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Even after long battles, the Greeks could not take possession of the city. Then Odysseus decided to act by cunning. He advised the Greeks to build such a huge wooden horse that the most powerful warriors could hide in it. And when the Trojans bring the horse into the city, the heroes will come out at night and open the gates of the city. Odysseus assured that this was the only way to take Troy. The prophetic Kalkhant, to whom Zeus sent a sign, also convinced the Greeks to resort to cunning.

Famous artist Epeus and his student, with the help of the goddess Athena, built a huge wooden horse. It included armed warriors. Aeneas closed the hole through which the heroes entered so tightly that it was impossible to even think that there was someone on the horse. Then the Greeks burned all the buildings in their camp, boarded a ship and sailed to the open sea.

From the high walls of Troy, the besieged saw extraordinary movement in the Greek camp. Suddenly they noticed that thick clouds of smoke were rising from the Greek camp. Rejoicing, the Trojans left the city and went to the camp, which was really abandoned, with buildings still burning out in some places. They were sure that the siege had finally ended, all troubles had passed, and they could now indulge in peaceful labor.

Suddenly the Trojans stopped in amazement when they saw a wooden horse. They looked at it and were at a loss as to what this amazing structure was. Some of them advised throwing the horse into the sea, others - taking it to the city and placing it on the acropolis. An argument began. Then the priest of the god Apollo, Laocoon, appeared before the disputants. He passionately began to convince his fellow citizens to destroy the horse.

Laocoon was sure that the horse was some kind of military trick invented by Odysseus. Laocoon did not believe that the Greeks had abandoned Troy forever. He begged the Trojans to beware of the horse. Laocoon grabbed a huge spear and threw it at his horse. The statue shuddered from the blow, and the weapon inside it rattled dully. But the gods darkened the minds of the Trojans - they still decided to take the horse to the city.

Suddenly a loud scream was heard. It was the shepherds who were leading a bound prisoner who surrendered voluntarily. This captive was the Greek Sinon. The Trojans surrounded him and began to mock him. Sinon stood silently, fearfully looking at the enemies surrounding him. Finally, he spoke. He complained bitterly, shedding tears, about his evil fate. Sinon Priam and all the Trojans were touched by the tears. They began to ask the detainee who he was and why he stayed. Then Sinon said fictional story, which Odysseus invented for him to deceive the Trojans.

The Trojans believed the cunning Greek. Priam ordered his release and asked what the meaning of this wooden horse, left by the Greeks in the camp, meant. This was the only question Sinon was waiting for. Calling the gods to witness that he was telling the truth, Sinon said that the horse was left to appease the formidable Athena. The Trojans believed Sinon. He deftly played the role that Odysseus entrusted to him.

The Trojans were further convinced that Sinon was telling the truth by the terrible snakes sent by Athena. They quickly swam to the shore, twisting in the waves. The creatures crawled ashore and all the Trojans fled in horror. The snakes rushed at the two sons of Laocoon and wrapped themselves around them. Laocoon hastened to help his sons, but snakes also entwined him. With their sharp teeth they tormented the bodies of the priest and his two sons. The unfortunate man tried to tear the snake off himself and free his children, but in vain. The poison penetrated deeper into the body.

The suffering of Laocoon and his sons was terrible. Laocoon died, seeing the terrible death of his innocent children, he died because he wanted, contrary to the will of God, to save his homeland. The snakes, having completed their vile deed, crawled away and hid under the shield of the statue of Athena.

The death of Laocoon finally convinced the Trojans that they should bring the wooden horse to Troy. They dismantled part of the city wall, since the huge statue could not be transported through the gate. The horse stopped four times, hitting the wall when they dragged him through the gap, and the Greek weapons rattled menacingly from the shocks, but the townspeople did not hear this. Finally, they dragged the horse to the acropolis.

Prophetic Cassandra was horrified when she saw the horse. She foreshadowed the death of Troy, but the Trojans responded with laughter - they never believed her predictions.

The warriors sat on their horses in deep silence, sensitively listening to every sound coming from outside. They heard beautiful-haired Elena calling them by name, imitating the voice of their wives. Odysseus forcibly restrained one of the heroes, covering his mouth so that he would not answer.

Night has come. Troy sank into deep dream. Sinon's voice was heard near the wooden statue - he let the heroes know that they could now leave. Sinon also managed to build a large fire at the gates of Troy. This was a sign to the Greeks who had taken refuge behind Tenedos to hurry to the city. Carefully, trying not to make any noise with their weapons, the heroes dismounted; the first were Odysseus and Aeneas. The heroes scattered along the sleepy streets of Troy. Houses burst into flames, illuminating the dying city with a bloody glow. The rest of the Greeks also came to the aid of the heroes. A terrible battle began. The Trojans defended themselves with whatever they could.

In anger, Menelaus would have killed the beautiful Helen, but Agamemnon held him back. The goddess Aphrodite again awakened love for Helen in the chest of Menelaus, and he solemnly led her to his ship.

Of all the heroes of Troy, only Aeneas escaped, carrying his old father Anchises and little son Askania. The Greeks also spared the Trojan hero Antenor. He repeatedly advised the Trojans to hand over the beautiful-haired Helen and the treasures of Menelaus stolen by Paris.

Troy was still burning for a long time. Clouds of smoke rose high into the sky. The gods mourned the death of the great city. This huge funeral pyre was visible in the distance. Pala Troy is the most powerful city in Asia. The Achaeans won, but at what a high cost!

The formidable hordes of the commander, Agamemnon, king of kings

I looked around at the crowds of people who had survived the prey -

And he bowed his head,

Obsessed with a sad thought -

Many of them came to Troy,

Few of them will return with him...

Homer, "Iliad".

The Trojan War did not bring success to either side. It turned into a tragedy, but generated not by chance, but by the inscrutable ways of fate. The fate of Troy, the Trojans, and the Achaean heroes was predicted and inexorable. For most of its participants, the Trojan War brought death or shame, exile.

Today many people know famous legend about Troy and the Trojan horse, and the Trojan horse itself has long become a household name and our ironic contemporaries even named a destructive computer virus after it...
Despite the fact that the authenticity of the existence of Troy was confirmed by the searches and excavations of the famous German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890), it is difficult to believe in the myth of the Trojan Horse (I myself, to be honest, still cannot understand how the Trojans got caught for such a trick - approx. author of the site).
But, nevertheless, this is already history, and the first sources that told about this legendary event were Homer’s poems “Iliad” and “Odyssey”. Later, the Trojan War was the theme of Virgil's Aeneid and other works in which history was also intertwined with fiction.
The only source For us, only Homer’s poem “The Iliad” can serve, but the author, as the Greek historian Thucydides noted, exaggerated the significance of the war and embellished it, and therefore the poet’s information must be treated very carefully.

Today it is reliably known that a large military battle between the union of the Achaean states and the city of Troy (Ilion), located on the shores of the Aegean Sea, took place between 1190 and 1180 BC (according to other sources, around 1240 BC).
The cause of this war was the abduction by Paris, the son of the Trojan king Priam, of the beautiful Helen, the wife of the king of Sparta, Menelaus. In response to the call of Menelaus, famous greek heroes came to his aid. According to the Iliad, an army of Greeks led by the Mycenaean king Agamemnon, the brother of Menelaus, set out to free Helen, who had been kidnapped by Paris.
The gods also took part in this war: Athena and Hera - on the side of the Greeks, Aphrodite, Artemis and Apollo, Ares - on the side of the Trojans.
An attempt to return Helena through negotiations failed, and then the Greeks began a grueling siege of the city. Although there were ten times fewer Trojans, Troy remained impregnable...
The city of Troy, on the site of which today is the Turkish town of Hisarlik, was located a few kilometers from the shore of the Hellespont (Dardanelles). Passed through Troy trade routes which were used Greek tribes. Perhaps the Trojans interfered with Greek trade, which caused the Greek tribes to unite and start a war with Troy, which was supported by numerous allies, which caused the war to drag on for many years.

Troy was surrounded by a high stone wall with battlements. The Achaeans did not dare to storm the city and did not block it, so fighting took place on a flat field between the city and the besiegers’ camp, which was located on the banks of the Hellespont.
The Trojans sometimes broke into the enemy camp, trying to set fire to the Greek ships that were pulled ashore.
Listing in detail the ships of the Achaeans, Homer counted 1186 ships on which a hundred thousand army was transported. Undoubtedly, the number of ships and warriors is exaggerated.
In addition, we must take into account that these ships were just large boats, since they were quite easily pulled ashore and launched into the water quite quickly. Such a ship could not carry 100 people...
Most likely, the Achaeans had several thousand warriors. They were led, as mentioned earlier, by Agamemnon, the king of the “many-gold Mycenae,” and at the head of the warriors of each tribe was their own leader.
Homer calls the Achaeans “spearmen,” so there is no doubt that the main weapon greek warriors there was a spear with a copper tip. The warrior had a copper sword and good defensive weapons: leggings, armor on the chest, a helmet with a horse's mane and a large shield bound in copper.
Tribal leaders fought on war chariots or dismounted. The warriors of the lower hierarchy were worse armed: they had spears, slings, “double-edged axes,” axes, bows and arrows, shields and were a support for their leaders, who themselves entered into single combat with the best warriors of Troy.
Thanks to Homer's descriptions, one can imagine the environment in which this combat took place.
The opponents were located not far from each other: war chariots lined up in a row; the warriors took off their armor and placed them next to the chariots, then sat down on the ground and watched the single combat of their leaders.
The combatants first threw spears, then fought with copper swords, which soon became unusable.
The leader who lost his sword took refuge in the ranks of his tribe, or he was given new weapons to continue the fight. The winner removed the armor from the dead man and took away his weapons...
In preparation for battle, the chariots and infantry were placed in a certain order: the war chariots were lined up in front of the infantry in a line maintaining alignment, “so that no one, relying on their art and strength, would fight against the Trojans ahead of the rest alone, so that they would not rule back.”

Covering themselves with “convex shields,” foot soldiers lined up behind the war chariots, armed with spears with copper tips. The infantry was built in several ranks, which Homer calls “thick phalanxes.” The leaders lined up the infantry, driving the cowardly warriors into the middle, “so that even those who don’t want to have to fight against their will.”
The war chariots were the first to enter the battle, then “continuously, one after another, the phalanx of the Achaeans moved into battle against the Trojans,” “they walked silently, fearing their leaders.”
The infantry delivered the first blows with spears, and then cut with swords. With war chariots the infantry fought with spears. Archers also took part in the battle, but the arrow was not considered a reliable weapon even in the hands of an excellent archer.
Clearly, in such conditions, the outcome of the struggle was decided by physical strength and the skill of using weapons, which often failed: copper spear tips bent and swords broke. Maneuver on the battlefield was not yet used at that time, but the beginnings of organizing the interaction of war chariots and foot soldiers had already appeared.
Such a battle lasted until nightfall, and if an agreement was reached at night, the corpses were burned. If there was no agreement, the opponents posted guards, organizing the protection of the army that was in the field and defensive structures (the fortress wall and the fortifications of the camp - a moat, sharpened stakes and a wall with towers).
The guard, which usually consisted of several detachments, was placed behind the ditch. In order to capture prisoners and clarify the enemy's intentions, reconnaissance was sent to the enemy camp at night, and meetings of tribal leaders were also held, at which the issue of further actions was decided. In the morning the battle resumed...
This is roughly how the endless battles between the Achaeans and Trojans proceeded. According to Homer, only in the tenth year of the war (!) the main events began to unfold...
Once, the Trojans, having achieved success in a night raid, drove the enemy back to his fortified camp, surrounded by a ditch. Having crossed the ditch, the Trojans began to storm the wall with towers, but were soon repulsed.
Later, they still managed to break the gate with stones and break into the fortified Achaean camp, where a bloody battle for the ships ensued. Homer explains this success of the Trojans by the fact that the best warrior of the besiegers, the invincible Achilles, who quarreled with Agamemnon, did not participate in the battle...
Seeing that the Achaeans, pressed by the Trojans, were retreating, Achilles’ friend Patroclus persuaded Achilles to allow him to enter the battle and give him his armor. Inspired by Patroclus, the Achaeans rallied, as a result of which the Trojans met fresh enemy forces at the ships. It was a dense formation of closed shields “pike near pike, shield against shield, going under the neighboring one.” The Achaean warriors lined up in several ranks and managed to repel the attack of the Trojans, and with a counterattack - “strikes of sharp swords and double-edged pikes” - drove them back...
The Trojan attack was repulsed, but Patroclus himself died at the hands of Hector, son of Priam, king of Troy, and Achilles’ armor went to the enemy. Later, Hephaestus forged new armor and weapons for Achilles, after which Achilles, angry at the death of his friend, again entered the battle.
Subsequently, he killed Hector in a duel, tied his body to a chariot and rushed to his camp. The Trojan king Priam came to Achilles with rich gifts, begged him to return his son's body and buried him with dignity.
This concludes Homer's Iliad.
For more later myths, later the Amazons led by Penfisilea and the king of the Ethiopians Memnon came to the aid of the Trojans. However, they soon died at the hands of Achilles.
And soon Achilles himself died from the arrows of Paris, directed by Apollo, one of which hit the only vulnerable spot - Achilles' heel, the other - in the chest.
The armor and weapons of the deceased Achilles went to Odysseus, who was recognized as the bravest of the Achaeans...
After the death of Achilles, the Greeks were predicted that without the bow and arrows of Hercules, who were with Philoctetes, and Neoptolemus, the son of Achilles, they would not be able to take Troy. An embassy was immediately sent for these heroes, and they hurried to the aid of their compatriots.
As a result, Philoctetes mortally wounded the Trojan prince Paris with an arrow from Hercules, and Odysseus and Diomedes killed the Thracian king Res, who was rushing to help the Trojans, and took away his magic horses, which, according to prediction, if they entered the city, would make it impregnable.
Later, Odysseus and Diomedes made their way to Troy and stole palladium from the temple of Athena, which protected the city from enemies, however, despite this, the powerful defensive walls of Troy remained impregnable...
And then the cunning Odysseus came up with an extraordinary military trick...
Long time, secretly from others, he talked with a certain Epeus, the best carpenter in the Achaean camp. By evening, all the Achaean leaders gathered in Agamemnon’s tent for a military council, where Odysseus outlined his daring plan, according to which it was necessary to build a huge wooden horse, inside which the most skillful and courageous warriors would be accommodated.
The rest of the Achaean army must board the ships, move away from the Trojan shore and take refuge behind the island of Tendos. As soon as the Trojans see that the Achaeans have left the coast, they will think that the siege of Troy has been lifted and will probably drag the wooden horse to Troy.
At night, the Achaean ships will return, and the warriors, hiding in the wooden horse, will come out of it and open the fortress gates.
And then - the final assault on the hated city!
For three days the axes clattered in the jealously fenced-off part of the ship's anchorage, for three days it boiled mysterious work. On the side of the horse was written “This gift is brought to Athena the Warrior by the departing Danaans” 1 . To build a horse, the Greeks cut down the trees that grew in sacred grove Apollo dogwood trees ( cranei), they appeased Apollo with sacrifices and gave him the name Carnea.
The Trojans, rejoicing at what was happening, left the besieged city and walked with curiosity along the deserted shore, and then with surprise surrounded a huge wooden horse that towered over the bushes of coastal willows.
Some of them advised throwing the horse into the sea, others - burning it, but many insisted on dragging it into the city and placing it on main square Troy as a memory of the bloody battle of nations.
In the midst of the dispute, the priest of Apollo Laocoon approached the wooden horse with his two sons. “Fear the Danaans who bring gifts!” - he cried and, snatching a sharp spear from the hands of the Trojan warrior, threw it at the wooden belly of the horse. The pierced spear trembled, and a barely audible copper ringing was heard from the horse’s belly.

However, no one listened to Laocoon, and all the attention of the crowd was attracted by the appearance of the young men leading the captive Achaean. He was brought to King Priam, who stood surrounded by court nobility next to a wooden horse.
The prisoner introduced himself as Sinon and explained that he himself had escaped from the Achaeans, who were supposed to sacrifice him to the gods - this was a condition for a safe return home.
Sinon convinced the Trojans that the wooden horse was a dedication gift to the goddess Athena, who could bring down her wrath on Troy if the Trojans destroyed the horse. However, if you place this horse in the city in front of the temple of Athena, then Troy will become indestructible. At the same time, Sinon emphasized that this is why the Achaeans built the horse so huge that the Trojans could not drag it through the fortress gates...
Before Sinon had time to utter these words, a scream full of horror was heard from the sea: two huge snakes crawled out of the sea and entwined the priest Laocoon and his two sons with the deadly rings of their smooth and sticky bodies. In an instant, the unfortunate ones gave up the ghost...
Now no one had any doubts about the veracity of Sinon’s words and, having built a low platform on wheels, the Trojans mounted a wooden horse on it and drove it to the city. In order for the wooden horse to pass through the Skaean Gate, the Trojans even had to dismantle part of the fortress wall, but they still placed the horse in the place indicated by Sinon...
At night, while the Trojans, intoxicated with success, celebrated their victory, the Achaean spies quietly dismounted and opened the gates. By this time, the Greek army, following a signal from Sinon, had quietly returned and captured the city, as a result of which Troy was plundered and destroyed...
How many Greek soldiers were housed in the Trojan Horse?
According to the “Little Iliad”, 50 of the best warriors sat in it, according to Stesichorus - 100 warriors, according to others - 20, according to Tsets - 23, or only 9 warriors: Menelaus, Odysseus, Diomedes, Thersander, Sfenel, Acamant, Foant, Machaon and Neoptolemus 5 ...
But why was it the horse that caused the death of Troy?
This question was asked in ancient times, and many authors tried to find a reasonable explanation for the legend. A wide variety of assumptions were made: for example, that the Achaeans had a battle tower on wheels, made in the shape of a horse and upholstered in horse skins; or that the Greeks managed to enter the city through an underground passage on the door of which a horse was painted; or that the horse was a sign by which the Achaeans distinguished each other from their opponents in the dark...
Now it is generally accepted that the Trojan horse is an allegory of some kind of military trick that the Achaeans used when taking Troy.
Almost all the heroes, both Achaeans and Trojans, die under the walls of Troy, and of those who survive the war, many will die on the way home. Some, like King Agamemnon, will find death at home at the hands of loved ones, while others will be expelled and spend their lives wandering.
Essentially this is the end heroic age, and under the walls of Troy there are neither winners nor vanquished: heroes are becoming a thing of the past, and the time of ordinary people is coming...

Curiously, the horse is also symbolically associated with birth and death. A horse made of spruce wood, carrying something in its belly, symbolizes the birth of a new one, and the Trojan horse is made of spruce boards, and armed warriors sit in its hollow belly. It turns out that the Trojan horse brings death to the defenders of the fortress, but at the same time it also means the birth of something new.
Around the same time, another historically important event took place in the Mediterranean: one of the great migrations of peoples began. Tribes of the Dorians, a barbarian people who completely destroyed the ancient Mycenaean civilization, moved from the north to the Balkan Peninsula.
Only after several centuries will Greece be reborn and it will be possible to talk about Greek history, and the destruction will be so great that the entire pre-Dorian history will become a myth and many states will cease to exist...
The results of recent archaeological expeditions do not yet allow us to convincingly reconstruct the scenario Trojan War, but their results do not deny that behind the Trojan epic lies the story of Greek expansion against a large state that was located on the western coast of Asia Minor and prevented the Greeks from gaining power over this region.
Let's hope that true story The Trojan War will still be written someday...

Information sources:
1. Wikipedia website
2. Big encyclopedic Dictionary
3. “Great mysteries of the past” (Verlag Das Beste GmbH)
4. Kurushin M. “100 great military secrets”
5. Gigin “Myths”

The story of the Trojan Horse, with the help of which thirty soldiers of Odysseus got inside Troy, speaks not only of the treachery of the attackers, but also of the naivety of the defenders. Meanwhile, historians still argue about whether there was a Horse.

Eyewitness testimony

The ancient Roman writer Virgil, who lived during the reign of Emperor Augustus, wrote epic poem"Aeneid", which tells about the wanderings of Aeneas from Troy to Italy. A number of historians believe that “everything that the poet wrote” he found in reliable sources. Ultimately, his poetic testimony about the tragedy of Troy was included in world history, and the phrase “Trojan horse” became a household word. Not least of all, this happened because the military cunning of three dozen fighters crushed the fortress, which the entire army of King Menelaus could not take.

Before lifting the siege, the attackers informed the Trojans that the wooden “horse” they had built was a symbol of peace and an offering to Athena as a sign of atonement for sins. And while he stands, they will not attack. Sinon told the Trojans about this, cousin Odysseus, who allegedly went over to the side of the defenders.

Wooden giant

Judging by the descriptions, the Trojan Horse was 7.6 meters high and about three meters wide. The model built today weighed about two tons and could accommodate a maximum of twenty men of average constitution, characteristic of those times. It took forty people to roll this structure over greased logs.

Most likely, a wooden road was built, since many experts doubt that the Trojan Horse had wheels. Historian David Rohl, citing evidence for the canonical version, refers to the fact that an opening was made in the wall through which a Trojan Horse of the specified dimensions could be dragged. On the horse there was an inscription: “an offering to Athena” so that she would guard the Greek ships on the way home.

To believe or not to believe?

Meanwhile, this Horse was not brought to Troy immediately after the Greek fleet disappeared into the distance. In order to carry out preparatory work, it took time, at least several days. If Odysseus’s fighters had actually been hiding in this wooden structure, it would have been very difficult for them.

While the Greeks were languishing in the “belly” of the horse, its fate was being decided in the city. Many residents believed that the offering should be burned. Among them was the soothsayer Cassandra, who, pointing her hand at the horse, declared that wars were hidden there. The Trojan priest Laocoon threw a spear at the offering of the Greeks, urging them not to trust their enemies. “Fear the Danaans, even those who bring gifts,” he shouted. Soon, as the legend goes, he and his two sons were strangled by sea serpents.

Thus, serious passions boiled over this “Danaan gift”, but nevertheless he was dragged into the city. This happened, according to some sources, on June 6, 1209 BC. On that fateful evening, numerous guards were posted in front of the “horse,” but the feast that began intoxicated her too. Late at night, thirty soldiers led by Odysseus got out of the “gift” and opened the gates of the city. That night Troy fell. Aeneas, one of the few who escaped, told the world about the treachery of the Greeks and the naivety of Troy.

Was there a horse?

The Roman traveler and scientist Pausanias, who lived in the 2nd century AD, wrote in his book “Description of Greece” that the Horse existed in reality, only it was not a gift, but a ram, which the Trojans recaptured from the Greeks during the assault and took them inside the city to he no longer destroyed the walls. Some Greeks hid in it, but were not noticed in the confusion.

There is another version. At that time, it was said about slave rowers in the hold of a ship that it was as hard for them as in the belly of a horse. Perhaps it was one of the damaged ships abandoned by the Greeks - a bireme, in which Odysseus's fighters hid. One of the Trojans brought the ship to the harbor to put it in order.
However, the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, a participant in excavations of places where Troy could be located, doubts that there was a Greek siege at all. In any case, he was unable to find a single Greek arrowhead or spearhead.

Other military tricks

Other tricks similar to the Trojan Horse were used to deceive the enemy. Homer's poem "The Odyssey" tells how Greek wanderers fled from the Cyclops, who hid under sheep. In other words, the enemy can be deceived by passing off his soldiers as his fighters. Dressing up in the enemy's uniform in order to penetrate the enemy's camp or, on the contrary, to escape from it, is one of the most common military tricks.

There are many such cases in history. For example, part of the Russian troops left Narva, besieged in 1704, dressed in the uniform of the Swedes who died during the assault. In 1812, Denis Davydov’s troops quite often dressed up in the uniform of ragtag Napoleonic regiments, and then, approaching the enemy, suddenly attacked him.

The Abwehr structure had the Brandenburg regiment, whose soldiers were saboteurs dressed in the uniform of Red Army soldiers. We had such units too. For example, the memoirs of German Colonel General Erhard Routh tell about a group of Soviet soldiers who, dressed in Wehrmacht uniforms, inflicted serious losses on the Germans defending Belgorod in 1943.

Of course, in our age information technologies when you hear the word "Trojan" it automatically pulls you somewhere in the sphere computer technology and scary viruses. However, not only a virus can be a Trojan. The expression “Trojan horse,” although not so common now, is still familiar to many people, and has even received a second life in the name of a computer virus. What does the expression “Trojan horse” mean?

In order to understand this issue, let's turn to mythology. Ancient Greece. The Greeks were masters of inventing exciting myths telling about the lives of gods and people, about epic battles and beautiful princesses. Oddly enough, the Trojan horse - a fairly well-known phraseology - is associated with battles, with the princess, and with great heroes. So, for those unfamiliar with this myth, a little history. This will help you understand what is meant when they say in a nutshell - a gift with a catch, something that, although it seems harmless, can destroy everyone and everything.

As always in history, the cause of the Trojan War was a woman, and not simple woman, A beautiful Elena, wife of King Menelaus of Sparta. But first things first.

At one of the feasts of the gods, the eternally offended goddess of discord threw an apple with the inscription “To the most beautiful of goddesses” to Aphrodite, Hera and Athena. Paris, the son of the king of Troy, was ordered to decide which of the goddesses was worthy of the fruit. Each wanted to get an apple and wipe the noses of their rivals, and the goddesses persuaded Paris to their side as best they could.

Hera promised to make him a great king, Athena - a commander, and Aphrodite promised him a wife the most beautiful woman. It is not difficult to guess that the apple went to Aphrodite. It was with her help that Paris kidnapped Helen. But nothing happens for nothing, and the angry Menelaus went to save his wife, naturally calling out to the great heroes. They agreed to help. What does the Trojan horse have to do with all this? It is very strongly connected with events, and now you will understand why. The German archaeologist Schliemann discovered the remains of Troy, and analysis of the city's foundations showed that it was surrounded by a huge impenetrable wall. However, this fully corresponds to what Homer described in the Illiad.

Negotiations to return Elena peacefully failed. This is where the well-known war begins. According to Homer, the gods also took part in this war. The angry Hera and Athena were on the side of the Achaeans, and Aphrodite, Apollo, Artemis and Ares (in order to somehow equalize the forces) helped the Trojans.

They helped well, since the siege dragged on for 10 long years. Even though the spear of Athena was stolen from Troy, it was impossible to take the city by storm. Then to the cunning Odysseus one of the most brilliant ideas came to mind. If it is impossible to enter the city by force, it is necessary to make sure that the Trojans themselves open the gates. Odysseus began to spend a lot of time in the company of the best carpenter, and eventually they came up with a plan. Having dismantled some of the boats, the Achaeans built a huge horse, hollow inside. It was decided that the best warriors would be placed in the belly of the horse, and the horse itself would be presented with a “surprise” as a gift to the Trojans. The rest of the army will pretend that they are returning to their homeland. No sooner said than done. The Trojans believed and brought the horse into the fortress. And at night, Odysseus and the rest of the heroes came out of it and burned the city.

Therefore, it is with light hand Homer's expression "Trojan horse" acquired the meaning of "a trick gift, something that, although it seems harmless, can destroy everyone and everything."

The former leader of the team, Sergei Netievsky, was kicked out of the team: once inseparable colleagues and friends quarreled over money.

The residents of Yekaterinburg, who chose orange shirts for their uniform, gathered in 1993 on the basis of student construction teams of the Ural Polytechnic Institute. There were 12 of them, like apostles: Andrei Rozhkov, Dmitry Brekotkin, Dmitry Sokolov and others. Sergei Svetlakov was taken from the “Park of the current period” team. In 1994, Sergei Netievsky came. We created a national team of USTU-UPI, called ourselves “ Ural dumplings", started playing in KVN and won in 2000 Major League. Then they took a few cups and began to think about continuing their journey.

That's when Sergei Netievsky took control of the ship. Everyone considered him a good captain of the ship, a person who could promote and sell the project on TV. And Sergei Isaev, who subsequently removed Netievsky, and Dmitry Sokolov, and Dmitry Brekotkin said in unison that it was not for nothing that Sergei became the producer of the group.

It was his idea to go to TNT with the idea of ​​the show. The humorous project “Show News” did not live long and was a failure, but it was this bad experience that allowed the guys to sit on the STS channel for a long time.

Alive for the profit

“Ural Dumplings” put together a serious lineup and began to play around concert programs. In 2009, they were invited by STS. More precisely, it was Sergei Netievsky who did not give up trying to sell the project - and did it with great success. The team began recording shows directly at their concerts. Not too multi-layered, but understandable humor, interaction with the audience in the hall, recognizable faces - that’s the whole secret of success. Plus “Pelmeni” continued to tour. 130 people (!) are working on the show - authors, directors, film crew, make-up artists...

In 2013, “Ural dumplings” soared to 15th place on the Forbes list. And where large amounts, there are big conflicts there. Alas, even among old friends.

Head over heels in court

In 2015, the team was suddenly led by Sergei Isaev. The revolution took place without bloodshed. After all, ten participants of the “Ural Dumplings” are the founders of the project - here. It turned out that by the time of the change of power in Pelmeni, Netievsky single-handedly organized the team’s tours - he was the general producer of Idea Fix Media and the founder of First Hand Media. These are the companies that produced Ural Dumplings projects and were involved in the group’s touring activities. All income from the TV show went to these companies. The key claim was this: Netievsky “received income from the sale of shows to television channels, hiding it from the team for three years.”

Producing is a huge job producing a show! And the guys didn’t do anything as producers

But the displaced producer is not at all embarrassed by this. “It’s as if everything that the production company and I, as a producer, earned had to be shared with the team! - Sergei Netievsky is surprised. — Producing work is a huge job of producing a show. The guys didn't do anything as producers. The team performed the functions of actors and screenwriters, so the production company entered into contracts with them, as with actors and authors. And they received a fee for each episode of our show."

Pelmeni lawyer Evgeny Orlov assured that the ex-producer stole “not fundamentally a huge amount, several million rubles." Netievsky launched a retaliatory attack - to court. He stated that he was removed, firstly, without a quorum of votes and, secondly, he was not notified of the date of the meeting 30 days in advance. The court reinstated the producer in his position and collected 300 thousand rubles from his former colleagues in his favor for legal costs. After which Netievsky was fired again, and he again proved a violation of rights. Realizing that he could no longer cook porridge with Ural dumplings, in the fall of 2016 Sergei left voluntarily.

The team filed a class action lawsuit with the Moscow Arbitration Court and demanded that the rights to the Ural Dumplings trademark be retained by themselves, and not by Netievsky. The court refused. After which Sergei gave the team the right to two trademarks“Ural dumplings”, asking for a symbolic sum of two rubles.

But the litigation did not end there.

Because the rights to the performances belong to all the actors on the TV show. However, before 2015, Netievsky was one of them, but after 2015, not. Therefore, the team is trying to agree with Sergei on how to divide the rights, earned capital, website and shares in the project.

Million dollar scam

“Now I’m producing a program in which teams of “already Muscovites” and “newcomers” compete in wit on the Moscow 24 channel,” says Sergei Netievsky. - Together with Russian Union I am engaged in youth All-Russian festival STEM, from which I want to make a TV show. And for a year now the authors and I have been writing the script for the film “March 9.”

“Ural dumplings” also participate in the film process. Not so long ago, the heroes of which won 43 million rubles and decided to run away from loved ones so as not to share. Maybe it's hello former friend. Maybe a symbolic message for everyone.

Be that as it may, Sergei Netievsky now lives alone. He separated from his wife two years ago after 18 years life together. The producer denies the information that since the divorce he has accumulated 1.5 million rubles in alimony. He moved his eldest son Ilya to Moscow, the guy is studying at school and does not want to return home, as his father assures. Middle son Ivan and daughter Masha live in Yekaterinburg with their mother.

Now the director of Ural Dumplings is legally Andrey Rozhkov.