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Later, when examining the second bridge over the Vogosch River, located upstream, next to the former menagerie indicated on Plan No. 13, we were convinced that the details of the construction of the front bridge were made according to a single standard:
Inspection showed that the supporting walls of the bridge were made of blocks identical to those from which the "Impossible Bridge" was built. During construction, only two standard sizes from the "constructor" were used, with the exception of the corner elements, in which grooves are visible, most likely, which previously had metal parts of the supports. Probably, in Soviet times, all the metal of this bridge was successfully mastered by pioneers collecting scrap metal, and a reinforced concrete panel had to be placed on top of the dismantled steel structures.
Having lost its steel frame, the bridge also lost its strength characteristics. To prevent the supporting walls from collapsing completely without them, both banks were also reinforced with reinforced concrete building blocks, from which standard basement rooms were built in accordance with Soviet SNiPs. But the destroyed fragments of the structure clearly showed that the blocks were not carved out of stone, but cast into molds. Anyone who has studied such questions will certainly say that if we are talking about instrumental processing of natural stone, then only the outer part of the block has always been subjected to it.
This is due not only and not so much to saving time and resources, but rather to the requirements imposed on the strength of the entire structure. The smooth walls of the blocks facing the ground do not have proper adhesion to its surface and require additional structural elements that increase the stability of the structure. We see nothing of the kind here.
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We also do not observe differences in block sizes. And this is one more sound argument in favor of the version about the use of geopolymer technology by the builders of the estate. After all, finding a sufficient number of granite blanks, from which blocks of standard sizes will then be carved, is an almost insoluble task. When construction is carried out with stones carved from natural rocks, you will not find two stones of the same size in one wall. They will all have unique dimensions that will not be repeated anywhere else.
Here are the walls made of natural stones:
XIII century castle Medvedgrad in Croatia.
By the way, this photo clearly shows traces of the recycling of different technologies from different eras or cultures. The block installed by the restorers on the upper right corner of the building could not have been created by the builders of the castle itself. This fact is simply outrageous, but few people pay attention to such "trifles". But now we are interested in a building that is closer to us than a Croatian castle.
We continued our inspection of the count's house by examining the foot of the front facade. The first thing that catches your eye is the design of the columns. In appearance, they look like pedestals located along the perimeter of the roof, or like details of the construction of bridges. The same gray granite, but no … Traces of the formwork clearly appeared:
Most likely, the new ones looked as if they had been carved from solid pieces of gray granite, but now it is quite obvious that the columns are made of bricks and plastered with mortar imitating natural stone. How the critics of the geopolymer technologies of the past will cover this fact, I cannot even imagine.
And as if for clarity, the restorers of the twentieth century laid in the base of the porch those granite stones, which are actually abundant in the fields and forests around the estate today. Compare how they built it under “wild feudal tsarism in bastard Russia” and what achievements of science were used by the “liberated workers and peasants”. But let's see what the steps of the palace are made of:
A half-column with a half-cap looks monolithic, and is most likely cast from one solution:
Probably, the monogram of the Stroganov family at the top of the building's facade was made using the same technology:
A similar monogram has survived in Moscow, on the inner facade of the Stroganov School building on Myasnitskaya 24/7, building 2:
The Art and Industry Museum at the Central Stroganov School of Technical Drawing.
Earlier I came across information about the discovery by Russian tourists of the same monogram on one of the facades of buildings in Italy, but it turned out to be very difficult to confirm this message. In none of the sources I was able to find information that the Stroganovs had real estate outside of Russia, but this issue remains to be studied in the future. In the meantime, let's go to the house church.
No. 2 on the plan:
The pomp and monumentality of this building plunges into confusion. In the Pskov outback, you can rarely find a building that differs from such masterpieces as St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg or St. Peter's Cathedral in the Vatican, only in size and the absence of a light drum with columns. The unity of the construction of such “temples” cannot fail to suggest their general utilitarian purpose, far from cult. It is more like a technical device, something akin to an inductor on an electronic circuit board.
After checking the orientation of the building in space on the navigator, Alexander and I made sure that the western, main vestibule of the temple was oriented not at the modern North Pole, but at Greenland, where the former North Pole was supposedly located.
What follows from this? I have only one explanation, which seems to be the most probable today. The house church was built on antediluvian foundations, like the count's house. And this can be confirmed by the granite blocks I mentioned above at the base of the foundation. They may well be the remains of the walls of the first floor of the building, which is now covered with clay and sand and serves as a basement, basement floor, on which a modern brick building was built.
And inside the picture is sad. In Soviet times, it housed a school assembly hall and part-time the House of Pioneers and a village club:
The brickwork below ground level explains the dire condition of the building, which could collapse at any moment. Who builds like that ?! This is the height of ignorance of the architect and builders. The brick is hydrophilic in nature and requires good waterproofing for long-term preservation of the building's properties. The water that the brick "draws" from the soil softens the clay from which it is made. With temperature drops, this water freezes and, expanding like dynamite, breaks the brick from the inside.
Such incompetence of the builders of the church raises a lot of questions about the exact time of construction of individual objects. The professionalism of the builders of the count's house and the slovenliness of the founders of the church do not fit. And only on-site excavations can remove these questions. But who will allow digging in such a place! Even though it has already been sentenced to imminent complete destruction from "natural causes."
All this is true only in one case - if the architect makes a mistake. And if we use logic and exclude the option of builders' amateurism, then what will remain? And only one thing will remain … The basement of the house church was created not at all as a basement, but above ground. And now the first brick floor of the building is underground, which is completely covered with soil. And that explains everything. And it is confirmed by recent excavations in large cities. Particularly indicative are such excavations as in Moscow and Kazan, where another city completely buried under the modern city is discovered.
Polytechnic Museum in Moscow.
I believe that comments are unnecessary here. And it is highly probable that the Stroganovs' house church in Volyshevo has exactly the same horizon buried in soil with a thickness of at least two meters.
Next, we examined the object, which is designated on the Plan as number 26:
Manager's house. Office. (19th century)
Despite its stylization under the general architectural style of the estate, we had the displeasure to make sure that it was built, apparently, quite recently and does not have the slightest signs of high technologies of the past. Everything about him is ordinary and primitive. If the house was built in the nineteenth century, then at its very end, when the builders did not already know what pneumatic heating is. When the openings were made in accordance with the modern growth of people and their needs to conserve the heat generated by conventional Dutch wood stoves.
And a completely different feeling arose when studying the "dovecote":
No. 8 on the plan:
This structure is so mysterious that even a name was not found for it that could clarify its purpose. With the same success one could call it a chapel or a gazebo, but for some reason the witnesses of the end of the nineteenth century settled on the version that this is the "Bird's House".
In Pskov, I managed to find a witness of the late twentieth century, Evgeny Tumanova, who received a certificate of secondary education from the Volyshov secondary school in 1978. She told me that in those days all the inhabitants of the village called this building a dovecote, although no one had ever heard of pigeons being bred in it.
In addition, Evgenia told me that there was a well inside the structure, and we actually saw traces of its presence in the past with our own eyes:
And exactly above the depression in the ground on the central part of the vault there is such a mark:
One gets the feeling that earlier there was something inside the room that had nothing to do with the well, leaning on a pedestal and connected to the dome, forming a single structure. It is incredible, but it seems that the pedestal is still in the same place, only it was moved from the premises to the outside in order to dig a well:
The discrepancy between the level of technologies used to create this pedestal and the "dovecote" itself cannot but be striking. The quality of granite processing is simply prohibitively high. And the holes in the upper part were drilled perfectly, and, most likely, they had some kind of fasteners for installing the structure around which the "dovecote" was mounted. Was it a statue or something more utilitarian? Indeed, in the courtyard of the Pskov stud farm No. 18 (No. 3 on the plan), located directly opposite the count's house, there is a structure that did not at all deserve the honor of being noted on the plans of the estate:
This is not a bird house, and not a well, it is "just like that." The location of this structure when scaling turns out to be completely identical to the "dovecote", and this circumstance suggests that their purpose was identical. Only the dovecote "served" the count's house, and "just like that" - the stud farm. And how many times the palace is larger than the stud farm, so many times the "dovecote" is larger "just like that". This circumstance cannot but lead to reflections on the existence in the past of technologies that we do not possess today. At the very least, we have learned to make geopolymer concrete, and today you will not surprise anyone with a countertop made of artificial marble or malachite. But atmospheric electricity …
Illumination of the frontal place with gas-discharge lanterns.
And the practical use of atmospheric electricity is not at all a fantasy of "alternative historians", because there are more than enough objective data confirming this fact. There is no need to go far for examples. Anyone who is fortunate enough to be a pioneer and attend a radio circle will confirm that in the seventies of the last century an article with an electronic circuit and instructions for assembling a radio receiver that does not require a power source was published in one of the Soviet magazines.
Any schoolchild, guided by this article, could independently solder such a device and get his own radio receiver almost free of charge, which worked using the electricity of radio waves. To listen to your favorite programs, it was enough to have a higher antenna and a reliable ground. But the ether is permeated not only by radio waves, but also by particles having different polarities depending on the height at which they are located in the atmosphere. And they learned to use this circumstance back in the middle of the nineteenth century for illumination and illumination of premises and city streets.
The air contains a certain number of ions (charged atoms, molecules and particles), which determine its weak conductivity. The density of the ion current at the surface of the earth is several picoamperes per square meter, but over the entire surface of the earth, this current reaches thousands of amperes. In the 1850s and 60s, patents were obtained for Mahlon Lumis and William H. Ward in the United States, Hippolyte Charles Vion in France.
Melon Loomis used atmospheric electricity to power long (400-600 miles) telegraph lines and for the first experiments on wireless communication, by the way, quite successful. The Library of Congress of the United States has documents and evidence of telegraph communication between the hills of West Virginia at a distance of 18 miles (1868).
By the beginning of the twentieth century, many researchers of atmospheric electricity appeared who proposed practical designs. They are Walter Pennock and MW Dewey in the USA, Andor Palencsar in Hungary, Heinrich Rudolph in Germany.
That is, the use of atmospheric electricity should be treated as a given, and not as a hypothesis. And if we see that the Stroganovs' estate had a pneumatic heating system, which in the twenty-first century began to be invented again in Estonia, for example, due to the high cost of natural gas, then why cannot we assume the existence of a lighting system in it powered by atmospheric electricity?
The Stroganovs were not poor people with an advanced way of thinking. I have no doubt that they made sure that everything on their estate was extremely advanced. In connection with the foregoing and based on the actual data of the expedition to Volyshevo, I will allow myself to make the following assumption:
Atmospheric electricity
"Dovecote" and "Just like that" were external cases of devices that had powerful electric current transformers inside with grounding and antennas in domes, built according to the scheme of Nikola Tesla's coils. They created a rather intense electric field in which gas-discharge lamps shone on the roofs of buildings and in rooms. Many have seen how fluorescent lamps glow in the field of a transformer or transmitting antenna.
Why are there fluorescent … Ordinary incandescent lamps can glow under certain conditions. My words can be confirmed by military signalmen, who have had occasion to "download" communication from a mobile radio station of the "Bant" type in wet weather or in fog. Then, during the operation of the radio operator on the car, all lighting devices begin to glow spontaneously, including the high-beam lamps in the headlights. And this is the effect of the resulting electric field voltage caused by the radiation of the transmitting antenna of the radio station.
All this reasonably explains the presence in the past of "vases" on the roofs of the buildings of the estate, of which only pedestals remain, and well-preserved rosettes on the ceilings of the premises. Here it should be clarified that the sockets in public places, halls, bedrooms, etc., fit well into the version of historians that there were chandeliers with candles that went down on a rope in order to set candles and light them in the dark days. But the whole trick is that the Stroganovs had sockets absolutely everywhere, even in tiny corridors that can be passed in five seconds with a candlestick in hand. It turns out a discrepancy … There is no need for constant lighting in the corridors, but there are sockets for candelabra …
The discrepancy is resolvable only if there were lamps in such rooms, but not candle lamps, but gas-discharge lamps, in the form of sealed glass flasks with a certain gas inside, which began to glow when the flasks were introduced into an electric field. If all this is fantasy, then what did Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov mean when describing the ball at Peterhof:
“… Everything merged into one picture
In narrow and dense alleys
And from above it was brightly lit
With the lights of painted flasks …"
Did he write about kerosene, gas or candles? I think no. The evidence in the form of descriptions, engravings and photographs is so abundant that there is no doubt that electricity was already widespread long before the advent of power plants. But not the one for which you had to pay money to power generating companies and suppliers, but atmospheric, absolutely free. Someone will doubtfully say that the strength of the electric field around the Tesla coil decreases very much with distance from the power source, and therefore a huge number of them is required to illuminate cities, five per square kilometer. Let me disagree.
What do you think are these "bumps" that hang near the lamps on the ceiling? I could be wrong, of course, but, in my opinion, these may be the very "Hertz coils" that were undeservedly named after the person who did not invent them. In fact, the author of the transformer that converts low voltage to high voltage was a German-born Russian engineer Heinrich Rumkorf. And the industrial production of such converters was established in St. Petersburg by another Russian German, Fyodor Shvabe.
F. Schwabe on the left, G. Rumkorf on the right.
And the fact that outwardly the Rumkorf coils looked very similar to Faberge eggs, gives rise to the assumption that in the photo next to the lamps they are. Their role was similar to the wi-fi distributor or mobile phone antennas that we used to use in the nineties of the last century. At that time, there were still few cell towers, and to amplify the signal, they had to hang a small antenna on the window, thanks to which, even with the weakest signal, “five sticks” appeared on the phone.
The question of what gas could have been used in gas-discharge lamps by our ancestors remains unresolved. I also have my own version of this.
Continued: Part 4
Author: kadykchanskiy