The Alexander Column with ancient megaliths is united by a combination of ancient reliable granite foundations and modern fragile clay bricks

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What unites the Alexander Column with ancient megaliths? We can learn this from a little-known, but very important article "Angel over the city"

The real heroes of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg are not city dwellers, let alone those in power. Restorers. Vladimir Sorin "treated" one of the main shrines of St. Petersburg - the Pillar of Alexandria. For two years his workplace was 50 meters above St. Petersburg.

Montferrand error

Sorin looked inside the capital, where the structures holding the top were located, and saw firsthand the results of Montferrand's only mistake.

(Drawing from the 77th page of the Montferrand album)

The great Auguste used brick instead of granite: that year there was cholera in Russia, people died in the granite quarries, contractors let down, and the tsar hurried

The explanation is absurd. This brick fits into the theory of reconstruction of the old column. At the top, as you remember, there used to be another creature, it was changed along with the top. And the primitive builders did their best from our civilization 200 years ago.

This is a traditional situation in ancient megalithic objects, where ancient gigantic well-worked megaliths without any joint solution are adjacent to a later primitive remake of a later primitive civilization (Incas, Egyptians, Romans …), where the stones are held together by some kind of solution, for example, clay. New civilizations simply use the ancient megaliths as a basis, completing their own dwellings or religious buildings on them. Goodness should not be lost. On the ancient polygonal masonry, an ordinary rectangular masonry of ordinary bricks or stones is laid

Here is an example of such a neighborhood from pyramid egypt:

And this is in Peru:

The Alexander Column fits perfectly into this tradition combinations of ancient high-tech megaliths without any bonding mortar and more modern primitive bricks or just stones connected with some kind of mortar).

I continue to quote the article "Angel over the City":

For almost two centuries, a brick on a lime mortar has absorbed about three tons of water, and on the eve of the anniversary, part, or even the entire capital, could collapse on the main square of the city.

Sorin immediately attracted the best scientific forces of St. Petersburg to research. Specialists from NITs-26, working for the Ministry of Defense, on duty, study the properties and strength of the very granite from which the Alexander Column was carved …

“They answered all our questions,” says Sorin, “and made predictions. Their conclusions determined the restoration strategy. It turned out that major work lies ahead.

What was it worth to remove the swollen crumbled brick, replace it with granite, clean the inside of the monument, drill 56 invisible holes in the bronze, create a ventilation system. They worked with the help of an endoscope, a remote-controlled camera and … a brace. They hung in the drift inside the column with their heads down, their hair froze in the cold.

Master-restorer Peter of Portugal drilled the base by hand in 25-degree frost. The restorer Sergei Morozov, the most flexible and narrow one, undressed, squeezed into the Angel through an opening of 17 by 45 centimeters and worked there, in cramped and icy cold. …

However, Montferrand disobeyed the emperor, and although on the project by the hand of Nicholas it is written: "Make everything from red Finnish granite!" - used for the "heel" Serdobolsk granite, five times more durable.

And when the ultrasound examinations were completed, it became clear: the cracks in the outer layer did not cut through the granite.

So, brick is named Montferrand's only mistake. But, this problem of primitive bricks worried at the very beginning. Here's what wikipedia says:

Two years after the installation of the monument, in 1836, under a bronze pommelwhite-gray spots began to appear on the polished surface of the granite column, spoiling the appearance of the monument …

One of the results of the study was the solution to the emerging spots in the upper part of the column: they turned out to be a product destruction of brickworkflowing out.

All problems are due to bricks. I had to replace it with granite in our time. What is this going on, comrades! I made everything from granite, but only the top of simple brick. Yes, not only the entire column is made of granite, but the whole city. And this is explained by the official cholera epidemic "that year."

But a great question arises. Why did cholera mow down the granite-breakers, and not the brick-makers? Cholera is what an occupational disease of the granite breakers? Do brick makers have strong immunity against cholera? So let's get cholera shots out of bricks!

The cholera epidemic was "that year." "That", what is it? In 1832, the column itself was erected. In the 34th it was solemnly opened. The summit was made in 1833-34. And when was the cholera epidemic in Russia? Was it in 1833-34?

Here is an article called "Cholera in St. Petersburg". I quote:

Epidemics - cholera pandemics invaded Russia during the XIX - early. XX century 9 times (1823, 1829, 1830, 1837, 1847, 1852, 1865, 1892, 1908).

The rampant cholera in the capital was accompanied by popular unrest, reaching the point of pogroms and riots. Popular unrest reached its peak on June 22 (July 4), 1831,.. The cholera epidemic in St. Petersburg ended in the fall of 1831.… Having started to decline in Russia in 1832, the cholera epidemic made an unstoppable march into Western Europe.

So, the hoaxers pointed a finger at the sky and missed. The epidemic was 2-3 years earlier than their version and 3-4 years later. And during the necessary delivery of granite for the pommel, there was peace and grace. 2 years earlier, the epidemic had left Russia. So nothing prevented us from putting granite instead of brick. From all over great Russia, several pieces of granite could be obtained even during an epidemic. For the main building site of the empire.

- this is a video reportage with the participation of restorers.

A brief report on the work done from the site of the company "Intarsia" here

And here are more details on the same topic:

It is known that Montferrand feared for the stability of his brainchild, mainly because the blocks of the load-bearing structures of the pommel, originally conceived in granite, at the last moment had to be replaced with brickwork with a lime-based binder mortar.

Two years after the installation of the monument, in 1836, white-gray spots began to appear on the mirror surface of the granite under the bronze pommel, spoiling the appearance of the column. In 1851, the Alexander Column was clothed in wooden scaffolding, people went upstairs to inspect and clean the column. The reasons for the appearance of the stains have not been established, and since then the specialists had to periodically "climb" the monument and clean it, and given the large height of the column, this can be very difficult to do.

… With the help of a special flexible three-meter endoscope, the restorers were able to penetrate the “womb” of the monument, examine all its cavities, establish what the overall structure looks like, and determine the differences between the original project and its real implementation.

It turned out that the product of the destruction of brickwork flows out onto the column shaft, forming those very sloppy spots

The brickwork in the abacus has been completely destroyed; the initial stage of its deformation is evident. And inside the cylinder, up to 3 tons of water accumulated, which penetrated through dozens of cracks and holes in the shell of the sculpture. The water, freezing, tore apart the cylinder, deforming its original shape.

This is how the immediate tasks were determined: firstly, to remove water from the cavities of the pommel and to make sure that it does not accumulate in the future, and secondly, to restore the structure of the abacus support.

The difficulty was that the work on the monument was carried out in the winter without dismantling the sculpture, which means at a high altitude. The total weight of the top of the column is about 37 tons, and the cold bronze literally "sucked out" the heat of the human body. But a large amount of work was carried out inside the structures. And what the specialists of Intarsia did - Leonid Kakabadze, Konstantin Efimov, Andrey Poshekhonov, Peter of Portugal, can be considered a real feat - in the name of the City and its history.

As a result, all the cavities of the monument were connected into one system, and the cavity of the cross was used by the restorers as a "chimney" with a height of about 15.5 m. The drainage system arranged by them provides for the removal of all moisture, including condensation.

Ahtung! Ahtung!

Completely destroyed brick structures were replaced with granite ones,

Suprise! Surprise!

self-adhesive without bonding agents, - thus, many years later the restorers brought to life the original idea of Montferrand.

Hurray, comrades! Finally, our civilization has again approached the level of development of the civilization of "gods". (Moreover, it seems that these gods were Russian). This was not the case during the Montferrand period. Instead of granite without adhesives, bricks and clay were used. All this wild primitive bullshit was thrown into the trash by restorers and built according to ancient prehistoric high technologies.

Note that what the ancients did is not particularly in need of repair. Although this is the load. It's downstairs.

The only clarification. The blocks are not self-adhesive, but self-wedging. This is also a journalist's mistake:

These blocks are wedge-shaped. Its angle is such that

1. All together, being each in their places, they represent a ring lock holding the pommel of the column.

2. During the formation of ice, some of these wedges are squeezed up by the ice, so that the lock does not lose its properties. When the ice is melting, the protruding blocks are lowered so that the castle always retains its properties.

Best regards V. Sorin

In general, due to the absence of a rigid connection, the structure "breathes" freely. Individual blocks are moved by ice and come back without breaking. In ancient megalithic sites, the same principle probably made it possible to withstand earthquakes and seasonal temperature fluctuations without cracking.

This was a snippet from the source