Interesting inscriptions and drawings can be found on a 1643 map of Swedish origin. Here is a region known to us from the city of Petersburg, but long before Peter's arrival there.
The map, unlike modern traditions, is oriented so that the south is at the top. This is not surprising if the publisher of the map was located in the North. After all, if you draw a diagram of how to go "to the bakery" for your friend - you should always place the starting point of the path from the bottom of the sheet of paper - then there will be right and left on your map - right and left.
Hence, it is logical to assume that the main civilization was at that time in the North from the confluence of the Neva into the Gulf of Finland. An earlier map by Fra Mauro dates from 1459 and has the same orientation:
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Here we find densely populated Siberia - our ancestral home. It must be assumed that Sweden (Sventia) was also a province of this country. Let's return to the map of 1643.
I tried to translate the inscriptions on the map - it's quite difficult. The point is that languages tend to change quickly. Until recently, the Scandinavians had one language and one people, and now we have four different nations and states. All kinds of computerized and falsified translators are also making their contribution. So the word "ingermanland" is translated by the google translator as "Izhora land" (!), But "in german land" separately - as "in a German-speaking country"! The paths of a translator are truly inscrutable. So it turns out that we cannot translate elementary inscriptions and names.
Of course, I am not an expert in Swedish. But the translations turned out as shown in the picture. Along the banks of the Neva (Nuen), the cartographer drew images of stone houses and wrote - "Stones - foundations - ruins of stone houses". Also depicted is the city at the confluence of the Okhta and the Neva - later Peter called him Nyenskans. “Nien” is the name of the river, “shants” is the fortress. Directly near the city there is an inscription: "Horer: staden: til" - "Outskirts of the city of Til". I could not find the word Til in dictionaries - this is a proper name. Therefore, we can assume that Til is the name of the Swedish, and maybe ancient, city. It also says "swamps".
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It is very interesting that opposite the Okhta estuary the cartographer depicted a cathedral with the name "Stassky". Isn't it an unusual name? But if you consider that the cathedral was originally not a religious building, but a kind of meeting place, then it is quite reasonable to bring goods here. So much for Stassky.
Another thing is curious - on the site of the ancient cathedral there is now the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, allegedly founded in 1710 at the direction of Peter. I have not come across studies of alternatives regarding Lavra, but its presence on all the old plans of Peter from its very foundation causes a certain bewilderment. So already on the plan of 1716 there is an image of the Lavra. Peter still had nowhere to spend the night, and the temple was already built far outside the city. It's strange.
However, numerous images of the ruins of stone houses on the Axonometric Plan of St. Petersburg 1765-1773 become understandable.
Isn't it too early to have half a city in ruins 60 years after it was laid?
By the way, in the indicated plan on the embankment of Vasilievsky Island, megaliths are depicted belonging to an even more ancient period. Sphinxes stand here in our time. These stone masses were not brought in galleys!
However, the picture with geometamorphoses becomes clearer if we turn to the map of 1608 - 100 years before Peter.
There is no Gulf of Finland at all! However, on other maps we see a similar leapfrog. Our Oreshek is located on the shores of the Baltic Sea, like Koporye. The Korela fortress is the same as in Priozersk. Ladoga is not connected to the Baltic by any river. However, the fact of the absence of the Neva in the recent past was also known to Catherine, who in 1796 issued a medal "In memory of the rule over two countries."
I already wrote about it here: "Ancient civilizations were covered with sand."
There is no Neva - there is a chain of "Neva Lakes"!
There are traces of a gigantic catastrophe, subsidence and then slow rise of the crust. As a result, the ancient city of Till slowly uncovered its ruins.
Like the city of Epecuen in Brazil:
The "cutters of windows to Europe" were not slow to take advantage of this. But in fact, on the contrary, they opened a window to the Muscovy. Historians are wrongly surprised - how did Peter risk to build the capital on foreign territory? Everything is simple. They took it on old maps, where it was written "Ingremanlandia" (which means - "German lands")
on top of other ink added - "Kievan Rus"
Well, there was no then Photoshop with its selection of colors - and so it will do for Russia. Roughly done. And most importantly, the method itself is interesting - to annex a piece of land to a foreign country, build (restore an ancient city) there a capital and annex the country to it! It remains to find out what kind of city this is - Til.
Alexandra Lorenz