12.11.2024, Moscow.
Conspirators killed Russian Emperor Paul I for the relations he had established with Napoleon and for his agreement to participate in the continental blockade of England, the leader of the Essence of Time movement, philosopher and political scientist Sergey Kurginyan said on October 18 on the program Conversation with a Sage on radio Zvezda.
Discussing whether a figure can appear in the Western political establishment that would be able to open a new chapter in relations with Russia, Kurginyan reminded about the outcome of any attempts of Russia’s convergence with a Western country. In particular, between Russia and France during the rule of Paul I.
The political scientist indicated that an absolutely wrong notion is widespread in Russia that Russian Emperor Paul I was a narrow-minded person and despot, while in fact he was a well-educated person with a strategy to develop the Russian Empire.
“He was a really well-educated personality, with a strategic thinking, with far-reaching plans for Russia. This personality not only successfully established relations with the Order of Malta that he took under his protection, but he also established relations with Napoleon Bonaparte, a major Western politician (perhaps the greatest one),” Kurginyan said, and he noted that Napoleon was highly educated as well.
“He is a genius who brought Europe to certain condition, and this genius wanted to have the strongest relations possible with Russia, far-reaching and deepest ones. And Paul I accepted such relations. And what was the end?” Kurginyan said, and he reminded about the plot against Paul I.
According to him, successors of those responsible for the plot against Paul I are still deeply rooted in the Western elite circles.
“My acquaintances, now deceased, from the circles that for centuries were associated with clerics and monarchists, used to say in the very first years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, ‘Whenever you visit Europe to establish relations with Russians you feel consonance with, it is either Pahlen or Benningsen, either Bennigsen or Pahlen (Governor-General of Saint Petersburg Peter Pahlen and General Leonty Bennigsen who commanded the plot and were involved in the murder of Paul I – Rossa Primavera News Agency),’” the political scientist stressed.
“It took place in 1990s,” he explained.
Kurginyan also indicated that the Agnelli family that controlled the Fiat Concern had established relations with high-ranking officials of the Soviet Union. “It is hard to explain why Fiat was chosen to build our automobile factories. It was not really well-known, but there were certain strategic relations between Kosygin’s son-in-law Gvishiani and this Agnelli (the founder of the Fiat Italian automobile concern Giovanni Agnelli – Rossa Primavera News Agency),” the political scientist said.
It remains unknown how deep these relations were and to what extent they were economized at the personal level. “What exactly was taking place inside all these contracts with the West? What kind of shares were privatized, how and where?” he added.
“But we know that some Pahlen family has a special relation to Agnelli, and as soon as any people outside this family begin to claim the dominating role, they disappear,” Kurginyan noted.
According to him, reportedly, the families of Dominili and Schlumberger are known to be involved in the assassination of Kennedy, and there are other families, that were “actually ‘ours’”: “And besides we know that these families were integrated in the Western elite in a certain way,” the political scientist added.
He also reminded that certain circles of the Russian upper class welcomed the following Pushkin’s verses:
You autocratic psychopath,
You and your throne do I despise!
I watch your doom, your children’s death
With hateful, jubilating eyes.
However, according to Kurginyan, these upper class people changed their attitude to Pushkin after he wrote:
[Assassins]
Approaching, furtive in the night
With wolfish hearts and brazen eyes.
“They said, ‘You bastard named Pushkin, you are insulting us, who do you think you are?’” the theater director described the level of conflict, and he reminded a few more Pushkin’s verses.
The shame! The terror of our time!
Those Janissary beasts burst in!..
According to Kurginyan, the Russian upper class did not like these hints either. “What do the Janissary have to do with it? What are you implying?” the political scientist described their indignation, and he noted that Pushkin never wrote a single worse in vain.
“So, these Pahlens and Bennigsens, whom Paul made close to himself, eliminated him. For what? For Napoleon’s desire, in particular, for brotherhood with Russia and for Russia’s participation in the continental blockade that would bring England on its knees,” Kurginyan explained.
“In response to the convergence with Napoleon, Paul I was killed, with the participation of his son (future Emperor Aleksandr I – Rossa Primavera News Agency), who was so much frustrated by this that Fyodor Kuzmich suddenly appeared (an elder in Tomsk Governorate whom a number of historians believe to be Aleksandr I after he faked his own death in Taganrog – Rossa Primavera News Agency),” the political scientist added.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
