I must admit that thanks to an interesting commentary by the alternative researcher A. Lorenz about the height of trees in one of the communities of alternative history, I came across an interesting engraving from 1800, the full title of which is: “Kozma Chesky based on the original by Semyon Shchedrin. View of the palace in Gatchina from the side of the garden. 1800. Paper, engraving with a chisel. A. Kusakin's collection”.
But what exactly interested me in this engraving? The painting by S. Shchedrin itself is not very clear, but there is a very good painting on porcelain made from it.
Pay attention to the height of some of the trees depicted in this Gatchina palace park in the near and far plans of this engraving. It can be roughly imagined thanks to the figures of people, even if we conventionally assume their average height of 1.5 meters. It turned out that the height of these trees is in no way lower than 15 meters, and this is already a 5-storey building. Imagine how these trees should have grown over the past 220 years since 1800. But, surprisingly, in no modern photo of this park, I have not found trees even of the same height. But for more than 200 years they should have grown even more.
But what do we see in modern photos? And we see trees that are not even 100 years old. But I think the trees depicted in the engraving were no less years old than the oldest of those that are in the park now. They could not have grown for 220 years at all, which means that these are already much later plantings. But where did all the old trees go? Agree that all of them could not have perished either as a result of hurricanes or as a result of the German occupation during the Second World War.
It turns out. that after 1800 there was some catastrophic event that killed all the trees. And, a similar picture is observed in many cities of the world in the middle of the 19th century - old forests suddenly disappear on the territory of Russia. And such a catastrophic event could only happen on a global scale. By the way, upon closer examination of this engraving, one can find more indirect evidence of the catastrophe of the middle of the 19th century.
Please note that the palace is located on a fairly high hill compared to the surrounding area. But now this hill does not look so majestic and has reduced its dominant height in comparison with the surrounding landscape by at least 2 times. It turns out that something has raised the ground level throughout the park. And this confirms the version of many alternative researchers that just in the middle of the 19th century, many of the first floors of old buildings were covered with "red clay" and other sedimentary rocks. And now such a term has even appeared among the alternatives - "filling", which is what such buildings are called.
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By the way, the Gatchina Palace itself also seems to be the same classic "backfill". For example, in a photo taken immediately after the occupation of the palace by the Nazi invaders, you can clearly see the presence of a full underground floor with arches and openings. So maybe it became underground after this disaster? By the way, comparing the modern views of the palace with its images of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, one can come to the same conclusion.
There are many versions explaining the nature of this phenomenon. But it is unlikely that it was the Megatsuni of the Flood or the result of the use of some kind of destructive weapon, because then the buildings themselves would be destroyed. And here I agree with O. Pavlyuchenko that most likely it was the destruction of some celestial body (presumably a comet or its fragment) in the Earth's atmosphere. Parts of this celestial body fell out together with the melted ice in the form of sediments consisting of clay, sand and other sedimentary rocks.
By the way, there is another engraving showing the view of the palace from the same angle. And they date it to about the same time (1803-1805). It was created by Gabriel Ludwig Laurie for an album with views of Russia, which was presented to Wilhelm of Bavaria. As you can see, in the same picture the trees are not small either. Also, in all these images, a certain "bowl" or "goblet" on a pedestal is of interest, the real purpose of which can only be guessed at.
By the way, on the lithograph of the artist A. Martynov "View of the Palace in Gatchina" from the series of lithographs "View of St. Petersburg and its environs" (1821-1822) we see that in the early 1820s all these trees from the Gatchina Park were still were whole.
Also, these trees are still on the engraving by K. Schulz “The Palace in Gatchina. View from the side of the lake”, dated 1842-1845 and painted from a painting by Meyer Johan Jacob. Consequently, the catastrophe occurred later than these years. Do you doubt it? But then look at the photograph of the Gatchina Palace taken in the period 1900-1910.
Pay attention to the trees. Despite the fact that more than half a century has passed since the 1840s, the trees do not look older than 40 years. And here is another photo of the Gatchina Park with a view of the palace, which dates from the period 1880-1910.
And here, too, we do not see century-old trees. Where did they go? Most likely, somewhere in the period from the second half of the 1840s to the 1860s, this global event took place, after which the vast majority of the trees disappeared. And what we see in the photo of the late 19th - early 20th centuries is young trees that have already grown up after the disaster.
It is a pity that during this period of interest to us, all the paintings, drawings and engravings of these places suspiciously disappear. But the Gatchina Palace belonged to the imperial family and during the period from the end of the 18th century to the first half of the 19th century, these places, judging by their frequent occurrence in paintings, prints and drawings, were very popular among artists. And suddenly, from the second half of the 1840s to the 1880s, all images of these places disappear. Could this be due to the fact that during the catastrophe it was necessary for people to survive and had no time for images?
In the Hermitage, however, there are three engravings by an unknown artist with the general conditional name "View of the Priory Castle in Gatchina", which for some reason date back to the period 1855-1865. But how could these engravings be dated so accurately, even if their author is unknown, as well as their original author's name is unknown? For example, these engravings could have been created with such success in the first half of the 19th century.
It seems to me that they dated them to the period 1855-1865, in order to just fill the "vacuum" in the images of these places at this very historical time. Therefore, I have no confidence in such dating. Either the falsifiers, hiding the very fact of the mid-19th century catastrophe, simply “cleaned out” all the original sources, or really then people were not up to creating such images.
Moreover, I never found any other paintings, engravings and drawings that really belong to this period. But maybe someone will be more fortunate? And, nevertheless, you must agree that the very fact of the presence of "non-growing trees" in Gatchina Park clearly indicates that the official history does not tell us something about the real events of the mid-19th century. Therefore, we will continue to have to deal with all this on our own.
