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Strong people have always enjoyed great honor and love among the
people. Many beautiful stories and songs are composed about the riches of
Russia. And now brave prowess and strength adorn a person, help him in
his work and protect the Motherland. The Soviet strongmen are the first in
the world. Silo exercises with dumbbells, weights and a barbell are very
popular. Every person wants to be strong.
And the second brochure is fascinating about the stories about how the
outstanding athletes of the past and the present developed their strength,
how it handled them in difficult MINUTES
live, helped keep победы victories in sports wrestling and perform feats
of arms. And the second assures the reader that strength is not only innate,
but can be well developed in the way of persistent exercises.
CO G O M O W N O N A Z V A T STRONG S M
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that question is not so simplehow can appear initially.
Of course our imagination
immediately the same
recreates a certain "reference"
strongman: athletic addition to
the young man with an immense back (as they say, oblique
fathoms in the shoulders), with ingots of muscles on the chest and
arms, with a mighty trunk of the neck and strong legs. And then the
fantasy (everything is subject to her) will put this chosen one on a
wooden bridge, connect the hands of the hero with the huge weight
that is hidden in its steel “pancakes” and will make us witness the
conquest of weight. Or will bring
this young man with another mighty guy on the wrestling
mat suddenly became unsteady
under the imperious steps of those carried away by the
lump of champions, and you look, - your favorite made an
irresistible reception: a multi-pound rival was lifted into the air, and
a moment later - defeated on the shoulder
blades. AND maybe our hero will
accept by denouncing an ignorant defeat fighter, furious and
tireless, whose fists do not sink in
ordinary boxing gloves, and balls of dynamite.
Yes, you will not say anything - these are strong men. But are
they the only heroes' friend? And those who, at a time of a military
storm, are the first to take the enemy's blow and, repelling the
enemy's onslaught, deliver their retaliatory, merciless and crushing
blow? .. N y, and sometimes unknown craftsmen - builders,
lumberjacks, miners, grain growers,
- investing their strength and skill in good labor deeds?
And how can you not remember the saying of the ancient
philosopher Plato: "And he smolders who combines strength, health
and endurance with a persistent will, mind and heart." In the
aphorism of the Greek sage there is a great truth that has not lost its
freshness in the stream of days, in the turn of the century. And if
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Since we had to mention the standard of the strongman, it should be
noted that Plato had a truly magnificent example in front of him. We
mean Hercules (Hercules).
Who does not know the famous “Herculean cycle”,
that is, the twelve remarkable feats of the “strong man of
the strong” - the mighty, dexterous, brave son of Zeus the
Thunderer. This young hero, armed with a bow and a club of
exorbitant weight (only he could carry it), performed a series of
brilliant deeds, clearing the earth of evil monsters and all kinds of
filth. Among those not included in the vault of twelve
exploits of Hercules - the release by the hero of the titan
Prometheus, chained with iron chains to a rock at the edge of the
earth for bringing fire to people.
In the popular understanding, strength is an instrument of good,
an alloy of physical strength and nobility, including generosity,
courage, and selfless service to the motherland. Such are the epic
Russian heroes, the knight in the panther's skin, Dav d Sasunsky,
Manas, Ker-Ogly, giants-sledges and other national strongmen
appear before us. Their names are unforgettable, their deeds are sung
in heroic tales.
We will tell about the "knights of power" of the recent past
and today. These will be non-fictional stories about non-fictional
heroes.
GOD T Y R I Z N A R O D A
" BUSINESS CARD " N & K O L A Z L U K I N A
the end XV II I century, in the years of the sensational
victories of the Russian fleet over the Turkish armada, there was no
man among the seamen more than respectedand
glorious, than cap-tan Lukin. The courage, fearlessness
of this naval officer could only be compared with his phenomenal
strength; together they constituted a surprisingly harmonious
combination
reading.
Middle growth, dumpy, frommighty - by the wheel -
by the chest, bursting
naval tunic, heavy,
he was different even
character, meek
disposition. It seemed Lukin was ashamed of his
strength; perhaps for this reason he rarely "dabbled" in her. It took a
lot of effort to throw Lukin off balance, to drag him into an athletic
dispute or, even more so, into a brawl somewhere in someone else's
harbor. But try someone to hurt honor the native flag or
the good name of Russian sailors, - and Lukin cannot be
recognized! This shy and delicate person was scary in hand-to-hand
combat. His fist, with the weight of a hammer or a Herculean club,
sank down on the hot heads of the dragons, and, you see, they lie
there like sheaves scattered by a whirlwind, and the one who
managed to get up, stand on his feet, quickly flees from the
dangerous neighborhood of the Russian strongman. About the
bottom in the south of Angliya Lukin took up the
challenge of four skilled boxers and dealt with them in
the blink of an eye with the same technique - he threw the unlucky
fighters over him.
Rumor says that Lukin pressed a nail into the ship's wall with
his finger, and held two pood kernels on his palms for half an hour.
About the monstrous strength of the captain of the
There is a story that looks like a legend, published about seventy
years ago in the journal “Cyclist” ...
Upon arrival in St. Petersburg, Lukin somehow went to his
friend's house and did not find him at home.
— As you order what about you? - ask the servant.
— And you give me a poker, and I will declare myself, - the
sailor answered without a shadow of a smile.
The servant, perplexed, took out a weighty a jolly
poker. Lukin, jokingly, tied it in two knots and gave it to the startled
lackey:
— When the owner comes home, give him my
"business card" - he will figure out who was.
Death Nikolay Lukin took in battle. He led the assault ship
"Raphael", which was part of the fleet of Admiral Senyavin. Lukin
was the first to rush to the Turkish ship, his faithful sailors rushed
after the captain, but then the enemy's core struck the hero.
«D E N A M V Z I T T A K I X K O S T E N E C K I X? .. "
Armie I also had my "main" strongman. It was General
Kostenetsky, whom his colleagues from aristocratic families called
nothing other than an eccentric and an original. He said that the
general led a Spartan lifestyle: he slept on a hard bed in an unheated
room, wiped himself with snow in the frost, and in the summer he
doused himself with cold water. This father-commander was not
afraid of the cold, the heat, or the distant marches.
High, oblique fathom in his shoulders, with a lush - waist-
deep - beard, he looked like the epic orat M ikula Selyaninovich,
only he did not have a chance to follow the plow along a freshly
plowed furrow. Another field - the battlefield - was his lot, and there
he showed his rare courage and strength.
In the year of the Napoleonic invasion, Kostenetsky, then a
young artillery officer, commanded a battery. In one of the battles, a
detachment of lancers infiltrated into the depths of our positions.
The hostile cavalry flew into the battery, killed all the servants and,
of course, would have captured the guns, if not for the desperate act
of Kostenetsky. Grabbing the bannik, the battery commander began
to smash the lancers with it. Each swing knocked down armed
horsemen, they fell from the right
and to the left of the hero, who, in the thrill of the duel, forgot about
his own safety. At the end ends remaining
at the living horsemen preferred to run away from
the frantic Russian bearded man. Army commander
personally thanked brave,
congratulated him on the battle award.
It would be better to introduce iron ones instead of wooden
banniki, - Kostenetsky suggested, - a wooden one is too light for a
shoulder ...
The commander smiled and threw up his hands.
— The idea, really, is not a bad one ... But where
can we get for those Kostenetsky banniki? ..
M YASNI K T R U S O V
This clerk from a butcher shop in the Lithuanian
marketknew the whole of Petersburg: both noble titled persons
who, according to theatrical tradition, had “personal” places in the
Ciniselli circus, and the so-called common people, before whom the
strong butcher performed in summer gardens on the outskirts of the
capital. Huge growth, with long, tenacious hands, which
rye. connected on the opponent's back, they squeezed him
like a steel springy hoop, he was the most dangerousin
Russian belt wrestling, where the strength and “mass” of an athlete
are especially appreciated (Truso weighed about 130 kilograms).
In the Ciniselli circus, the butcher was a serious competitor to
the famous carpet maker Vladislav Pytlyasinsky, the strong
Frenchman Robinet who toured in St. Petersburg, and other local
and visiting celebrities. From his stunning jerks and jerks, patented
champions “landed” on the arena, those who did not hide their
intention to deal with the “ignoramus” in no time.
This is how Trusov describes the fight with the
experienced wrestler Kazulyak, one of the eyewitnesses:
