Gerhard Frederich Muller. a german (anglicised as Gerard Miller) (1705 - 1783) this man wrote the history of the Russian people after the ravages of the golden horde , when the russians had most of their history destroyed ( either that or the Russians had no history in that part of the land ,and wanted to construct a history to validate themselves occupying the land........this Muller is supposed to have done , by using a large collection of manuscripts of both Scandinavian , and German history .
.....He is said to have invented the Normanist theory..which is now largely discredited)
In 1761 - he was elected as an honourary foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,and died at the age of 77 in Moscow . he went on a couple of expeditions to Siberia , which was both to map the lands , and .to make a record of the siberian culture .... .it was on his return when he continued to write the history of Russia , that he not only fell out with schumaker ..the head librarian of the Romanov Imperial libraries, who had been a good friend of his, but also a top Russian Historian called Lomonov.
He was not directly accused of being a liar , and making up the history , but after a dissertation he presented on " the lineage of names of the Russian People "further developing his theory of the Normanist theory ........ Lomonov made the comment " he not only proposes that the ancient slavic tribes had invited the 3 brothers of the Northern Scandinavian "Rus" tribes to reign over us , because of our inability to govern ourselves without robbing our own kings of their treasures with theivery , flame and the sword, ( at this point in history Russia had a very tense relationship with Sweeden, so Mullers timing was bad )....."but he then leaves us with the noble surprise ,that the Scandinavians with their victorious arms successfully conquered the whole of the land which has now been called Russia."
The intensity of outrage against Muller grew , until he had to leave Russia for a number of years, some of the controversy involved Russians accusing the realm of only using foreign historians to write history to suit their ultimate goals , as no native researcher would so bend the truth .....This was the period when Muller went to Sweden and became a member of the Swedish Academy of Science.......however the powers that be seemed happy with his history , and when the furore died down some years later , Muller returned to Moscow and later died there.
............................were muller , and his other foreign historians taken on just to concoct a history for the elite rulers, and does the invitation to the Rus have anything to do with Friso and his brothers , or the Askar portion of the OLB........i am thinking ,was Twiskland the area around European Germany , Scandinavia , and European Russia called this because it kept changing sides/ ownership through war and disputes , between these two and the slavs were the poor people in the middle in constant war...........an old english saying " be-twixt and between"... meaning neither deffinately one or the other ??.
Edited by NO-ID-EA, 15 December 2012 - 02:45 PM.