to lose face at a crucial moment.

After you get into awkward situations and come out of them with dignity, you become more resilient and more prepared for the difficulties that may someday come in your life. Situations involving embarrassment and embarrassment can be considered excellent training, which in many ways builds character.

3. Broadcast core values

Awkward situations serve as a kind of social regulators. With their help, people understand what behavior is acceptable in a normal society, and what is not. Such situations are meant to maintain order and shed light on the things that really matter to us: caring for others, being attentive to loved ones, and being interested in making a good impression.

Three Ways to Help You Deal with Awkwardness

Most of us consciously try not to get into awkward situations, but no one is immune from them. Here are a few things you can do to ease the awkwardness.

1. Treat the situation with humor

The most common patterns of behavior of people in awkward situations are as follows:

• to take a back seat and try to hush everything up imperceptibly;
• courageously take the hit and try to work things out.

The advice is: don't try to hide what's already happened. Everyone already noticed that you screwed up anyway. What's the point in denying everything? The best thing you can do in such a situation is to treat it with humor.

Show that you are not afraid. In this way, you will demonstrate to others your courage and self-confidence. You can even say something like, “Wow, how awkward I am!” To minimize the tension that has arisen.

2. Control your emotions

Tips like “don’t be nervous”, “cool down” and “relax” seem rather banal, but they are no less effective for that.

A curious and revealing experiment was being conducted at the University of Western Ontario. Participants were asked to recall situations they were ashamed of and situations that evoked pleasant emotions. After that, they were offered a choice of hot and cold drinks.

People who recalled embarrassing situations mostly chose cold drinks. This is due to the natural reaction of the body to situations that make us feel uncomfortable: we are thrown into a fever, our face is flushed, we want to somehow cool down.

Emotions and our body temperature are closely related. If you find yourself in a situation that is out of control, try to calm down and not make it worse.

3. Forgive yourself

Need to learn. This is the price we pay for being imperfect but normal people.

If you are often embarrassed, then try at least once to overcome yourself and observe the reaction of others. Do they laugh amiably and look at you sympathetically? Instead of hiding your eyes, apologize and laugh at yourself with them.

Leslie Shore, psychologist

Having made a mistake, you should not torture yourself endlessly. You need to practice self-compassion and self-forgiveness. When you acknowledge that you, like everyone else, are not perfect, it will help you let go of the situation and say goodbye to the past.

We hope these simple ways overcoming embarrassment will help you at least a little.

Appearing on the big stage is not so easy! Through numerous talent shows, people have the opportunity to showcase their talent to the world. Just take a look at this guy. He is very worried before going on stage. His hands are shaking, his lips are shaking, and he himself is ready to faint from adrenaline in his blood. The judges probably decided that he would sing in a trembling voice, but how wrong he was. The guy just shocked everyone with his abilities.

When he raised the microphone to his lips, the jury members opened their mouths - the guy has perfect vocals! There was not even a hint of it left from the previous excitement ... An amazing talent! He seems to charm with his voice. I want to listen to it non-stop. By the way, he is very confident on stage. He clearly has a great career and recognition if he develops his gift. His family came to support the guy. We wish him success, good luck and progress!