Neva-mother and Peter number 1

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

In the summer we went up the Neva on a dinghy, went along Ladoga to Sortavala. The waterways puzzled and surprised.

A bit of official history.

1712 year. St. Petersburg becomes the capital of Russia. The bureaucratic apparatus with all the accompanying infrastructure is being transported from Moscow. At this time, the Northern War with Sweden is going on. The Baltics and Vyborg were conquered only 2 years ago. Finland is still Swedish. The outcome of the war is not yet known. The peace treaty will be in 21 years.

It must be understood that in 1712 the entire territory west of St. Petersburg is still occupied by Swedish land. The battles are taking place in Pomerania. To fight for another 9 years …

Transferring the capital of Peter to St. Petersburg is the same as transferring the capital to Stalin to Leningrad in the winter of 1942. Or, for example, in Königsberg in the winter of 45. The absurdity is complete. During the war, the capital, if transferred, is farther from the front, inland. It's safer there. Peter has his own logic. He is safer in the Neva swamps than in Moscow.

1703 - the foundation of St. Petersburg.

1712 year. St. Petersburg is the capital of Russia.

1721 year. St. Petersburg is the capital of the Russian Empire.

Consider the logistics of the new capital.

Overland roads mainly performed only administrative and postal functions. Until the beginning of the 19th century, there was not a single paved road in Russia. Two seasons out of four - in spring and autumn - there were no roads as such. Specifically St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region are one big swamp. You can't go here even in summer.

Rivers remained the main "roads" until the 19th century.

So, St. Petersburg. 1712 year. Location - the delta of the Neva. Transport - sailing cargo ships in service with the Russian fleet, for example shmak (two-masted ships with oblique sails, draft 2 - 2, 4 meta).

Waterways:

To the Gulf of Finland and further west

A complex, winding fairway led to the berths on the Neva from the sea, which caused significant difficulties for the passage of large ships. The draft of a vessel capable of passing to St. Petersburg at an average water level should not exceed 2.4 m. Vessels with a higher draft could pass the bars at the mouth of the Neva only on camels. For these reasons, many ships were unloaded in Kronstadt, and from there the goods were transported on small ships to St. Petersburg, thereby greatly increasing transport costs. So, according to the Naval Ministry for 1830, 759 ships with goods came to Kronstadt, and only 323 to St. Petersburg. In 1868, out of 768 thousand tons of imported cargo, only 208 thousand tons were delivered to St. Petersburg without reloading (Wikipedia) …

Only in 1885 was a sea ship canal built.

To Russia. There is only one road to Russia. Up the Neva 45 km against the current, the speed of which is up to 8 km / h. Then we run into the Shlisselburg Bay: a shoal of 10 by 10 km. Depths 0-1-6 meters. Everywhere shook with stones. There is no fairway !!! Shipping is not possible here. You can't go to Ladoga. Dead end…

Let me remind you of the further history. 1731 - the Star Ladoga Canal was built. 1866 - Novoladozhsky Canal. 1908 - Koshkinsky fairway (an artificial underwater channel in an open lake across the Shlisselburg Bay).

That is, until 1731 St. Petersburg was completely isolated by transport from the territory of which it is the capital !!! Nonsense.

And how was it supposedly built if there is no approach from Ladoga? Was Ladoga granite delivered by helicopter? Or did the Swedes supply it, or was it not the Russians who built the city? Or is Petrovskaya Russia not Muscovy? Lots of objective questions.

If we forget about the official interpretation of history, then the simplest explanation: The Great Northern War is a civil war within the Kingdom of Sweden (or the Holy Roman Empire of the German people). In the course of this war, Ingermanland and the Baltic States were separated from Sweden; the capital of the state was St. Petersburg. Tsar - Peter of the German dynasty. The name of the state is Russia. Plans for a crusade to the east. Canal construction, fairway reconnaissance. The path from the Varangians to the Greeks is very close. Exit to Ladoga allows you to control it. Cover easily if necessary. There is a fleet for this.

Moscow is caught between two forces. Tartary is a tasty morsel. From the north, Peter, he represents the Holy Roman Empire of the Germanic people. Or the army of the continental wing of the global predictor according to V. V. Pyakin. Poles from the south. The British are behind them, or the Atlantic wing of the global predictor according to V. V. Pyakin. The Germans are the first in the end.

The descendants of Peter in 1812 seize Moscow, and so on … Attempts at revenge by the British: the Decembrists, 1917, 1991, etc.

Ingermanlandia is the original name of the Neva basin. I would interpret the word like this: in - internal, German - German, landia - area. As if everything is very simple.

Now I will leave the official history and its inconsistencies. Personal impressions of the Neva and Ladoga.

The banks of the Neva: a lot of pebbles made of bricks! Along the entire length of the river, where there is a free bank. Interspersed with sand. Enough polished. There are no brick factories directly on the shore, no massive ruined brick buildings.

High steep banks - an array of pure bluish clay with a small amount of stones. Clay on top of the coastal sand. Not mixed. He threw the clay into the depths of the cliff along the line of sand a meter, there is the same thing: clay on top of the sand.

Shlisselburgskaya Bay and the whole Petrokrepost Bay and the southern part of Ladoga resemble a flooded meadow. The feeling that the water level in Ladoga rose by 2-5 meters and flooded a vast territory. The Koshkinsky fairway is more like the old channel of the Neva before the flooding of these places than artificial formation. For some reason, there is a frenzied current in the middle of the body of water far from the coast. A kind of mini Gulf Stream in the stagnant water of the bay. According to this scheme, Oreshek is not a skeleton, but a fortress on the bend of the river. The flooded fairway of the Neva can be traced on Google satellite maps. He apparently walked as far as the navigation circle in the southern part of Ladoga, where the courses of ships to the Volkhov and Valaam are divided. There, apparently, there was a coastline.

For a snack.

On the right bank of the Neva, near the Ivanovskie rapids, there is a pyramid with a height of more than 20 meters. Memorial Hill of Glory.

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