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I read about this statement over the weekend in Chris Prentiss’s book “Zen Happiness” from the “Happiness Project” series. I read this book three times until I understood and accepted this expression: “ everything that happens to us is the best thing that can happen to us" It is not easy to agree with this statement. Especially for those who have lost loved ones and health. How can we agree that the death of a loved one is the best thing that can happen to us? To understand this statement one must understand Zen.

What is Zen?

Zen is one of the the most important schools Buddhism. Today it has spread throughout the world largely due to a very simple philosophy. Zen is a feeling of living here and now. This is the ability to look into the very essence life experience and express your true nature. Zen follows the laws of the Universe. For example, the fact that the Universe is consciousness and everything that exists is part of one whole. Another truth is that we are the authors of every next moment. We create it with our thoughts and attitudes. Life is the way we see it. “Nothing is good or bad, it is our perception that makes things so.” This was said not by the author of the book “Zen Happiness”, but by William Shakespeare. The author only cited his words as the universality of Zen truths. Well, the most important truth is everything that happens to us happens for our good . Like this? Why?

Why are we here?

According to Zen, we all came into our bodies on this Earth for the purpose of spiritual development. Spiritual growth does not happen on its own, it is stimulated by various obstacles, events that the Universe prepares for us. Obstacles make us stronger and more mature. « Old saying says: a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. And we are only as strong as our greatest weakness,” writes Chris Prentiss.

The Universe speaks to us in the language of events, and it is never wrong. If we have some weak link, the Universe will strike exactly there. If we do not work on our “weak links” in spiritual development, then the Universe will find the most suitable way show us this. And she will “teach” us until we learn. And from this perspective, really everything that happens to us happens for our good, that is, for our spiritual development. And the development of the Universe, because we are part of it. The universe does nothing to harm itself. Otherwise it would cease to exist. This is how her life is maintained and ours too.

Chris Prentiss cites his and his son's years-long struggle against heroin addiction. His son was on the verge of death, his bones were broken, terrible things happened to him, but he still took drugs. One day he realized the origins of his addiction and since then he has never touched drugs or alcohol. What was good about it? Only after these ordeals did Chris Prentiss and his son come to the decision to found their own center to combat addiction, where those who have long lost hope receive hope.

Happiness according to Zen

According to Zen, happiness lies in a state of mind. If the mind accepts everything that happens calmly, learns lessons in time and directs strength and energy to spiritual development, then happiness is simply inevitable. We attract happiness and happy thoughts to ourselves if we are in a good mood, if we are happy. Dark thoughts attract dark things. The path to happiness according to Zen lies in the ability to accept events as they are, without a negative emotional assessment. The attitude: “Everything that happens to us happens for our good” helps to do this.

Of course, not every minor trouble has deep meaning for a person. Troubles happen in every person's life - we lose something, things are stolen from us, we are late for the plane. Happy is the person who does not make his happiness dependent on these events. And the one who makes himself dependent on events receives so many of them in his life... How many? Perhaps in small ways and no more than happy man. The whole difference is in perception. A Zen follower will give the thief his last shirt and will be glad that he survived, and a common person He won’t sleep for three days and will cast negativity on all his loved ones, but the fact that he lives is a given.

When a person's thoughts accept a situation, when a person adapts to it, he no longer perceives it as negatively as he might have in the beginning. Zen teaches you to immediately see the truth in every situation. In the end, this is exactly what makes us better. Sometimes it’s painful, with tears, but it makes us better.

P.S.: Today I was driving with my children. She drove quickly, but within the speed limit. Some crazy old man in front of me suddenly changed his mind about going left and decided to last moment while moving, change lanes to the right, where I was driving. I had to brake so hard that my eldest hit his head on the plastic table. At first I swore, and then I thought that I needed to be more careful. There are plenty of such reckless drivers in Germany, especially on holidays. And what do you think? A minute later, an even worse driver - in a white sports Mercedes, almost drove into my right side (he was driving from a side street onto the main one) when I was quietly changing lanes into the right lane. Then I thought: the first incident with the old man was really good sign, which slowed me down a bit. Otherwise, I don’t know what could have happened in the second case.

What is your opinion? Does everything that happens to us happen for our good?

"It's too late for me." How many times have I heard these words in my office. And not only in it. I heard from women. And never from men. “It’s too late for me to study, how can I sit on a student bench at 35?”, “It’s too late for me to think about love, fifty dollars is on my nose,” “I’m dating a man 6 years younger than me, but I’m not comfortable with what they’ll say people, I’m older than him,” “I can’t wear short skirts, they’re too old for me.”

Age. For some reason, in our society we have three attitudes towards him – “it’s too late” or “it’s too early” or his age is carefully hidden. So that no one determines what is early or late for you.

For some reason, we completely lack the concept of “on time”. Everything that happens to us is “on time” because it happens exactly when we are ready for it. For some, love comes along with their fiftieth anniversary, simply because you were not ready for it before, there was no time for love. Some people had no time to study at twenty, since the choice was made in favor of family and child, but at thirty-five there is just free time and strength. And someone falls in love with a person younger than themselves, because feelings are not checked by passports.

Someone didn’t wear short dresses at eighteen because he considered himself fat and ugly, and at forty he suddenly discovered that he was slim long legs and wants to show them.

But immediately the woman, who received what she wanted on time, is bombarded with this terrible whisper of “too late,” “beyond her age.” Where does it sound from? Let's take a look at the pages of the tabloids. “50-year-old Janet Jackson is pregnant. She has gained 43 kg and hides her curves under Muslim clothing.” What a horror, old, fat and pregnant. What should a woman do if she gets pregnant at 40 or 45 or 48? Abortion? Just because society considers her too old to give birth to a child and scares her with all sorts of terrible diseases?

Why doesn’t anyone rejoice and say “well done, you will give birth to a healthy baby”? After all, medicine now allows us to both control and regulate the course of pregnancy. “34-year-old Anna Sedokova is pregnant with her third child. The father's name is hidden. Let’s remember: Anna is already raising two daughters from different husbands.” Also a nightmare. Not very old, but unmarried, gives birth to children from different men. She still has the audacity to be happy. And don’t walk around with the face of Mary Magdalene.

Go ahead. “47-year-old Jennifer Lopez began an affair with a musician 17 years younger than her. And she showed up at the Grammys in a revealing sexy outfit.” She’s old, but infectiously happy, she walks around here twirling her ass, and she’s also taken a young lover. And if J.Lo, at 47, looks like she’ll give any 20-year-old a head start? Beautiful and rich woman. Why should she put on a shroud and be flattered by Donald Trump's faded hair and senile hands?

And finally, my favorite section is stars on the beach. “Uma Thurman, 45, showed off her cellulite, but it’s not stopping her new romance.” “Gwyneth Paltrow looks great at 41, even in a bikini.” “And another “ageless” star, Demi Moore, at 54, also wears a bikini.” Excuse me, but what should you wear to the beach if not a bikini? Maybe in a spacesuit or burqa? A mother of three cannot have stretch marks or cellulite? Is it time for Demi Moore to walk through the cemetery, choosing a place and a monument for herself? Or our beaches are full perfect bodies Mr. Olympia and Miss Fitness Bikini? And why is this wonderful male of 45+ with a swollen belly, who came to the beach in knitted white family shorts with red hearts, such a burp of Valentine’s Day, doesn’t care at all that it’s early, late, or even indecent for him? Or this gray-haired old man showing off his floppy ass in a thong?

This is how, with a couple of numbers and a few words, you can kill any desire in a woman to live a full-blooded life. Don't be ashamed, don't apologize, don't look back.

Tell me, oh experts on age norms and time scales, when is it not too late for a woman to wear a transparent dress while pregnant? Is it too late to love, study, make a career? And when can you have cellulite? Does age determine strength and capabilities? And why then are there such different attitudes towards a man’s age? Why does everyone say to a man who marries and becomes a father at 48, “Well done, wow”? Although the average life expectancy of men is lower than that of women.

Life is already short. Despite the fact that in the Middle Ages few people lived to be 30 years old, now people live to be 70, 80 and 100 years old. There is much more to be done in them. And for a woman it’s even more than just “more.” From modern woman Society expects you to be educated, well-groomed, successful in your career, and have a hobby, preferably two. Exercise. Maintain an ideal home, raise two or three ideal children, and don’t forget about your husband. Prepare the most delicious and healthiest dishes. No cellulite. There is no fatigue. Teeth are white, skin is radiant, hair is shiny. The wardrobe matches well. I did not forget anything? Oh, and all this should happen according to age. But for what exactly? Nobody will tell.

And therefore. Dear women, show the fact to everyone who whispers “too late” to you.

Give birth, love, wear short dresses, teach Chinese, marry a man 10 years younger than you or don’t marry at all. Skydive, weave macramé or become a UN Goodwill Ambassador. Only you know how great your strengths and desires are. It is these “I want” and “I can” that are the only criteria on which to rely!

Everything that happens to us is for the better!

You should enjoy life here and nowand always remain “in the black”.

I read an article by practicing family psychologist Valentina Gladun, I really liked the positivity that this article conveys. Read it too.

Positive thinking is a conscious attitude towards the world, which certainly brings success and stimulates personal growth. Remember that life is not a draft, you write its script yourself.

Form an optimistic attitude towards what is happening to you, and everything will work out.

Any actions that we perform can be divided into those that give energy and those that take it away.

To save good mood(and with it your health), learn to properly distribute your energy reserves.

For example, after a conversation with a friend or fitness, you feel elated, which means that this activity is a resource for you. For one, cleaning is relaxation, but for another, it is hellish work.

It depends on the individual characteristics of a person and his interests which activities fill him with positive energy, and which take it away or introduce negativity. The secret to good health and mood is to always receive more energy than you expend.

Many of us, when faced with certain problems, give up and become depressed. Failures and disappointments

Inevitable, but self-flagellation, accusations and complaints will not bring

benefits, they will only take away energy. Don't blame yourself for mistakes, but calmly rethink the experience they give you. Learn to restore your strength.

Formulate a few positive attitudes and repeat them in difficult times.

To always stay on top, make a list of things that give you pleasure.

Update it regularly.

This may include rarely available pleasures (a trip to the sea, a trip to an exotic country),

as well as the little joys that you can afford every day (a bath with fragrant foam, watching your favorite comedy, a walk in the park, delicious food).

Enjoy every minute of your life. Don't dwell too much on the past and don't worry too much about the future.

After all, there is no way to change the past, and it is impossible to know for sure what awaits us.

Therefore, the most valuable thing for you should be the present, what happens to you here and now.

Make positive forecasts and hope for the best. Don't be afraid to dream and look boldly into the future.

Reflect on what you would like your life to be like. Get rid of all thoughts like “This is impossible” and “It’s better not to guess” from your head. Don't criticize your ideas. First, form a holistic image of what you want and look for a way to achieve it.

Discover new things in yourself positive traits. Increase your self-esteem.

Create an image of yourself as a successful, healthy and beautiful person.

Get rid of the victim complex of circumstances, listen to your needs and invest more in yourself.

Rest properly. Rest is a change of activity. Watching movies or TV shows, unlikely good idea after a working day in the office at the computer. Best vacation for you a walk in the fresh air.

Different types of activities may carry different “charges”. For example, jogging gives you energy and emotional uplift, but at the same time it gives you physical fatigue, and during illness it can even cause harm. Learn to correctly prioritize without going to extremes.

Not all things are equally important, even if they seem urgent. Review your daily schedule: cross out from it what you can safely do without. Sometimes it is simply impossible to complete all tasks.

Lack of planning often leads to burnout. Distribute your current affairs more carefully throughout the day and week. Don't let problems build up. If you need to solve an important problem, then do not put it off for too long. Divide the solution to the problem into parts, and gradually completing the work will lead to achieving the goal.

If a problem remains unresolved for a long time, then this is one of the reasons bad mood and energy loss.

Try by force of will to put it off. This will allow you to relax and look at the task from a different angle in the future. Cheerful people are less likely to encounter failures and cope with their problems much faster.

Remember that feeling good depends largely on our thinking and behavior.

Therefore, allow yourself to please yourself and enjoy life, over time it will become a habit.

Only then will you notice that the world around you is changing for the better!

Labels Timeline of Laura's Sun

History of creation

Recording of the album began in the summer of 2010, after the spring tour in support of the album "In the very center of the world". The approach was distinguished primarily by the confidence that the group gained from the experience of recording their first disc, released in early 2010.

When we're done (first album), I had a feeling that can be expressed as “Ugh.” A whole layer of life was completed and successfully recorded, I felt complete freedom, the opportunity to move on to new horizons. After that, new songs immediately began to be written, which gradually formed into an album.

In general, I started writing songs for this record during a difficult period of my life, when I was going through a breakup. Next is a way out of this state, new sensations. Those. the path was from "South of the Border" And "In a world without you" To "Everything that happens to us", "Angel" And "Forward and with a song"(although it was written the very first, it is no coincidence that it closes the album)/

Dimka in an interview with KM.ru

On this album, virtually all the songs are new, except for the track "Not in reality", the preparations of which were still in the recording period " In the very center of the world" A cover version of the song was also included on the disc. "Funny Heart" group "Black Lukich", prepared for the tribute album of this group. Already at the final stage of work on the disc, it was decided to supplement it with two bonus tracks: the song "Laura's Sun", prepared for the recording of the first album, but not included in it, and a new mix of the composition "I want to live". Due to lack of time before the presentation, the song “Angel” was mixed by Dmitry Survillo. For the second edition of the disc, Dimka intended to remix it, as well as add another bonus track to the album - the song "Blizzard". But in connection with the death of Dmitry, these plans are now in question.

Disk "Everything that happens to us" was released in the fall of 2012 by the Vyrgorod label. Its presentation took place in Moscow on October 18, 2012. In November 2012, the album was presented during the tour of the group "Laura's Sun" in the south of Russia (Voronezh, Nevinnomyssk, Pyatigorsk, Essentuki, Rostov-on-Don).

The last line in the album's closing composition "Laura's Sun" sounds like this: "This is Laura's Sun, and I am no more". On December 8, on a icy highway near Moscow, the car in which Dimka and his friends were driving to the dacha of familiar musicians skidded. Dmitry died on the spot.

Track list

№	Name	Duration
1.	"Angel"	4:00
2.	"Not in reality"	3:08
3.	"South of the Border"	4:23
4.	"In a world without you"	4:26
5.	"Everything that happens to us"	3:44
6.	"Funny Heart"	3:45
7.	"Rain"	3:31
8.	"Sex, drugs and rock and roll"	3:03
9.	"Islanders"	3:33
10.	"Forward and with a song"	4:05

Participated in the recording

• Dmitry "Dimka Sidi_bu" Sinditsky - voice, acoustic guitar, guitar, keyboards (3), overdriven bass (1)
• Anton Andreev - drums (all except 12)
• Pablo Sychev - guitars (all except 11, 12), keyboards (10)
• Pavel Panasyuk - bass (3, 4, 6-11)
• Yuri Markovsky - bass (2, 5)
• Lev Karelin - keyboards (2, 3, 5, 10), guitar (1, 5), acoustic guitar (7), chacha (7)

And also

• Pavel Zaitsev - guitar (11)
• Pavel Kayushkin - organ (11), keyboards (12)
• Maxim Karpenko - guitar (12)
• Denis Zarubin - guitar (12)
• Zhenya Pasternak - bass (12)
• Vitaly Melentiy - drums (12)

About the recording

The album was recorded primarily at the Art-Kombinat studio by Lev Karelin, Dima Dobry, Kostya Rodionov, as well as Seva and Alexey Nazarenko in different time from the summer of 2010 to the summer of 2012.

All songs - Dmitry "Dimka Sidi_bu" Sinditsky, except 6 ("Black Lukich"), 7 (Dimka/Panasyuk)
Arrangements - Laura's Sun
Orchestration "In a World Without You" - Pablo Sychev

Mixing - Dima Dobry (Thanks to Yan Survilo for "Angel")
Mastering - Andrey Subbotin at Saturday Mastering Studio

The design used photos from the archives of the group - Yuri Strelyukhin, Armen Movsesyan, Juliania Reznikova, Dimka. And also the logo of Andrey A-Miyasarov

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On this album, virtually all the songs are new, except for the track "Not in reality", the preparations of which were still in the recording period " In the very center of the world" A cover version of the song was also included on the disc. "Funny Heart" Everything that happens to us group “Black Lukich”, prepared for the tribute album of this group. Already at the final stage of work on the disc, it was decided to supplement it with two bonus tracks: the song, prepared for the recording of the first album, but not included in it, and a new mix of the composition "Laura's Sun""I want to live"

Disk "Everything that happens to us" was released in the fall of 2012 by the Vyrgorod label. Its presentation took place in Moscow on October 18, 2012. In November 2012, the album was presented during the tour of the group “Sun of Laura” in the south of Russia (Voronezh, Nevinnomyssk, Pyatigorsk, Essentuki, Rostov-on-Don).

“The new album “Everything That Happens to Us” is our big step forward, where we reached a completely new qualitative level. This was possible, of course, with the experience of recording the debut album, then we learned a lot. If on the first album we drew more like this musical canvases, like the song "Bridge", filling them different colors, then now, having this palette, we sought to create a record where every song would touch people. These are songs about what happens in life. Therefore, they are somewhere simpler. But, nevertheless, this is the result of long and painstaking work, where there is nothing random, from the order of the songs to any note or word. This is a deep album that definitely needs to be heard. I like to create things that are like good book you have to re-read it several times, where not everything is revealed at once and there are a lot of layers."

from an interview with "KB" (Rostov-on-Don)

The last line in the album's closing composition group “Black Lukich”, prepared for the tribute album of this group. Already at the final stage of work on the disc, it was decided to supplement it with two bonus tracks: the song sounds like this: “This is Laura’s Sun, and I’m no more”. On December 8, 2012, on a icy highway near Moscow, the car in which Dimka and his friends were driving to the dacha of familiar musicians skidded. Dmitry died on the spot.

Track list

№	Name	Duration
1.	"Angel"	4:00
2.	"Not in reality"	3:08
3.	"South of the Border"	4:23
4.	"In a world without you"	4:26
5.	"Everything that happens to us"	3:44
6.	"Funny Heart"	3:45
7.	"Rain"	3:31
8.	"Sex, drugs and rock and roll"	3:03
9.	"Islanders"	3:33
10.	"Forward and with a song"	4:05

Participants of the recording

• Dmitry Sinditsky (Dimka Sidi bu) - voice, acoustic guitar, guitar, keyboards (3), overdriven bass (1)
• Anton Andreev - drums (all except 12)
• Pablo Sychev - guitars (all except 11, 12), keyboards (10)
• Pavel Panasyuk - bass (3, 4, 6-11)
• Yuri Markovsky - bass (2, 5)
• Lev Karelin - keyboards (2, 3, 5, 10), guitar (1, 5), acoustic guitar (7), chacha (7)

And also

• Pavel Zaitsev - guitar (11)
• Pavel Kayushkin - organ (11), keyboards (12)
• Maxim Karpenko - guitar (12)
• Denis Zarubin - guitar (12)
• Zhenya Pasternak - bass (12)
• Vitaly Melentiy - drums (12)

About the recording

The album was recorded primarily at the Art-Kombinat studio by Lev Karelin, Dima Dobry, Kostya Rodionov, as well as Seva and Alexey Nazarenko at different times from the summer of 2010 to the summer of 2012.

All songs - Dmitry Sinditsky (Dimka Sidi bu), except 6 ("Black Lukich"), 7 (Dimka/Panasyuk)
Arrangements - Laura's Sun
Orchestration "In a World Without You" - Pablo Sychev

Mixing - Dima Dobry (Thanks to Yan Survilo for "Angel")
Mastering - Andrey Subbotin at Saturday Mastering Studio

The design used photos from the archives of the group - Yuri Strelyukhin, Armen Movsesyan, Juliania Reznikova, Dimka. And also the logo of Andrey A-Miyasarov

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An excerpt characterizing everything that happens to us

- When the countess arrives, she completely tormented me. Just be careful, don’t tell her everything,” she turned to Pierre. “And I don’t have the heart to scold her, she’s so pathetic, so pathetic!”
Natasha, emaciated, with a pale and stern face (not at all ashamed as Pierre expected her to be) stood in the middle of the living room. When Pierre appeared at the door, she hurried, apparently undecided whether to approach him or wait for him.
Pierre hurriedly approached her. He thought that she would give him her hand, as always; but she, coming close to him, stopped, breathing heavily and lifelessly lowering her hands, in exactly the same position in which she went out into the middle of the hall to sing, but with a completely different expression.
“Pyotr Kirilych,” she began to speak quickly, “Prince Bolkonsky was your friend, he is your friend,” she corrected herself (it seemed to her that everything had just happened, and that now everything is different). - He told me then to contact you...
Pierre silently sniffled, looking at her. He still reproached her in his soul and tried to despise her; but now he felt so sorry for her that there was no room for reproach in his soul.
“He’s here now, tell him... so that he can just... forgive me.” “She stopped and began to breathe even more often, but did not cry.
“Yes... I’ll tell him,” Pierre said, but... – He didn’t know what to say.
Natasha was apparently frightened by the thought that might occur to Pierre.
“No, I know it’s over,” she said hastily. - No, this can never happen. I am tormented only by the evil that I did to him. Just tell him that I ask him to forgive, forgive, forgive me for everything...” She shook all over and sat down on a chair.
A never-before-experienced feeling of pity filled Pierre's soul.
“I’ll tell him, I’ll tell him again,” said Pierre; – but... I would like to know one thing...
"What to know?" asked Natasha's gaze.
“I would like to know if you loved...” Pierre did not know what to call Anatole and blushed at the thought of him, “did you love this bad man?”
“Don’t call him bad,” said Natasha. “But I don’t know anything...” She started crying again.
And an even greater feeling of pity, tenderness and love overwhelmed Pierre. He heard tears flowing under his glasses and hoped that they would not be noticed.
“Let’s say no more, my friend,” said Pierre.
His meek, gentle, sincere voice suddenly seemed so strange to Natasha.
- Let’s not talk, my friend, I’ll tell him everything; but I ask you one thing - consider me your friend, and if you need help, advice, you just need to pour out your soul to someone - not now, but when you feel clear in your soul - remember me. “He took and kissed her hand. “I’ll be happy if I’m able to...” Pierre became embarrassed.
– Don’t talk to me like that: I’m not worth it! – Natasha screamed and wanted to leave the room, but Pierre held her hand. He knew he needed to tell her something else. But when he said this, he was surprised at his own words.
“Stop it, stop it, your whole life is ahead of you,” he told her.
- For me? No! “Everything is lost for me,” she said with shame and self-humiliation.
- Everything is lost? - he repeated. - If I were not me, but the most beautiful, smartest and best person in the world, and if I were free, I would be on my knees right now asking for your hand and love.
For the first time after many days, Natasha cried with tears of gratitude and tenderness and, looking at Pierre, left the room.
Pierre, too, almost ran out into the hall after her, holding back the tears of tenderness and happiness that were choking his throat, without getting into his sleeves, he put on his fur coat and sat down in the sleigh.
- Now where do you want to go? - asked the coachman.
"Where? Pierre asked himself. Where can you go now? Is it really to the club or guests? All people seemed so pitiful, so poor in comparison with the feeling of tenderness and love that he experienced; in comparison with the softened, grateful look with which she last time I looked at him out of tears.
“Home,” said Pierre, despite the ten degrees of frost, opening his bear coat on his wide, joyfully breathing chest.
It was frosty and clear. Above the dirty, dim streets, above the black roofs, there was a dark, starry sky. Pierre, just looking at the sky, did not feel the offensive baseness of everything earthly in comparison with the height at which his soul was located. Upon entering Arbat Square, a huge expanse of starry dark sky opened up to Pierre’s eyes. Almost in the middle of this sky above Prechistensky Boulevard, surrounded and sprinkled on all sides with stars, but differing from everyone else in its proximity to the earth, white light, and long, raised tail, stood a huge bright comet of 1812, the same comet that foreshadowed as they said, all sorts of horrors and the end of the world. But in Pierre this bright star with a long radiant tail did not arouse any terrible feeling. Opposite Pierre, joyfully, eyes wet with tears, looked at this bright star, which, as if, with inexpressible speed, flying immeasurable spaces along a parabolic line, suddenly, like an arrow pierced into the ground, stuck here in one place chosen by it, in the black sky, and stopped, energetically raising her tail up, glowing and playing with her white light between countless other twinkling stars. It seemed to Pierre that this star fully corresponded to what was in his soul, which had blossomed towards a new life, softened and encouraged.

From the end of 1811, increased armament and concentration of forces began Western Europe, and in 1812 these forces - millions of people (counting those who transported and fed the army) moved from West to East, to the borders of Russia, to which, in the same way, since 1811, Russian forces were drawn together. On June 12, the forces of Western Europe crossed the borders of Russia, and war began, that is, something contrary to human reason and all human nature event. Millions of people committed each other, against each other, such countless atrocities, deceptions, betrayals, thefts, forgeries and the issuance of false banknotes, robberies, arson and murders, which for centuries will not be collected by the chronicle of all the courts of the world and for which, during this period of time, people those who committed them did not look at them as crimes.
What produced this extraordinary event? What were the reasons for it? Historians say with naive confidence that the reasons for this event were the insult inflicted on the Duke of Oldenburg, non-compliance with the continental system, Napoleon's lust for power, Alexander's firmness, diplomatic mistakes, etc.
Consequently, it was only necessary for Metternich, Rumyantsev or Talleyrand, between the exit and the reception, to try hard and write a more skillful piece of paper, or for Napoleon to write to Alexander: Monsieur mon frere, je consens a rendre le duche au duc d "Oldenbourg, [My lord brother, I agree return the duchy to the Duke of Oldenburg.] - and there would be no war.