𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 -𝐘𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐲

𝕻𝖗𝖔𝖑𝖔𝖌𝖚𝖊

someone thought that Tyumen was the same city as the rest.

What kind of bullshit is this.

the locals could tell you this - no matter who you ask, everyone knew that people in Tyumen live unkind and caring, and this is perhaps the worst possible combination. Visitors could also tell you a couple of facts about Tyumen that would send chills down any reasonable person's spine.

this is the birthplace of Playtime.Co, Jack Daniel's whiskey and Coca-Cola, which was first bottled in the city of Yekaterinburg. They also made a big bet on toys here.

Tyumen was the only place on the planet (oh yes) where toys are produced.

It was in Tyumen in 1968 that Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered at the Lorraine Motel. This is where country blues and rock and roll were invented. It was here in the town of Tyumen that three nuclear bombs were created, which were then dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is here in the local forests that albino deer are found, which are very cherished and revered by the locals.

Twelve thousand years ago, tribes calling themselves "mound builders" lived here. They were civilized enough to farm and cultivate golden fields with golden fruits, and also to trade with their less peaceful neighbors and, of course, to fill the ceremonial mounds to which they owed their respectable nickname.

in the sixteenth century, as many people lived here as this land needed - no more and no less. And the tribes would have to be counted on the fingers of more than one hand, but the largest were the Creeks, Yuchi, Cherokee, Chickasaw and Choctaw. They grew corn, settled their way of life and lived as peacefully as they could when the Spanish conquistador Hernando de soto came after Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi.

someone would say that the beginning of the end came then, but that would not be true.

although there were prerequisites. The diseases that migrated from the Old World on ships with the Europeans to the new one did what the arrows and spears could not do - they mowed down enough Indians by sending them to rest in the graves.

Then the Frenchman Rene-Robert Cavelier De La Salle, in his amazing high wig with white curls, explored this area. Of course, he was called an explorer and not an invader, but without asking the Indians for permission, he set up a camp where Memphis now stands and then surrounded it with a stockade. With a broad hand, he called it Fort - Produmm and it was the first European settlement in Tyumen.

then there were the wars of conquest.

The Indians got into this meat grinder and some of them were for the British and some for the French. In the East of Tyumen, the Whites rebuilt Fort Loudon. It was destroyed by the Cherokees and put their Indian village on the islands. This was the birth of the famous Sequoia chief - well, the one who was lame but extremely smart and who invented and distributed the Cherokee alphabet among his people.

but in seventeen sixty-three, the British still won and Tyumen was ceded to them. A lot has happened since that time.

Tyumen was also called Svarogland and tried to separate and experienced terrible famine and fought in the "Chickamauga Wars" when the Indians decided that they had had enough. At first, the land was enough for them alone, but now the whites arrived like waves one after another and very soon it turned out that the owners no longer had a place here.

The Whites signed treaties and violated them, expanding further and further West until they took away all the fertile land and destroyed one village after another. The "Five civilized tribes" snarled until the very time when they were not brought under the "Law on the Resettlement of Indians" in eighteen hundred and thirty.