Filled up Omsk - Museum. Vrubel

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

With the improvement of st. Lenin (improvement of Lenin street - it was revealed that the gallery, which is located along the Vrubel Museum, is in disrepair and there is a threat of collapse. disrepair (almost every brick can be pulled out with your hands).

At the moment, the Ministry of Culture is reconstructing the gallery, or rather, rebuilding it - the old gallery has been dismantled.

01. And this is what opened up to our eyes - a full-fledged floor, which for some reason was either filled up, or something else happened to it …

Many of you will now say: "Yes, this building has sunk so much. The cultural layer. This is a basement." Let's take a look at the points.

Firstly, the building never subsides evenly, the soil under the foundation has a different bearing capacity in different parts of it. That is why new houses in the first few years after construction can give minor cracks, over time the building "finds its place", and subsidence stops completely.

Secondly, the building cannot "sink" so deeply, well, unless, of course, the foundation has a very small bearing area, but this is impossible. Basically, the foundations of buildings and structures are needed for two purposes: to provide rigidity and to reduce the specific load per unit of soil area. Both of these parameters are related to each other - by reducing the load on the soil (making the foundation wider), we automatically increase the rigidity of the structure. If even one parameter was chosen (calculated) incorrectly, then the building would have cracked and collapsed rather than plunged so deeply, and it would not have stood for so long. It should also be borne in mind that the deeper, the higher the density of the soil (well, this is natural - hello Kola), and the mass and density of the building remains unchanged. That is, a thing with a lower density cannot drown in materials of higher density, just as foam cannot drown in water …

Usually the cultural layer (it is generally not clear which stoned man came up with such an expression) consists of various garbage, horse manure, chips, etc., and in this case we observe a layer of clay, and the layers of clay are very similar to the layers that I saw on the banks of the Dravert - read, very interesting. I almost forgot one important point, even if it is a cultural layer, where did so much soil, garbage, manure come from? And then how many people should have been and where is this quarry?

Well, it’s great, of course, it’s great to have a basement room, and even cool, where food is stored longer … The problem is that they don’t make basements this way, and even more so they don’t make windows and doors in this form and in such quantity. Usually, if a basement is needed, then it is made deaf, without an abundance of windows and doors, and there is only one entrance from the street - for carrying food. A lot of windows and doors are heat loss, but in this case, the meaning of a cool basement? Gallery. According to the official version, the building used to be a commercial building, and the gallery served as a passage to the basement from the street. But what's strange is that the gallery itself was built after the construction of the main building, which means that it was not originally planned. This is proved by the fact that the gallery does not have its own foundation at all, like the retaining walls on Lyubinsky (most likely they were built at the same time), its fastening to the building was made in an artisanal and unreliable way.

Let's now take a closer look at the photo of each element.

02. Why do we need such windows at all? "There used to be no electricity," you say, and the windows lit up the basement. Yes, there is a reason to have such windows, it will really be brighter. But why are they so tall? A large window area is located in the gallery - why, what does it illuminate there and what is it for? By the way, initially the windows were higher, they were partially laid from below - this will be clearly visible in the following photos!

03. Doors. Even the old wooden doors have survived, which once (according to my assumption) faced the street.

The building itself has undergone a deep reconstruction, this is evidenced by the interfloor overlap (it will "fit" on the windows of the lower floor - a white strip behind the glass), and according to the official version, it was previously a commercial building, which means there were no marble staircases, they were not needed simply. New plastic windows were inserted from the interior of the building, which, as can be seen from the photo, are smaller than the old ones - apparently cold blows to the museum staff. Can you imagine how cold it was before, when there was no central heating and the windows were wooden? Or was the climate milder at the time? The old windows themselves, as I said, were lower than they are now. The logical conclusion is that the interfloor ceiling was located above the existing position (approximately between the windows), and the wooden door led to a flight of stairs most likely.

04. Another old door. The metal hook on top most likely served to attach a lantern, previously this was exactly what was done to illuminate the porch.

05. Metal hinges for fastening very massive metal doors are observed in all doorways, as evidenced by the hinges themselves and the shape of the counterpart. We can judge the shape of the counterpart by the cutout in the opening. (The lower part of the windows is bricked up)

06. In general, there are many different metal pins of unknown purpose on the outer part of the wall.

07. Another door, only insulated for some reason … This photo clearly shows how handicraft the fastening of the gallery to the main walls of the building was.

08. The basement floor windows were partially filled. There is no plaster on the masonry, and in some openings the bricks are sticking out (the window in the left corner of the photo)!

09. Many doorways are bricked.

10. Proof that the gallery was built later than the building itself - there is no foundation, the quality of the masonry is much worse!

11. This is not a cultural layer, it is clay - sedimentary rock!

12. Unfortunately, the workers are not faced with the task of reaching the foundation of the building, so they stopped at this level …

13. But apparently, the foundation is already close, as you can see something like a grillage. Slight widening of the wall at the foundation.

14. By the way, such oddities are not limited to the museum building. For example, the building of Valikhanov 4. I took it off during the reconstruction of the street. Here, in general, the windows look into the ground and there is no gallery …

15. And here is Kazan. In Kazan, a generally valuable underground quarter with roads and gutters was dug up.

16. In 1999-2000, in the course of archaeological and restoration work throughout the entire space of the Luzhetsky Monastery, builders removed a two-meter layer of earth.

17. It used to be like this …

I don’t know about you, but everything is obvious to me - the building was flooded as a result of some natural disasters that happened quite recently, about 200-250 years ago, perhaps at the time when a year without summer came, at that time mammoths became extinct, which are now thawing in large quantities, and animals eat them.

It is a pity, but many do not see things that are obvious in my opinion, prefer not to think with their own heads, but to listen to various historians who have a professional deformation and simply retell what they have read or heard earlier, taking it for the truth. This is the case with the exhibits in the Vrubel Museum - many walk, look, but see only beautiful things, a few think about how they are made. Even now, humanity cannot repeat many of the exhibits presented (with available technologies), and this is only what they show us, and what is in special storage facilities?

I talked about going to the museum here -

They are clearly hiding something from us!