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With deep respect for you Nun.

After winning regional boxing competitions in Thailand, he decided to take some time off. Vacation is not over. So I decided to go to Peter. To my great regret for all my (albeit short) life, I have never been to the second capital. Even at the station Grandma stuck to me, offering to rent a room cheaply. Well, annoying same! Therefore, a little haggling, paid her immediately for 2 weeks, and she led me to show the mansion. The mansions turned out to be an ordinary dvushka. But I was completely satisfied that the room was completely at my disposal, and the apartment had all the amenities.
- If you bring a girl, that's fine. The case is young, - she scoffed with mockery, - but God forbid to get drunk. I will drive out right away.

I assured Granny that everything would be as she wished and began to think over the plan of measures. White nights will be observed without guides, and I hope to get the rest from the guides. The benefit of the money spent on the competition paid off more than by winning. I really wanted to go to St. Isaac's Cathedral, the Hermitage, in the St. Petersburg Artillery Museum.
The first in the excursion came the Alexandrian column. As the guide said, its weight is 600 tons. But having looked narrowly at this Kamenyuk, he brought the guide to a stupor with his “uncomfortable question”:

- And please tell me, how and what in those early times transported such a huge weight? After all, even modern technology is not able to cope with such weight. But I don’t need to hang noodles on my ears, that these are serf peasants with the help of ropes and some mothers installed it. And who and how her so perfectly polished. After all, in order to grind a stone it is necessary to have a very high speed cutter or cutter. Manually stone can not be polished. And who and how picked out such a billet (weighing about 1000 tons) from granite rock?
Guide's answer did not suit not only me:
- Men came up, scored wedges, hit with sledgehammers and broke off the necessary preparation.

Damn, let him try to break away from the monolithic piece of a “small” flat piece weighing at least a ton. I give him a million bucks for it. And here is the finished product weighing 600 tons, and according to French engravings of 1836 (!), The harvesting was transported using wooden curls. And it had the shape of an ideal parallelepiped, with even perpendicular faces. Curiously, what did they cut such a huge billet from granite? This needs lasers of great power. Now such tools and equipment do not exist yet. There are questions, no answers (intelligible).

A column was placed on a rectangular "pebble" 8mx8m and almost 3m high. The question is not only how he was dragged (such a huge weight), but how was he sawed to get it with perfectly even right angles and parallel edges? And also how they could put it perfectly horizontally, without deviation even in a fraction of a degree, otherwise such a large object with such a huge weight would first resemble the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and then collapse. But she stands to this day.

Further inconsistencies arose in St. Isaac's Cathedral. As the guide said, special scaffolding was built to raise the columns. Well, God is with them with columns. But the figure clearly shows that there are 9 steps at the entrance.And now there are only three. Where did the six more go? This is more than a meter in height. Farther. There is a sketch (drawing) made by Montferrand (according to historical data it was under his leadership that the cathedral was built for 40 years). But nowhere is a single drawing or reference to the documentation. To build such a grand structure you need a sea of ​​all sorts of drawings (parts, joints, etc.), there is nothing of that. Where did the drawings go? Even that drawing, made by Montferrand, on which a rectangular depression seemed to have been cut out and round columns lie nearby. They are under the influence of a magic wand turned from rectangular blanks into round columns? And where are the machines with the help of which such huge objects were processed? The designer could not miss such a moment. So this is all a setup.

And with the dates of crap. According to historical data in 1818, the Emperor ordered only the draft of the cathedral to Montferrand. And according to the figure, the same Montferrand began to establish the upper colonnade in 1837. But in the figure of Montferrand, the Admiralty spire is clearly visible. Although the Admiralty was dismantled in 1806 and rebuilt with a new look. That is, these colonnades were installed at least 30 years earlier than we are told. Or the spire was rebuilt at another time. There are questions, no answers.

Hermitage. According to official history, the Hermitage was built in 8 years. At the same time repeatedly rebuilt. But the fact is that even with the current level of production, the state now cannot build such a structure. There are no technologies, skills, machines to manufacture individual parts with such quality and in such quantity. If you try to do this, the cost of expenses will exceed the preparation for the Olympics in Sochi. The question is - how high was the level of technology in Russia in the 18-19 century? And again neponyatki.

The Hermitage was built long before St. Isaac's and Kazan Cathedrals. But according to historical information, the Northern War ended in 1721, and according to official history, Peter has been the capital since its foundation and has been in the territory of another state for 18 years. How is this possible? They lie. Well yes. The war is over, the country is ravaged. And here they are building such a masterpiece as the Hermitage.
The railing in the Hermitage, they like clones are repeated one to one. Huge granite columns are exactly the same for such huge sizes. And we are told that it is all made by hand. Illiterate peasants in sandals, who built carts. Then, instead of hundreds of them, they drove ten thousand and they made such columns. It is like taking a wheel workshop for carts, where 100 people worked. Overtake there 10,000 illiterate people and they will release a Mercedes or Audi.

Overlap in the Hermitage. These are metal I-beams about 20-25 meters. The overlap is clearly from finished identical elements. What and how they were raised there? Yes, and how they were smelted? (when there still was no metallurgy as such). So everything is framed, moreover, roughly and without taking into account inconsistencies. Technology lost. And someone really does not want to be discovered or reached.

The building of the Hermitage is huge. His only get around will take about two days. And if there is nothing interesting to linger at least 10-15 seconds, then in a week you will not get around. How are we told? Came Shot. Approved in the 24th year a sketch of the construction of the Hermitage and for 8 (!) Years it was built. But for each element of the design, the scenery is your working drawing. Plus, all this requires the highest level of engineering literacy. And what do they tell us? At the time of Elizabeth Petrovna, people were illiterate, walked in sandals, went on sleds with bells, drank vodka (although in my opinion one thing is not a hindrance to another). This is a lie. To create such masterpieces without the use of mechanisms and high engineering skill Moreover, various materials were used in construction: stone, jasper, malachite, etc. All of them are in different places. They must be mined, processed according to the drawings and delivered.The question is, in what way can we bring the columns from, say, Nizhny Tagil and place them in supports made in Tula so that they fit perfectly in size? This means that everything was coordinated across the country (as in the former USSR, but only 200 years ago).

I wonder if there was such a queen Elizabeth? Why not. Were people illiterate in her time? You can also allow this option. But to ...