- Chapter 1. Old maps of St. Petersburg -
Historians of the official school write that for some two or three decades on the Neva, without roads, a city appears in the swamps (note, the northernmost in the world at that time) with a modern layout, with avenues that no one had built before, a sewage system, channels with granite lining, massive stone structures, and columns, columns and columns (what kind of laboriousness, why, for what?) … like in Lebanon Baalbek, Greece Parthenon, Egypt Giza, etc.
St. Petersburg:
But this is Baalbek. Find 10 differences.
Promotional video:
Diameter, height, material, processing quality …
Peter was built according to all the canons of an ancient city, not a Christian one, but an ancient one: columns, statues, palaces. The first church appeared there in the Peter and Paul Fortress, the Peter and Paul Cathedral (1712-1733). No more churches were built on the territory of the city during the life of Peter I. But Petersburg impressed with a huge number of antique sculptures and buildings.
Does that remind you of anything?
One thought gnaws at me, modern technologies still cannot reach … ancient technologies of working with stone. Some historians strongly doubted the participation of our civilization in the construction of the pyramids, Baalbek, the Pantheon and the Parthenon, not to mention the Wall of China (perhaps this is just a high-speed highway between west and east). The states that appeared there simply appropriated the merits of the ancient builders, completing the buildings in their own way, or recognizing them as monuments of their ancestors. Maybe Peter was also informed about the discovery of the city, or its ruins. It was not for nothing that he so furiously destroyed all the old records and sources associated with the emergence of the city. How many builders of St. Petersburg remained in the foundation of its structures. How many underground passages have not yet been found, how many are still shrouded in mystery?
Does that remind you of anything?
One thought gnaws at me, modern technologies still cannot reach … ancient technologies of working with stone. Some historians strongly doubted the participation of our civilization in the construction of the pyramids, Baalbek, the Pantheon and the Parthenon, not to mention the Wall of China (perhaps this is just a high-speed highway between west and east). The states that appeared there simply appropriated the merits of the ancient builders, completing the buildings in their own way, or recognizing them as monuments of their ancestors. Maybe Peter was also informed about the discovery of the city, or its ruins. It was not for nothing that he so furiously destroyed all the old records and sources associated with the emergence of the city. How many builders of St. Petersburg remained in the foundation of its structures. How many underground passages have not yet been found, how many are still shrouded in mystery?
Let's take another look at the map of the "city of Petra":
And here's a map of the ancient city of Athens, doesn't the layout seem familiar to you?
And history says that Athens was still 1000 years BC, or are they lying?
There is a strange feeling of understatement. Either Peter's youth has been sucked from the thumb, or the age of ancient Greece is too high.
Here's another coincidence for you, the same Greece …
And this is Peterhof:
Can you find ten differences?
With fortifications, too, not everything is simple. During the construction of the forts of Kronstadt and the facing of the embankments, an incredible number of granite blocks of an ideal shape were used. There are about ten forts of such blocks in the Gulf of Finland. They are faced with cut granite weighing up to 2 tons. Moreover, the blocks are laid without mortar. For such laying, it is necessary to make them with tolerances of no more than 0.5 mm (as in ceramic tiles), the same tolerances apply to the perpendicularity of the edges. The blocks in the photographs resemble the appearance of a standard (conveyor) product. Making them by hand, although possible, is costly and time-consuming (about one block per month of a small, equipped artel). Precise and long-term grinding of planes is necessary to obtain smooth edges without chips. With repetitive precisionand on a massive scale, such production is hardly feasible in practice. I do not remember that in the textbooks of the Petrine era, gapless and mortarless masonry was described. I'm not even talking about structures tens of meters high with such masonry. Excessive precision and thoroughness in the manufacture of defensive structures are not in favor of manual production. At that time it was not worth it, and there was no such money, but with machine, conveyor, mass production, such accuracy is obtained by itself, and does not cause surprise. It turns out that everything stood on the stream, and the complex processing of granite blocks was given to our ancestors very easily, look:Excessive precision and thoroughness in the manufacture of defensive structures are not in favor of manual production. At that time it was not worth it, and there was no such money, but with machine, conveyor, mass production, such accuracy is obtained by itself, and does not cause surprise. It turns out that everything stood on the stream, and the complex processing of granite blocks was given to our ancestors very easily, look:Excessive precision and thoroughness in the manufacture of defensive structures are not in favor of manual production. At that time it was not worth it, and there was no such money, but with machine, conveyor, mass production, such accuracy is obtained by itself, and does not cause surprise. It turns out that everything stood on the stream, and the complex processing of granite blocks was given to our ancestors very easily, look:
In the 18th episode of the film "Gorunov", a wall with an entertaining masonry is captured in the frame, if someone knows where it is, write.
Here are more fragments of the wall to the left and right of the gate.
Link with location reference.
For comparison, let's look at the masonry of the Temple of Apollo in Delphi (Greece):
Thomas stones, style and way of laying do not resemble anything? The material is different, you say, I completely agree with you, but the way the stones are processed, the masonry technology itself - they are identical, only the blind will not see this.
I can't get rid of the thought: either during the construction of the docks, ready-made material was used, brought from another place (there the finished structure was disassembled, assembled here), or to the masters of that time, working with granite seemed like child's play, as they wanted, they cut it, about the weight of the blocks I am silent, more on that later.
But I dug out these photos while looking at the BREST FORTRESS:
Perhaps these are the remains of former forts and bastions, and perhaps antiquity is not as ancient as historians are trying to prove to us.
Photos from here: vaduhan-08.livejournal.com/65543.html
Ladder at the west dock. The material is pink granite, this cannot be cut on the machine. If the labor is manual, why is it so laborious? It is much easier to take and fold a ladder from rectangular blocks. But for the masters of that time, such work did not seem difficult, so they cut as they wanted.
Polygonal masonry of the Vyborg Bay:
Photo source: prong777.livejournal.com/489529.html
Granite megaliths of the Northern Fort:
For comparison, the modern (20th century) concrete building, the same northern fort:
Fort Alexander I and Constantine:
This is Kronstadt (forts), but the masonry technology itself surprises, how does it look like Machu Picchu:
Cuzco Region, Peru. (Machu Picchu. South America, Peru.)
Probably Peter 1 got hold of the Incas somewhere with the Aztecs, about a thousand years old, and forced them to build Kronstadt, or extorted technology from them, built factories, schools, taught people, bought machines from the same Incas … and started production. At the end of the construction, the Monk-foreman said: - Fuck-tibidokh-takh-takh!.. and everything evaporated: machine tools, factories, and most importantly knowledge, memory of construction. And the buildings are, in Russia, according to historians, two hundred years already, in America, according to the same historians, a couple of thousand years, at least. I wonder whose history is more "historical"?
- Vasya, and Vasya, have you learned history?
- What for? I'll come up with a che-thread, I'll tell you more confidently, the teacher will put another five.
- What about the textbook?
- What about the textbook? The “old” was all worn out, but in the “new”, nothing was said about what was in the “old”.
A. Sklyarov is wandering around the world in search of polygonal masonry and… ancient technologies. And here everything is on a silver platter:
- Take it!
- I do not want!
The famous Petrovsky dock:
One thing surprises, granite forts and embankments are present only in one region of the Baltic, namely in Kronstadt and St. Petersburg, forts of Konigsberg (Kaliningrad) are brick, however, like all the others. So where did the knowledge go?
A few words about the antiquity of the buildings, look at the map, the dates … and the crosses on the spiers.
… and the forts of Kronstadt in the early 19th century.
Either the artist lied, or such a construction, even on the water, well, it could not have been done without technical documentation, trained engineers, and most importantly, with a complete loss of memory of the construction.
For those who do not believe in the illogicality of the appearance of such structures in Peter's and after Peter's times, I offer only two photos:
Granite facing of the channel in St. Petersburg.
Enlarged photo
Polygonal masonry. Japan, Edo castle.
And here and there traces of the formwork are clearly visible. I really look forward to an explanation.
On the strangeness of the building material and the buildings themselves
More than five hundred samples from the times of ancient Greece are presented in the brick museum in St. Petersburg, on a number of bricks the hallmarks are extruded in Latin: RAMSAY, STABBARD, BORNHOLM, REX. Although brick factories of the 18th century put the hallmarks of the owners of factories - Sterling, Porshnev, Lvov, BrLvovy, STUKKEY, Strelin, Rusanov, Baranov, Stroganov, Kharchenko, Belyaev, Baikov, Khil, Lenin, Muffel, TOSM, Bogdanovich, Eduard, Evmentiev, Isakov, Tyrlov, Pirogov, Shorokhov, Gromov and k, Sobolev, Mga and a number of others. Where does a brick from the times of ancient Greece come from in St. Petersburg? How much did the transportation cost? Who brought it there, and why such expenses?
In addition to what has been said. We already know about the strict north-south orientation of all large megalithic structures, pyramids, temple complexes, and so: St. Isaac's Cathedral, like the Winter Palace, are oriented to the north in exactly the same way as the "theater" in Pompeii, Baalbek in Lebanon. Coincidence? Maybe. But they are focused not on the current pole, but on the “antediluvian” pole, but the buildings outside the city centers are not oriented in any way.
You can easily check it on Googlemaps.
Saint Isaac's Cathedral
Theater in Pompeii
Here, in my opinion, is a very interesting debriefing about the origin of St. Isaac's Cathedral, just click on the LINK.
Let's take a look at three facades
Ruins of the Temple of Olympian Zeus
Pantheon
Saint Isaac's Cathedral
And for a seed, guess … where is it?
Count the number of columns
I won't torment you for a long time, I will give you a hint right away …
This is a model of the building, by William Thornton 1792.
And here is the building itself
Recognized the Capitol?
Pay attention to these columns, do they tell you anything?
These columns were originally supposed to support the dome of the Capitol. But there something did not grow together either with the number of columns brought, or with the size, and the columns had to be added to the Arboretum.
Now we look here
Ruins of the Temple of Olympian Zeus
Compare columns
Parthenon
Baalbek, Temple of Jupiter.
Kazan Cathedral. St. Petersburg.
Capitol.
Looking for differences in the colonnade … not finding what conclusion?
In terms of coincidences, this picture finished me off. Boston Capitol.
It seemed to me, or a copy of the Pillar of Alexandria is present here.
This is how he is now.
Massachusetts State Capitol in Boston
And here is the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines
Why not Isaac?
There is a strong impression that all these columns came out of one workshop, created by the hand of one master, somewhere in the Middle East or Egypt. They were simply taken from the warehouse and delivered according to the ordered volumes around the world.
Here are photos of Apamea and surroundings (Syria)
Palmyra (also known as Tadmor)
And this is Egypt, the columns are all the same.
Many artists of the 18th century painted antiquity, dilapidated and surviving.
I bring to your attention paintings by Robert Hubert (1733-1808). French painter, master of architectural landscape.
One more question: where did antiquity come from in China? As far as I remember, neither the Greeks nor the Romans reached there, especially the Egyptians.
I think it is stupid to ascribe the authorship of St. Isaac's Cathedral to Montferand, in my opinion, here is an excerpt from the assignment to rebuild St. Isaac's Cathedral in Vigel's Notes: “In words, the Emperor asked Betancourt to instruct someone to draw up a project for rebuilding St. Isaac's Cathedral so as to preserve everything that was old the building, perhaps with a slight increase, give a more magnificent and noble appearance to this great monument."
(Apparently because these words belonged to the sovereign, the censorship did not dare to touch them).
Here is the material from the official history.
Paul I, who ascended the throne, instructed the architect V. Brenna to urgently complete the construction (reconstruction) of the cathedral. Fulfilling the desire of the king, the architect was forced to distort Rinaldi's project - to reduce the size of the upper part of the building and the main dome and (supposedly) abandon the construction of four small domes.
The marble for facing the upper part of the cathedral was transferred (removed from the cathedral) for the construction of the residence of Paul I - Mikhailovsky Castle. The cathedral turned out to be squat, and artistically even ridiculous - ugly brick walls rose on a luxurious marble-granite foundation (neither the architect nor the builders, no matter how hard they tried, could not repeat the former grandeur of the monument and the granite masonry). This building caused ridicule and bitter irony of contemporaries. For example, naval officer Akimov who came to Russia after a long stay in England wrote an epigram:
Behold a monument of two kingdoms, Both are so decent
On the marble bottom
The brick top was erected
While trying to attach a sheet with this quatrain to the facade of the cathedral, Akimov was arrested. He paid dearly for his wit: his tongue was cut off and he was exiled to Siberia.
In various versions, Petersburgers retold a dangerous epigram:
This temple will show us
Who caresses, who scourges, It started with marble
Finished with bricks.
Later, during the reign of Emperor Alexander I, when the brickwork was dismantled during the execution of the final Montferrand version of the cathedral, folklore responded with a new epigram.
This temple of three kingdoms is pictured:
Granite, brick and destruction.
Restoration of St. Isaac's Cathedral. Album of Monsieur Montferrand A. Eglise de Saint Isaac … St. Petersburg., 1820
On the 70th page of the well-known album of Monsieur Montferrand, it is clearly seen that the remains of structures of ancient temples were used for the construction of St. Petersburg buildings. He doesn't even hide it.
The red arrow indicates marble fragments of structures, yellow granite ones.
This construction waste is like two drops of water similar to the fragments of the "Temple of Jupiter" in Baalbek.
The same pattern, the same designs. The correspondence of the columns of St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg to the columns of the Temple of Jupiter in Baalbek (Lebanon) we examined above, they are almost identical. And here is the pattern on the floor of St. Isaac's Cathedral.
Isaac's Cathedral sinned with Greek symbolism
But this picture
says it is the officially recognized Greek meander circle.
GREEK meander ornament.
Did the Greeks build St. Isaac's Cathedral?
This bas-relief speaks for itself
Ornament on the inner walls of the Temple of Hadrian.
Note the carved modular portico of the Temple of Jupter
Here are the modons at the Kazan Cathedral, will we play in "Find 10 Differences"?
And here is St. Isaac's Cathedral
Three in the center are real, and those on the sides are fresh, this is all that Montferand mastered during the reconstruction of the cathedral, he did not have enough skill or time to repeat the original.
Here's another new thing
To everything that has been said about St. Isaac's Cathedral, and about its similarity with the Cathedral of JUPITER in Baalbek (Lebanon), I will add another zest, which for official historians will seem like a peppercorn. Take a closer look at the picture …
This drawing is from Montferrand's album (39th century). Signed in French:
Un ouvrier russe sculptant la tete colossale de Jupiter dans un bloc en granit
Transfer:
A Russian worker carves the giant head of Jupiter from a granite block.
Or maybe the city WAS
and bore a glorious name
Jupiter!
… or the hail of Jupiter.
It was later renamed to Petersburg, and later to St. Petersburg.
And here is what has survived
Colossal statue of the ruler of the gods Jupiter, created by a Roman sculptor, reduced to three meters by the magnificent original of Phidias.
The Supreme God is presented in a majestic pose of a victorious: in his hands he holds the attributes of God - a scepter and a statuette of the goddess of victory Nike, at his right foot - a sacred eagle, a copy from the statue of Zeus of the Olympic work of the ancient Greek sculptor of the V century. BC. Phidias. State Hermitage. St. Petersburg.
Conclusion: The Cathedral was standing! And apparently stood for more than one hundred years, the restorers had not only materials, but also an unimaginable number of statues and monuments, which were taken away throughout St. Petersburg and beyond. In the picture, Montferand tried to attach a huge statue of Jupiter to the official version, but either the version did not work, or the head of Jupiter seemed too compromising for the newly-minted falsifiers, and it was split into building material for the foundations of new buildings, as well as many other unsuitable ones, only a three-meter version remained.
But some statues still survived to our time, albeit in a modified form, with different inscriptions, but they did!
Read the continuation here.
Author: ZigZag
