Where is the city from? Part 3

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

With fortifications, too, not everything is simple. During the construction of the forts of Kronstadt and the facing of the embankments, an incredible amount of granite blocks of an ideal shape were used. There are about ten forts of such blocks in the Gulf of Finland. They are faced with cut granite weighing up to 2 tons. Moreover, the blocks are laid without mortar. For such laying, it is necessary to make them with tolerances of no more than 0.5 mm (as in ceramic tiles), the same tolerances apply to the perpendicularity of the edges. The blocks in the photographs resemble the appearance of a standard (conveyor) product. Making them by hand, although possible, is costly and time consuming (about one block per month of a small artel equipped with equipment). Precise and long-term grinding of planes is necessary to obtain smooth, chipping-free edges. With repeatable precision, and on a massive scale, such production is hardly feasible in practice. I do not remember that in the textbooks of the Peter the Great era, gapless and mortarless masonry was described. I'm not even talking about structures tens of meters high with such masonry. Excessive precision and thoroughness in the manufacture of defensive structures are not in favor of manual production. At that time it was not worth it, and there was no such money, but with machine, conveyor, mass production, such accuracy is obtained by itself, and does not cause surprise. It turns out that everything was on the stream, and the complex processing of granite blocks was given to our ancestors very easily, look:

Here are more fragments of the wall to the left and right of the gate.

For comparison, let's look at the masonry of the Temple of Apollo in Delphi (Greece)

Does the shape of the stones, style and way of laying resemble anything? The material is different, you say, I completely agree with you, but the way the stones are processed, the masonry technology itself - they are identical, only the blind will not see this.

I can't get rid of the thought: either during the construction of the docks, ready-made material was used, brought from another place (there the finished structure was dismantled, assembled here), or to the craftsmen of that time, working with granite seemed child's play, as they wanted, they cut it, about the weight of the blocks I am silent, more on that later.

Ladder at the west dock. The material is pink granite, this cannot be cut on the machine. If the labor is manual, why such a laboriousness? It is much easier to take and fold a ladder made of rectangular blocks. But for the masters of that time, such work did not seem difficult, so they cut as they wanted.

This is Kronstadt (forts), but the masonry technology itself is surprising, how it looks like Machu Picchu.

Cuzco Region, Peru. (Machu Picchu. South America, Peru.)

Probably Peter 1 got hold of the Incas somewhere with the Aztecs, about a thousand years old, and forced them to build Kronstadt, or extorted technology from them, built factories, schools, taught people, bought machines from the same Incas … and started production. At the end of the construction, the foreman-monk said: - Fuck-tibidokh-takh-takh! … and everything evaporated: machine tools, factories, and most importantly knowledge, memory of construction. And the buildings are standing, in Russia, according to historians, for two hundred years already, in America, according to the same historians, a couple of thousand years, at least. I wonder whose history is "more historical"?

- Vasya, and Vasya, have you learned history?

- What for? I'll come up with a che-thread, I'll tell you more confidently, the teacher will put another five.

- And according to the textbook?

- What about the textbook? The "old" is all worn out, but in the "new", nothing is said about what was in the "old".

A. Sklyarov is wandering around the world in search of polygonal masonry and … ancient technologies. And here everything is on a silver platter:

- Take it!

- I do not want!

The famous Petrovsky dock.

One thing surprises, granite forts and embankments are present only in one region of the Baltic, namely in Kronstadt and St. Petersburg, forts of Konigsberg (Kaliningrad) are brick, however, like all the others. So where did the knowledge go?

A few words about the antiquity of the buildings, look at the map, at the dates … and at the crosses on the spiers.

… and the forts of Kronstadt at the beginning of the 19th century.

Either the artist lied, or such a construction, even on the water, well, it could not have been done without technical documentation, trained engineers, and most importantly, with a complete loss of memory of the construction.

I cannot pass by two more grandiose construction projects (no less grandiose than the "Thunder Stone", "Isaac" and "Alexander's Pillar"), which official historians easily attribute to the omnipresent and omnipotent Tsar Peter the Great

Huge canals (Novoladozhsky and Staroladozhsky) stretch almost from the source of the Neva along the southern coast of Ladoga.

Novoladozhsky channel

Staroladozhsky channel.

What kind of effort does such a construction require? We know about this from recent history, however, official science only casually notes that the canals were built for the covert movement of ships along Ladoga (where and where?). The idiocy of this statement is obvious.

First, it is easier to navigate the ships along Ladoga itself (at night, in fog, etc.), since the construction of the canal takes time and cannot be carried out secretly. And if the enemy knows about the existence of the channel, then it is enough to place observers along the banks and …

Secondly, the canal was dug literally along the shore of Ladoga and is perfectly visible from the lake - no one seems to have hidden it. Sitting in the old cemetery in the village of Kobona, observing the canal and Lake Ladoga at the same time, there is no reasonable explanation for digging this canal. A fair question arises: why such colossal costs? Even today, having calculated the volumes, drawing a network diagram taking into account the capabilities of the builders of the early 18th century, we get a construction site that will take decades. And all this taking into account the fact that factories (not artels, namely factories) for the extraction, production and transportation of granite, excavator equipment and heavy trucks have already been built and are operating. I am silent about the engineering personnel, surveyors, bridge builders, civil engineers, transport workers, river workers.

By comparison: Building the Panama Canal is just as quick, economical and easy.

An American ship is approaching one of the Panama Canal locks.

In the spring of 1879, the Paris Geographical Society came up with the initiative to establish the General Interoceanic Canal Company and commissioned Ferdinand de Lesseps to lead it. A hereditary diplomat, he successfully supervised the construction of the Suez Canal in Egypt, which was commissioned in 1869. The scale of construction in Panama promised to be no less impressive. In 1878, engineer Lucien Napoleon Bonaparte-Weiss received a 99-year concession for the construction and operation of the canal from the Colombian authorities. But the great-nephew of the emperor realized in time that he was not in a position to raise such a project. Ferdinand de Lesseps easily persuaded Bonaparte-Weiss to cede the rights to build the canal to him for 10 million francs and began to act according to the scenario already tested on the Suez Canal. We issued shares. But they raised less funds than was required - 300 million francs instead of the planned four hundred. The creator of the Suez Canal went to the United States, but there he was not given money. The Yankees remained true to the Monroe Doctrine: the American continent was a conservation area for American companies. The French, however, was not going to retreat and in 1881 began construction. From the very beginning, everything went awry. The construction shells broke down, unable to cope with the stony ground. The workers, brought in mainly from the nearby Caribbean colonies of France, were mowed down in the thousands by yellow fever and malaria. It got to the point that people who were recruited for the construction left for Panama with coffins prepared in advance! Further here …

Weaklings, huh? They would have the magical capabilities of Peter the Great, they would have managed it in six months.

The unity and monotony of the monumental structures scattered all over the world are also surprising

For example:

Trafalgar Square in London

Bank of the Thames, why is the Sphinx here?

Here's Paris

Entrance to the Louvre, the same Sphinx

And this is Berlin

Sphinx again

Still the same Egypt

Istanbul

Again the Sphinxes

Rome

And then the Sphinx

Odessa

And the Sphinx

Take a closer look at the inscription on the plate.

Kiev

Kiev also has its own sphinx, here is the link.

Next to a stone block that resembles the Sphinx is the building of the National Academy of Music of Ukraine, which in many ways resembles the architecture of the famous San Carlo Theater in Naples. Yes, and here the figure of the Sphinx evokes mystical reflections.

And still the same Peter, aren't there too many coincidences?

And here is the ubiquitous Sphinx

Or like this

Perhaps these are not simple coincidences, these are signs - signs of commitment to something, or to someone, for example: "We know, we remember, we honor." Just what is it?