In Search of Tartaria Pt. 3

A Frustrating Concoction

This is the third and final part of a three part series on Tartaria. I encourage readers to read the first two articles first and start from the beginning to get a full picture of the extent of madness Tartaria envisions.

Star forts are a strange holdover from the very earliest Tartaria theories by Fomenko himself. He seems to hint at their existence being evidence of a great people living in Russia before him and the destruction of these forts as evidence of a coverup. Later Russian theorists would add on elements of free energy. In their theories, the specialized shape of the forts and them being referenced to as batteries speaks to some specialized usage. Modern Tartaria theorists take this small seed and run with it to the farthest illogical conclusion; the specialized shape and related free energy distribution came from some ancient Atlantean people who passed on their knowledge to Tartaria.

Star forts are, like everything else we have seen, a very interesting real bit of architecture that doesn’t need any fantastical interpretation. They’re not even from the same time period but instead predate our usual 1800s photos by several hundred years, dating to the 15^th-17^th centuries. Star forts were a sort of last hurrah for the castles and fortifications of old. They were first designed by Italians and were created to help defend against the new gunpowder siege weapons like cannons. Their intricate geometric structures removed “dead zones” where incoming infantry would be able to hide from fortress fire, provided more defensive walls against cannon attacks and allowed for more layers of inner and outer defenses. Fortresses grew from high-walled castles into low-walled complex sprawling structures. There is nothing inherently fantastical about them. I think most people see star forts and think them odd, especially if they are used to only seeing the tall Anglo-Saxon castles popularized from fairy tales and picture books. There is nothing about their geometrical complexities that speak to any sort of energy generation. Italian Renaissance architects merely found the complex structures appealing as an art form.

And the very idea that the fortification artillery called batteries were somehow a form of an actual energy storage device is ludicrous. One might as well assume that the term assault and battery used to mean there were people going around assaulting others with 9-volts. I can only assume such a bizarre theory stems from a non-Native English speaker puzzled over our vocabulary and the torch has been picked up since then.

We can also take a moment to contemplate such events as the World Fairs of the 19^th-20^th centuries. Such a utopic idea of nations gathering together and sharing inventions, wonders, styles and architecture seems bizarre when we consider the modern world. Such a thing could never occur and would immediately be usurped by corporations, vandals and government bureaucracy. Yet before television and radio, a world fair may have been the one chance you had to see an actual bit of new technology in person before it came to your town. World Fairs were huge draws and, while they seldom made money, often left lasting impressions on those who visited and helped to shape the spread of technological advancements across the Western world.

Tartaria believers look at such World Fairs and see a controlled psyop, a steady “leak” of sorts of the old Tartarian technology that was already available to the public re-revealed with wonder and splendor in order to enforce a historical rewrite. It is, of course, nonsense. Evidence is often given that the Fairs were not profitable, so why else would they have existed? Many businesses today do not technically turn a profit but exist for some other benefit. Streaming services like Netflix exist to gather data on consumer habits and sell them to advertising agencies, government agencies or anyone with a dollar to spare. Amazon’s Alexa works in a similar fashion, a device practically given away for free so Amazon can give access to your household to whomever asks them for the key. World Fairs may have had some nefarious underpinnings: construction money being pilfered off to mobs, patents being claimed through mob mentality and a generally laissez-faire approach to any kind of idea of public safety, etc etc.

The Fairs themselves largely existed to establish a particular country or place as The Place. If you were trying to attract businesses, inventors, architects, and other people with money, you held a fair. And not just any fair, a World Fair, a fair with a more metropolitan and global approach. Every town in the world had their own fair. Many small rural towns across the US and Europe still to this day hold fairs and festivals yet no one twitches a conspiratorial eye and claims Grandma’s prize jam recipe is an ancient Tartarian secret. Yet the World Fairs did more than just push local housewives to perfect their pie recipe, they pushed entire countries to build monuments and legacies. Think of Paris’ Eiffel Tower or London’s Crystal Palace or the original Chicago Ferris Wheel. Such monuments are twisted into evidence of a large-scale coverup by showcasing the technologies and architecture that were once commonplace amongst Tartaria and were now being used to prop up Western countries and their own power, despite their inability to match some awe-inspiring architecture.

Much is made of the destruction of the World Fairs, probably more than the actual Fairs themselves. While it’s one thing to build such awesome feats of engineering, it’s another thing entirely to simply destroy it. And it is true, the buildings of most World Fairs were razed after the Fair was over or were later destroyed, either accidentally or purposely. Some buildings were supposedly built using cheap plaster, paper or cardboard and were meant to be later destroyed. Tartaria theorists question how such an ornamental and beautiful building could ever be built out of cardboard and scoff. I personally think the cardboard reference is overblown; cardboard may have been used in parts of the building but were hardly the entire structure like the phrase “buildings made from cardboard” might imply. I see no reference at all to entire buildings made of cardboard regardless. Buildings of wood and plaster are 100% more likely and were more often than not simply painted to look like stone due to budgetary constraints.

The buildings and decorations for the World Fairs were also never meant to be permanent fixtures. Not even the Eiffel Tower was meant to be permanent, but the tower solidified its place in the minds of Parisians over the years and grew to be representative of the city. The beauty of the World Fairs was intended to be ephemeral but the knowledge they imparted was not. That and the fact that there was simply so many other beauteous things around at the time, there was no need for a temporary exhibit on beauty.

If there was one good thing about the social reforms of the mid-1800s, it was this growing desire for beauty to combat the squalor that the Industrial Revolution had left most urban centers. This beauty is what led to the formation of city gardens and was part of the reason behind the desire for better and more beautiful architecture. Architecture is in itself something of a lost art in today’s world, with little being done architecturally that we could call beautiful, except perhaps in some Asian countries. Most “modern” architects design for purely practical reasons or purely ugly reasons. To impart some sort of social message into the arts is sadly what passes as normal ever since the 20^th century, so we are left with bizarre monuments to plastic, heathen idols to Mesoamerican deities or spectacularly ugly brutalist buildings of concrete, glass and right angles. The idea to anyone today that buildings could be designed to be beautiful as well as practical is an alien concept.

So we are left with a literal alien influence, a mythical country known as Tartaria that imparted its architectural designs onto every other Western country in existence. The old architectural buildings were not themselves built by Westerners but by the strange Tartarians. How else would one explain the sheer enormity of the old Grand Central Station in New York, the ornamentation on every public building in sight and the mass destruction of every building from that era?

There is no complex explanation, only simple ones as always. Buildings were built large because they could be built large. Engineering advancements meant every country and city scrambled to show off their prowess by building bigger and grander things. Think of today, where advancements mean we race to build smaller and smaller microchips and computers. Back in the late 19^th century, it was simply cooler to build bigger. This sadly means they didn’t build bigger buildings with bigger doors because there was a secret race of giants walking around that have been hidden by the hand of history. The many ornamentations were simply the style of the era and arguably a more impressive one than the push of a lack of style that took over architecture in the 20^th century and plagues us to this day.

Now, one could conceivably argue that the mass deconstruction of such old buildings was partially purposeful. Much is made of the fact that the old buildings were probably hazardous or falling apart. Most buildings can be repaired however and restored to their former glory or brought back in line to whatever arcane bureaucratic code currently governs the populace. I do think most old buildings were in fact destroyed purposely, mostly to make way for some other new building or structure that someone else funded. One can trace the destruction of many old buildings in the US cities around the turn of the 20^th century to families such as the Vanderbilts, Rockefellers and Morgans. These people wanted to impart their own legacy buildings upon the public and if that meant tearing down what was already there, that was simply a small problem a little money could easily fix.

On the European side, the destruction of their beautiful traditional buildings can frequently be traced back to the World Wars. While the US escaped any lasting physical scars from the wars, the horrific warfare absolutely devastated the European continent. Entire cities like Dresden were bombed out of existence and may priceless old buildings were lost to senseless destruction. This becomes a point where one could veer into the conspiratorial; were such buildings in nations purposely destroyed so as to extinguish flames of patriotism within the nation and drive the citizens into despair? One could go even further and question if the World Wars were themselves planned so as to destroy European civilizations on the cusp of greatness and grind them back down to a more manageable level, but that would be outside the scope of this discussion on Tartaria.

Such theories are perhaps vaguely reminiscent of the Tartarian theories, but I myself find the actual theory of Tartaria to be a waste of time and borderline schizophrenic. There is far too much good and solid history one would have to purposefully ignore in order to prove the existence of an empire such as Tartaria. The theory itself is borne from a Russian mathematician who haphazardly applied statistics to Western history books he approached with the assumption that they were as false and inaccurate as the news released by the Western media in his day. An arguable standpoint certainly; bits of history are almost certainly false or exaggerated, but to simply dismiss the entirety of history and begin to invent a history whole cloth is a monumental effort in absurdity. It is said that Fomenko’s volumes on his New Chronology possibly rival Tolkien’s notes on Middle-Earth. That is highly probable, considering he seems to have devoted the rest of his life to the work and wrote continuously. And then for us to further take such a Russian theory and twist it to represent the entire conspiratorial gamut of the modern day in some vague hand-waving approach reeks of absurdity, maybe even a forced absurdity. Why is Tartaria global? Why is it semi-nomadic? Why must they have science fiction like energy devices? And why do people so often tie the theory into far more bizarre and esoteric ideas?

I spoke of giants earlier and Atlantis. There are videos out there that I have seen that tie the hidden history of Tartaria into even more complex theories (at this point I don’t really like to call them theories) that posits some form of giants or extraterrestrials existed on Earth in the past. Enormous giants, several hundred feet tall. These giants mined the Earth with great machines, causing much of the landscape we see today. Canyons? Trenches dug by miners. Mountains? Piles of rubble and rocks left by giants. Those big rock buttes like Devil’s Tower out in the American West? Those are in fact petrified remnants of extremely large trees that once reached into the heavens and the giants cut them all down and took them from us. I ask why such bizarre theories need to be tied into even more bizarre theories such as giant trees and giant miners. Again, the question of forced absurdity arises.

I have spent far too much space attempting to pick apart various aspects of the modern Tartaria theory and still I feel I have yet to scratch the surface. The entire theory is bewildering and perhaps purposefully so. Worse, I feel any attempt to constructively tear down the theory is only met with the weakest of reasons for supporting it. “Nah you don’t understand man, here’s a link to a video featuring a guy with a busted microphone talking over 1800s photographs for 3 hours.” It’s maddening and makes any attempt to explain actual history feel useless.

I can only imagine that such a theory is able to take root due to the lack of actual history taught in our schools today. When the descendants of a civilization like Western Europe and the US are taught nothing about their past and their ancestry aside from “White man bad,” they will inevitably look to find grandeur elsewhere. And in a world where truth and reality are increasingly relativized, the fantastical aspects of Tartaria seem perhaps not so fantastic after all. If nothing else, Tartaria certainly paints a grand picture of our past, a past where there was a race of actually great people, though the technology was taken from the world and we were all debased into little more than perpetual corporate serfdom. The picture of our present blasted retroactively into our past.

We hardly need to invent such histories though when our own histories are in fact, just as interesting if not moreso. Yes, we really did build amazing buildings! Our own ancestors, not some mythical Tartarian/Atlantean race. We built the castles and star forts, we built the amazing architecture of the Old World and we built the machines to build those incredible cities. We were never just a “horse and carriage” people and anyone who claims such things is frankly retarded or a blackpiller of the worst sort. We had machinery and power tools (not electrical mind you, but we could use water in genuinely amazing ways) for hundreds if not thousands of years. Do we not teach that the Romans had self-repairing concrete? We’ve only just learned how to recreate their 2,000-year-old recipe in the past couple years! This isn’t even a conspiracy but verifiable fact! The amazing architecture that we used to be able to build, but now we can only gawk at it, scratch our heads and invent giants. Such is the death of a civilization.

The really interesting bits of Tartaria is looking at the growth of the original Missing Time theory, from its roots by a crazed Russian terrorist to its promotion in a post-Soviet world that sought its original birthright of Third Rome. Anything propagated now of Tartaria is literally garbage of the worst sort and definitely not worth pouring as much time seeking to disprove as I have done. I would honestly argue to ignore it, as it seems to be a psyop to move youngsters away from examining their past heritage by placing their heritage upon a mythical Other, thereby relegating their actual heritage to… rubble.

There is a huge amount of movement in this Tartaria theory. It’s everywhere on social media, with multiple big name “influencers” discussing and promoting it. There are of course the cheaply made 3-hour grainy photos videos but there are also the professionally made series seeking to unveil the “Lost History”. A lost history that either tells us that we were always slaves and therefore destroys our will to be better or a history that tells us all the good stuff was made by someone else, again destroying our will to be better.

I enjoy reading about crazy theories. I even believe some far out stuff myself. But Tartaria has been frustrating in its inability to be anything beyond surface-level entertainment at best. There isn’t really anything to actually pick apart if one knows the slightest thing about actual history or even actual lost history. It’s a theory devoid of substance and endlessly recursive, looping ever downwards into a maddening spiral of ethereal nightmares that tantalize but never emerge. It is a history and philosophy that is purely sensual, devoid of anything but popcorn analytics. It could perhaps be compared to the famed History Channel show Ancient Aliens but I would honestly consider Tartaria worse as it deals with our own recent history and the erasing of the accomplishments of our own great-great-grandparents.

Tartaria. A grand theory to toss to the garbage heap.