In 1362, Tamerlane rose up in his hometown, and during the war with other tribes, he was seriously injured and disabled on one leg, so he received the nickname "Lame Timur".
Later, in order to consolidate his power, Timur married the Western Chagatai princess and became a pony of the Chagatai Khanate. In 1364, Timur supported Hussey because of Chagatai Khan. However, after only five years, he killed Hussein, who had been single-handedly supported, and established the Timurid Khanate.
It was not until November 1404 that Timur led an army of 200,000 men to attack the Ming Dynasty in China, and died of illness in February 1405 at the age of 69, a reign of 36 years. After Timur's death, the Timurid family immediately launched a war for the throne, and the expedition to the Ming Dynasty was abandoned halfway. In 1526, Babur, a descendant of Timur, moved south to India and established the Mughal Empire.
Today, however, we are not talking about timur khan's hegemony, but a curse about timur khan.
The Tamerlane curse is one of the most famous curses in the history of the world. The contents of the curse were sealed in Timur's emerald coffin and placed in the Samarkand Mosque.
In 1740, the warlord Muhammad Nadir Shah brought Timur Khan's coffin to Persia, but unexpectedly broke the lid of the jade coffin into two pieces during the transportation process.
Since then, Muhammad Nadir Shah and his family have been cursed by Timur Khan and plagued by bad luck.
Eventually, at the suggestion of a group of religious figures, the descendants of Muhammad Nadir shah returned the coffin to its original location, which dissolved the curse.
It was not until the 1940s that a secret letter from the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences was presented to Stalin, who implored Stalin to send an archaeological team to Samarkand to investigate the tomb of Timur Khan. Stalin was quite interested in the life of Timur Khan, and he immediately sent an experienced expedition to the area to investigate the resting place of Timur Khan.
According to the research of the Russian historian Boris Ilizarov, Stalin's real name was Dzhugashvili. The name "Stalin", like "Timur", has the meaning of "steel" in Mongolian. This led to the theory that Dzhugashvili wanted to be as brave and good at war as Timur Khan, so he changed his name to "Stalin".
Because of Stalin's personal interests, the expedition had high hopes. However, none of the members involved in archaeology expected that this archaeological trip would put them in the shadow of a curse. In the process of excavating the tomb of Timur Khan, the archaeologists continued to experience strange things that surprised them.
For example, when the detection instrument is placed smoothly, it fails one after another. Archaeological members often experience collective headaches during breaks. Strange things happened to the archaeological team, and the saying gradually spread in the Samarkand region: "The coffin of Timur the Great is about to be uncovered by the Soviets, which will bring an ancient curse to the Soviets!" ”
The rumors sent trepidation to the archaeologists, who discussed halting the excavations. However, because the excavations had attracted the attention of the government, Stalin was always paying attention to the progress of the archaeological work. As a last resort, the archaeologists could only continue the excavation.
On the evening of June 21, 1941, the scholar Mikhail Gerasimov finally opened the burial chamber that had been sealed in the dust for nearly six hundred years. After the archaeologists investigated, they found a shocking truth, it turned out that Timur Khan's grandson Ulubek Khan was beheaded and died.
Even more creepy to them was the inscription in Timur Khan's dungeon that read: "All who open the coffin will be cursed by war." ”
I don't know if it was a coincidence or if there was some supernatural power in this tomb. On June 22, 1941, the day after the Soviet expedition opened Timur Khan's underground palace, Hitler's army launched the Barbarossa Plan and invaded the Soviet Union. In this war of aggression, the Soviet army, which was unprepared, was defeated and retreated, and the casualties were extremely heavy.
Mikhail Gerasimov, who participated in the excavations, also realized that all this could be a curse, so he approached General Zhukov and told the whole story. The stakes were so high that Zhukov did not dare to delay and immediately reported the situation to Stalin. At this time, Stalin was already plagued by the war, and Zhukov reminded him of the tomb of Timur Khan that had been excavated earlier. Stalin realized that war might have been brought about by the curse of legend!
Therefore, the silent Stalin immediately ordered all the archaeological findings in Timur Khan's tomb to be put on the plane, and then let the pilot go around Moscow three times to re-bury Timur Khan. According to Soviet tradition, they usually paraded around Moscow for three weeks carrying idols before the war as the highest courtesy to pray for blessings. It is strange to say that after experiencing this toss, the war situation on the front line has actually improved.
With the onset of winter, the German army gradually suffered from the environment of "away" combat, and the mechanical units could not function in the cold and freezing conditions. In this way, the Soviets successfully defeated the Germans, won the victory, and laid the foundation for the subsequent counter-offensive in Berlin.
Of course, Timur Khan's curse did not necessarily exist, and everything that happened around the Soviet Union was just a coincidence. It is precisely because everything happens at a specific historical juncture that Timur Khan's curse is passed on to the gods.
Resources:
[History of Central Asia : The Timurid Empire, The Curse of Tamerlane]