The city of St. Petersburg is only 308 years old, but it has a rich history. When you get acquainted with the buildings of the city, then almost every house has its own unique life and origin. Each house can tell a lot about its owners, about the methods of construction and technologies used in its construction.
When you get acquainted with the history of the foundation and construction of the city, one cannot but get a feeling of admiration for the builders and architects. Indeed, according to the official history, all houses were erected in swamps, all work was done by hand, there were no mechanisms to facilitate the work of serfs and workers. The bulk of the people who worked in the construction were allegedly illiterate and uncultured. And only thanks to Peter I and the “masters” invited by him from the “enlightened” Europe in Russia they were able to overcome lack of culture and illiteracy and build a new capital.
The fact that the official historical science is blatantly lying can be seen immediately upon closer acquaintance with the buildings and structures in the historical center of the city.
The first thing that surprised me was the front door of the right wing of the General Staff building (address: Nevsky Prospect, 2). It seems to be an unremarkable door, only the facing of this door is made of granite, and in this facing there is a granite patch, but so skillfully set that there is not the slightest gap, it is impossible to push in even a razor blade. I immediately had a thought: how was it done manually, and is it possible to do the same today?
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It turned out that theoretically it is possible, but this pleasure is very time consuming and not cheap! But this is just a door cladding, and making it by hand would most likely take at least a month. Think for yourself: bring granite, first cut it into a flat board, then gouge the grooves along the pattern, then eliminate the defects, install a patch at the site of the defect and grind it later. And all would be fine, but in this cladding four patches are installed along the perimeter. This can be seen in the photographs. The construction of the General Staff building, with this approach, would have been delayed for centuries. And according to the available information, the huge building of the "General Staff" was built for only 9 years: from 1819 to 1828. Therefore, we can make an unambiguous conclusion that this door lining was not done manually and was made using a machine technology unknown to us now.
On this, as it turned out, the wonders of St. Petersburg do not end, but only begin. Many people know that St. Petersburg has St. Isaac's Cathedral. If we go around this cathedral in a circle, then from the side of Voznesensky Prospect we will see columns damaged by shells of German artillery during the Great Patriotic War. These columns have not been repaired, although restoration was carried out in St. Isaac's Cathedral in 1950-60, and the presence of traces of shells in the columns suggests that we do not now have the technology of repairing monolithic granite products. Our repair options are limited to putting putty and painting on plastered walls.
However, this Cathedral is also notable for the fact that at the base of some of the columns there are granite patches. There are four such patches from the side of Voznesensky Prospect. If you have seen how patches are installed on asphalt, then you can imagine the process of installing such a patch in a column blank. Why am I writing "to the blank"? Because it is possible to install such a patch only at the stage of manufacturing the column in order to replace the defects revealed during the processing of a solid piece of granite - the future column.
This operation cannot be done manually. And judging by the mass of the column, according to various sources from 114 to 117 tons, the purity of processing and grinding of the column, then we can make a quite obvious conclusion about the use of machine technology. In a different way, i.e. manually, so it is impossible to process the column. In any case, we are not yet aware of such methods and technologies. The tool must be carbide and have a high speed of work relative to the product, so there is no need to talk about steam or water drive of such a machine.
A few words about the construction itself: the official information available to everyone says the following: the construction of the cathedral began in 1818. Official sources do not mention the use of machine tools and lifting machines during the construction of St. Isaac's Cathedral. The weight of the columns of the upper colonnade is 64 tons, and the height of the colonnade is 41 meters. For comparison, I will say that this is the height of the 14th floor. Machines and mechanisms capable of lifting such a weight to such a height do not exist even now. If one can somehow agree with the version of the manual installation of the lower colonnade made of columns weighing 114-117 tons (purely theoretically), then all attempts to explain the manual (machineless) assembly of the upper colonnade do not stand up to criticism.
Inside St. Isaac's Cathedral, surprise is only growing. Imagine that someone took out a large piece of pink marble, then sawed it into several pieces, made a column from one piece, and cut panels 10-15 cm thick and more than 6 meters long from others. But that's not all: the column was first turned around, then grooves were cut in it and bulges were left inside the grooves at the bottom of the column, and then the column was sawn lengthwise into two halves and these halves were installed as decorations along the walls. The same grooves with bulges were cut in the panels.
Technologies and machines with the help of which it would be possible to do this still do not exist in our country. It is not necessary to refer to the fact that it was built by aliens or representatives of a long-dead civilization (as in the case of the Egyptian pyramids), because St. Isaac's Cathedral was built, according to the official version of history, less than 150 years ago, and we supposedly know almost everything about this time. So it turns out that the very existence of this building contradicts the official version of history.
Various columns are widely used in public buildings in St. Petersburg, especially in houses built in the 18th and first half of the 19th century. These are the General Staff building, the Tauride Palace, the Central Naval Museum, the Admiralty, the Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Lord of all the guards, the Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace and the Moscow Railway Station.
The Kazan Cathedral is also an example of such construction. It has 96 external columns and more than 50 internal ones, i.e. columns are a very important part of the whole building. The outer columns are made of marble, the inner ones are granite, the weight of the columns is not mentioned, the columns are solid, this can be seen from the photograph. This temple was built in 11 years, from 1800 to 1811. The very possibility of such construction was determined by two important factors: the cost and production time of one column and other structural elements. It is impossible to make 150 identical columns in 11 years (excluding construction) without the use of machines and machine tools.
Separately, it is necessary to consider the Alexandrian column. This majestic monument was built in 5 years between 1829 and 1834. The base of the monument is a column rod, 23 meters long, 3.5 meters in diameter at the base and 3.15 meters at the top (that is, a cone). The mass of this cone is 600 tons. Examining the quality of the column's manufacturing, its shape and weight, we can definitely conclude that it is impossible to make it without mechanisms and machines. We cannot build this column even now, because we don't have such technologies yet. Moreover, we do not have the technology to extract such a monolith from a quarry, and most importantly, we cannot simply transport it to the place of manufacture, and then to the installation site!
The most vivid example is the building of the Hermitage. Its construction began in 1754. According to the official version of history, during this period of time in Russia the population was still totally illiterate, the industry was very poorly developed. There were supposedly only a few Demidov factories beyond the Urals, a little in the Tula province, in some places there were stone-cutting workshops, where various "Danila-masters" worked.
However, let's take a closer look at the Hermitage building. To say that there are many columns in it is to say nothing. There are thousands of columns in the Hermitage. They come in different sizes and shapes and are made from different materials. In an Internet search engine, you can find many old paintings of the Hermitage views, and modern photographs … In the construction of the building itself, many so-called. typical products of that time: stands for columns and tops, floor supports, stair spans and railings, floors and balconies. The building itself was built in 8 years.
All this is not made by hand. All these elements were manufactured at different factories, brought to the place and assembled. It is impossible to build such a building in such a short time and with such amazing quality without the use of construction equipment and powerful lifting mechanisms! In order for all the elements to be quickly assembled, they had to fit together without any modification, and this indicates the existence at that time of a system of standardization and certification of products (similar to GOSTs in the Union), the highest level of processing technologies (compared to the current level), about the wide cooperation of enterprises throughout the state.
Not only is it necessary to design and assemble such a building, you need the corresponding design documentation on tens of thousands of sheets. To develop design and technical documentation of this volume and level, it is necessary to involve a whole design institute. And historians keep telling us that in Russia almost everyone was illiterate at that time! But after all, the elements of the buildings were to be made and assembled into a single whole by people who were clearly not illiterate, but with a high level of education. And neither semi-literate peasants, nor other semi-literate specialists could do this in principle! Europe was still a very peculiar place at that time, and was not able to participate in such construction.
There is no other way to build a building like the Hermitage!
According to the ideas of historical science that exist today and are imposed on us about the state and development of society and the state of that time, this and many other buildings should not exist. But they stand, despite numerous efforts to destroy them!
We can rightly say that most of these structures were built in the 19th century (200 years ago), and what have the uneducated first builders of St. Petersburg got to do with it? The first builders really have nothing to do with it, but the Hermitage building was built 50 years after the city was founded (260 years ago, in the 18th century), and it was built by supposedly illiterate, uneducated peasants from the surrounding villages. And today we are unable to build most, if not all, of these buildings! But how did our supposedly uneducated ancestors build them, who supposedly still lived in dugouts quite recently?
There is no explanation for this! And for those who ask such questions, they try to shut their mouths as soon as possible!
What to do? We need to find real information about our past and revise the entire history composed for us.
Let's ask ourselves one more interesting question: Are we now capable of constructing such a building in 8 years? The answer is unequivocal - NO. And in 20 years? Answer: Perhaps, if we first develop the necessary technologies for processing monolithic products, build new factories, invent new vehicles and lifting mechanisms, develop a system of standards and everything else. And if you remember that you still need to design and manufacture all the elements of decoration and decoration, then construction will take 50 years. Moreover, the cost of such a building will be much more than all the sports facilities in Sochi put together.
Today we have not yet reached the technological level in industry and construction that was available during the construction of many buildings in St. Petersburg. The Hermitage was ahead of its era by 300 (and maybe more) years …
Alexey Kungurov