The Siberian pine tree ( Pinus sibirica ) is commonly called a Siberian cedar , although it is not a cedar tree . It is the tree of " Ringing Cedars Of Russia " book serial publication fame . The " ring " that the tree emits is due to its enormous fund of cosmic energy collect over C of year , according to an elder in the book serial .
Characteristics
The Siberian cedarwood grows to a tallness of about 130 feet with a proboscis of over 6 foot in diameter . It prefers moist soil and cool climates , but adapts to a wide range of growing conditions .
Heritage
Lake Baikal in southern Siberia , is the world ’s onetime lake , at 25 million years , and the seventh largest lake in the universe . In its vicinity grow Siberian cedars and other trees and flora , perhaps a clue as to their venerable origin and ages . Lake Baikal is a Natural World Heritage Serial Site , its designation since 1996 .
Food Source
The Siberian cedar is both an ornamental orchard specie and a timber species . true cedar nuts are popular products of the tree , as food for nearby village as well as for woods fauna such as chipmunks , squirrels and sable . Russian exports of these cedar nuts dates back to the reign of Ivan the Terrible , officially Czar Ivan IV ( 1530 to 1584 ) . In 1786 , the German naturalist , P. S. Pallas , who worked for many years in Russia and Siberia , noted that in Switzerland , pharmacies used pine nut to invent a milk dictate for chest ailments .
Documented History
Siberian cedars have a very long life anticipation , usually between 300 and 500 years , and up to 800 eld . Written accounts of their early cultivation in Russia date back to the 16th hundred . They distinguish a woodlet establish on the Volga , near the fourteenth century Tolgskaya Monastery . In and around Moscow , Siberian cedars graced princely estates around the seventeenth century . orchard of Siberian cedars also farm in St. Petersburg and its surround and other parts of Russia .
“The Ringing Cedars Of Russia” Books
A spiritual tie with these sanctified cedar tree diagram is the premise of the " Ringing Cedars of Russia " nine - book series . The series account dates back to 1995 , when a Siberian dealer named Vladimir Megre , converge an extraordinary woman named Anastasia , who lives in the Siberian wilderness . She possesses extremely developed psychic and genial powers that admit outside viewing , healing , mind reading and total recollection . Anastasia so move Megre , that he give up his business to pen the book . The first Word in the serial is " Anastasia . " She tells him that she would encode the book with an energy to lift referee ' tone and insure the books ' success . Over 10 million books sell by 2005 , purely by word of mouth , according to the Ringing Cedars website . The script now arrive in over 20 languages . A unseasoned Russian scholar bought the English oral communication right in 2005 . The rule book took 3 years to render into English . " Powerful , myth - shattering content in these books uncover profound wiseness ground in ancient noesis , expose conquer secrets and hidden historic fact and offer a whole newfangled epitome for our satellite ’s futurity , " according to the web site .
