Vseyasvetnaya Gramota
[7] Anany Shubin-Abramov (1938–2019) was the leader and founder of the movement of Vseyasvetnaya Gramota, who set out the doctrine in the Bukovnik ("The Book of Letters") and in over one hundred Vseyasvetnik bulletins.
[10] After the end of the Soviet Union, Vseyasvetnaya Gramota spread through conferences, lectures and classes to study the Bukovnik, the doctrine was systematised and a number of practices took form.
[13] During the 2000s and the 2010s, various regional communities of Vseyasvetniks were founded, and they began to organise various activities, for example regular meetings at the museum of the artist Konstantin Vasilyev in Moscow, which is a landmark of the Rodnover movement.
[9] According to the scholar Svetlana Tambovtseva, although it is an autochthonous Russian or Slavic movement, the roots of Vseyasvetnaya Gramota sink into a rich European philosophical and esoteric ground which goes back to the Renaissance.
[22] In the movement's practices, scholars have observed possible influences from the George Gurdjieff's Fourth Way and Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy,[11] and similarities with Eastern spiritual medicine.
[10] Vseyasvetnik adepts believe that the letters of their script were given to humanity by God about seven-thousand five-hundred years ago as a Vedic "universal knowledge" (vseyasvetnoye znaniye), carried by a kin, the Aryan Rus, who later spread throughout the Earth and disseminated it.
[27] Modern alphabets are degenerated versions of the original letters which have lost spatial multidimensionality and have become plane,[14] a historical process which led to a loss of knowledge, connection with reality and power to cooperate with God.
[31] Tambovtseva observed that the doctrine of Vseyasvetnaya Gramota is based on an irregular semiotic system in which the sign can belong simultaneously to three different types of the Pericean triad: iconic, indexal, and symbolic.
[39] Baba Yaga is believed to bring "gifted" children to this world, where they are raised by observation and imitation of the animals living there and are taught the wisdom of Vseyasvetnaya Gramota.
[39] The real and the supra-real world intersect in some places and during some events, such as in some parks which "reify" Lukomorye — for example, the Pushkin Museum Mikhailovskoye —, and during the ceremonies held by Vaseyasvetniks.
[13] Contemporary decadence is the product of the gradual simplification of the original divine script and the reduction of the number of its characters, which occurred during history and reflected itself in a gradual shrinking of the possibilities of human thought and expression,[42] a detachment of language from reality, consequently a loss of esoteric knowledge and power to orchestrate reality co-working with the "fundamental principles" of the order of God, and ultimately a loss of connection with God itself.
[38] The process of detachment of language from reality due to the degeneration of writing systems is, according to Vseyasvetnik doctrine, the cause of human suffering, which manifests itself in the abuse of drugs and alcohol and in sexual pathologies.
[13] According to Tambovtseva, Vseyasvetnik eschatology, with its emphasis on etymology, provides an "ordering effect opposing the entropy of historical processes"; the return to the primordial language is thought to be a means of "salvation from history".
[4] The letters of Vseyasvetnaya Gramota have limited application, and they or complex inscriptions made with them are mainly used decoratively and apotropaically:[33] they are used for the organisation of space in a kind of Slavic fengshui, they are sewn on clothes, they are glued on the backlite of cars, they are dyed on roads, and they are drawn on dishes or other kitchen utensils.
[47] This proper speech is not only free from foreign lexemes (post-Soviet borrowings, especially from the English language), but in some cases also rejects conventional word usage in favour of peculiar made-up variants.
[36] Numerous Vseyasvetnik bulletins are dedicated to the practice of education and didactics, instructing how parents should correctly raise their children and "competently" transmit the sacred linguistic knowledge to them according to the method of Lukomorye.
[51] For instance, the horse in The Little Humpbacked Horse is considered a symbol of connection to the "higher powers", following the symbolism that such animal has in ancient Slavic, Aryan and Indian mythologies;[52] Emelya of At the Pike's Behest is interpreted as the "fool" (actually a carrier of wisdom protected by the divine) who, by talking with the pike, learns how to get rid of the tricks of technology and shows to people the right way to live in harmony with nature, and thus reveals himself as a continuator of the "deed of God the Creator".
[53] Pushkin in particular is regarded as a prophet of Vseyasvetnaya Gramota and one who foresaw the catastrophe to which evil American democracy would have led the world; he would have been initiated by his nanny Arina Rodionovna.
[54] According to the mythology of the movement, Pushkin wrote secret Diaries of Taganrog in which he expounded the necessity to spread Vseyasvetnaya Gramota to save humanity,[55] by forming "complete men" who could create a new "Aryan" community which would unify Europe.
[61] The scholar Kaarina Aitamurto characterised Vseyasvetnaya Gramota as a "high-demand, exclusive religious group" which requires strong commitment from adherents in both theory and practice, thus not enjoying much popularity among younger Rodnovers who are better appealed by more inclusive and less demanding forms of Rodnovery.
