If we asked people who lived here several centuries earlier, they would have already mentioned another name for this ravine – Volosov. Because in fact, they name the ravine after the ancient deity Veles.
Snake Veles(or Volos) is an ancient, pagan god, patron of pets and wealth. The name of Veles, according to many researchers, comes from the word “hairy” – hairy. It is also possible that the word “sorcerer” just comes from the name of this god and from the custom of his priests to dress in fur “hairy” coats to imitate their deity.
The opponent of the Serpent Veles, according to ancient mythology, was the main ancient Slavic god Perun. Not only Slavic myths existed about Perun's struggle with the Serpent, or about representatives of two opposite worlds. And who knows if this ancient myth was later embodied in what Muscovites can see every day on the coat of arms of their city, where the aforementioned George the Victorious is also fighting a snake?
Volosov ravine, according to legend, and was the very abode of this not very kind pagan deity of the Dyakovites and then of the ancient Slavs. Legends also brought to us a funny fact that Veles sometimes, as they say, appeared in the flesh to residents and loved to eat eggs and drink milk. Probably, because he drank all the milk, residents had to drink something else, which made Veles appear even more often.
If you rummage in more modern archives – the 19th and early 20th centuries – you can find curious facts that our contemporaries, who did not yet know the historical essence of these places, sometimes met the so-called Bigfoot there.
Already in Soviet times, there was an amusing case when a police officer patrolling these places at night saw a huge hairy man in a ravine and was so frightened that for no apparent reason he fired the entire clip of his revolver at him. The hairy stranger did not even budge and went into the fog, or, as it is fashionable to say now, into the gloom that often happens in this ravine. It described this case in the article by A. Ryazantsev “Pioneers catching Leshego” in 1926!
An interesting case of the appearance in 1621 at the gates of the sovereign's palace of a small detachment of Tatar horsemen is also described in the “Sofia Vremennik”. They were surrounded by archers, guarding the gate, and taken prisoner. All the prisoners showed that they were the warriors of Khan Devlet-Girey, whose troops tried to capture Moscow in 1571, but were defeated and dispersed into small groups. A detachment of Cremeans, avoiding pursuit, descended into a deep ravine, shrouded in fog, in the hope of later going out into the steppe expanses. The Tatars plunged into it, it seemed, for several minutes, and emerged only 50 years later. One prisoner said that the fog was unusual, gleaming greenish, but in fear of the chase, no one paid attention to this. Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich ordered an inquiry and search, which showed that the Tatars most likely spoke the truth.
One of the interesting cases is given in the newspaper “Moskovskie Vedomosti” dated July 9, 1832, which tells about two peasants who disappeared in 1810, and appeared… in 1831. Returning at night from the village of Dyakova, the peasants of the Sadovniki village Arkhip Kuzmin and Ivan Bochkarev cut the road and go through the Volosov ravine. There was a thick fog at the bottom of the ravine. The friends, passing between two enormous boulders, suddenly fell somewhere and found themselves in a corridor, along which they went into a space filled with whitish light. Unexpectedly for themselves, they again found themselves in a ravine, but when they reached the outskirts of the village, they found themselves in a different time. There are still relatives of the disappeared in the village who have identified them, although 21 years have passed since the disappearance.
Now is the time to talk about the two boulders that still lie there, and the idly staggering Muscovites and guests of our city sometimes do not even notice them. The boulders are called Devy Stone and Goose. Virgo is none other than the Finno-Ugric female underground goddess, and the Goose is a sacred bird of Finno-Ugric mythology, swimming in the underground ocean and once creating everything, throwing a slap of silt from its beak into an abyss full of dead water.
The Virgin Stone is an enormous block with many strange protruding hemispheres. It was brought here from somewhere from the north by a glacier many thousands of years ago and weighs about 5 tons. The stone helps with infertility. So, dear women, if you believe in the mystical, I advise you to touch this relic of the ancient, pre-Slavic civilization. But do not forget about an easier way to deal with the worsening demographic situation: he is now walking in the flesh next to you and begging for money for beer sold right there, in numerous tents.
Our Moscow stands on the so-called Russian platform, a fairly solid geological formation. But each platform has its own faults, and one of the largest – just passes under the Volosov ravine. Also, approximately in this place, traces of very ancient volcanic activity, dating back to the time of the dinosaurs, were found, the results of which we can observe in our time on the reliefs unusual for our city.
But back to our Dyakovites. At the beginning of the 8th century AD, 300 years before the Slavs here and the official foundation of the city of Moscow, they suddenly simply disappear. It does not reflect these three centuries in the annals or in the legends. Even archaeologists cannot yet find any traces of human activity. Therefore, for us it will remain a mystery where these ancient pramskvichs disappeared.
So you and I visited this one of the most mysterious places in our Moscow, walked in the footsteps of ancient civilizations, almost fell through in time and were cured of diseases with ancient artifacts.
I think I forgot something, right? Probably to say what kind of place this is, and what fabulous metro you can get there. Now re-read carefully the beginning of this article again. The fairy tale is always there, right next to us! This place is called very simply: Kolomenskoye!
And you probably know how to get to it, since you have done this many times. You can go, as described in the article, through the Kashirskaya metro station. Or you can do it as usual, through the Kolomenskaya metro station. Only now, when you go there again, do not stop at the very entrance, walk past the magnificent Temple of the Ascension a little further – to the southern, not very visited by tourists, part of the park, and you yourself, with your own feet, step on this ancient land, from 3 thousand years ago began the settlement of our beloved city of Moscow, which is probably not in vain called the Third Rome.
The headquarters of UNIO “Kosmopoisk” is near this area, and the data presented in this digest guide has been collected by groups of people belonging to this All-Russian Public Research Organization. We have tried to historically and popularly present such an interesting topic about our beloved city – the city of Moscow.
The book is a gift to all researchers, historians, people interested and seeking. And, of course, this guide is not the ultimate truth, and the list of phenomena is far from complete. But our desire is sincere to tell about the city, its history, secrets, riddles, clues and scientific achievements.
Moscow and about Moscow. Cosmological Moscow
It is easier to navigate along the circular metro line, where the metro station “Kurskaya” will correspond to the zero degree, the beginning of Aries. Further clockwise:
– “Taganskaya” corresponds to Taurus and the planet Venus, the color is yellow-green
– “Paveletskaya” – Gemini, planet Mercury, color yellow
– “Dobryninskaya” – Cancer, planet Moon, white
– “October” – Leo, planet Sun, red, cherry
– “Park of Culture” – Virgo, Mercury, light blue
– “Kievskaya” – Libra, Venus, aqua
– Krasnopresnenskaya – Scorpio, Pluto, blue
– “Belorusskaya” – Sagittarius, Jupiter, blue
– “Novoslobodskaya” – Capricorn, Saturn, blue
– “Prospect Mira” – Aquarius, Uranus, purple
– “Komsomolskaya”