The capital of Russia is Moscow and the Northern capital is St. Petersburg … The two largest cities in our country, which are considered the main Russian centers. But both of them, judging by the legends, are covered with terrible curses.
Most of us have always thought that there is no place more ordinary or trivial than Moscow or St. Petersburg. Well, what can be mysterious or unusual in these huge metropolitan areas? Few know that these two main cities in the country are not only an endless line of shops, restaurants and office buildings. It turns out that they have a completely different, mysterious and mystical side …
It is known for certain that the history of Moscow began with a bloody murder. Prince Dolgoruky, seeing the wealth of the Suzdal boyar Stepan Kuchko, who owned many villages along the Moskva River, including Moscow, ordered him to be killed. Since then, the city began to predict a terrible future …
Today, researchers of anomalous phenomena cannot say for sure what threatens Muscovites more: bad ecology or otherworldly forces. And the popular rumor says: it's all about the curses that were sent to the city.
It's no secret that the city is built on a radial principle. Streets radiate from the Kremlin. If you count them, you get exactly twelve. This is very similar to an astrological chart. The stars are believed to protect the city from ancient curses. Each area is under the auspices of one of the planets. But they cannot always protect the city from various threats, for example, failures …
Failures are a long-standing headache for the capital. Since ancient times, not only buildings, but also people have gone underground in Moscow. But what is under the city and where does the threat come from?
Several years ago, Moscow diggers found out that the danger is fraught with numerous underground passages and old cemeteries, such a large number of which no other city in the world can boast. Today the threat of failures is very acute, but no one can give an answer whether they will bring the city to ruin or not. Although associations with curses suggest themselves: after all, the capital was predicted to sink into the ground more than once …
It would seem that one can see the inexplicable only away from the bustle of the city. But Moscow breaks all stereotypes. And although the expression "cursed place" associated with the territory where anomalous phenomena occur, has practically turned into a cliché, meanwhile, in today's Russian capital there are places with which not only legends about curses, ghosts and other mystical phenomena are connected. And their number is considerable.
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For example, Ostankino is considered to be a district literally stuffed with ghosts. Terrible legends about Ostankino began to be formed in the sixteenth century. So, in 1558, a hunched-over old woman appeared to the owner of the Ostankinskoye village, boyar Satin, and cursed him for ordering to plow the land of the old cemetery. The boyar who disobeyed her soon died. Also, historical records indicate that none of the subsequent owners of the ill-fated estate happened to die a natural death. Moreover, they all saw a mysterious hunchback shortly before their death.
In the building of the TV tower, many also saw the ghost of this mysterious old woman. Moreover, the ghost even got into the frame for a split second during one of the programs.
They say that shortly before the fire at the Ostankino tower, an old woman came to warn of the impending danger. Literally in two days, a hunchbacked old woman in a gray cloak, whom no one else saw, asked everyone at the entrance to the tower if they could smell burning. Unfortunately, the meaning of her appearance was revealed late.
Petersburg, as well as Moscow, was repeatedly prophesied death. And numerous natural disasters, in turn, confirmed these predictions. And this is not surprising: how not to believe that the city will perish from "evil water" if the Neva constantly overflows its banks.
I must say that there are several prophecies about "evil water" that will destroy the city.
The Inkeriman Commandment, an ancient book of prophecies about the fate of St. Petersburg, contains legends, according to which predictions about St. Petersburg were recorded by shamans on elk bones and hidden in the labyrinth of a monastery on Vasilyevsky Island. The monks of the local monastery managed to decipher and translate the rune letter into Latin. At the beginning of the fifteenth century, the prophecies were dug up and taken away in an unknown direction, after which the labyrinth went underground.
Disputes about this document have not subsided for two centuries. There are legends about the Inkeriman commandment. For example, it is believed that the commandment contains predictions about the time of the city's destruction, moreover, it appears in a mystical way in St. Petersburg on the eve of all catastrophes. And recently a rumor spread through the city: the commandment is in the city again. Journalists claim that it is kept in a private collection. What does such a sudden appearance of a magical manuscript mean, no one can say today.
The house on Dvinskaya street was considered by local residents to be the first news of a spiral of troubles. Several years ago, a hostel collapsed in the neighborhood, and later a multi-storey residential building. Although experts say the house was in disrepair, people believe in the prophecies.
Esotericists say that St. Petersburg is surrounded by the mystical field of protection of Var, but in St. Petersburg, as in Moscow, there are places where ghosts have received a permanent residence permit. These are numerous royal residences that today have the status of museums.
For example, in the very center of St. Petersburg, in the Winter Palace, ghosts appear quite often. Hermitage staff, especially its night workers, say that royal persons walk along the corridors at night. The ghost of Nicholas I is most often seen here. He always appears in the same corridor and slowly, with his hands behind his back, walks through the palace. The guards are always experiencing not just fear, but just real horror.
It is believed that the place where the murder took place is cursed. Allegedly, the souls of the dead demand retribution. There are many such zones in St. Petersburg. For example, the Mikhailovsky Castle - the residence of Paul the First - is called a cursed and mystical place.
Experts say that there is a very powerful energy field around the Mikhailovsky Castle. According to some reports, the castle was built on the site of an ancient temple. It was built by order of Paul the First. A few years later, in Paris, the emperor was prophesied that he should stay away from the name of Michael. Despite the fact that Paul fenced himself off from people with that name, he forgot that the fortress in which he was hiding from all misfortunes, he named in honor of Michael the archangel. And it was this castle that turned out to be fatal for him: two months after he moved into it, he was killed.
It is generally accepted that space-time portals exist in anomalous places. On the occasion of the city's 300th anniversary, the Baltic House Theater gave a number of performances about reigning persons in the historic interiors of the Mikhailovsky Castle. The actor Vadim Yakovlev, who was photographed by photographers, also played in them. Surprisingly, in more than half of the pictures, there were strange whitish transparent balls around it, which are impossible to see with the naked eye. But when Yakovlev saw the pictures, he was not at all surprised, moreover, he said that at the rehearsals of the performances they constantly feel someone's presence.
In the very center of St. Petersburg, between Troitskaya Square and the Nakhimov School at the beginning of the eighteenth century, there was a pagan temple, whose sacred relic was a whimsically growing ancient pine tree. According to this sacred pine, the Magi predicted floods and the level of the Neva's rise, weather changes and even invasions of enemies, under its crown the Magi brought sacrifices to the gods.
When construction began here on the banks of the Neva in 1703, the Chukhon priests, worried that their sacred places would be destroyed, began spreading rumors about the troubles that were coming to the new Russian capital. These rumors soon reached Peter I, who, skeptical about superstitions, personally cut down the sacral pine of the Chukhonts, ordering it to be sawed and burned in the soldiers' kitchens.
According to legend, a terrible thunderstorm broke out over the city under construction on the same night, as a result a fire broke out in many wooden buildings. Panic began in the city. And in order to prevent the spread of rumors that aroused seditious thoughts, the king ordered to seize the Magi and execute them. A few minutes before his death, standing in front of the block, each of the three captured priests said the words of curses. Popular memory brought them to their contemporaries. The first priest let the new city stand for exactly three hundred years, the second Chukhon sorcerer predicted that the day would come when all the Finno-Ugric tribes would unite and the end of the power of the white rulers would come. The third elder threw down the terrible words that the city of Peter would completely disappear from the face of the Earth at the moment when three kings from the east would be buried in it …
The death of two Russian cities was prophesied and probably will still be prophesied. Rumors and legends will continue to live on in them. But Muscovites, Petersburgers, and Omsk residents, as well as any Russian living anywhere on the planet, really want them to stand for a long time. And they thrived, despite such a large number of strange places, which, however, are in any city on our amazing planet. After all, the fate of these two Russian capitals worries truly Russian people, who cannot imagine Russia without either the Gold-domed or St. Petersburg.
