Aukstauta
Federal Republic of Aukstauta Aūkstāutās Federātīvā Republīki | |
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| Motto: "Глубже вспашешь - вкуснее хлеб поешь" "If you plow deeper, you will eat better bread" | |
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 Territories of Aukstauta's mainland | |
| Status | Active |
| Location | Parts of Dmitrov, Solnechnogorsk and Klin districts of Moscow region, Russia |
| Capital | Ragsanai (Rogachevo) |
| Largest city | Savyolovo, The United Volosts |
| Official languages | Krivian, but most of the documents are written on Ruthenian language; East Galindian, but often substitute with Old Prussian |
| Recognised regional languages | Many of them |
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| Demonym(s) | Aukstautians |
| Government | Federal parliamentary republic |
• Duke | Daniel the I |
• Minister-President | Alexander Ilyukhin |
| Legislature | Seym (Veche, Ting) |
| Independence from the Russian Federation | |
• Foundation of the first previous state | September 2015 |
• Independence | 7 November 2022 |
• Foundation of the republic | 13 April 2023 |
| Area | |
• Total | 582 km2 (225 sq mi) |
• Water (%) | 0,03% |
| Population | |
• 2021 estimate | 22 201 |
• 2024 census | 8 |
| Membership | 8 |
| Currency | Bitcoin Cash |
| Time zone | UTC-2; -3 (XST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-1; -2 (XDT) |
| The main territory of the state is divided into two time zones: UTC+2 and UTC+3 along the meridian of 37.5° east longitude | |
| Date format | dd/mm/yyyy |
| Driving side | right |
| Calling code | +7 |
| Internet TLD | .su |
Website escaltiagov | |
Aukstauta, officially the Federal Republic of Aukstauta, is a micronation in Eastern Europe which was founded in 2022. However, the modern state was preceded by several state entities that existed since 2015. Due to this, Aukstauta is at the same time a young nation, but at the same time with a rich history and cultural heritage. The capital is Ragsanai.
Currently, Aukstauta positions itself as a Baltic nation in Central Russia. This is due to the fact that a separate group of the Baltic East Galindian tribe lived on the territory of Medieval Aukstauta. Based on this fact, the country is a member of the Baltic Union. In addition, among the citizens of Aukstauta there are descendants of ancient noble families who lived here since the High Middle Ages (when these lands were part of the Dmitrov Principality).
The peculiarity of the state is its own system of law, developed on the basis of Medieval Russian with significant influence of older forms that existed even before the creation of the Russkaya Pravda of Yaroslav the Wise. At the same time, the state is one of the few among the Russian segment that implements its social character in practice. According to the laws of the republic, a minimum wage is set for civil servants, which is regularly paid in real currency. In addition, slavery has been decriminalized in the country.
The state is known for a large number of historical, cultural and natural monuments of various eras. The Saint Nicholas Monastery, a fortress of the XIV century, is located here, which has preserved buildings from the time of the appanage principality. Against its background, bunkers and launching units scattered throughout the country, left over from Soviet times, contrast.
The Federal Republic of Aukstauta has access to the sea due to several island possessions on the Baltic Sea, but does not have a single seaport. Among the micronations, it borders on the Konakian Union State (through the Republic of United Parishes), and the city-state of Dmitrov in the east.
According to the state structure, it is a federal parliamentary republic, which includes subjects of different levels and degrees of autonomy, starting from the dependencies (the Republic of United Parishes, the Republic of Rannapungerja, the Kingdom of the Green Grove, the Republic of Pinedelia, the Republic of Idelia, and the Paulistia Republic), as well as second-level subjects, of which there are 19 on the territory of the metropolis (21, including the Autonomy of Mount Volen and Bearland).
Despite the democratic political regime, there is an institution of monarchy in the country. The head of state is Duke of Aukstauta, who inherits power and rules for life. De jure, the Duke's power has been limited by the Constitutional Charter since April 13, 2023 (when the republic was proclaimed), but he still has the right to legislative initiative in the Seimas. The Duke of Aukstauta since November 7, 2022 is Daniel I of the Karpavichus dynasty, who held the title of King until April 13, 2023. Aleksandras Karotaiskinas has been the Minister-President of the Republic since April 13, 2023.
The official languages are Krivian (Ruthenian is used in jurisprudence), North-Easten Galindian (due to insufficient restoration, it is replaced by Old Prussian). The currency is Aukstautian pfenning and Baltic Union shilling, although de facto it is used only in government settlements, while in fact euro is in use.
Etymology
The English name "Aukstauta" is the same in sound and comes from the self-name "Aūkstāutā" [ɑuːkʃtɑːutɑː]. The self-name comes from the Dnieper Baltic words "Aūks", which means a hill, and "Tāutā", which means country. Thus, the name "Aūkstāutā" means a hilly country. In Russian, the name of the country sounds like "Эскалтия". The name of the predecessor state was retained for the sake of euphony. In all other languages, the name of the country, as a rule, coincides with the English and Old Prussian versions.
The meaning of the name is obvious if you look at the geography of the country. A third of it is located in the middle of the Klin-Dmitrov ridge, a hill stretching from west to east from the town of Klin to the town of Sergiev Posad. The average heights here range from 150 to 300 meters above sea level. Even in those regions of the country that are already on the territory of the Upper Volga lowland, hills are visible, for which the country got its name.
Geography
Aukstauta is located in Eastern Europe. The geographical center of the European part of Russia is located on the territory of the Kingdom of the Green Grove, which is part of it. The extreme points of the whole state with dependencies and the extreme points of the metropolis are highlighted separately.
The northernmost point of the whole state with dependencies is located on the island of Rodsher, belonging to the Republic of Rannapungerja. The extreme eastern point of the federation is located near the Novoye Demkino village in Paulistia republic. The southernmost point of the whole state is located at the southern tip of the flooded part of the Denezhny island, belonging to the Republic of Idelia. During the spring and summer floods, the southernmost land point of the country is flooded by the waters of the Volga River. The extreme western point of the whole state is located, again, on the island of Rodsher.
Borders
The length of the metropolitan borders is 170 kilometers without the Autonomy of Mount Volen. Of these, about 7 kilometers is the border with the city-state of Dmitrov, which is a condominium of the members of the Dmitrov League, including Aukstauta itself.
Relief
Most of the state is located on the territory of the great East European plain, or rather on the territory of the Smolensk-Moscow upland, in the area of the Klin-Dmitrov ridge, where heights from 150 to 260 prevail (on the territory of the Aukstauta itself). However, the ridge itself affects only one of the historical regions of the metropolis - the Mountainous Aukstauta. The other two (Old Aukstauta and Meadow Aukstauta are located in the foothills and belong to the Upper Volga lowland). It is dominated by heights from 123 (in the floodplain of the Yakhroma River) to 150 meters above sea level without sudden elevation changes.
The highest point of the metropolis is Salkov Hill (260 meters), the highest point of the whole state with dependencies is Trishkina Mountain (283 meters) near the village of Fedorovka of the Paulistia Republic. The lowest point is the island of Vigrund, located at an altitude of sea level (0-0.5 meters). On the territory of the metropolis, the lowest point is the entire floodplain of the Yakhroma River, located at an altitude of 123 meters above sea level. Thus, the height difference in the entire territory of the whole state is 283 meters.
From a scientific point of view, there is not a single mountain in Aukstauta, although the hills located on its territory are often so called by locals. The hills of the Klin-Dmitrov ridge are of glacial origin and, from the point of view of geology, are characterized as kames. They were formed by the movement of a glacier that descended at the end of the Pleistocene - the beginning of the Holocene.
The geological structure of the Aukstauta metropolis is characterized by the absence of Paleogene and Neogene deposits. Here, Jurassic and few Cretaceous sediments pass immediately into the Pleistocene, which is associated with the movement of the glacier, which carried away the layers of the Paleogene and Neogene. This situation is typical for the entire geological region of Moskovia.
Jurassic sediments are characterized by sands, and Pleistocene clays and loams. Clastic rocks, such as limestone, are common among the Jurassic deposits, as well as earlier rocks that fall here, including granites and quartzes. In the Mesozoic era, the territory of modern Aukstauta was located at the bottom of the ancient tropical Central Russian Sea. Numerous remains of marine fauna can often be found among the Jurassic sediments, ranging from belemnites (called devil's fingers in Aukstauta) to the teeth of helicoprion sharks.
Internal waters
The water surface area of the metropolis is 0.03 square kilometers. These include numerous ponds and quarries. The territory of the country was subjected to land reclamation processes initiated in Soviet times. Almost all arable lands in Meadow Aukstauta are dotted with numerous reclamation channels. In addition, as part of the reclamation, riverbeds were straightened, including the main river of the country - the Yakhroma.
The main waterway of the country is the Yakhroma River, whose length in the territory of Aukstauta is 32 kilometers. The largest closed reservoir (lake) is the Moniki quarry (33 hectares).
The largest rivers of Aukstauta
| Name | Total length | Length in Aukstauta | Source | Mouth |
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| Yakhroma | 42 km | 32 km | Dedenevo, Russia | Sestra river, Ustye-Pristan', United Volosts |
| Lutosnya | 55 km | 30 km | Ivlevo, Russia | Sestra river, North-West of Razdolye, Russia |
| Lbovka | 13 km | 13 km | Zuevo, Pokrovskoye district, Aukstauta | Yakhroma river, Ragsanai district, Aukstauta |
| Dyatlinka | 24 km | 12 km | Selyavino, Russia | Yakhroma river, Novosinkovo district, Aukstauta |
| Kimersha | 11 km | 11 km | Selivanovo, Turbichevo district, Aukstauta | Lutosnya river, Simonovskoye district, Aukstauta |
| Bunyatinka | 7,7 km | 7,7 km | Podsosenye, Turbichevo district, Aukstauta | Left Highland channel, Bunyatino, Aukstauta |
| Varvarovka | 6,8 km | 6 km | Autopoligon, Russia | Left Highland channel, Sinkovo, Aukstauta |
| Kukholka | 10-11 km | 5,5 km | Orudyevo, Russia | Yakhroma river, Kulikovo district, Aukstauta |
| Stepanovka | 4,5 km | 4,5 km | Bestuzhevo, Ivanovskoye district, Aukstauta | Lbovka river, Ragsanai, Aukstauta |
| Ilyinka | 14 km | 2,3 km | Karavayevo volost, United Volosts | Old Ilyinka channel, Lugovoy, Aukstauta |
The largest lakes of Aukstauta
| Name | Type | Square | Depth | Altitude above sea level |
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| Moniki quarry | Quarry | 33 ha | No data | 120 m |
| Karpovo dam | Dam | 32 ha | No data | 130 m |
| Sadnikovo dam | Dam | 22 ha | No data | 130 m |
| Sinkovo dam | Dam | 17 ha | No data | 140 m |
| Tarakanovo | Lake | 13 ha | No data | 160 m |
| Bliznetz | Lake | 6,6 ha | No data | 120 m |
| Teleshevo dam | Dam | 6,6 ha | No data | 205 m |
| Teleshevo pond | Pond | 4,6 ha | No data | 200 m |
| Ragsanai dam | Dam | 4,4 ha | No data | 145 m |
| Karasyovo | Lake | 2,3 ha | No data | 120 m |
Minerals
The country has large reserves of peat, but its extraction on an industrial scale was stopped in 2010-2011 after a long series of fires. Currently, peat is mined artisanal by the state-owned Escapeat company on the territory of the Republic of United Parishes. Peat is used in the country's agriculture and exported abroad by private individuals. In addition, the country has reserves of sand, crushed stone and various clays. The largest sand quarry is located near the village of Chumichevo in the Boblovo district. Sand, crushed stone and clay are exported abroad.
Soils
The bulk of the soils of Aukstauta are podzolic. The highest concentration of sod-weakly and medium podzolic and sod-podzolic washed away. Inside the latter, there are inclusions of sod-podzolic weakly clay and ravine washed soils. There are areas of sod-podzolic gley and gley. In the north-west of the country there are areas of peat and peat-podzolic ogley soils with the highest concentration in Kulikovo, Lugovoy and Pokrovskoye districts.
The soil-forming rock of most of the country is clays and heavy loams. To the northwest of Ragsanai, a line stretching from southwest to northeast, the soil-forming rock is suspensions and sands, underlain by loams and clays of boulders and pebbles. In the west and south-west of the country, medium and light loams are the soil-forming rocks.
Soil erosion reaches 20-30% of the area of the entire country, which is extremely high. Most of the soil cover of the Meadow Aukstauta is eroded (63-65%). Swampy and waterlogged soils occupy 3-5% of the country's territories, mainly in the northeast.
Climate
The climate of Aukstauta is humid continental with warm summers. The highest temperature is observed in August to 31.6 °C, and the minimum level reaches -28.8 °C in January. The month with the lowest temperatures is January, the daily temperature average is -9.4 °C. The warmest month is August with an average temperature of 22.9 °C. The average air temperature in Aukstauta, based on observations, is estimated at 8.3°C. For the period of the year: days of clear weather - 70, snowy days - 82, rainy days - 128, cloudy days - 86.
The territory of Aukstauta is located in a zone of risky farming. Due to the long winter, many crops do not take root here. Snow usually falls from November to April. The first snow usually falls in October. The soil thaws completely by the end of April.
Thunderstorms often occur in May and June, often accompanied by hail. However, despite heavy rains in spring and summer, there are no major floods in Aukstauta. The highest humidity is observed in December (94%). The lowest in September (53%). Cloud cover reaches 98% in February, and only 41% in July.
| Jan. | Feb. | Mar. | Apr. | May | Jun. | Jul. | Aug. | Sep. | Oct. | Nov. | Dec. | |
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temperature |
-9,4 | -0,2 | 1,8 | 10,2 | 11,8 | 20,0 | 20,9 | 22,9 | 19,4 | 6,8 | 1,5 | -5,8 |
| Min °C | -15,4 | -4,1 | -3,2 | 6,1 | 5,9 | 15,1 | 15,7 | 15,0 | 11,1 | 3,7 | -1,2 | -10,1 |
| Max °C | -7,0 | 1,1 | 3,4 | 12,7 | 15,2 | 23,5 | 25,2 | 24,0 | 20,8 | 7,9 | 2,9 | -4,0 |
| Pressure | 761 | 755 | 765 | 759 | 765 | 768 | 761 | 761 | 766 | 758 | 755 | 758 |
| Humidity | 89% | 91% | 88% | 78% | 68% | 77% | 70% | 61% | 53% | 75% | 81% | 94% |
| Cloud cover | 80% | 98% | 89% | 89% | 49% | 49% | 41% | 57% | 57% | 89% | 88% | 94% |
| Sunny days | 6 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Snowy days | 16 | 20 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 18 |
| Rainy days | 0 | 2 | 7 | 21 | 15 | 22 | 16 | 15 | 8 | 15 | 7 | 0 |
| Dully days | 9 | 7 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 12 | 11 |
Flora and fauna
Flora
The flora of Aukstauta is represented by vascular plants characteristic of Eastern Europe. Coniferous plants are mainly represented by pines, especially numerous in the north of the country. There are also fir trees. Many people grow thuja. Pine is one of the main types of wood used in Aukstauta. Deciduous trees are represented in smaller numbers. Birch, linden, maple, ash, and elm trees are common among them. The most rare and valuable are oak and hazel. The oak has long been revered by the Galindians as a sacred tree.
Sedge, clover, and dandelion are common among the underlying grasses. Wild strawberries can be found in meadows among the grass. In the swamps, among different types of mosses and lichens, you can find lingonberries, boneberries, Arctic raspberry, cloudberries. Residents of Aukstauta grow not only strawberries, but also strawberries, raspberries, currants, gooseberries, raspberries, blackberries and other berries. Attempts are being made to introduce mulberry.
Residents of Aukstauta grow garden fruit plants, including apple, pear, plum, cherry. Wheat, rye, and oats predominate among cereals. The acreage is also allocated for fodder corn.
Among the rare plants identified as endangered species, there are winter-loving umbellate (Chimaphila umbellata), magnificent carnation (Dianthus superbus), Baltic finger-root (Dactylorhiza majalis ssp. baltica), European woodland (Sanicula europaea). There are also several varieties of ferns growing on the territory of Aukstauta.
One of the country's biggest environmental problems is the spread of hogweed, an invasive species introduced in the 1920s and 1930s. At that time it was used as a feed for cattle, but since the 1990s, when agriculture in Russia declined, its spread has become uncontrollable. Human contact with the juice of the plant causes burns to the mucous membrane and skin. In addition, the plant is a weed whose root is quite difficult to remove.
Aukstauta is home to many species of fungi. Among them: porcini mushroom, boletus, aspen, russula, chanterelle, honeydew, lactarius (called solyushka), boletus, various types of toadstools and fly agarics.
Fauna
The animal world of Aukstauta is represented by numerous species of birds, including the country's symbol - the raven depicted on the national flag.
The avifauna of Aukstauta is represented by a large number of species of ducks and waders. The most common types of ducks are mallard and grey duck. There are shelduck, wigeon, shoveler, goldeneye and others. Among the waders, there are migratory lapwing, great spindle, teal, garganey, marsh sandpiper, plover, fifi, necktie, snipe, ruff, great curlew, small plover, red-browed bird. White-fronted geese, hummingbirds, grey heron, gulls, black marsh tern, and hissing swan nest in wetlands.
Aukstauta is home to a large number of small birds, such as the pipit, anthus, the blackbird, the cedar, the yellow-headed kinglet, the yellow-hammer, the bunting, the bullfinch, the tap, the field sparrow. Finches, marsh warblers, oakbills, wagtails, linnets. There are particularly large numbers of barnacles and coastal swallows that create nests in the dumps of soil along the shores of quarries.
The country is home to a wide variety of species of birds of prey, including field harrier, buzzard, white-tailed eagle, kestrel, black kite, hobby, marsh owl, marsh harrier, lesser and greater spotted eagle, osprey and red-footed falcon.
Grouse and capercaillie can be observed in the forests of Aukstauta. The black grouse, along with the grey partridge, which lives in large numbers in the country, has long been the subject of hunting, but now it is protected by the red book. There is also a capercaillie in the forests. The vast fields of Meadow Aukstauta become the first point on the way of the flight of gray cranes from the Republic of the United Volosts to the south and back. The main symbol of the country, the raven, can often be confused with the rook that lives here.
Mammals are represented primarily by European moose, fallow deer, as well as numerous small predators such as the introduced American mink, ermine and weasel. It is not uncommon for the European lynx, which lives further north, to enter the country, as well as other predators such as foxes, very rarely wolves and bears. There are many different rodents, such as the European beaver, introduced muskrat, squirrel, hare and many species of voles, brown-toothed and mice. Among insectivores, hedgehogs and moles are found.
There are three types of frogs among amphibians: brown, grass, sharp-faced, as well as common toad and common newt. In the Middle Ages, the country was inhabited by a fire salamander exterminated by alchemists, for the restoration of which a government program is being developed. Among the reptiles there are a viviparous lizard, a grass snake, an ordinary viper and a feral red-eared turtle. Rivers and lakes are home to a large number of different species of fish: ide, perch, pike, crucian carp, bleak, introduced small bream, silver bream, sunbleak, roach asp. Aukstauta is home to various species of slugs and snails, including grape snails. The painter's mussel lives in the rivers, which, along with snails, is an important ingredient in Aukstautian cuisine.
History
The history of Aukstautian statehood dates back to October 2022. It was then that Puigdemontec was formed, the founding body that issued the Word "on the formation of the Escaltian state".
Prehistoric times
The first people in the territory of modern Aukstauta appeared at the turn of the Pleistocene-Holocene, after the Valdai maximum, about 16 thousand years ago. These were representatives of the Rossetian culture, who settled along the shores of ancient rivers and lakes. The speakers led a nomadic lifestyle. In the 8th millennium BC, the Butovo culture of nomads who lived in the chums and hunted reindeer with bows and arrows borrowed from the Kunda culture from the Baltics was formed on the site of the Rossetian culture. In the 5th millennium BC, the Butovo culture evolved into the Upper Volga culture. Representatives of culture left the oldest archaeological sites in the country, such as Zamostye-2. These were the inhabitants of the coasts of rivers and lakes, who were engaged in hunting and harpoon fishing. The Upper Volga people knew pottery, which used the droppings of waterfowl, but no pottery was found at the Zamostye-2 camp.
Y-chromosomal haplogroup R1b1a1 (xR1b1a1a,xR1b1a1b) and mitochondrial haplogroup U5a2+16294 were isolated from representatives of the Upper Volga culture.
At the same time, the migration of carriers of pit-comb ceramics begins from the north, a local variant of which developed into the Lyalovo culture. Scientists are arguing about whether these were the ancestors of modern Finno-Ugrians or some other people. It is known for sure that it was the Lyalovites who brought with them the laponic component, which influenced the descendants of the Upper Volgars - Volosovites.
Volosovo culture and migration of Proto-Indo-Europeans
In the 4th millennium BC, the Upper Volga culture, under the influence of the Lyalovites, evolved into the Volosovo culture. On the territory of the Republic of United Parishes, archaeologists discovered the Volosovite Nikolo-Perevoz-I camp. The Volosovites were able to process flint, bone, and amber. They were engaged in agriculture, as indicated by the hoe-like tools. The ceramics of the Volosovites were strongly influenced by the dimpled comb, which inclines scientists to define the Volosovites as a Proto-Finno-Ugric people. The Volosovites had their own totemic cult, which included the veneration of the bear, moose and marten as sacred animals. There was a complicated funeral rite. Despite the fact that hunting and fishing continued to play a significant role in the life of the Volosovites, they lived sedentary and engaged in agriculture. It is confirmed that they managed to domesticate the dog, perhaps they started breeding pigs.
The Volosovites were well armed. They made spears, arrows and darts out of flint and wood. This greatly helped them in the 3rd millennium BC, when the migration of some of the bearers of the culture of battle axes and the ancestors of some of the modern Aukstautians - Fatyanovites began from the west.
The bearers of the Fatyanovo culture were militant Proto-Indo-Europeans, who, according to the assumption of Aukstautian anthropologists, are not only the ancestors of modern Indo-Aryans (including Indians), but also the Balts, their closest genetic relatives. The modern Aryan Indians are dominated by the Y-chromosomal haplogroup R1a Z93, which was found in the Fatyanovite people. In turn, the Balts are the bearers of the R1a Z92 closest to it, that is, the Fatyanovites were the closest relatives of the Galindians in this territory. They were armed and aggressive nomads who used horse-drawn chariots for movement, as well as weapons such as stone battle axes, flint knives, bows and darts. There are suggestions that there was a conflict between the Aryans and Proto-Finno-Ugrians, as evidenced by the military burial of the Fatyanovites in the area of the Volosovo settlement of Nikolo-Perevoz. However, tribal relations were not always hostile.
Arias were the first nomadic pastoralists in the region, thanks to which lactose tolerance spread among them, reaching up to 17%. Pig farming was at the heart of agriculture. Goats and sheep were bred. Later, horses and cows. In everyday life, the dog laika helped people. Millet and spelt were grown. In addition to agriculture, the Arias mastered metallurgy, were able to process copper and bronze. They were engaged in beekeeping. It is thanks to the Fatyanovites that honey has become one of the main products of the Aukstautian cuisine.
The Fatyanovite people had social inequalities and castes. The fire cult, the forerunner of Zoroastrianism, was born. There was also a cult of various predatory animals, especially the bear, which the Fatyanovites buried as a human being, probably taking it for the first ancestor of humans. Medicine began to develop among the Fatynovites. There are traces of trepanation of the skull.
Soviet historian and archaeologist Lev Klein suggested that the Dnieper Balts (including Galindians) are descendants of the Fatyanovites. This opinion was fixed in Soviet science. In the atlas "Peoples of the European part of the USSR" of 1964, published by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, it is indicated that Galindians are descended from the Fatyanovites. This is the opinion of modern Aukstautian eugenics.
After Fatyanovites
After the migration of the Fatyanovites to the east, the bearers of the Pozdnyakovo culture came from the south, bringing the corpse-burning and gold processing technology. The direct ancestors of the modern Finno-Ugrians, the bearers of the Culture of mesh ceramics, came from the northeast, who brought with them either a funeral rite associated with the drowning of the deceased, or pile houses-mausoleums, which would later appear among their descendants - Dyakovites.
After the meeting of the Pozdnyakovo people with the bearers of the culture of mesh ceramics, the latter assimilated them. Thus, the entire territory of Aukstauta remained in the area of residence of the early Finno-Ugric tribes, the ancestors of the Merya tribe.
The Finno-Ugric period
Scientists consider climate change to be one of the main reasons for the continued prosperity of the Finno-Ugric peoples compared to the Indo-Europeans forced to migrate, which has become unfavorable for pastoralists, but convenient for plant growers. In the 7th century BC, a local variant of the Culture of mesh ceramics developed into the Dyakovo culture of the Merya and Ves' peoples. Later, from the south, they were approached by the tribes of the Moschino culture, which some scientists identify with the ancestors of Galindians. Dyakovites were engaged in the cultivation of millet, barley, wheat, hemp and flax. They bred horses (primarily for food), cows and pigs. The most important commercial animal was the beaver, which the Dyakovites not only ate, but also made skins, which were later exported abroad, from where Scythian gold was imported, with which the dragon style in architecture came. Grouse and grouse were valued among the game, pike and giant catfish among the fish.
Dyakovites lived in settlements.
Initially, they lived in round semi-dugouts with a gable roof, which indicates a heavy snow cover in winter. Later, longhouses were built. Then they were replaced by smaller square houses, which indicates the decomposition of the tribal system. The religious cult of the Dyakovites was strongly influenced by the Balts, from whom they adopted the cult of Perkunas (the god of thunder), whom they called Pur'gine-paz. However, the fundamental cosmogony of the Dyakovites was special. It is based on the myth of the birth of the universe from the egg of the universe, laid by a duck. The Dyakovites buried their deceased relatives in pile houses - "houses of the dead", which became the prototype of the fabulous house of the Eastern European witch Baba Yaga.
At the beginning of our era, the Dyakovite culture decomposed into the chronicle tribes of Merya and all. The first one lived on the territory of Aukstauta. Meryans brought most of the toponyms to the land of Aukstauta, including Yakhroma, meaning "river with lakes".
Slavic migrations
In the 5th-6th centuries AD, Slavs penetrated the territory of modern Aukstauta, namely, the Krivich tribal union, which a limited number of scientists attribute to the Balts. No Krivich mounds have been found directly on the territory of Aukstauta, however, it rises into their range. More precisely, it was a place of contact and mixing of Krivichs and Meryans.
Together with Meryans and Krivichs participated in the "vocation" of Norman Rurik, around whose power the Ancient Russian state was formed. At the same time, Galindians did not participate in this process, occupying an intermediate position between the State of Rurik and the Khazar khaganate, which included Vyatichs. However, there is a possibility that Galindians, who lived on the territory of modern Aukstauta, was under the conditional, but Rurik's rule, since she had strong ties with the local Slavic and Finno-Ugric population.
The Classical Middle Ages
The first mention of Galindians as a nation dates back to 1058, when Izyaslav Yaroslavich of Kiev went on a military campaign against the tribe and defeated it. Again, it is difficult to judge whether the prince fought with all the representatives of the tribe, or only with the bulk who lived in the Protva River basin. It can definitely be argued that part of the Galindians, who lived on the territory of modern Aukstauta, after some time came under the control of the Rostov princes, no earlier than 1096.
In 1146-1147, during the internecine struggle of the Olgovichi and Davidovichi, Prince Svyatoslav of Chernigov conquered Galindians, whose lands were divided between the principalities of Chernigov and Rostov. The territory of modern Aukstauta turned out to be in the possession of the Rostov-Suzdal Principality. In 1154, Yuri Dolgoruky founded the fortress city of Dmitrov, which in the future will become the center of the appanage principality, which will include the territory of Aukstauta. From about this time, the actual Christianization of the local population began, as well as its infusion into the ancient Russian community. Previously, the local population adhered to mixed paganism, as evidenced by the toponym Perunov hill, at the foot of which the border of Aukstauta runs. The object of worship of local residents that has survived to this day is the Kindyakovo stone, located in the Turbichevo district. Pagan worship around the sacred stone continues to persist in the region.
In 1207, the territories of modern Aukstauta turned out to be part of the large feudal principality of Pereyaslavl-Zalessky headed by Yaroslav II. In 1238, the principality was attacked by the Mongol invasion. Dmitrov and probably the surrounding lands were devastated.
The Late Middle Ages
After the death of Yaroslav II, the Galich-Dmitrov Principality, headed by Konstantin Yaroslavich, gained independence (1247). In 1282, Prince Svyatoslav Yaroslavich of Tver, as part of the internecine war in Zalesian Rus', made a military campaign against Dmitrov through the lands of Aukstauta. This was Tver's first blow to the Dmitrov lands, which resulted in the strengthening of the border in the 14th century. The strongest and hardiest people guarding the border began to move to the territory of modern Aukstauta.
After the collapse of the unified Galich-Dmitrov Principality, Dmitrov became a separate state. The economy of the Dmitrov Principality was based on transit trade. The fact is that the lands of the principality lay between Moscow and the Volga. In order to get to the Volga, Moscow merchants had to travel a long way along the Moscow and Oka rivers and pass half of the Upper Volga route upstream, or from the Klyazma River along the Yakhroma, Sestra and Dubna rivers to get to myto - Tver customs point at the confluence of the Dubna with the Volga. This route was much shorter and safer, but the water area of the rivers was under the control of Dmitrov, for which Moscow merchants paid high duties. Thus, the main river of Aukstauta Yakhroma becomes an important trade artery, which contributed to the development of settlements along its banks.
In addition, the lands of modern Aukstauta have become an important agricultural center. Here the Dmitrov peasants grew bread, which was sold or exchanged to the Belozersk Principality, from where fish and salt were imported.
In 1334, the Dmitrov Principality became a vassal of the Moscow Principality. During the reign of Prince Dmitry Borisovich, Sergius of Radonezh and his disciples lived and performed monastic feats on the territory of the Dmitrov estate. One of the disciples, the Monk Methodius, who, with the blessing of the mentor of the Trinity Monastery (the future Trinity-Sergius Lavra), went to the deserts on the Yakhroma River, where he gathered around himself zealots of Salvation. In 1361, he founded the Saint Nicholas monastery, which was not only a place where the monastic community lived, but also a major outpost on the way of the Tver Principality.
In 1428, there was the first mention in the chronicle of Rogachevo (present Ragsanai which is the capital of Aukstauta). It got its name from a medieval type of weapon - a slingshot (called Rogatina in Russian), which the inhabitants of the Dmitrov frontier used to repel the attacks of the Tver Principality, which took place in the 15th century. Ragsanai is mentioned as a settlement transferred by Prince Peter Dmitrievich to the ownership of Saint Nicholas monastery. At the same time, this was not the prince's only donation to the religious center. It is known that he invested a lot of money in its development. In the same year, the village of Dyatelino (Dyatlino) was first mentioned, transferred by Princess Euphrosyne, Peter's wife, to the ownership of the Moscow Epiphany Monastery.
In 1436, the villages of Bunyatino, Abramtsevo and Sinkovo were first mentioned. In 1447, they were listed as the property of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. In the same year, the settlements of Vedernitsy and Konchinino, also owned by the Trinity Sergius Monastery, were mentioned for the first time.
In 1489, after the capture of the Vyatka Republic, the state of Novgorodian pirates called Ushkuiniki, by the Moscow Principality, the Vyatka merchants were resettled on the banks of the Yakhroma River. It was then that the Veche traditions were brought to Aukstauta, which are preserved to this day.
Under Prince Yuri Ivanovich, the lands of not only the future Aukstauta, but also the Republic of United Parishes, were united under Dmitrov. Further, until 1569, when the last Dmitrov Prince Andrei Ivanovich was put to death by Ivan IV, a number of new settlements appeared on the territory of modern Aukstauta. In 1553, Tsar Ivan IV personally visited Saint Nicholas monastery.
Polish-Lithuanian invasion
When the dynasty of the Moscow Rurik dynasty was suppressed in Russia in 1598, the Troubles began. The events of this period also affected the territories of modern Aukstauta. In November 1611, during the Russian-Polish War of 1608-1618, the army of Lithuanian Hetman Jan Karol Khodkevich, among 2,000 people, approached the walls of Saint Nicholas monastery. The army stood 7 kilometers (4.35 miles) away and gave the order to open the gates. Monks, servants and peasants refused to obey Khodkevich's orders. Khodkevich's detachment began a siege of the fortress, after which it was stormed and looted, and the monks defending it were killed.
According to Hieromonk Hieronymus: "These murdered knights of Pesnu proved their loyalty to their fatherland, they would rather die a martyr's body than participate in traitors and enemies of Russia." The names of the monks who defended the fortress were entered into the Synod for eternal commemoration.
In 1683, a stone was found containing the names of the defenders of the fortress. In total, 18 monks were mentioned: Jonah, Barlaam, Nikita, Jacob, Gennady, Herodion, Barlaam, Anthony, Filaret, Euphemia, Hilarion, Dionysius, Serapion, Simeon, Galaktion, David, Tryphon and Gerasim.
Khodkevich's detachments held the monastery until September 1612, when Russian militias led by Minin and Pozharsky began a liberation campaign against Moscow, also occupied by the troops of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Under the command of Chodkiewicz were the most selected thugs from among the Polish and Lithuanian troops. In the case of the Moscow Battle, it was important whose detachment would approach the city faster: Dmitry Petrovich Lopata-Pozharsky, the leader of the second militia, or Hetman Khodkevich. Khodkevich moved towards Moscow. In Rogachevo, he was joined by a detachment of Ataman Zarutsky's Cossacks among several thousand people. His goal was to intercept the second militia. It is known that Khodkevich and Zarutsky conducted some negotiations in Rogachevo. Their topic and content are unknown, but it is likely that a plan to intercept the Lopata-Pozharsky detachment was discussed. Later, Zarutsky went along the Kolomna road to Mikhailov, and Khodkevich continued his movement to Moscow. However, Minin and Pozharsky approached her a day earlier, which allowed them to take Moscow.
Modern era
During the reign of the first Romanovs, trade duties were levied from the village of Ragsanai, which indicated a large turnover in these lands. However, now it was not the waterway along the rivers that mattered, but the land route, along the roads connecting Dmitrov and Klin, as well as Moscow and Korcheva. Rogachevo was located at the intersection of these roads. The Korcheva tract passed through Rogachevo, Pozdnyakovo and Alexandrovo.
The anti-clerical riot in Rogachevo
In 1744, a rumor spread among the peasants living in Rogachevo that they had been declared free and no longer belonged to Saint Nicholas monastery. However, the rumor did not correspond to reality, which resulted in a revolt of the surrounding peasants against the abbots of the monastery. A detachment of soldiers was sent to suppress the protests. The peasants dealt harshly with him: the soldiers were beaten, and the captain was killed with a bayonet. In response, on the instructions of the Senate of the Russian Empire, a new detachment was sent to Rogachevo, which subdued the rebels.
In 1764, Catherine II issued a decree on the secularization of church possessions, after which most of the villages became the property of the State College of Economy. This had a beneficial effect on the economy of the surrounding villages, as the monastic trade moved there.
Most of the settlements of Aukstauta were founded between 1766 and 1770, due to the displacement of peasants after the secularization of church possessions.
In the 18th century, several Orthodox churches were built on the territory of modern Aukstauta: St. George's Church in Ivanovskoye (1715) (on the site burned by Polish-Lithuanian interventionists in 1611-1612), the Church of the Renewal of the Resurrection of Christ in Dyatlovo churchyard (1743), also on the site of a wooden church destroyed during the years of Troubles, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Goveynovo (1790).
In the 18th century, local merchants traded throughout the Russian Empire, including St. Petersburg and Moscow. It was then that the large merchant families were born: Moshkins, Sarafanovs, Blinovs, Kvaskovs, Mochalovs, Gordeevs.
The French Invasion of 1812
During the Russian-French War of 1812, the territory of Aukstauta was in the zone of occupation of the French troops of Napoleon Bonaparte. French troops marched a few versts from the Saint Nicholas monastery at the end of August. After the capture of Moscow on September 14 (2), Napoleon sent a detachment of Alexis Joseph Delzon to Dmitrov to take control of the Kashin tract. From the village of Nechaevo (now Pokrovsky district), a local resident nicknamed Komoly went to meet the French in Dmitrov. In Sinkovo, he met two Frenchmen riding horses. Kolomy plunged his bayonet into one of the Frenchmen so hard that he immediately died.
In modern Aukstauta, Kolomy is revered as a national hero.
Residents of Rogachevo and surrounding villages began to leave with their property and cattle to the remote Ramenye forests (now Karavayevo parish of RUP). The French cavalry could not physically pass there, and therefore the forests became a reliable shelter.
The detachments of General Delzon entered Dmitrov by the beginning of October 1812. In response, a detachment of Sergei Grigoryevich Volkonsky left the Wedge controlled by the Russian Empire, which, having passed through Aukstauta, was in Dmitrov already on October 1. However, he did not see Delzon there. The French looted the food warehouses in the city and moved back to the deserted Moscow to Napoleon. When the French retreated from Moscow, it was set on fire. The fire of the burning city was clearly visible from Ragsanai, located more than 70 kilometers away.
Anyway, during the French occupation, the territories of Aukstauta were not looted. Residents returned from the surrounding forests to their villages in October, when the occupation was lifted by Russian troops.
19th century
In the 19th century, church and manor stone construction flourished on the territory of modern Aukstauta.
A few years before the war with Napoleon, one of the oldest surviving stone churches of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, built in 1807, was built in the village of Kulikovo. After the war, several more stone churches were built on the territory of modern Aukstauta, including the church of the icon "Joy of All Who Mourn" in Ivanovskoye on the site of a wooden one built in 1715 (chapels were added to it in 1836), the Intercession Church in the village of the same name (1834), the Saint Elijah Church in Sinkovo (1812-1824) and the church St. Nicholas in Podmoshye (1819-1822).
At that time, there were a number of noble estates on the territory of modern Aukstauta. The village of Boblovo has been the patrimony of the Molozhennikov family since time immemorial. At the beginning of the 19th century, it was acquired by the Naumovs in 1814, Novosiltsev settled here, and from 1817 to 1862 the estate belonged to the great-grandson of the Georgian Prince Egor Leontievich Dadiani, Egor Alexandrovich, knight of the Order of Malta. Having fallen into disgrace for his free-thinking, he spent most of his time here. Princes Fonvizin, Volkonsky and Davydov often visited him, as well as the poet Pyotr Ivanovich Shalikov, who praised the estate in his poetry and prose.
The oldest preserved manor is Tarakanovo, which since the end of the 17th century belonged to the Tarakanov nobles. There they are building a wooden church of the Archangel Michael, and in 1764 Captain Ivan Tarakanov built a stone temple. Under the Tarakanovs, an annual November fair was held in the village, which attracted merchants and burghers. Later, both Boblovo and Tarakanovo will become part of the possessions of the large Mendeleev and Blok families.
The only settlement in Aukstauta, founded in the 19th century, is the village of Trekhdenevo (1859).
The second half of the 19th century
In 1861, serfdom was abolished in the Russian Empire. Most of the peasants living on the lands of modern Aukstauta were not serfs, but state ones, but now they were all equalized in rights and opportunities. This meant the beginning of the development of capitalist relations, including the formation of a class of wealthy peasants - "kulaks". Peasants could now engage in entrepreneurship and trade freely, which had a beneficial effect on the economic situation in Rogachevo and the surrounding villages. This is evidenced by the following figures: in 1885, 50 shops, 6 inns, 4 drinking establishments and a hotel were operating in Rogachevo. 4 tanneries and 1 glue factory were also opened. Every year after Easter, on the tenth Friday, the St. Nicholas Fair was held, which attracted up to 10 thousand people. The turnover for the year reached 1,000,000 rubles, which, translated into modern dollars, is equal to $ 18,539,841.81. The local peasantry and merchants grew rich.
In 1861-1886, at the expense of the merchant Moshkins and Gordeevs, one of the largest rural cathedrals in the empire was built - Nikolsky. It was built in the Russian-Byzantine style, which was part of the Art Nouveau style, which was already popularized in civil architecture in the 20th century. In the period from 1861 to 1900, a public garden with a boulevard, a two-grade school, a zemstvo hospital with an outpatient clinic, a private pharmacy, a post office, a free library, a public almshouse and an icon painting institution appeared in Ragsanai.
In 1873, the famous Polish architect Vladislav Osipovich Grudzin created the Trinity Church in the village of Turbichevo in the eclectic style in Turbichevo.
At the same time, a large family nest of famous figures of science and art, representatives of noble families, who after the abolition of serfdom began to devote more and more time to cultural activities, is emerging on the territory of Aukstauta. In 1865, Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev, the inventor of the Mendeleev table, and Nikolai Pavlovich Ilyin, director of the St. Petersburg Institute of Technology, bought the Boblovo estate for 16 thousand rubles. Mendeleev spent the summer months at the estate from 1865 to 1906. In 1887, Dmitry Mendeleev made a balloon flight from the city of Klin to Spas-Ugol (now RUP) to observe a solar eclipse. This was witnessed by the artist Ilya Yefimovich Repin. In 1874, the grandfather of the poet Alexander Alexandrovich Blok, Andrei Nikolaevich Beketov, acquired the Shakhmatovo estate near the village of Gudino. Alexander Blok spent the summer months in Shakhmatovo from 1881 to 1916. The families of Mendeleev and Blok were friendly. They visited each other several times. Alexander Blok met Dmitry Mendeleev's daughter Lyubov, whom he married in 1903 in the village of Boblovo.
At the same time, the Russian writer Nikolai Ivanovich Poznyakov lived in the Pokrovskoye estate.
Pre-revolutionary 20th century
At the beginning of the 20th century, the brick style penetrated into Aukstauta, which became part of the civil architecture of that time. The clearest example that has survived to this day is the Titinkin house in Ragsanai. In 1903, the chapel of the Holy Trinity in Abramtsevo was built, the Ilyinsky Church in Sinkovo was expanded, and in 1905 the stone Trinity Church was built in the village of Sysoevo according to the project of architect Sergei Konstantinovich Rodionov.
In 1906, the Minister of Internal Affairs and Prime Minister of the Russian Empire, Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin, began his famous Land Reform, thanks to which a class of kulaks, wealthy peasants using the labor of hired farm labourers, was already forming at the official level. The trading village of Rogachevo and the surrounding villages were the center of concentration of the prosperous peasantry.
At the same time, noble families continue to live and develop. In 1907, Mendeleev died. In 1910, the Block rebuilt the Shakhmatovo estate. In the same year, the Pokrovskoye estate was acquired by physicist Fyodor Yakovlevich Kapustin, who was the nephew of Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev, as well as a colleague of Alexander Stepanovich Popov, the inventor of radio. By the way, Alexander Popov himself often visited Mendeleev. It was in Aukstauta, in 1899, that radio communication was first established between the villages of Babaiki and Boblovo.
The events of 1905-1907 did not radically affect the territories of Aukstauta, even despite its close location and ties with the revolutionary Markov Republic in the neighboring Volokolamsk district. During the First World War, part of the population of Aukstauta was mobilized, and many went to the front on their own. There are some German and Austro-Hungarian operative map has been preserved, which depicts the lands of modern Aukstauta. The February (March) Revolution of 1917 was well received, when cooperatives began to be created that contributed to the enrichment of the bourgeoisie class.
The October Revolution of 1917
On October 25 (November 7), 1917, an armed uprising took place in Petrograd under the command of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, which later became known as the October Revolution. The ideas of the Bolsheviks who came to power were alien to the well-to-do population of Rogachevo, who exploited local farm labourers. However, until August 1918, the locals were calm about the new government, as it did not limit them in any way.
Kulak rebellion in Rogachevo
The attitude of local residents towards the Soviet government changed when it introduced an extraordinary revolutionary tax. The executive committee of Rogachevo parish decided to cheat. The tax was collected from every yard. The most influential merchants of Rogachevo, together with the leadership, equipped two barges and went to Rybinsk to purchase kerosene, which was in short supply at that time. However, in Rybinsk, the security officers seized money and merchants and warned them not to speculate in the future. Upon returning to the village, the merchants told the locals that the money had been taxed, but soon the chekists would come for an additional one, which would be accompanied by the looting of church valuables of St. Nicholas Cathedral and Saint Nicholas monastery.
On August 11, 1918, a conflict broke out at a parish gathering between local residents and representatives of the Soviet government. Residents were outraged by the decision of the Dmitrov Committee of the Poor on the additional seizure of grain and other property. The food contractors who arrived from Dmitrov, led by Nikolai Osipov, were beaten and shot by local residents. On August 12, a detachment of Red Guards arrived from Dmitrov, and then a detachment of Latvian riflemen arrived from Moscow. During the cleansing of the village, the instigators of the uprising were captured and shot, after which they were buried at St. Nicholas Cathedral. The food contractors killed the day before were solemnly reburied in the center of Dmitrov.
After Revolution
The sad events did not end with the Ragsanai uprising. On the other hand, residents of the surrounding villages who supported the Bolsheviks burned the Boblovo estate in 1919, and in 1921, after the death of Alexander Blok, the peasants burned Shakhmatovo. Only Kapustin managed to live in Pokrovsky until his death in 1936. Since 1918, the electrification of the surrounding villages has begun. With the outbreak of the Russian Civil War, many residents were mobilized or volunteered for the Red Army. Among them is the future Lieutenant General of the USSR Nikolai Ivanovich Lyamin.
In 1926, the first Leichang bus company appeared in Ragsanai. After the abolition of the NEP in 1929, the process of dispossession began, during which rich peasants were repressed. Most often they were exiled to Siberia or Kazakhstan. So Rogachevo turned from a rich trading village into an ordinary district center, around which collective farms and state farms began to form. Local residents later suffered during the Stalinist repressions, one of the initiators of which was, by coincidence, Ivan Terentyevich Golyakov, a native of Aukstauta.
In the 1930s, most of the temples on the territory of modern Aukstauta were closed and turned into warehouses, workshops and clubs. A psychiatric hospital was opened on the territory of Saint Nicholas monastery.
In 1935-1957, the territories of modern Aukstauta were part of the Communist District of the Moscow region. Rogachevo was its administrative center.
The German occupation
On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany attacked the USSR. On November 26, the battle for the village of Ragsanai began. The left flank group of troops of the 30th A, under the command of its Chief G. I, Khetagurov.
Khetagurov, conducted mobile defense on the Klin-Dmitrov highway. The German advance was held back by tanks and motorized rifles, and the cavalry had to hit the German troops from a forest ambush. The 14th Motorized Infantry Division was moving from the Wehrmacht. It had two infantry regiments (11th and 53rd) and one artillery regiment — 14th. In addition, the division had two more battalions reporting directly to the division commander: the 14th Reconnaissance and the 54th motorcycle. In total, this gives 8 battalions. The division was assigned the 210th and 660th batteries of self-propelled assault guns. The strength of the Wehrmacht division at the time of November 26 was 3,864 people (25% of the full-time strength). Only 4 of the 8 battalions of the Wehrmacht group participated in the attack on Ragsanai. By the end of the day on November 25, the 14th Division occupied the following position: 2nd bat. 11th ir - Pokrovskoye, 1st bat. 11th ir - Petrovka, 14th reconnaissance battalion - Nov. Village, 2nd bat 53rd ir — Dorshevo. On the morning of November 26, fighting broke out for the village of Petrovka, which was captured by Soviet Major Gauga, killing 150 and wounding 300 Germans. At 8 a.m., the initiative went over to the Germans. 1st bat. on the 11th ir marched from Petrovka to Nechaevo. The battle for D. Nechaevo lasted for several hours. The Germans note the persistent and active defense of this village.
"The Russians, supported by medium tanks, conducted counterattacks from various directions. Often these attacks brought the Russians up to 80 m closer to [our] own lines.
Russian tank attacks are repelled by fire strikes from self-propelled assault guns. In the intense forest battle, the 1st Battalion only slowly advanced. After the elimination of strong flanking fire from the woods
at Nechaevo, the place was able to be captured. At the same time, Lieutenant Wirtz of the 2nd company fell and Lieutenant Spilling of the same company was wounded."
At 12:10 German troops met stubborn resistance near the village of Mikhalevo. These difficulties forced the enemy to look for a solution in abandoning a frontal strike along the highway to Rogachevo. Apparently, the situation caused serious concern at the division headquarters. Otherwise, it is impossible to explain the fact that the 1st officer of the General Staff of the division personally left for the second battalion. After that, Khetagurov retreated without authorization. Between 13 and 14 o'clock, another group of German troops from Cherneyevo was supposed to strike at Alexandrovo and Searchlight (Lugovoye), but the Chernevo-Alexandrovo road does not exist to this day, and therefore the command decided to attack Kochergino. After taking the height of 161.0, the Searchlight (Lugovoy) was in the field of view, but the attack on it had to be postponed due to the beginning of the Soviet attack from Ragsanai. There were about 1,500 Red Army soldiers in the capital who observed Khetagurov's demoralizing retreat. 2nd bat. on the 11th pp took Kopylovo and turned east in the direction of Alyoshino. The 1st bat. of the 11th pp captured Sofrygino and Bogdanovo and advanced from 14.45 hours to Bezborodovo. 14th intelligence unit. it is still located at a height of 161.0. Nevertheless, before 17.00, the advanced units of the 2nd bat. 11th pp, advancing from Alyoshino, advanced to the southern outskirts of Ragsanai, and the 1st bat. 11th pp reached the northwestern outskirts of Ragsanai. 14th intelligence battalion. He took Kochergino and penetrated from the north into the settlement.
"At 18:15, the adjutant of the 11th Infantry Regiment (motorized) reports that the 1st battalion of the 11th Infantry Regiment broke through the northern part of Rogachevo and took the settlement of Vasilevo, lying 1 km
east of Rogachevo, the 2nd battalion of the 11th Infantry Regiment penetrated with the 2nd company into the southern part of the city. With
this, the city is taken!"
At 21:00, the Germans entered Podvyaznovo. By this time, all the formations of the Red Army had been withdrawn from the Western Aukstauta. The rest of the country was occupied during the next day, at the same time when the Ragsanai cleanup took place.
The inhabitants of Ragsanai received the Germans in different ways. One of the women, whose three sons were at the front, bowed to the Germans and greeted them as "liberators." The Germans themselves arbitrarily slaughtered cattle and poultry while searching for hiding Red Army soldiers. The Nazis introduced compulsory labor service for local residents. There is an episode with children whose labor was used by the Germans in pharmacy warehouses. Astakhov Alyosha, Blokhin Misha, Warriors Semyon, Globa Sasha, Kozhinov Sasha, Negin Boris set fire to a German medicine warehouse, for which they were shot.
Local residents who lost their homes lived in an underground passage connecting St. Nicholas Cathedral and St. Nicholas-Peshnosh Monastery. The course has not been preserved to this day.
On December 9, 1941, the territory of Aukstauta was de-occupied by Soviet troops, who managed to dislodge the Germans from Rogachevo and surrounding villages. The events of World War II in the country were part of the Battle for Moscow, in which the USSR defeated Nazi Germany.
The post-war period until 1967
On May 9, 1945, the Great Patriotic War ended, after which many residents of Aukstauta, mobilized in the Red Army, returned home from Germany. The case that happened 3 days after the end of the Second World War turned out to be unprecedented. Igor Sergeevich Guzenko, a native of Rogachevo, kidnapped and handed over Soviet intelligence to the Canadian military. Canadian historian Jack Granatstein stated that this was "the beginning of the Cold War for public opinion," and Canadian journalist Robert Fulford wrote that he was "absolutely sure that the Cold War began in Ottawa."
Guzenko himself said that he was motivated by resistance to the totalitarian regime in the USSR.
The Guzenko case became one of the starting points for the formation of the concept of Aukstautian statehood, built around the philosophy of Neofolk, including resistance to the Soviet bureaucracy and technocracy, which destroyed the ancient image of the country. Guzenko occupies one of the key places in this concept. His image for Aukstauta means literally the same thing as the image of Yukio Mishima for Japan.
In the 1950s, elements of an anti-aircraft missile defense system were built in the Ragsanai area, which protected Moscow from enemy aircraft during the Cold War. The S-25 and S-125 missile systems were deployed in Ragsanai.
After the war, the modernization of agriculture begins in the territory of Aukstauta. In 1958, the state farms "Yakhromsky", "Dmitrovsky", "Rogachevsky" were organized, created for the development of the Yakhromskaya floodplain. In the central part of the floodplain, a specialized vegetable-growing state farm "Yakhromsky" is being created on the basis of the former agricultural cartels named after Michurin, named after the VII Congress of Soviets, named after Gorkov, as well as branches of the Karpovsky collective farm "Pobeda" and the Sinkovsky collective farm "Flame". Later it was renamed Yakhromsky state farm-technical school, and then the village of Yakhromsky state farm-technical school gets the name Novosinkovo. The agricultural college itself became one of the best in the entire USSR, which it remained until its collapse. The goal was to transform the floodplains of the rivers of Moscow and Yakhroma into large "suburban gardens" that would supply the capital of the USSR with vegetables. In 1959, the Agrogorod vegetable-growing state farm was established in the village. Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev proposed to place the Ministry of Agriculture of the USSR in Novosinkovo.
Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev proposed to place the USSR Ministry of Agriculture in Novosinkovo, but with his resignation from the post of Secretary General, the proposal was rejected. It was only in 1965 that the settlement was officially registered. Anyway, local agriculture was flourishing. During the corn epic of Khrushchev, the fields began to be sown with forage corn, which is largely preserved even now. Swamps are drained in forests and floodplains, riverbeds are straightened, and fields are supplied with water through new reclamation channels. Peat extraction, which was used in agriculture, begins in the marshes.
In 1967, according to the official Aukstautian eugenics, extraordinary events took place all over the world and the very conceptual transition from the "old world" to the "new". The country's historians associate this with the "summer of love" that began in the United States, when, in their opinion, the world was condemned to rapid globalization and the destruction of chamber, local traditionalism in different parts of the world, including the territories of modern Aukstauta.
The second half of the 20th century
In the 1970s, the territory of modern Aukstauta was built up with Soviet panel multi-storey buildings, especially in Ragsanai, Sinkovo, Novosinkovo and Lugovoye. In 1975, the village of Novosinkovo was among the winners of the collective farm settlements competition for the best building. Unfortunately, at the same time, a massive outflow of the population began to the new district center - Dmitrov and Moscow, where it was easier to find a well-paid job. Most of the land holdings of local residents turned into cottages, and mostly elderly people began to stay here on a permanent basis. Children from Moscow came to them for the summer. Especially for those who did not have their own home in the village in the 1980s, pioneer camps began to be built, including the unique camp "Skazka", located in the Autonomy of Mount Volen, organized for the children of employees of the Soviet central printing house "Children's Book".
With the beginning of Perestroika in 1985, agriculture began to decline. Many fields began to empty, overgrown with weeds, including dangerous hogweed, harmful arthropods such as encephalitis mite appeared. Villages began to gradually die out. Despite this, local residents and Muscovites began to actively explore popular outdoor sports in the West, such as downhill skiing and snowboarding, for which they used the hills of modern Aukstauta. Foreign clothes, music, cinema and books began to enter the country.
After the collapse of the USSR in 1991, agricultural enterprises were privatized by private individuals. The missile bunkers and launch stations were abandoned, and the arsenal was removed. The population was in poverty, as well as throughout the former USSR, especially hard enduring the years 1991, 1993 and 1998. Despite this, the period was marked by a revival of church life. Many religious buildings were returned to the faithful. In 1998, the first professional ski resorts in the mountainous part of the country began to open, such as Volen and Stepanovo, later Yakhroma Park.
The modern period before the foundation of the state
After 1998, the work of the Ace of Base music group was especially popularized in the country, and later the musical genres of dark folk and neo-folk, including the bands Death in June, Rome and others. Paradox magazine, which was published in a limited edition until 2004, is becoming especially popular. All of this has become firmly embedded in the cultural code of the Aukstautian people. In 2007, the psychoneurological boarding school in Lugovoye, which had occupied Saint Nicholas Monastery since 1966, transferred it to the church. The times of calm, when local residents could live relatively well, lasted until 2018, until the arbitrariness of the authorities of Putin's Russia in relation to municipal policy began. At that time, municipalities and rural settlements were abolished throughout the Moscow region, which were merged into "urban districts" for simplified management from the center and uncontrolled sale of land for the construction of spontaneous dachas.
The arbitrariness of the land was accompanied by the arbitrariness of garbage. The Russian authorities set up landfills and landfills right in the middle of villages. In addition, in cooperation with private individuals, the demolition of Soviet economic facilities and historical buildings began, the response to which was partly the creation of an Aukstautian statehood.
Since 2016, the Republic of Magnificia has existed on the site of the modern Republic of the United Parishes, which is legally inherited from the point of view of culture and history by Aukstauta. Aukstauta abandoned political succession in 2023.
In addition, since October 17, 2020, the Yakhroma Principality, headed by Prince Daniel I Karpov, existed in the territories of modern Aukstauta and some lands around it. Formally, it was a completely independent state, but it had close ties with Azalistan, where Prince Daniel concurrently held a number of positions and had a residence. However, on November 28 of the same year, Daniel was removed from power and the Yakhroma principality was transformed into the Mountmerovian Jamahiriya, which existed until April 18, 2021, when it was incorporated into the Suorian Kingdom of Alexander Gostunovich and transformed into the Yakhroma viceroyalty (informally). However, with the change of the monarchy in Suoria to the Jamahiriya in October 2021, it abandoned territorial claims in the region on October 15. On the 20th of the same month, the Yahroma People's Jamahiriya was again proclaimed, which, despite its formal independence, remained under the de facto control of Suoria until its abolition on November 9, 2021.
In January 2022, Magnificia, renamed Azalistan, and the Kingdom of Turye, headed by one monarch, were united into a single state by the Lemberg Union. However, with the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the shelling of Lviv belonging to the Lemberg Union by Russian MLRS, disagreements arose between the old aristocracy of Turye and the central government located in Azalistan and the country disintegrated on March 1, 2022. All the possessions of this state remained under the control of the authorities, with the exception, in fact, of Turye. Including the region of Mountain Escaltia, which was located on the site of modern Aukstauta. The region was neither formally nor actually controlled by the ASFSR created on the site of the Kingdom of Azalistan. The territory of the former Mountain Escaltia remained uncontested from March 1 to November 7, 2022.
Kingdom of Escaltia
On November 7, 2022, 97 days after Azalistan joined the Union State of Konakia, Kanazor of Azalistan, Alexander Gostunovich, decides to create a conceptually new state on the lands of the former province of Mountain Escaltia. Initially, the new state was calculated as the national state of the Escaltans, an ethnic group that was being formed on the basis of the Escaltian Empire. The Escaltian ethnic group referred equally to the traditions and culture of the Azalian people and, at the same time, had its own language inspired by Basque (its prototype appeared long before the founding of the country). Unsurprisingly, the original national flag also referred to the Basque Ikurrinya. Officially, the commitment to Basque culture was explained by the fact that during the Spanish Civil War, refugees from the Basque Country were resettled to the area of modern Aukstauta, but in fact this was the result of Alexander Gostunovich's personal love for Basque culture.
On November 7, Alexander Gostunovich releases the Word "On the formation of the Escaltian State" on his behalf. The document proclaimed the creation of the Kingdom of Escaltia in the territories of the former province of Mountain Escaltia. The state was declared a national Escaltian state. A parliamentary monarchy headed by the King of Escaltia. To elect the monarch, a special body was created - Puigdemontec, which was given the right to issue regulations on its behalf before the election of the king.
On November 8, 2022, Escaltia became the 10th member of the Dmitrov League, an organization uniting the micronations of the Moscow region.
On November 9, 2022, Puigdemotek decided to call Daniil Karpov, the former ruler of the Yakhroma Principality, who existed on the lands of modern Aukstauta from October 17 to November 28, 2020, to reign. This was the main argument when choosing Puigdemontec's candidacy. Daniel's throne name began to sound like Daniel I Karpov-Arais. Further, Puigdemontec was formally abolished, and in accordance with the Word "On the formation of the Celtic State", a veche was created, to which the legislative power belonged. However, in fact, the Veche was never convened due to the lack of citizens (there were only two of them).
On the same day, the December War began in neighboring countries in the southeast, caused by the uncertainty of the outcome of the Moscow wars. Escaltia, which proclaimed political and military neutrality at the time of its creation, refused armed intervention, including within the framework of the joint intervention of the Dmitrov League in Ramland and Aniota, however, expressed diplomatic support to the Dmitrov League, justifying the refusal to participate in the armed conflict, including the absence of an army at that time. Also, Escaltia expressed its readiness to supply medicines, tools for weapons, auto parts and technical equipment to members of the Dmitrov League, but none of the powers requested assistance until the end of the war.
On January 14, 2023, Escaltian authorities issued a New Year's greeting, which outlined plans for 2023. These include a diplomatic mission to establish diplomatic ties with the most influential and developed micronations of the Russian segment, programs to improve the institutions of citizenship and law, the economy and the internal structure in general. In addition, the armed neutrality of the country, the support of all monarchical powers, as well as the desire to preserve and develop cultural identity were reaffirmed.
On January 22, 2023, a decree "On the State Structure" was issued on behalf of King Daniel. In accordance with it, a Government was established consisting of five ministers: the Prime Minister, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of the Interior, the Minister of Economic Development and Finance, and the Minister of Defense. The decree ordered the Head of Government (Prime Minister) to appoint the other ministers independently. Also, the position of Prime Minister became elective for 5 years. The Parliament of the Escaltian Kingdom was also established. It was supposed to be bicameral. The lower house of elected deputies was supposed to develop laws, and the upper one, consisting of two representatives from two different leading parties from each region, was supposed to be engaged in their adoption. The monarch became the chairman of the parliament. Three levels of courts were created: Supreme (Constitutional), Local (Regional) and Magistrate. The Chief Justice was to be appointed by the Prime Minister, local judges by the heads of subjects, and magistrates by local ones. The Armed Forces of the Kingdom of Escaltia were also established. The Minister of Defense was appointed their head. The date of the first general election was also set for March 1, 2023. A Constitutional Council was established, consisting of the monarch and the Head of Government, who was tasked with drafting the Constitution of the kingdom. Also, Alexander Buruzagia was appointed acting Head of Government until March 1, 2023.
However, despite the good work of the Constitutional Council, the elections scheduled for March 1 were not held due to staff shortages. In fact, only Buruzagia was engaged in drafting the Constitution, while Daniel abstracted from business. The implementation of the king's decree was actually entirely entrusted to Buruzagia, who could not cope with everything at once, which resulted in a bourgeois revolution.
The Federal Republic of Escaltia
On April 13, 2023, a bourgeois revolution took place in the country, putting an end to the authoritarian rule of the king, who did not use his powers. It was expressed in the adoption of a conceptually new Federal Charter of Escaltia, which marked the beginning of the development of national escaltian law. The title of king was replaced by the title of prince. The monarch's powers were limited. From now on, he could not arbitrarily and single-handedly manage the affairs of public administration except through participation in the Ting, which was replaced by the never-convened parliament. In addition, the prince's heir was henceforth elected by the Government. Despite this, the system of checks and balances between the Prince and the Government was preserved, since the Prince could appoint and dismiss ministers, but only on the advice of the Federal Chancellor, the former Prime Minister. The most important point of the Charter was Article 1 of the Second Word, which proclaimed direct democracy:
"The Charter establishes the principle of direct democracy. Citizens exercise their political rights without intermediaries."
The new legislative body was the Escaltian Ting, in which any citizen of the country could take part. Everyone could propose their own bill. If the bill received 80% of the votes in favor, it should be read out again, interviewing those who disagree with it and making appropriate edits. If, after the second reading, the bill received 95% of the votes in favor, it was considered adopted, sealed by the Chairman of the Ting and sent for announcement by the Federal Chancellor in the Government. If the bill received less than 80% of the votes in favor in both readings, it was considered rejected. The Ting was supposed to take place every Friday, if necessary. If there were no proposals from citizens this week, the meeting was not convened.
The Federal Chancellor actually became the first person of the state. Despite the fact that the prince had the right to personally change ministers, the original composition of the Government was formed by the Federal Chancellor. The powers of the Federal Chancellor himself were not limited in time. Judicial reform was also carried out. Now the amount of punishment for the illegal act committed became identical to the crime. Consequently, such acts as, for example, possession and use of psychotropic substances have been decriminalized. In addition to the fact that the country was proclaimed a republic, despite the preservation of the institution of the monarch, it became federal. The subjects received the rights to their own government, legislation, as well as their own Meetings engaged in the development of regional laws. In addition, the subjects received the right to secede from the country based on the results of the referendum.
The issue of state religion was considered separately. Since paganism and religious fetishism persisted in the mountainous regions of the country, despite the dominant position of Orthodoxy, Christianity (Orthodoxy and Baptism) and paganism (Slavic and Finno-Ugric) were recognized as traditional religions. It was pointed out that Escaltia does not exclude the possibility of being guided by the norms of these religions in lawmaking.
The acquisition of Escaltia's citizenship was limited by certain conditions, akin to macronations, which distinguished its legal system from most other Russian micronations. In particular, it was possible to acquire citizenship for investments in the amount of 130 US dollars once or 11 US dollars monthly during the year of residence on a residence permit.
Interestingly, institutions such as slavery, executions, torture, human violence and blood sacrifices were banned. Currently, slavery in the country is decriminalized. There is talk of decriminalizing blood sacrifices for religious purposes. In addition, according to the Escaltian legislation, the death penalty is provided for premeditated murder, which can be sentenced, but cannot be carried out.
By the Act "On the Adoption of the Federal Charter of Escaltia" dated April 13, 2023, King Daniel adopted the constitution developed by Buruzagia, after which it entered into force. The country was proclaimed a Federal Republic.
On May 5, 2023, the first Rally in the history of the country took place, which was attended by all then citizens among two people. A few days before, A. Buruzagia had a diplomatic correspondence with the head of the Republic of Paulistia, Demyan Karpov, who appealed to the micronations with a request to accept Paulistia into a foreign state. Buruzagia proposed to Karpov to include the republic in the Escaltia on the terms of Paulistia itself. Such a condition was the retention of ex-President Daniel Danilkin as head of the republic. On May 5, Ting unanimously voted to accept Paulistia into the Escaltia. The second bill provided for the creation of three new entities on the territory of Escaltia: The Old Escaltia, Meadow Escaltia and Mountain Escaltia, as well as the Autonomy of Mount Volen were also approved unanimously.
On May 7, the laws adopted at the First Ting were signed and entered into force. Thus, five new subjects were formed within the federation. According to the results of the option of Paulistian citizens, 6 out of 7 agreed to accept Escaltian citizenship and only 1 refused.
On May 12, 2023, the second convocation of the Ting took place. 5 people took part in it, although 2 out of 5 were not active in it. At the Second Meeting, it was decided to establish a National Archive, an International Micronational Court and Tribunal, as well as to establish diplomatic relations with the Tsardom of Gergensed. The bill to change Ting's working hours was rejected by a single vote. On May 15, the National Archives was established. On May 16, the IMCT was established. On May 18, the first Escaltian agreement on mutual recognition and establishment of diplomatic relations was signed. The second party was the Tsardom of Gergensed.
On May 20, the third convocation of the Ting was held, at which the proposal from the "Apanian Federation" to establish diplomatic relations was rejected, and a decision was made to appoint the heads of regions. On May 21, the government website of the republic was put into operation, and on May 22, the first Escaltian radio station began broadcasting. The first broadcast was a short concert by Richard Wagner. On May 23, a decision was made in Paulistia to change the national flag to a project proposed by the federal government.
On May 23, Alexander Buruzagia announced the creation of the first political party in the country. The ideology of Escaltian Republican Party he created became civic nationalism, democracy, social conservatism, Christian democracy and economic liberalism.
On May 25, the heads of the three metropolitan regions were appointed. Nikita Alekseevich Bobrov was appointed head of Meadow Escaltia. Alexander Buruzagia was appointed head of the Old Escaltia. He was also appointed acting head of Mountain Escaltia. On the same day, the independence of the Azalistan Province from the Konakian Union State was proclaimed and recognized, after which the country's leadership issued a donation to the land addressed to Escaltia. The next day, the 4th convocation of the Ting was held in Escaltia, at which a donation from Kanazor Azalistan was accepted. In addition, bills were approved on changing the currency to Bitcoin Cash, establishing diplomatic relations with the Holy Esgeldian Tsardom and adopting the motto and anthem. The state motto was the aphorism "If you plow deeper, you will eat better bread", and the national anthem was the "Military March" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who lived in Klin for some time.
On May 26, the lands of the former Azalistan Province became the property of the Escaltia Government. The Escaltian mandate of Gostun, Hotcha and Kropotki was formed on them. The next day, the mandate was transformed into the Republic of the United Parishes, an autonomous unit that is not part of the Escaltia, but does not have full sovereignty over it. Part of the territories of the former Azalistan, which were part of it since the time of the Magnificent colonization, was transformed into autonomous state entities as part of the Escaltia. Among them: Republic of Rannapungerya, Kingdom of Green Grove, Republic of Idelia and Republic of Pinedelia.
On May 28, diplomatic relations were established with Holy Esgeldian Tsardom.
On May 31, the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of Defense were appointed. Nikita Bobrov became the first, and Sergey Rodenko became the second. On the same day, the state currency was changed from the Euro to Bitcoin Cash. On June 2, the motto and anthem adopted at the 4th convocation of the Ting were consolidated. On the same day, the 5th convocation of the Ting was held at which the decision on the motto and anthem was revised, which was re-confirmed. Decisions were also made on the Baltization of the country and the introduction of a minimum wage for civil servants.
Modern Aukstauta
On June 8, 2023, the largest state reform in the country's history, Baltization, was carried out. The essence of the reform was a complete cultural and conceptual restructuring of the state. Due to the fact that the Baltic people of East Galindas lived in the territory of modern Aukstauta in the Middle Ages, it was decided to return the imitation of the Basque culture and replace it with a full-fledged restoration of the East Galindian culture.
To begin with, the country was renamed Aukstauta, which means "Hilly country" in translation from the restored Easten Galindian language. The term "Buruzagia Empire" was introduced to designate the Egyptian Empire that existed in 2022. The Paleoeuropean Escaltian language was renamed Old Escaltian and was stripped of its official status, and the modern Escaltian language was named the northern dialect of the East Galindian language. A new flag and coat of arms were introduced: the Raven banner with the Yumis (the Baltic symbol of fertility) and the coat of arms with the image of a black eagle. It is no secret that the state symbols were inspired by the symbols of the Prussian Kingdom.
The position of Federal Chancellor of Escaltia was renamed Minister-President of Aukstauta. Escaltian Ting was renamed to Escaltian Seimas. The Government of the Federal Republic of Aukstauta was renamed to Escaltian State Ministry. armed Forces were renamed to the Army of Aukstauta. The capital Adari was renamed to Ragsanai.
On June 16, the 6th convocation of the Seimas was held. It was decided to introduce a new administrative-territorial division, within which the three metropolitan regions were divided into 18 districts. It was also decided to participate in the Unity music competition. On June 18, the updated "June" charter was adopted, which was an amended version of the April one. On June 19, she was presented to the Seimas. On the same day, the Aukstautian Historical and Geographical Society was established, which made an expedition to the Outer Dubna Islands (RUP). On June 22, the Act "On the adoption of a new administrative-territorial division" was signed. During the Unity music competition, a conflict arose between the leadership of the competition and the Government of Aukstauta related to the participation of the Republic of Aniota, which is not recognized by Aukstauta. In response, the deadly Petrosyandance.avi file was sent to the contest, which is dangerous to view. At the end of the competition, Aukstauta refused to participate further. On June 30, the 7th convocation of the Seimas took place, at which it was decided to hold its own music competition.
On July 1, the Federal Republic of Aukstauta was admitted to the Baltic Union on the basis of the existence of territories in the Baltic States and orientation towards Baltic culture.
On July 21, the 8th convocation of the Seimas was held, at which the squatting of orphan farms was legalized, and the reform of time zones was adopted. From now on, the line separating the UTC+2 and UTC+3 time zones ran along the meridian of 37 degrees for 30 minutes. On August 4, the 9th convocation of the Seimas took place. As part of the nationalist reforms carried out by the RPA, schooling and the traditional Bologna system were abolished. Instead, an academic education system was introduced, akin to medieval European academies. An ambiguous bill was also passed to decriminalize slavery, but all citizens and residents of Aukstauta were previously declared free. Aukstauta's neutrality on the situation in Sidoria was also proclaimed and support was expressed for the deposed President of Niger, Mohamed Bazoum.
On August 6, AHGS conducted rafting on the Nerl River, where it discovered the rarest bird species in the country - the great white heron.
On August 25, the 10th convocation of the Seimas took place. It rejected a bill to recognize the work of the Ace of Base group and the Paradox magazine as significant objects of Aukstautian culture. After this precedent, such issues were assigned to an informal eugenic commission dealing with the culture and genetic purity of the Aukstautian people. A bill was also passed on the procedure for the import and export of slaves in the territory of the state.
On October 1, the 11th convocation of the Seimas took place. It worked out the "Autumn Course" of the RPA - a set of bills that were supposed to finally form the foundations of the state system by winter. It was decided to postpone the music competition, which was delayed by the Ministry of Culture, to October 5. It was also decided to re-review the Federal Charter to correct inaccuracies in it, which was scheduled for October 10. The term Zalessian department was introduced, denoting a semi-autonomous incorporated administrative unit within Aukstauta. The first such unit was Berland, which united the territories of Klyazma Bay, Yauzsky Island and, in fact, Berland lands. On October 3, registration for the music competition began, but due to the insufficient number of applications, it did not take place.
On October 30, the Baltic Union adopted a resolution "On the support of Taileria and neighboring Latvian micronations in the fight against warlords on the territory of Riga", which was informally supported by Aukstauta. On November 1, an extraordinary meeting of the Seimas was held, at which the issue of providing material assistance to Taileria was discussed, however, a decision was made to provide assistance only at the request of Taileria herself, which was never followed.
On January 7, 2024, Aukstauta became a co-founder of the Commonwealth of Black Earth Countries based on the fact that it belongs to the Republic of Paulistia. On January 19, the last 12th convocation of the Veche-type Seimas took place. At which it was decided to codify national law. Thus, the "Autumn Course" of the RPA was completed. On January 23, Aukstauta issued diplomatic support to the Baltic Union against the self-proclaimed Zadvinye and Kaehdaop.
Finally, on March 16, 2024, an updated Constitutional Charter with codified national law was adopted, canceling many unrealized decisions.
On August 22, 2024, Taldom (RUP) hosted the first diplomatic meeting on the territory of Aukstauta between Minister-President of Aukstauta Alexandras Karotaiskinas and Tsar of Gergensted Dmitry Khodzko. In the village of Myakishevo, the agreement on the establishment of diplomatic relations between the countries was physically re-signed.
Government structure
Aukstauta is a federal parliamentary republic.
State symbols
The Aukstauta flag is a rectangular white cloth with a black raven placed in the center, whose body looks to the left and head to the right. The black Yumis symbol is depicted on the roof. The ratio of the width of the flag to its length is 1:2.
The coat of arms of Aukstauta is a white Spanish shield with a black eagle on it, looking to the left.
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The Raven Banner
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Blazon
The foundations of the state system
According to the Constitutional Charter, which is the basic law of the State, the Federal Republic of Aukstauta is a sovereign, independent, democratic, legal, secular, social and national state of Aukstautians with a republican form of government and elements of monarchy, as well as a colonial empire.
The modern Constitutional Charter was adopted on March 16, 2024. The first Constitutional Charter was adopted on April 13, 2023, followed by amendments on June 18 and October 10 of the same year.
Federal structure
Aukstauta is a state with a federal structure. There are subjects of varying degrees of autonomy at different levels. On top of the different levels of administrative and territorial division, there is a division into the metropolis and dominions, which collectively form Aukstautian colonial empire. The metropolis is divided into 3 federal districts and 1 autonomous unit. Federal districts are divided into 19 districts formed around settlements with a population of 70 people or more. Districts have the right to independently implement internal policy. The dominions have the right to autonomously implement part of foreign policy decisions. Aukstautian colonial Empire also includes "Transforestal departments" that do not have the right to independently implement foreign policy and colonies that are controlled from the center and do not have autonomy.
There are several settlements within each of the 19 districts and 1 autonomous unit, in each of which local self-government is carried out through the institution of a village head, who is elected voluntarily and informally by the residents of a particular settlement. The Institute of Elders also exists on the territory of the Republic of United Parishes.