You can be their next victim
At the feet of the statues, drowned men emerge, at their will, evil spirits infiltrate the inhabitants of the city, their faces change their emotions during the day, and the people who brought them to Russia suffer an unenviable fate.
On the distant banks of the Nile there lived one very strange pharaoh, turned on magic, evil spirits and curses, and in Thebes dungeons he did obscenities, for which he was not highly respected by his own people, causing fear in their souls. Even during his lifetime, Amenhotep III managed to rebuild himself a tomb to the envy of other pharaohs, into which they thrust his body that had lost its soul, accompanied by unkind words and curses, so that other pharaohs would not be familiar. The Sphinxes were entrusted to guard the entrance / exit to the Sphinxes, whose faces the court sculptor gave the recognizable outlines of the face of the "revered" master.
From under the dust of the times, these estates damned by the people were dug up only at the beginning of the 19th century, and then, by a happy coincidence, our diplomat by the name of Muravyov was on a visit to Alexandria. He was so imbued with the spirit and appearance of these sculptures that he dashed off a plaintive letter with a request to buy handsome men for the fund of the Academy of Arts, and these lines of spiritual outpouring fell into the hands of Nicholas I. Dropping a stingy man's tear, he gave the go-ahead for the allocation of 64,000 rubles from the royal treasury for the purchase of ancient statues, because at that time it was a trifle (for example, the horses on the Anichkov bridge were 8 times more expensive).
Good Hope
It was on this Italian ship that new residents of the city arrived in the northern capital from the red seas. The process of unloading the figures from the ship was not very simple, because the weight of only one sculpture, fed on the ancient Egyptian all incluisive, reached 28 tons. The reader will ask: "Why did you achieve?" and will be right. Reaches! After all, they did not lose much weight, the sphinxes were not noticed for fitness, and judging by the outlines of old photographs, they still have the same nut.
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Not the most experienced conductors supervised the entire unloading work, so that the terrible scar in the form of a chipped face on one of the sculptures is a consequence of the buttocks of the loaders. Perhaps one could forget about all this, but the mystical soul and the ability to send curses with sphinxes originates from this very time. Either our stone friend began to avenge the inappropriate treatment of his own body, or the sculpture really turned out to be with a rotten character and began to send damage to everyone it met at that moment.
So Janis Atonazis, a Greek archaeologist who found these sculptures, died under rather strange circumstances that were not clarified at that time, but Mr. Muravyov, the very one who persuaded the Tsar to bring them to Russia, tragically died all close relatives, and Within a couple of years, the entire brave crew of the Good Hope ship, including their brave captain, gave up their ends. In Druzhko's voice, I would like to ask you: "Coincidence?" - And in his own voice answer: "I don't think so."
In search of a victim
Strange and mystical stories do not end there, so shortly before the war, on a sunny summer day in 1938, during restoration work, the Komsomol member Kochan, who sandblasted the granite embankment, abruptly changed his work plans and loaded a jet of sand into the foreman's ear. It was decided not to stop at such an achievement, and he continued to drive the rest of the brigade with a stream of sand, and a little later he connected the students leaving the Academy of Arts to the process.
To put it in the Soviet language, only the police officers who came to the call could stop such an outrage. But the case of the Komsomol member was aggravated by the following fact: during his arrest, Vyacheslav Kochan shouted hard-hitting words about Stalin himself! So the impudent worker went not just to the nearest department, but immediately to Liteiny, 4, into the warm hands of the valiant NKVD officers. Already according to them and judging by the results of the interrogation, the incident that occurred did not occur at his will. But who in those years, being in a sober mind, would have confessed to public profanity against Comrade Stalin?
So, judging by his words, during lunch he studied the ancient inscriptions on the pedestal of the Sphinxes. At that moment, a pleasant whisper enveloped his brain and ordered him to "make a sacrifice," just like a puppet in a street theater began to control the consciousness of a Komsomol member.
There is also a more eerie version of the search for victims with these boulders, because the employees of the river police department of St. Petersburg themselves are afraid to patrol this section of the river, because the bodies of citizens who find themselves lifeless a little higher along the Neva for secret and unknown reasons emerge precisely at the pier with the Sphinxes.
Benevolent Nile
In the morning, in the rays of the dawn sun, these ponderous friends always look serene, slightly pacified, but by the evening the smiles on their faces give way to sinister grins. People say that the one who saw how their facial expressions change, goes crazy and begins to behave like Dzhigurda. In this regard, during a wedding, it is better to avoid a photo session near these comrades, because they do not portend a long and happy life to anyone.
Some, of course, are sure that stone guests from Egypt bring happiness, go to them to make wishes and ask them to intervene in fate, but no one knows what price must be paid in the end for this, because the sphinxes can even pacify the Neva.
Popular rumor spreads another legend, one in which immobilized idols curbed the rebellious flow of our free river and were able to prevent the phenomenon of destructive floods. After all, after their move to our northern city, the first more flooding happened only after 39 years, and the next after 90 years, although before that it looked at least once every 20 years.
With the appearance of our Egyptian friends on the banks of the Neva, people began to look for other similarities between Petersburg and Egypt. Devoted fanatics of their business name some political similarities, observe the same patterns in the cycles of the planets and catch strange cosmic rhythms, but this is all a topic for a separate story, which you can probably read from a person who is more in love with metaphysics.