Diggerstvo (from the English digger - digger) - the study of underground communications. People involved in digging are called diggers. Diggers are engaged in the study of underground structures built by man using building materials and technologies, ventilation shafts, drainage systems, sewers, underground rivers, abandoned and operating underground military facilities.
Before the revolution, this place was an almshouse, the poor inhabitants of which had repeatedly warned that ghosts lived in its basements. We are talking about the hospitable home of Count Sheremetev, in the buildings of which the N. V. N. V. Sklifosovsky. Additional structures have also appeared, but the basements have remained, they house utility rooms or pass the mines of the heating mains of the city's utilities.
The dungeons are vast enough, and the fantasy of the surrounding residents inhabits them with ghosts - both guests from the past and hospital patients.
Once fearless diggers descended into the abandoned basements and, having opened the abandoned door with a rusted lock, found themselves in a huge vaulted space. But they did not have time to explore it. A female silhouette descended from the ceiling and materialized.
One of the cavers rushed to save the woman, as he considered her alive, but hit the vaulted ceiling. He woke up only in the emergency room of the hospital. Imagine his surprise when he recognized the woman he saw in one of the patients who died that day. And the priest told the diggers that the souls of the dead often appear in the dungeon in the hospital.
The Sklifosovsky Institute-Hospital looks at the famous Sukharevka, full of legends and traditions. The famous Sukharev Tower once stood here, in memory of which there is now a memorial sign in the park near the metro. In general, in old Moscow there was no place more mysterious than this building.
On the first floors, the Navigation School was opened by order of Peter I, the last one was given to Yakov Bruce. He was an outstanding scientist of his time, and the illiterate population revered him as a warlock.
Promotional video:
It was said that at night the sorcerer Bruce sat on a huge metal crow and flew over Moscow. Where the raven dropped its feathers, fires broke out. These developments are confirmed by the drawings of the aircraft in the Bruce archives. Allegedly from these drawings at the beginning of the XX century. the first Russian airplanes were created. He is also credited with the map of the "strong points" of Moscow.
Fertile areas are saturated with positive energy, the damned - negative. This is according to esoteric ideas coming from the warlock and astrologer Jacob Bruce. Surely the cellars of Sukharevka, which have now been partially transformed into an underground passage under the square, were connected at one time with the undergrounds of the Sheremetev structure. Apparently, ghosts and visions were common …
Sukharev cellars
At least Bruce had such haunted legends. Ostensibly behind the tightly closed doors of his laboratory, footsteps were heard, flasks jingled. They say that Elizaveta Petrovna, going to her own coronation, saw a light on the Sukharev Tower. She dismissed the offer to check who could be operating there: "Don't bother old Bruce, let him conjure!"
Stalin also showed great discretion in relation to the tower. By his order, the building was not blown up, like many similar buildings, but dismantled brick by brick. The official motivation for the demolition of the tower implied that it was obstructing traffic. But in fact, it is not known what the authorities were guided by. It seems that the workers were looking for hiding places and treasures.
Indeed, ancient books were found in the walls of the tower and in the basements of the foundation. But most importantly - the Black Book of the sorcerer Bruce - was never found.
According to rumors, while the dismantling was in progress, the equipment often stopped spontaneously. And every time an old man in a gilded jacket was noticed near her, who shook his head reproachfully.
Urban folklore is supplemented by the image of a dry old man in a wig, a shadow flickering in Sretensky lanes, expecting that the tower may be rebuilt again.
Close to this plot is the mystical horror story about the dungeons of the time of Ivan the Terrible. Twenty-three Moscow princes, thanks to some magical power, turned into dogs that live underground. There, under the very Kremlin, they guarded the black book Necromancer. All the turmoil in Russia allegedly originated from this satanic subject. The Rurik family was interrupted, Tsar Peter I went to live in a swamp.
Moscow rulers easily succumbed to the disastrous call of this satanic book, Lenin died prematurely from it, and Stalin was looking for it in all Moscow undergrounds. Apparently, there is some similarity with Bruce's witchcraft book. Be that as it may, but both folklore versions are associated with the underworld.
Black archaeologists and diggers near Sukharevka (former Kolkhoznaya Square) continue to find underground passages not marked on the map, connected with the basements of neighboring houses on Sretenka and in the adjacent lanes. The underground also attracts the city authorities. They hope to find underground passages connecting the base of the tower with Bruce's house on Meshchanskaya Street (formerly 4th Meshchanskaya).
But what is interesting, until very recently, Moscow psychiatrists noted attacks of sudden fear in their patients in places associated with Bruce - as if ominous legends were materializing.