Sevastopol antique

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

1. How Ochakov became Odessa, and Oreshek became St. Petersburg

2. Kiev antique

I decided to make a series - since I already wrote about Odessa and Kiev, then you need to combine everything under a common denominator. This time we will talk about Sevastopol - another brainchild of Ekaterina Nevelikaya. Under this wise ruler, about 29 new provinces were formed and 144 (!) Cities were founded, and all of them are distinguished by the sophistication of architecture and originality. Here are some of them - Odessa, Sevastopol, Kerch, Feodossia (Catherine saw the ruins of the city, therefore, either restored or rebuilt), Nikolaev, Kherson, Kharkov, Pyatigorsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Lugansk, Simferopol, Mariupol, Zaporozhye, Krasnodar, Kirovograd, Tiraspol, Yekaterinburg and many others. In general, in the life of one person, there has been a colossal boom in the growth of everything that is possible:

Only this, in the opinion of those who forged the istoria, can explain such an unprecedented urban planning, and at the same time they will manage to wage two huge and long wars with the Ottoman Empire in 1768-1774 and 1787-1791, plus liquidate the Zaporizhzhya Sich - I do not think that the Cossacks voluntarily surrendered their native alma mater just like that, for trinkets, like the Indians in America a few times earlier. Not their "handwriting", let's say. Plus, in almost every city, truly megalithic objects were built - fortresses, defensive structures, etc. Or such fortresses remained from the wild Turks - for example, the Khadzhi-Bey fortress in Odessa, the diameter of which along the major axis is 600 meters!

There was a fortress, and a city was built next to it.

And in Zaporozhye, the same fortress is the work of the hands of not the Turks, but of the Russian builders under Catherine.

It turns out - we spied on the technology from the Turks and let's build. All this is good, but let's take a calculator and roughly calculate how much money is needed in order not just to found, but to start building (and build in record time) 144 cities, even without taking into account the war, which requires GREAT costs, we will not count also city infrastructure, pipeline, machine - ship - whatever, construction shipyards, factories, factories, etc. etc. Let's take the most approximate figure - we will be transported into a super - incredible - alternatively - fantastic reality, and suppose that it costs to build one stone house, well, let it be $ 500,000 (excuse me for taking in candy wrappers, and not in rubles, for example, I just think so will be clearer). For comparison, the cost of building a 16 - storey building in Kiev is approximately $ 2, 7 million - with modern technology, solely on concrete alone, without any finesse. Look at here. So, let's take the average number of houses in a city - well, let's say, 30, not counting churches and other religious buildings. And by the way, the architecture that is present in the "Catherine's" cities with all the decorations and moldings will cost at least three times more, but we will ignore this fact. We multiply and get the figure of 2 billion 160 million dollars. Plus, we still have to settle accounts with the workers, but we will omit that too. Suppose that cities were built by ragged peasants in torn sheepskin coats as slaves.

But how much was the ruble worth in those days? As a starting point, we will take "Pskov Provincial Gazette" No. 40. Wednesday 05 October 1838

The state of prices on the market in small sale:

Perch pound - 0.25 rubles

Pike pound - 0, 20 rubles.

Fresh ides - 0, 10 rubles.

Fresh smelt - 0.25 rubles

Dry smelt - 0, 50 rubles.

Beef Livonian pound - 0, 15 rubles.

Russian beef - 0, 14 rubles

Live goose - 1, 20 rubles

A dozen eggs - 0.23 rubles.

Live chicken - 0.70 rubles

Chickens (pair) - 0, 60 rubles.

Cow butter - 16 rubles.

Fresh honey pood - 20 rubles.

Rye flour - 2, 20 rubles.

2, 10 rubles.

Rye chetverik - 2, 00 rubles.

1, 90 rub.

Buckwheat groats - 3, 00 rubles.

2, 80 rub.

Egg groats - 2, 80 rubles

2, 70 rub.

Chetverik oats - 0, 90 rubles

Buckwheat chetverik - 1, 40 rubles.

Lean oil (pood) - 16 rubles

Chetverik potatoes - 0, 50 rubles

Soap of Kazan pood - 16 rubles.

Candles of greasy poods - 18 rubles.

Hay pood - 0, 50 rubles.

Straw pood - 0.25 rubles.

Hay cart - 4-5 rubles.

Carriage straw - 1 - 1, 20 rubles

A dozen eggs - 0.23 rubles.

Now (everything, of course, is very relative, but still) a dozen eggs in Russia cost about 52 rubles, in Ukraine - 12 hryvnias. The ruble is now more stable, so we take it as a basis. 1 dollar - 38 rubles. 52 rubles - 1.36 dollars. In 1838, the ruble was worth approximately 5, 9, round up to six dollars. Well, let's say that the ruble in the 18th century was even stronger, and was, say, 10 current dollars. Under Catherine, the annual income quadrupled to 69 million rubles. Most likely it means for a year. It turns out $ 690 million. Gold reserves? Where did the money come from? Plus, to constantly fight with the Ottomans. And constantly build, build and build.

And if we take into account all the factors, then the sums are obtained not only astronomical, but simply intergalactic. Well, or Catherine knew alchemy, found a philosophical stone and turned everything that came along into gold. All the absurdity of the construction of cities by Catherine you can see with your own eyes here

Hero City Sevastopol

As Ostap Bender said - "Closer to the body, as Guy de Maupassant said."

As they say, record time is our middle name.

Want to laugh? After reading this paragraph, you probably immediately imagined the magnificent Catherine Palace in St. Petersburg?

But the real technologies of building "palaces"

It can't be, this is a joke, right? But no

The word "shed" is spinning in my mind, I don't even know why.

But this building, built much later, is somewhat different in architecture.

Peter and Paul Church in Sevastopol. Orthodox. 1844

Balaklava Greeks - foremen, apparently, stopped drinking, remembered their past lives and heroic past and built an almost exact copy of the Parthenon

Computer reconstruction of the Parthenon. Greece. About 450 BC

And all would be fine, only there is such an artist Carlo Bossoli, and he has a whole album dedicated to the Crimea.

Remember these dates - 1840 - 1842. And now Bossoli's drawing "General view of Sevastopol".

Let me remind you once again that the date of the construction of the temple is 1844. Scaffolding? Any work? A bare foundation? No. I declare with all responsibility that the date of construction of this wonderful temple should be shifted by at least 4 years, otherwise it turns out awkward.

What was the name of the city then? The clue lies in the navania - Sevastos Polis - the August City. And again, our beloved Octavian flashes invisibly. Earlier, Sevastopol was designated as Inkerman. Or Sarikerman. Later, the suburb of Sevastopol began to be called Inkerman. And Balaklava was called Zembano. And she was a much larger city than Sevastopol Inkerman. Chembalo Chebmalo Chembano Zembano. O! Eureka!

Please note that the balaclava on the map is not indicated where it is now. But the Balaklava bay is depicted on many maps, only it is 10 times larger in scale than the current one. The penultimate map from the time of Catherine also shows a disproportionately large bay. Why?

It may be a coincidence, but …

Zembano is a very rare tree species that grows in Africa. I did not find any other definitions of this name. More options - Sembaro, Enbano, Sivula source. Alas, there are almost no clues left. But Fra Mauro did not accidentally mark a large city on his 15th century map in this region:

Here are the things. Unfortunately, so far there is very little information on the name and history of the city of Sevastopol, Inkerman and Zembano - Balaklava. But I hope over time something will come to the surface.

And some architecture as always

Palace of Children's and Youth Creativity, Sevastopol.

Ornament

Museum of Sevastopol Defense

Ekaterininskaya street

Palace of childhood and youth on the other side

And here is the famous church in the rock, Inkerman

It reminds me of this

There are few buildings that have survived to this day, because Sevastopol has heroically held the defense many times, and has been repeatedly bombed. But this does not prevent him from wearing the honorary title of the City - Hero, because not every person can experience what this silent witness of courage, heroism, self-sacrifice and courage experienced, where every pebble is an outlet, poured with the blood of our soldiers, and for this he it took only 200 years.

All health and sober mind)