A little help.
Baron Johann Ludwig Lüberas von Pott was a difficult person at the time of Peter 1. But we do not need it under the heading of international affairs. It is Lyuberas who is credited with completing work on the Petrovsky Doku, which was launched in 1752. By the way, it so happened that Lyuberas died immediately after the opening of the dock (some say for joy, and the other for fear of execution).
I came across a book of 1829, a short biography of Luberas, and there are several interesting references to construction and some facts.
Before Lyuberas, the mission to build the Dock was on Petr Nikiforovich Krekshin, who was also a historian in general and wrote a custom genealogy of Peter 1, which he called "Acts of Peter the Great" and wrote many volumes. Now it seems to me that such work appeared in an attempt to smooth over the guilt for not fulfilling the construction task. It's funny, of course, before there were people who thought broadly - they wrote historical books and supervised the construction of the canal. For me, these are completely different things and education should be completely different for these tasks. But back to the book. Krekshin is mentioned there like this:
It is curious that Peter convinced Krekshin and very curious that the workers should have their own tool. And this is at an object of state importance! Those. it turns out Peter1 wanted the dock, but how to do it - and hell knows. He could only draw and issue a specification for the dimensions, but how to do it, it turns out no one thought? It turns out in general that Peter1 pestered different people - well, make me a dock, I want a dock! They answered him - chtol fool !? Nafig he surrendered to you! And only Krekshin agreed to the adventure.
But due to embezzlement, Krekshin did not manage to do anything
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Well, what, centuries go by, and the methods of work do not change. Our Olympics for 14 years shone with corruption scandals, Petrovsky Dok also did not escape the fate of the "sawn-off" project of its time. Well, in the time of Peter, Senator Samarin was simply a bribe-taker and embezzler. Until President Putin intervened. Peter1 did not personally intervene, the matter did not move anywhere.
After Krekshin, a certain Admiral Sievers took patronage over the Doc, who apparently also got caught stealing and was removed from office in 1732, to which there is an unambiguous indication:
It also turns out that since 1721 a nifiga has been made in the canal. Those. stupidly more than 10 years sawing the budget?
By the way, this biography shows that the information on the site, which pops up in search engines as almost the only source of information on Doc, is not entirely correct. Speech about "Petrovsky dock" it says about
"But by 1722, the canal was basically dug and work was underway to strengthen the walls of the canal. A water pumping station with a wind turbine was built -" the great tower over the canal."
In 1732, during the reign of Princess Anna Ioanovna, a commission headed by Major General I. von Luberas was formed to inspect the canal. I. von Luberas proposed to widen and deepen the dock basin so that the water from the docks would drain faster. The work has begun. The canal walls were laid out of hewn stone. But, the construction, which the engineer planned to complete in three years, stretched out for another 15 years."
But the biographer clearly shows that Lyuberas was involved in the dock earlier than 1732, but since, apparently, he was sucked in by politics, he took on the work on the dock tightly only in 1743. in fact, from 1721 to 1743, only the canal foundation was dug and that's it. Doc was left to fend for themselves.
The time of the famous Luberas as a dock builder came in 1743:
It is curious that the stone for the bottom and oaks for the walls of the canal brought the devils from where. Bornholm Island is as far away as Holland. It always seemed strange to me that the local material was not used, and what - so much granite stone in the area of Kotlin Island. After all, you can recall the saying about the construction of the walls of Kronstadt and a certain huge stone that was put on the walls of the Kronstadt fortress. Those. at that time they decided not to touch the stone, but to drag an insane amount of stone from far abroad. Either the saying about the stone is a lie, or it was not possible to mine the stone on the mainland near Kotlin. And if there was no possibility, then who interfered? Local? Novgorod guys?
There is no logic with stones. Although, maybe it's all about the same kickbacks - the money was taken out to offshore companies and purchases were made through shell companies not where it was cheaper, but where their guys were. Probably yes, here we are talking about the great embezzlement.
A footnote in text I after Revel says that there is evidence that a stone was used from the Putilov and Syasky quarries, but since the biographer did not find official confirmation, then he questioned this information.
By the way, about the interweaving of destinies. If in the story about the 5th mountain the connection between the owner of the estate and Lyuberas is clarified, then the pope of the famous Kutuzov served as subordinate to Lyuberas, after all. What a tangle of dating. Probably there hand and hand soap is excellent.
But let's go back. This is the key page. The document shows that the dock was built in 1751, but for some reason the opening was postponed for a year (to 1752). Why was it moved? There is no clear answer. All the will of Allah The Empress just wanted it. Strange by God. There is such a need for the dock and just postpone it for a year. Apparently there were some serious technical problems with the dock and someone whispered to the empress, they say it would be nice to open it in a year. This is very similar, especially remembering how the Vostochny cosmodrome is being built now.
And here are some wonderful words:
The biographer directly expressed my first words when I first saw this Doc with my own eyes. A huge structure, many tools, darkness of workers. But there is no case in the archive. Those. there is no evidence that detailed the construction of the dock. How it was conducted, what kind of work was carried out. Nothing! The biographer is bewildered here, but he was surprised as early as 1829. It can be seen that these data were classified as a campaign. What is funny, the biographer writes the history of the construction of the dock from the time of Peter 1, when in his time (the biographer) there is a complete fantastic granite work in the same dock … And of course, for which there is also no evidence.
The biography of Lyuberas ends as it should be - with the death of Lyuberas himself. The biographer writes that the events for the opening of the dock, which was attended by the whole world + the empress, took more than a week. And they say, in the middle of the fun, Lyuberas got drunk like a cattle and his heart grabbed - I write this in my own words, so the meaning is conveyed much faster, otherwise it is very polite in the biography, and so on.
It is also indicated that after death they did not immediately realize that all the documentation on the construction of the Petrovsky Dock was in the hands of the Baron and a special decree was needed, which asked him to immediately scan his chambers for drawings, letters and other things. They worked cool then, right?:))
The appendix to the biography contains a very valuable remark by Trubetskoy about the fire hazardous state of the dock, about which he informed Lyuberas, and asks to take action.
What conclusions can be drawn from the official construction of the dock (1721-1752)
The Petrovsky dock was a "sawn-off" object. The first 20 years of its existence were accompanied only by corruption scandals. For this reason, apparently, only a ditch was dug in the first 20 years.
Petru1 needed Doc, but he was looking for a contractor for a long time and "persuaded" one. I was looking for a long time, tk. there was no real need in the dock. This first agreed (Krekshin) concurrently invented the entire biography of Peter 1. Krekshin's book is considered the first mass attempt to falsify history, to hide the pedigree of the real Peter. Those. in fact, it was a new Bible for Russia.
The dock was essentially a ditch with wooden tarred walls and a stone bottom, materials for which were brought in from Europe. This is the question of cutting budgets.
In the archives of 1829, there was no information about how the work was carried out. What can be indirectly attributed to the secrecy of information. So there was something to hide.
Based on the above, we can say 100% sure that all the granite miracles at the dock were made in the magical 1830s. And this is perhaps the most interesting.