Tragic news for historians came from the Porkhovsky district of the Pskov region. On July 1, at about half past eleven in the evening: the roof of the Stroganovs' estate in Volyshovo caught fire. This is how I found him in September 2017.
View from the courtyard.
Front entrance.
Now we can say with confidence that soon nothing will remain in this place at all, or, at best, a remake will appear that has nothing to do with real history. Read the full report on the Stroganovs' expedition to Versailles here: Salt of the Earth. Capital of beef stroganoff.
Even then, I pessimistically assumed that this "Porkhov Versailles" is likely to suffer the fate of many other nineteenth-century manors that turned out to be too inconvenient for traditional history. The fact is that after the collapse of the USSR, such estates began to "accidentally" burn in droves. Everything that did not burn down and was not destroyed to the ground is urgently restored today, so that tourists do not have questions to which local historians do not have clear answers.
So the estate of the counts Apraksins in the Pechora region, near Novy Izborsk, was destroyed.
The legal owners of the Halakhalnya estate are on the porch of their house. 1930s Photo from the collection of the Pechora Museum.
Reference: The place near Old Izborsk, where the estate is located, is mentioned in the Pskov chronicles, since here in 1341, 1407 and 1480. battles with the Livonian knights took place. In memory of these events, there is a stone cross by the road leading to the estate, restored in 1979.
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A beautiful alley, now not preserved, led to the estate, acquired by one of the members of the von Medem family in 1838. This generation has been known in Europe since the 13th century. One of its branches linked its fate with Russia. Representatives of this family were military, diplomats, and held honorary civilian positions. For this they received extensive land holdings in the Courland, Liflyansk, Saratov, Poltava provinces. The daughter of the owner of Halahalni, Maria de Medem, is marrying Baron Georg von Bunting, also a representative of an ancient Prussian family. The spouses receive Halakhalna as a dowry.
Maria and Georg von Byuntings had 3 sons: Nikolai, Alexander, Mikhail - and daughter Maria. The further fate of Halakhalni is connected with Nikolai Georgievich and Sofia Mikhailovna Bynting-Medem.
I was lucky to visit the estate before it was destroyed by an "accidental" fire. It was at the end of the nineties (of the twentieth century, of course), when Aleksandra Vladimirovna Lenina still lived in the manor house, whose parents settled in the house immediately after Estonia returned to its native harbor (part of the USSR) in 1939.
After the fire, the estate turned into sad ruins:
Tombstones from the chapel of Saints Frol and Laurus, which collapsed long before the fire on the estate.
Alexandra Vladimirovna, very lively for her eighty-eight (in 1999), told a lot of interesting things about the house in which she lives. Including the story of how, in the early seventies, she was awakened by the roar of a tractor, breaking a marble staircase that led from an access ramp to a pond with a fountain in Versailles.
If someone does not understand, let me explain my thought: Versailles is not a proper name, which today are only two cities, in France and the USA. In the nineteenth century, all park ensembles of a certain architecture were called versailles. It comes from the Latin word universum, which means "the world whole, the world, the universe." However, this is the same Jesuitism as deriving the etymology of the word "solidarity" from the Latin language.
Every Slav knows what the words "salt" and "gift" mean, therefore, solidarity is a synonym for the Russian word "mutual assistance". Versailles, in my opinion, is a derivative of the verb "twirl". What does the universe look like? Like a swirling spiral:
Universe (Univers).
Halakhalnya.
Peterhof.
Kuzminki (Moscow).
You can continue indefinitely. Historians say that all Versailles are named after a city in France, but this is not the case. Versailles is architecture. Park architecture. And its meaning is to show the structure of the Universe (Universum). This architecture does not suit someone today, therefore it is systematically destroyed. Why is it inconvenient for historians? Will explain.
In the construction of nineteenth century estates, there are elements that, in accordance with the modern paradigm, could not exist. The first is, of course, the technology that allows you to create geopolymer concrete. Even now they do not want to recognize its existence, even despite the fact that it is widely used in modern life and surrounds us literally everywhere. Take a look at what people walk past every day in St. Petersburg. This is the embankment of the Griboyedov Canal:
Samson Sukhanov cut down with a chisel? Not. It is an artificial stone imitating gray granite. And here is a nineteenth-century "stone" from the same embankment:
Do you think they cut him out? Of course not. It was cast in the same way as modern urns, flower beds and details of benches. Only a century earlier. But details of estates and famous monuments have different fate. No one is going to burn Petersburg, and the explanation is simple - a monument! (who will plant him), but historians are in no hurry to explain how similar high-tech products appeared in the middle of deep forests. Anyone can wonder where the tens of thousands of stone cutters came from at that time, with the same level of skill as the genius Samson Sukhanov.
Second: non-fired brick. Its production was recreated only at the end of the twentieth century, but our "bast shoes" ancestors used this method of brick production, if not everywhere, then very often!
Third: pneumatic heating. Even now, not every construction organization will undertake to repeat it. And in Russia this technology has been widespread since at least the beginning of the thirteenth century. And massively. Here is the answer to the question: "Why?" Then, to prove the patriarchy of the foundations of the nineteenth century. And their existence (foundations) is in great doubt. How else to explain the existence of uranium mines in the North Caucasus at that time? Were they needed for glass production, as historians say? And should we believe it?
Uranium for glass? And why was it mined then? Try to find information about what kind of stone it is. You will not find it. Because it is a natural mineral that protects against penetrating radiation better than lead. So why was it mined in the Caucasus industrially in the nineteenth century? Radiation did not exist then (officially)!
According to the official version, there were no roads either. No road or rail. But it turns out that this is not so … I hope that by the results of the next expedition I will provide material evidence of this. But this is already in the next article …
Author: kadykchanskiy