The middle of the nineteenth century … The cities of America look as if large-scale hostilities took place in these places … Paris also does not stand out against the background of American cities: the same destroyed houses, there are no people on the streets, despondency and desolation …
Historians say that this is not unusual: in America since the beginning of the nineteenth century, there have been more than a hundred large-scale fires that completely burned cities. Roughly speaking, one fire a year. The causes of the fires were different, but mostly minor.
But if you look closely at the photos, they do not look very much like the consequences of a single fire: you can see the unexplained destruction of buildings, which raise many questions.
As for the city of Paris, according to historians, the German troops are to blame for the destruction of the city. The order to bombard Paris was given by the Chancellor of Prussia Bismarck. During the shelling, 400 Grosjeans were killed, then the troops of the Paris Commune seized power in the city, and during these battles, buildings in Paris were also damaged.
It seems that historians explain everything very logically: in America, fires are to blame for everything, in Paris - Chancellor Bismarck and the troops of the Paris Commune.
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But what is very strange: empty destroyed cities are not only Paris, Chicago, Boston, New York, New Orleans, Cairo … It sounds strange, of course, but Sevastopol should be added to the list of suspiciously destroyed cities. Of course, historians know everything about who destroyed Sevastopol, but their version also does not stand up to any serious criticism.
The same is true for the cities of Egypt. Egypt in photographs of the early nineteenth century looks like an abandoned area, and only in the middle of the nineteenth century people returned to this area, and we see how life is just beginning to emerge in abandoned Egyptian cities.
But in the history of fires and abandoned cities, for some reason everyone bypasses such a mystical country as India.
Of course, when the phrase "abandoned cities of India" is used, most people get a picture from the Soviet cartoon about Mowgli and similar stories about how the ruins of unknown civilizations are found in the jungle. Only in India, in order to find cities of unknown civilizations, it is not necessary to go far into the jungle, it is enough to look at the photographs of 1857 and we will immediately see a strange and wonderful world, which should not be on this territory.
We see ancient buildings, in which the natives, with the help of adobe bricks, arrange enclosures for themselves, almost like in the Winter Palace: there was a huge empty building, this building was divided into small mezzanine cages.
And even the time intervals are about the same: the enclosures in India and the mezzanine of the Winter Palace were built at about the same period.
I really liked this extension very much: it was just that some lover of primitivism added it to an abandoned palace. It looks very strange: why did not the person occupy one of the rooms of the abandoned palace? I think for the same reason why the Winter Palace was divided into small mezzanines: it is impossible to heat a huge stone room normally. In India, after all, there are also cool months and at night the houses are cold, although not freezing. Therefore, in such a small extension, it is much easier to create a comfortable atmosphere with the help of a small amount of firewood. And if we look at the surrounding landscape, we will understand that there were problems with firewood.
Or look at these ruins: you can see exactly the same ones somewhere near St. Petersburg.
But just a wonderful architectural monument. Look at these collapses. It can be seen that these gates are very ancient and are already being destroyed by old age. But if you listen to the version of historians, then these gates are destroyed not from old age, they suffered from battles during the sepoy uprising.
And all those buildings that I showed you earlier also began to look like this precisely because of the sepoy uprising.
Before the capture of India by the British, it was divided into a huge number of small principalities, constantly at war with each other. The British quickly occupied India, but in order to control vast territories, a large army is needed and therefore the main force of the colonial troops became
Sepoys are Indian mercenaries armed with British weapons. They were paid a very solid salary for the Indians. For the local poor, getting into the service of the British became a dream come true. But the political situation in India began to deteriorate due to the short-sighted actions of the Governor-General. The general introduced a law according to which the Indian feudal lord, who was left without an heir, had to give his lands to the East India Company. Life in India was changing in a European manner, land taxes increased, also due to the mass production of fabrics in
English manufactories ruined thousands of Indian weavers. The last straw that led to the uprising was the rumor that the cartridges were soaked in a mixture of beef and pork fat. Sepoy units were deliberately recruited according to a mixed principle: half Hindus, half Muslims. And since sepoys usually carton cartridges
tearing their teeth, the news that the cardboard was soaked in pork and beef fat greatly offended their religious feelings and caused a rebellion. The uprising lasted only a few months, and although the British brutally suppressed the rebellion, for which they had to wait for the troops that ended the military campaign in Crimea, they had to make concessions.
On August 2, 1858, the English Parliament passed a law to liquidate the East India Company and transfer control to England.
Historians' version, of course, is wonderful and exciting. All formalities were followed - tax increases, land grabbing, and, of course, insulting the feelings of believers. But now I look at the gates of Delhi, which allegedly suffered during the assault, and I see a completely dilapidated structure, which suffered more from old age, and not from some sepoy uprising. If there was a shelling of these gates, it happened long before the coming of the British. Secondly, we see the same destruction in American cities.
The next photo is an illustration on the theme of buried cities.
And here is just a reminder of the arsenals of New York:
The architecture is identical. Only these buildings are located on different continents.
Here we see just a copy of Piranesi's engraving: a beautiful building with high aisles was adapted by the natives for their needs. Although according to historians, this building was built in 1837. This means that it only stood for 20 years.
And this gate is less than ten years old, since it was built in 1848.
If this photo is repainted in the desired color and a cross is placed on the church, then you might think that this place is in St. Petersburg - for example, the courtyard in the Peter and Paul Fortress overlooking the cathedral.
This photograph is also somewhat reminiscent of Piranesi's work.
On this destroyed city, which was abandoned several decades ago, and people have just begun to restore order in it.
Ruined crematorium tower and buried ground floor.
Historians say these are the consequences of the uprising. Even the trees on the roofs grew, although the revolt lasted only a few months.
And this is how India looked before the arrival of the British:
Almost all photographs that date back to 1857 raise a lot of questions. Let's take this one. If you put it on a site dedicated to the fire in Boston, then no one will distinguish it from a series of Boston photographs.
You yourself can guess what happened in India and whether there is a connection with the events in America and Paris. I think that there is a connection, and the destroyed cities of India, the fires in America, the revolutions in Paris are the consequences of a global event that happened in the early or mid-nineteenth century. This event can be called in different ways: the first world, the second settlement of the world, the arrival from behind the ice wall. The name may be many, but they are all associated with one event - the almost simultaneous destruction of cities on all continents and the disappearance of the population of these cities.