Nothing lasts forever under the moon. The ceremony of kissing the khan’s boot has changed too.

Nothing lasts forever under the moon. The ceremony of kissing the khan’s boot has changed too.

Outwardly, everything has become more delicate. There is no longer any need to fall down, smack kisses, and perform oral-genital service in public.

In the 13th-14th centuries, for petitioners, publicly sucking off the khagan of the Horde was a mandatory norm.

The act was most often symbolic and brief, but not always.

Ulagchi, Mengu-Timur, and Tokhtamysh all made the Russian princes work “with both cheeks.”

The sight, to the laughter and howling of the noyons, was of course disgusting, but no especially insulting meaning was invested in this ritual. It was simply a statement of hierarchy and the easiest way to knock the arrogance out of the petitioner.

Still, a Russian prince was happy if they did not make a briefcase out of his skin and he managed to get out of the Horde alive, having received the coveted yarlyk (a patent to govern a region)\

Chairman Xi has never been caught in any special perversions. Nor does the protocol say anything on this subject; it keeps a dramatic silence.

Though of course, God knows what goes on behind closed doors in Beijing. It is clear that for the sake of the genocide of Ukraine, Putin is ready for anything. Still, the entire elaborate ritual of humiliation was observed anyway. Even so, the chairman got away with general phrases and did not “wrap up” a couple of Chinese divisions for Putin in gift paper. \\\\\\\ refusals to “suck,” of course, did happen, but they were rare. Mikhail of Chernigov, “having beheld the khan’s member,” raised a fuss, but for educational purposes was immediately put to death together with his retinue.

Nevzorov

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