Why is a quote from the Koran forged on the helmet of Alexander Nevsky

Secrets like to surround not only living beings, but also inanimate objects. The helmet of Alexander Nevsky, which is stored in the Armory of the Moscow Kremlin, is one of this number. This, of course, is not the Holy Grail, but there are no less mysteries in it.

Beautiful, very beautiful… Such a headdress could crown the head of Rurikovich, the true Chosen One. All to one: red iron, a shape in the form of a temple dome, the image of Archangel Michael the Archangel on the bow arrow, designed to shake the enemy's hand with an uplifted sword, a golden notch, diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls… And suddenly-Arabic script! On the helmet of an Orthodox prince! What's it? The 13th verse of the 61st Surah of the Quran:

Historians and collectors will find an explanation for everything. In the horizon of your own erudition, experience, dreams, obsessions… They love logic. The logic of primary school teachers explaining to students the impossibility of the existence of ghosts.

According to legend, the Nevsky helmet was reforged in the XVII century specifically for Mikhail Fedorovich, the first tsar from the Romanovs. The court master Nikita Danilov supplemented it with precious stones. The updated helmet was named "The Yerikhonsky cap of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich". There was no modernization here – helmets in Russia were called that, because Russian monarchs from the time of Ivan the Terrible liked to compare themselves with Joshua, the Old Testament king who took Jericho.

In the XX century, historians did not believe in the legend, doubting that the helmet once belonged to Alexander Nevsky. Having subjected the damask headdress to countless examinations and analyses, scientists came to the conclusion that the "Yerikhon cap" was forged in the East (from where the Arabic inscriptions come from) in the XVII century. Then, with an opportunity, the helmet turned out to be at Mikhail Fedorovich, where it was subjected to"Christian tuning".

However, no one explains why the tsar did not order to remove the "basurman letter"? By negligence? Unlikely. Out of ignorance? Hardly. There have always been many Tatars at the royal court who are familiar with Arabic calligraphy.

It is interesting that the Arabic script also decorated the helmet of Ivan the Terrible, as well as other well-born persons of medieval Russia. Of course, we can say that these were trophies. But it is difficult to imagine that the regulated Ivan IV put a used helmet on his crowned head. And in the use of "basurman"…

With a high degree of probability, the royal owners of the" Yerikhon hats "knew the origin and translation of the"Arab patterns". But at the same time they showed tolerance to the presence on their own helmets. Perhaps the engraved surahs from the Koran were given some magical properties – a kind of" graphic " Jericho trumpet, destroying the walls of fortresses not with sound, but with writing.