Traditionally, churches and temples are believed to have been erected in places with positive energy. But is it really so? After all, temples were often erected on the site of former pagan temples, where sacrifices were made, while others were even built "on blood", that is, where people died.
Burials were often found near the temples. Many buildings in the Russian capital were built on the site of the former church cemeteries - they were demolished during the expansion and renovation of the city's buildings.
Meanwhile, by a decree of 1657, Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich forbade burials in the Kremlin and Kitai-Gorod. In 1723, Peter I ordered: "In Moscow and other cities, dead human bodies, except for noble persons, should not be buried inside the city."
However, after the death of the emperor, until 1771, the dead were buried within the city limits and only then they stopped. The Soviet government destroyed more than four hundred churchyards in the capital along with churches, but set up a cemetery right in the Kremlin wall. And the Mausoleum on Red Square is still standing …
Occultists have a hypothesis that the revolutionaries deliberately erected buildings "on blood" - at the sites of graveyards and massacres. Moreover, they erected not just houses, but state institutions - courts, people's commissariats. Allegedly, powdering people's brains, hammering crazy ideas into their heads is easier precisely in such buildings where a person's consciousness becomes clouded and he begins to perceive reality in a distorted manner.
But there was nothing new in this, just the methods that had long been used by the churchmen were transferred to a new reality …
One way or another, the building where the State Duma is now located was built on the site of the Church of Paraskeva Friday in Okhotny Ryad. In the 15th century, near the wooden church, there was a field on which "judicial duels" took place.
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There was such a judicial practice in which the outcome of the dispute between the plaintiff and the defendant was decided in a fair fight - it was believed that it was “God's judgment” and only the one who was truly right could win. Many were killed in these fights, and the earth here was literally saturated with blood. Later, a stone one was erected on the site of a wooden building, and a parish cemetery was arranged behind the church.
It is interesting that the signs and functions of the main female deity of the Slavic pantheon, Mokoshi, were transferred to the cult of the Christian saint Paraskeva Friday. Her image is associated with spinning, weaving and handicrafts. But the main thing is that Mokosh did the work that the Moiraes did for the Greeks, parks for the Romans, and for the Vikings norns: she spun the thread of fate.
By the way, there were two churches of Paraskeva Pyatnitsa in Moscow. Pyatnitskaya Street has preserved the memory of a female deity, who has been worshiped here since ancient times. Here, in the place where the vestibule of the Novokuznetskaya metro station is now, there was another church of Paraskeva Pyatnitsa, which has the status of “farewell”.
And according to ethnographic evidence, places of worship in Mokoshi were called "goodbyes". It was here that her sanctuary was located in pre-Christian times. Both Churches of Paraskeva - sacred places where invisible threads of destinies are spinning - were located opposite each other on both sides of the Moskva River.
In 1928, the church in Okhotny Ryad was demolished, and by 1935 the House of the Council of Labor and Defense of the USSR was erected in its place. Later it housed the Council of People's Commissars and the State Planning Commission. It was here that projects like the turning of Siberian rivers to the south were often born. And it is not surprising that the current State Duma, where the fate of the state is spinning, was traditionally placed here too …
On July 11, 2002, "Komsomolskaya Pravda" published an article "The Supreme Court of Russia is on its bones." It said: “In Moscow, under the floor of the building of the Supreme Court on Povarskaya Street, the builders found human remains.
The main version of the burial is that a long time ago there was a churchyard here. And in 1938 the temple was broken. In 1954, the building of the Supreme Court was built on this site. According to another version, the burial may refer to the 1930-1940 years of mass repression”.
Another Moscow attraction "on the bones" is the building of the old Manege. It was built in 1817 by the highest order of Emperor Alexander I. The construction of the building in the very center of the capital, near the Kremlin, was timed to coincide with the fifth anniversary of Russia's victory over Napoleon, and was intended to hold military exercises and parades.
Once upon a time, as the chronicles say, on the site of Manezhnaya Square there was the Stremyannaya settlement of the Streltsy Regiment. In 1493, it burned to the ground. After the fire, it was forbidden to erect any buildings in that place: they feared that if it caught fire again, the fire would spread to the Kremlin.
In 1993, archaeological excavations began on Manezhnaya Square. Researchers have removed numerous household items, ancient coins, jewelry from the earth. They also came across layers of clean sand and coal. These were the remains of an old fire in Stremyannaya Sloboda.
Human remains lay at a depth of 6-7 m. Scientists have counted more than forty graves dating back to the period before the Mongol invasion of Russia in 1237. Most likely, the churchyard was located at an Orthodox church.
The warriors of Batu Khan burned down the temple and destroyed the cemetery, and centuries later a streletskaya settlement was built on this place. Perhaps people simply forgot what was here before, and this became the cause of a chain of further dramatic events.
On Sunday, March 14, 2004, the next presidential elections were held in Russia. At 21:14, a fire started in the attic of the Manege. The combustion area was more than 2000 m2. By midnight, only one charred skeleton remained from the monument of Russian architecture: the roof and end walls of the Manezh were destroyed.
Muscovites are well aware of the gloomy gray building in Moscow on Serafimovich Street, known as the House on the Embankment. His sad fame is primarily associated with the political repression of the Stalin era.
The place where the house stands was once called the Swamp - because of the lake located here, overgrown with mud and duckweed. In the 16th century, the boyar Bersenya Beklemishev (after his name, the embankment was named Bersenevskaya) began to build his chambers here. Not completed - was executed by order of Tsar Vasily III.
The construction was completed by the Duma clerk Averky Kirillov, but he also did not have a chance to live in a new place: he died during a rifle revolt. Around the same years, state criminals were executed in the Swamp. The legendary robber Vanka Kain robbed the merchants passing here. In addition, there were fistfights not far away. The churchyard of the Church of St. Nicholas on Berseny was also located here. In a word, a disastrous place, of little use for life.
However, it was in the area of Bersenevskaya embankment, on Vsekhsvyatskaya Street, on the right bank of the Moskva River, on the site of the former Vinno-Salt Yard, that in the late 1920s it was decided to build a “house of the future” for the party elite.
Officially, it was then called the home for the responsible workers of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR. Before starting construction, all the old buildings were demolished. The foundation was erected directly on the gravestones of the old church cemetery.
The house was commissioned in the early 1930s. There have always been many legends about him. They said that secret corridors stretched between the walls of the apartments, into which the Lubyanka employees entered every evening to listen to what the residents were talking about.
Every now and then someone was arrested, but the neighbors did not see anything, since the state security agents got to the stairwells not through the entrances, but through hidden passages in the garbage chute system. The arrested were taken by elevator to the basement, to the third floor, where the trolley was already waiting. From there they were transported through an underground tunnel directly to the Lubyanka.
Among the remaining residents, many committed suicide. Perhaps, the general atmosphere of fear affected: the person was afraid that since a neighbor was arrested today, tomorrow they will certainly take him away. Or maybe the negative cemetery energy of the area where the ominous building stands is to blame.