"Historical science has made significant progress in the study of state symbols. But it remains a mystery - the very image of a rider (rider), entrenched as a symbol of the Russian state in the late XV century.
As is known, contemporaries were convinced that the horse represented the king himself, though, there was no direct explanation as to why it should be considered. A well-known publisher of drawings of ancient Russian press, F. Buller, wondered: "... the king would never pozvolilizobrazit a half-dressed!" But he also conceded that "the history of Osama king on horseback in the form of a Roman soldier can only be a fiction, a metaphor, allegory of orthodox monarch, striking the infidels. "However, this assumption also does not explain the origins of the semantic content image rider. The lack of explanatory texts emanating from themselves contemporaries, creates a "vacuum", which is already filled artificially. In the latest synthesis work on the history of stamps, it is argued that "the cult of St. George was transformed into a cult of the warrior-protector ibortsa with evil. Princes of Moscow, according to NA Soboleva, transferred to himself "not only apparel George warrior, but his appearance.
However, an appeal to the texts of the legend of "chyude" St. George does not make clear that the character that we meet on the first Russian press. The essence of the legend is that the dragon has been tamed by prayer, holy warrior appeal to the help of God, the force which turns into a monster resigned creature lizhuschee foot-George the Victorious. The king, who gave his daughter to the dragon, was a pagan, persecutor of Christians, who did not know the true faith. George leads tamed the serpent in the city and says: "Do you believe wholeheartedly in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the serpent subiyu this, If ye do not believe, then you have to let this bloodsucker." Seeing this "terrible chyudo, people voted in favor of the baptism. George cut off the head with a sword has tamed the dragon, essentially humble ... "
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