What does the expression “scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar” mean? There is no such saying: “Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar. Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar what does that mean.”

Recently I published the current material “Genetic map of Russians” -

The author of a very interesting work began the article with a completely “leftist” attack on a certain Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, who in his interview joked with the well-known “flying” phrase: “Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar.” Based on this, the author branded VVP a Russophobe and expressed himself in different ways.

The topic “Genetic map of Russians” was in no way connected with the author’s attitude towards GDP, and therefore, in order to save the publication from the possible diversion of readers’ attention “to the wrong steppe,” I removed the “attacks” on GDP from there.
As the author of the publication, I am within my rights. This is not called a pure “repost” based on the author, but based on the magazine’s materials. I excluded the paragraph, provided a link to the full text, but did not allow any “gag.”

However, the thought struck me... why on earth are those who say this saying bad people? After all, it’s completely clear to a child that when giving an interview, this GDP meant that Russia is a multinational country, that “the Russian is the Tatar’s brother”... well, and I also think that there was a subtext that oh, don’t wake up the Russian euro -Eastern temperament, otherwise it will be bad...

It is in this sense that we usually use this saying.
However, I was interested in the etymology of this stable group of words, which is considered to be a saying.
The Internet can help me - that's what I found.

Absolutely wonderful text and, by the way, quite solid work.
One thing - alas! All the ends have been cut off and I haven’t gotten to the bottom of the author. It's a pity.

I am publishing the text as it is. No spelling or style corrections. Everything is clear there. Enjoy! Very interesting!

So

“Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar.” there is no such saying

Scratch a Frenchman or an Italian and you will find a Jew. Isn’t there another saying like this?

“Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar”

And I started digging. I discovered a lot of interesting things. The quote is more than popular; as usual, all famous personalities ranging from Homer to Panikovsky are named as authors. But most often those who quote, without further ado, simply declare it a proverb. For example, Putin, almost our everything, put it this way: “We, you know, they say: “If you rub every Russian properly, a Tatar will appear.”

In general, it seemed that there was no way to find the end - they blurted out the quote and used it. But there are no barriers to an inquisitive mind, especially if this mind does not want to shake a rattle in front of the heiresses, justifying itself by preparing for a radio appearance.

I’ll go straight to the main thing - I finally dug up the original source.

You know, I am becoming more and more convinced that there are practically no exact quotes left in popular use. At all. All popular expressions are either shamelessly distorted, or cut off to the point of distorting the meaning, or originally had a completely different meaning.

“Russian with Tatar,” as it turned out, belong precisely to the third category. To make it clear what this category is, let me remind you of the famous: “Religion is the opium of the people.” Formally, the quotation from Marx is practically not distorted (he said “Religion is the opium of the people”), but de facto the meaning has been considerably changed. In the original, the bearded mind spoke not about the intoxicating, but about the analgesic properties of opium (Religion is the sigh of an oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world...), which, you see, considerably shifts the emphasis.

So, about the Tatars. As a result of the research, it turned out that Putin was wrong. This is not what we say at all.

The expression “Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar” came to us from the French language, and in the original it sounds like this: “Grattez le Russe, et vous verrez un Tartare.” There this saying is also very popular, so much so that the authorship has not yet been accurately established; this catchphrase was attributed to various historical figures: Joseph de Maistre, Napoleon I, Prince de Ligne, etc.

But the meaning put into this saying by the French is very specific and completely different.

In fact, the phrase about the Russian and the Tatar is just a short version of the famous quote from the famous essay "La Russie en 1839". The same one that was given to the world by the famous marquis, freemason and pederast Astolphe de Custine. For those who haven’t read it, let me remind you that the book “Russia in 1839” still retains the title of “the bible of Russophobes.” Well, Custine speaks, naturally, about his own, about his obsession. This is how his thesis sounds in expanded form:

“After all, a little more than a hundred years ago they were real Tatars. And under the outer veneer of European elegance, most of these upstart civilizations retained the bearskin - they just put the fur on it inside. But just scratch them a little and you will see how the wool comes out and bristles.”

It is as a kind of quintessence, a kind of distillation of Russophobia, that our European educated classics loved to quote the phrase “Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar.” In particular, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky often sinned with this, exposing the machinations of evil Europeans - both in the “Diary of a Writer” and in “The Teenager”... It was from their writings that this aphorism went to the people.

Well, our people, as usual, have distorted everything. As a result, the dubious maxim “Under the thin shell of feigned culture, Russians still hide cannibalistic savages” turned into a peaceful and generally true thesis “A Russian and a Tatar are brothers forever.”

The original is \"Opium des Volkes\", not \"Opium für das Volk\". The translation of the original is completely unambiguous: \"opium of the people\", \"opium belonging to the people\", \"people's opium\" in the sense of \"folk remedy\".

From my discussion with the famous network banderlog, who attributed the phrase about the Tatar to Turgenev:

This is a very common technique in theoretical Russophobia. Brought to complete perfection by the shitty Shtepa. The name of some great Russian is taken, and then a suitable quote is inserted into him. “As the Russian classic Turgenev said (Tolstoy, Gorbachev, Khryun Morzhov...) all Russian goats (fuckers, freaks, microcephalics).” End of quote. What, you don’t agree to admit that you are a piece of dung? What a shame, because the great Hryun Morzhov himself said this! Fall on your face, you insignificant ones! After all, Hryun Morzhov himself! etc. and so on.

Not without pleasure, I conducted an online investigation on the topic “who said “meow”, in the sense of which classic the phrase about scratching a Russian belongs to. Turgenev found himself in good company:

\"Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar\" (Karamzin)

It was not for nothing that the great Russian writer N.S. Leskov said that if you scratch a Russian, you will find a Tatar.

And when Dostoevsky wrote: \"Scratch any Russian and you will see a Tatar\"

A.S. himself Pushkin said - Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar

As Klyuchevsky used to say, scratch a Russian and you will see a Tatar

Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar (as in Shestov).

Ivan Bunin's remark - if you scratch any Russian, you will find a Tatar

Scratch any Russian - you will scrape off a Tatar, Gogol said

It’s, as Kuprin said, scratch any Russian, you’ll get a Tatar

paraphrasing the statement of V.V. Rozanov (\"Scratch any Russian, and you will find a Tatar\"),

\"Scratch any Russian, you will find a Tatar,\" President Vladimir Putin said not so long ago.

This is an arctic fox. Complete and comprehensive. Soon there will not be a single Russian classic who will not be credited with the authorship of this nasty and bad phrase. For - Hryun Morzhov himself, no big deal!

Here is an enlightened European opinion about the Tatars:

\"The Tatars surpass us not only in abstinence and prudence, but also in love for their neighbors. For among themselves they maintain friendly and good relations. They treat the slaves they only have from foreign countries fairly. And even though they were obtained in battle, or [acquired] for money, but they are not kept [in captivity] for more than seven years. This is ordained in the Holy Scriptures, Exodus, 21. But we hold in eternal slavery not those captured in battle or for money, not foreigners, but our own kind and faith, orphans, the poor, married to slaves.

And we abuse our power over them, for we torture, maim, execute them without a legal trial, on any suspicion. On the contrary, among the Tatars and Muscovites, not a single official can execute a person, even if convicted of a crime, except for the capital’s judges; and then - in the capital. And in all our villages and cities, people are sentenced.

Until now, we take taxes for the protection of the state from only the poor townspeople and poorest farmers subject to us, bypassing the land owners, while they receive a lot from their latifundia, arable land, meadows, pastures, gardens, vegetable gardens, fruit plants, forests, groves, apiaries, fisheries, taverns, workshops, trades, customs, maritime taxes, piers, lakes, rivers, ponds, fisheries, mills, herds, labor of slaves. And it would be much better for military affairs to proceed and for us to collect the taxes we need, which would be collected from each person, if the begun measurement of all lands and arable land [belonging] to both the nobility and the common people came to an end. For the one who has more land would contribute more."

(c) enlightened European

“Scratch a Frenchman, an Italian, and you will find a Jew.” Is there no such saying yet?

“Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar”...

And I started digging. I discovered a lot of interesting things. The quote is more than popular; as usual, all famous personalities ranging from Homer to Panikovsky are named as authors. But most often those who quote, without further ado, simply declare it a proverb. For example, Putin, almost our everything, put it this way: “We, you know, they say: “If you rub every Russian properly, a Tatar will appear there.” In general, it seemed that there was no way to find the end - they blurted out the quote and used it. But there are no barriers to an inquisitive mind, especially if this mind does not want to shake a rattle in front of the heiresses, justifying itself by preparing for a radio appearance.

I’ll go straight to the main thing - I finally dug up the original source.

The great Russian writer N.S. It was not for nothing that Leskov said that if you scratch a Russian, you will find a Tatar.
http://www.musakov.ru/cgi-bin/ubb/ultim ... 2;t=000007

And when Dostoevsky wrote: “scratch any Russian and you will see a Tatar”
http://wct.by.ru/v7/index_r.htm

A.S. himself Pushkin said - Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar
http://forum.intrance.ru/index.php?s=a7 ... 10276&st=0

As Klyuchevsky used to say, scratch a Russian and you will see a Tatar
http://info.rambler.ru:8101/db/news/msg ... =260004288

Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar (as in Shestov).
http://www.medbrat.ru/cgi-bin/ikonboard ... postno=183

Ivan Bunin's remark - if you scratch any Russian, you will find a Tatar
http://www.kazpravda.kz/archive/07_08_2002/k.html

Scratch any Russian - you will scrape off a Tatar, Gogol said
http://press.try.md/print.php?iddb=Inter&id=37549

It’s, as Kuprin said, scratch any Russian, you’ll get a Tatar
http://www.azerros.ru/pnhtml/gazeta28/n28_1205.htm

paraphrasing the statement of V.V. Rozanov (“Scratch any Russian, and you will find a Tatar”),
http://www.postindustrial.net/content1/ ... sian&id=58

“Scratch any Russian, you will find a Tatar,” President Vladimir Putin said not so long ago.
http://www.materik.ru/print.php?section ... 047f3a6f6a

This is an arctic fox. Complete and comprehensive. Soon there will not be a single Russian classic who will not be credited with the authorship of this nasty and bad phrase. For - Hryun Morzhov himself, no bullshit!

Here is an enlightened European opinion about the Tatars:

“The Tatars surpass us not only in abstinence and prudence, but also in love for their neighbors. For among themselves they maintain friendly and good relations. They treat the slaves they only have from foreign countries fairly. And although they were either won in battle, or [acquired] for money, but they are not kept [in captivity] for more than seven years. This is ordained in the Holy Scriptures, Exodus, 21. But we hold in eternal slavery not those captured in battle or for money, not foreigners, but of our kind and faith , orphans, poor people married to slaves.

And we abuse our power over them, for we torture, maim, execute them without a legal trial, on any suspicion. On the contrary, among the Tatars and Muscovites, not a single official can execute a person, even if convicted of a crime, except for the capital’s judges; and then - in the capital. And in all our villages and cities, people are sentenced.

Until now, we take taxes for the protection of the state from only the poor townspeople and poorest farmers subject to us, bypassing the land owners, while they receive a lot from their latifundia, arable land, meadows, pastures, gardens, vegetable gardens, fruit plants, forests, groves, apiaries, fisheries, taverns, workshops, trades, customs, maritime taxes, piers, lakes, rivers, ponds, fisheries, mills, herds, labor of slaves. And it would be much better for military affairs to proceed and to collect the taxes we need, which would be collected from each person, if the begun measurement of all lands and arable land [belonging] to both the nobility and the common people came to an end. For the one who has more land would contribute more.”

(c) enlightened European

The Koran begins with the words “There is no God.” "It would be a big mistake to think..." V.I. Lenin

“Dig for a Russian and you will find a Tatar!” - Napoleon I Bonaparte(about Denis Davydov and Mikhail Kutuzov).

The famous poet and hero of the Patriotic War of 1812 led his family
from the Tatar Murza Minchak, who left for Rus' at the beginning of the 15th century.

I went on a feat of arms - and a Tatar beat me,
He returned to capital Kyiv - and his wife was lured by a Khazarian,
I wanted to gallop away, but the Mongol stole the horse...
Perhaps I was wrong to go after the Tatar at first?

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For us Tatars, it's like vodka or a machine gun - as long as it knocks us off our feet!
We Tatars don’t care what to love, what to fight, just to lie on top!
We Tatars don’t care whether we love to drag anyone or drag anyone away!
We Tatars don’t care whether it’s a sanatorium or a crematorium - as long as it’s warm!
We, the Tatars, have one thing...: no matter the war, no matter Sabantuy, it’s still a fight!
We Tatars don’t care whether we drink tea or kick the samovar, just to get sweaty!

A Varangian guest is worse than a Tatar.
One in the field is worse than a Tatar.
An unexpected nail is worse than a Tatar.
An uninvited guest is worse than a Tatar.
Especially in Tatarstan. From there you need to drive away the uninvited guests in three necks.
An uninvited guest is worse than a Tatar, but better than a snotty Russian.

Friendship of peoples is when Little crest, Russian And Tatar get together and go get wet Jew.

Litigated Tatar With Jew, Prosecutor They gave me 10 years of strict regime.

Ermak Timofeevich. Portrait of the early 18th century.

In 2000 Kazan passed celebrations on the occasion of the 275th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences(Russian Academy of Sciences).

Second day, morning, Anniversary Scientific Session. Several excerpts from local speeches academicians:

President of the Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan, academician of the Academy of Sciences M.Kh. Khasanov:
- Let me congratulate you on the 300th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan!
- It seems to me, and I already think, that this event is important not only for Russia, but for the whole of Tatarstan!

Academician of the Academy of Sciences M.Z. Zakiev, Institute of Language, Literature and Art of the Academy of Sciences:
- learned ancestors of modern Tatars...
- in the 13th century, scientists and thinkers developed..
- Only the Bulgarian military arts were completely defeated at the foot of the Zhiguli Mountains, and the hordes of Genghis Khan were defeated.
- Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences were actively involved in humanitarian and general problems...
- We have already begun to publish works jointly with relevant scientists.
- According to history, after the decree of 1944, our origins did not dare to go beyond the borders of Tatarstan.
- they wanted to create one in architectural art, but.. I understood.
- coordination of the work of scientists with this science
- It is necessary to complete the history of the Tatar people!

Sergey Efoshkin. "For Holy Rus'!"

Proverbs:

A Tatar was born - a Jew began to cry.
A Tatar is the same Jew, but with a mark of quality.
If you want to have a shepherd, get a Tatar wife.

Teasers:

The Tatar master is sharpening his teeth and wants to eat us!

Jokes:

There was a shipwreck in late autumn. Only two Tatars survived. But they ended up on two neighboring islands. They live slowly, get used to it, shout at each other.
But soon there was another shipwreck. And a woman swam out to one of the Tatars. A few days later, he decided to share his joy with his fellow sufferer:
- Hey, Mustafa, swim here! There's something here that you probably dream about every night.
Mustafa threw himself into the icy water shouting:
- My jumpers!!!

Ilya-Muromets comes to Social Security.
- Have you heard, noblewoman, benefits are granted to us, participants in the Battle of Kulikovo?
- Definitely! Bring a certificate that the participant will fix everything right now: rent, electricity, telephone...
- Where can I get it, a certificate?! Looks like everyone died in such a time!
- N-n-n-n-u-u! Don't know! The Tatars are found somewhere!

We left somehow Ilya Muromets, Dobrynya Nikitich And Alesha Popovich in an open field. We looked around - no one. Suddenly two frail Tatars appeared from behind a hillock.
Dobrynya Nikitich says - it’s time to get out, brothers!
Why? - asks Ilya Muromets.
There are two of them, and we are ONE, answered Dobrynya.

10 Tatars and 1 Russian are walking through the desert. The Russian always tells jokes about the Tatars. They get tired of it and they warn him that if he tells another joke about the Tatars, they will kill him. He thought and said:
- New joke. Walking through the desert 3 blacks: Shamil, Farid and Rafael.

The teacher reads an excerpt from an essay to the class Vovochki:

- “I imagine him as a narrow-eyed, yellow-faced horseman, galloping with squeals and hooting on his lathered horse. He usually lives in a yurt, in Asia. Before the revolution he was completely illiterate, and after the revolution the Russians taught him to read and write, build houses and to wear jeans..."
Vova, the essay was written without errors, but the topic of the essay was “How do I imagine Gagarin", not "How I imagine Tatar".

During a Tatar language lesson, the teacher says:
- Vovochka, tell us in Tatar about the death Chapaeva.
Vovochka says passionately:
- Machine gunner: “Tra-ta-ta-ta!”, Chapaev: “Ulyam!”

Walking through the village for Easter pop. And towards him Tatar, so sad, looking at the ground. Pop says:
- Hey, Tatar, listen, Christ resurrected
The Tatar raises his head and slowly breaks into a smile:
- Ay, Well done!

We argued Tatar With Jewish about something. When all the arguments were over, they turned to personalities, as usual.
Jew and says:
- You in general us They were kept under the yoke for two hundred years.
The Tatar answers him:
- And you, and you... Why do you our Christ crucified?!

Tatarstan appealed to the Russian parliament with a complaint about the proverb “Uninvited guest worse Tatar".
Parliament considered the complaint and decided:
- From now on say: "Uninvited guest" better Tatar".

Father Tsar, the Tatars have arrived. They ask for bribes.
- Bribe?! - Write my decree:
Give to the Tatars bribes!

When the Tatars attacked Great Rus', they said:
- Russians, give up, we are the Horde!!
And the Russians answered them:
- And we are the army!!!

Ilya-Muromets in an open field peers into the distance, putting his palm to his forehead and squinting in the sun.
A Tatar passing by became interested:
-Where are you looking, Ilyushenka?
- Yes, I’m looking for a good place.
- Eh, don’t you know, it’s good where we are not.
- Well, I’ll look where you Tatars are not there.

The performance is in Tatar:
Nadezhda Konstantinovna:
- Kaya barasyn, Vladimir Ilyich?
Lenin:
- Saunarkumga, Nadezhda Konstantinovna, saunarkumga!

TEN SIGNS THAT YOU HAVE COME TO VISIT THE WRONG WHERE:

1. When you appear, everyone lies face down and without tricks.
2. Your gift is stupidly, but carefully examined.
3. The bottle of vodka that you brought is drunk while you take off your coat.
4. The owners hang your coat and hat on the bell button.
5. The owner’s good-natured bull terrier hangs on your hip all evening.
6. The owner has been looking at you strangely through the peephole all evening.
7. As soon as you entered, everyone starts beating you, and one of them screams heart-rendingly: “It’s not him, it’s not him!”
8. They ask you: “I hope there was no tail behind you?”
9. After your knock, you can hear from behind the door: “Oh, Lord! Pogrom again!”
10. You... Tatar.

How to determine what nationality you are?

1. If during a tourist trip to any eastern country you experience a feeling of superiority, and during a trip to a western country you experience an inferiority complex, then you - Russian.
2. If you have a small jar with cut-off eggs of a captured soldier stored in your basement, then you - Chechen.
3. If every mention of lard infuriates you, then you - Ukrainian.
4. If as a child, after a school history lesson about the Mongol invasion of Rus', you returned home with a black eye, then you - Tatar.
5. If your native language is broken Tatar, but you do not consider yourself a Tatar, then you are - Bashkir.
6. If you regularly listen to Armenian radio programs, but they Not make you laugh, then you - Armenian.
7. If you regularly listen to Echo of Moscow radio programs, and they they'll make you laugh, then you - Jew!

However, I’m lying. Once during my vacation, I did move further than a hundred meters from home.

This is me to Agavr agavr went to Radio Culture to discuss Bushkov’s book “Genghis Khan. Unknown Asia". The book is complete, sorry, ge with a capital G, but that’s not what I’m talking about now.

The cover of this book by a famous whistleblower of historians is decorated with a quote:

“Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar. A. Pushkin».

I didn't like the signature right away. No, no doubt, after Lenin was abolished, all quotes are traditionally attributed to our everything, but I somehow doubted that Pushkin was engaged in Tatar research.

And I started digging. I discovered a lot of interesting things. The quote is more than popular; as usual, all famous personalities ranging from Homer to Panikovsky are named as authors. But most often those who quote, without further ado, simply declare it a proverb. For example, Putin, almost our everything, put it this way: “We, you know, say: “If you rub every Russian properly, a Tatar will appear there.”

An aside - I wonder if I’m the only one who thinks this saying evokes allusions to the fairy tale about Aladdin, where the role of the lamp is Russian, and the role of the genie is Tatar?

But I digress. In general, it seemed that there was no way to find the end - they blurted out the quote and used it. But there are no barriers to an inquisitive mind, especially if this mind does not want to shake a rattle in front of the heiresses, justifying itself by preparing for a radio appearance.

I won’t bore you with the history of my searches, I’ll go straight to the main thing - I finally dug up the original source. And as a result, he added to his collection of distorted quotes.

You know, I am becoming more and more convinced that there are practically no exact quotes left in popular use. At all. All popular expressions are either shamelessly distorted, or cut off to the point of distorting the meaning, or originally had a completely different meaning.

“Russian with Tatar,” as it turned out, belong precisely to the third category. To make it clear what this category is, let me remind you of the famous: “Religion is the opium of the people.” Formally, the quotation from Marx is practically not distorted (he said “Religion is the opium of the people”), but de facto the meaning has been considerably changed. In the original, the bearded mind spoke not about the intoxicating, but about the analgesic properties of opium (Religion is the sigh of an oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world...), which, you see, considerably shifts the emphasis.

So, about the Tatars. As a result of the research, it turned out that Putin was wrong. This is not what we say at all.

The expression “Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar” came to us from the French language, and in the original it sounds like this: “Grattez le Russe, et vous verrez un Tartare.” There this saying is also very popular, so much so that the authorship has not yet been accurately established; this catchphrase was attributed to various historical figures: Joseph de Maistre, Napoleon I, Prince de Ligne, etc.

But the meaning put into this saying by the French is very specific and completely different.

In fact, the phrase about the Russian and the Tatar is just a short version of the famous quote from the famous essay “La Russie en 1839”. The same one that was given to the world by the famous marquis, freemason and pederast Astolphe de Custine. For those who haven’t read it, let me remind you that the book “Russia in 1839” still retains the title of “the bible of Russophobes.” Well, Custine speaks, naturally, about his own, about his obsession. This is how his thesis sounds in expanded form:

“After all, a little more than a hundred years ago they were real Tatars. And under the outer veneer of European elegance, most of these upstart civilizations retained the bearskin - they just put the fur on it inside. But just scratch them a little and you will see how the wool comes out and bristles.”

It is as a kind of quintessence, a kind of distillation of Russophobia, that our European educated classics loved to quote the phrase “Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar.” In particular, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky often sinned with this, exposing the machinations of evil Europeans - both in the “Diary of a Writer” and in “The Teenager”... It was from their writings that this aphorism went to the people.

Well, our people, as usual, have distorted everything. As a result, the dubious maxim “Under the thin shell of feigned culture, Russians still hide cannibalistic savages” turned into a peaceful and generally true thesis “A Russian and a Tatar are brothers forever.”

Sorry if I'm afraid