Anomalies Of St. Petersburg From Researcher Murvet Akhmedov

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Anomalies Of St. Petersburg From Researcher Murvet Akhmedov
Anomalies Of St. Petersburg From Researcher Murvet Akhmedov
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Anomalies of St. Petersburg from the researcher Murvet Akhmedov - St. Petersburg, anomalous zones
Anomalies of St. Petersburg from the researcher Murvet Akhmedov - St. Petersburg, anomalous zones

Azerbaijani Murvet Ibragimovich Akhmedov or, as he is called in Russia - Murat Ibrahimovich, has a very very unusual hobby: he anomalous zone researcher and cooperates with many associations involved in the study of such zones. Below is his interview with a journalist of an Azerbaijani socio-political newspaper "ECHO".

In our last conversation, you said that Moscow is almost a record holder in terms of the number of anomalous places. But really no other cities you can compare with Moscow in terms of the number of mysterious zones?

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- Well, why! There is one more city that has always attracted my attention - this is St. Petersburg. More precisely, he attracted me while still Leningrad. This is a city of mystery, and since its inception. This is a city-challenge: first to the forces of nature, then to the established foundations, then to the fascist blockade … There is, perhaps, no other city in relation to which so many prophecies, curses and predictions of the future would have been made.

One historian once wrote: "The legends of the end of Petersburg appeared simultaneously with the first earthworks on the Hare Island." However, Peter is and will be! Esotericists believe that St. Petersburg's amazing ability to survive is associated with a large number of heavenly defenders, including Andrew the First-Called and John of Kronstadt. Petersburg attracted the attention of not only historians, esotericists, but also writers, including science fiction writers.

I believe that Vladimir Vasiliev, inspired by the novels of Sergei Lukyanenko about the Dozors, did not write a sequel book "The Face of the Black Palmyra" for a reason. For those who are not familiar with the work of Lukyanenko and Vasiliev, I will tell you about this book in a nutshell. According to the invented world of Lukyanenko, there are Light and Dark, Others, who fight with each other in the name of the victory of Light or Darkness. Others are people in the past, just at some point they turn into Others - magicians, witches, sorcerers, werewolves, wizards, etc. So, Vasiliev quite reasonably admitted that even a city could become Other. In this case, Petersburg.

But this is all fantasy, more precisely, fantasy. You are studying specific places. What places in St. Petersburg attract you the most?

- To be honest, I don't even know where to start. If we go from history, then everyone probably remembers the phrase from school textbooks: "Petersburg is built on bones." Therefore, there are quite a few sacred tombs in the city, where residents come with their requests. Here, however, something must be said in defense of Peter, who allegedly built the Northern capital on bones. Textbooks lied to us mercilessly!

Yes, Peter was chosen by Soviet propaganda as the most wonderful tsar, as a tsar-reformer, but it was impossible to show him completely white and fluffy, otherwise the glorification of tsarism would have turned out. Therefore, a myth was invented about the colossal number of dead builders. In fact, only about four thousand of them died! Medinsky wrote about this. For comparison: during the construction of the Palace of Versailles alone near Paris, which was being built around the same time, more than six thousand people died.

However, there are miraculous graves. They really make wishes come true. With your permission, I will not talk about specific graves: it seems to me that you should not disturb the peace of the dead, and after such stories, there is usually a real pilgrimage to the graves. And often people do not go with real problems, but simply out of curiosity.

But there are places in St. Petersburg that fulfill wishes without being graves?

- Oh, there are plenty of them too! For example, one of the statues of the Atlanteans of the portico of the New Hermitage, the second - if you count from the Champ de Mars. It is believed that the left big toe of this Atlantean has magical powers to grant wishes. The newlyweds come to him - to ask the Atlantean for a happy marriage. Another favorite place for newlyweds is the lion masks on the Spit of Vasilievsky Island. In order for the marriage to be strong and happy, the young come there on their wedding day and together hold on to the ring protruding from the mouth of one of the lions. Leo choose the one that looks more polished.

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Some researchers were not too lazy and interviewed many married couples several years after the wedding. It turned out that more than eighty percent of those who came to the Atlantean or the lions live happily. Peterhof has a statue of Neptune, one of the oldest attractions in this ensemble. They say that it was cast from captured Swedish cannons in 1716, and Peter himself allegedly put a hand in its creation - having created a drawing.

To make your wishes come true, you need to rub both feet of Neptune or leave a coin. There are statues of griffins on Bank Bridge. The bridge is not that old - it was built in 1926, but the griffins "work", and many talk about their miraculous abilities. They say that griffins guard countless treasures and bring good luck. For them to share their luck and treasures, you need to stroke their gilded wings.

Some put a coin in the cracks of the sculptures - like I'm good to you, and you to me too, be good! And sometimes they stick the notes. Once I got into a conversation with an elderly solid-looking man, catching him sticking a note. He told me that for the third time he wrote letters to the griffins: the first two requests were fulfilled, and the desires were very difficult. One thing concerned the improvement of living conditions: an elderly person cannot afford to buy an apartment. The second was personal: the man had a very difficult relationship with his son, who left for Israel.

The result is amazing! The man received a second room in a communal apartment - a neighbor completely voluntarily refused it, having successfully married. And then the son returned - without any requests from the father, and the relationship improved.

There is one more place that, by the way, few Petersburgers know about. This is the reverse side of the monument at the monument to the greatest Russian navigator, Vice Admiral Makarov in Kronstadt. On the reverse side there is a bas-relief depicting the Arctic reign of the Ermak icebreaker. To make a wish come true, you need to say it out loud and rub the nose of the polar bear.

My "colleague", who is also researching all sorts of unusual and mysterious places, told me about the wonderful properties of this bas-relief. He decided to check and made a very difficult wish. It came true. It is curious that in St. Petersburg there are many modern monuments and sculptures that make wishes come true.

For example, the monument to Chizhik-Pyzhik, the monument to the Petersburg Photographer, the monuments to the Petersburg Janitor, the Petersburg Lamplighter (provide wealth), the monument to the brave soldier Schweik (brings good luck), the aluminum bunny on the Hare Island, the cat Elisha, the hippopotamus Tonya (helps the students), the monument to Ostap Bender (brings good luck and helps in adventures) …

There are also two Wish Trees - one in Kronstadt, the other in Zelenogorsk, which became part of St. Petersburg. - And who helps in love? - Shemyakinsky Peter, but besides love, he also brings wealth. And purely "for love" there is a monument to Karl and Emily. These are St. Petersburg's Romeo and Juliet. Karl and Emilia lived in the 19th century, they were the children of German colonists. The parents were against their love, and the lovers committed suicide. A street was named in their honor a little later. Almost immediately after death, beloved couples began to come to their grave - to seek protection and ask for strong love.

In the twentieth century, the grave was demolished, the street was renamed … So this story would have been forgotten for the younger generation, but eight years ago the city authorities remembered it and erected a monument to Karl and Emily. And he very quickly became not only popular, but also miraculous.

It's all very romantic, of course, but how do you explain these phenomena?

- There is a concept of egregor. There is a concept of a prayed place. For those who are unfamiliar with these concepts, it will take a very long time to tell, and they are unlikely to believe. Those who are familiar with these concepts will understand how the egregor can fulfill desires.

Egregor of the grave - I understand that. Egregor of the street - too. But what kind of egregor can a new monument have ?

- This is a normal transfer of energy. Nothing disappears into nowhere. The energy of love of these young people has not disappeared from the Universe, it just found itself a new "home". But the most important thing is not even that. People's faith works to strengthen any egregor. They believe in miracles - and miracles happen. Too many people believed that this monument could work miracles, and he began to do them.

And what is the attitude of the Orthodox Church to all this?

- You know, in fact, I do not care at all how she relates to this … Of course, she calls all this heresy and idolatry. Churchmen can be understood! They are just jealous. For miracles they go not to the church, but to the monument to some bunny … And even for free! They don't buy candles, icons, soul-saving books … But for me, what's the difference! If only it worked! And if you come with goodness and ask for something good, does it really matter who will help you? If the Almighty would not please miracles, would he allow them to happen?

- Are there ghosts in St. Petersburg? - As much as you like! I don't even know which ones to talk about first. Let's start with the harmless ones. And about those that were told to me personally. On Maly Prospekt Vasilyevsky Island, a woman from a communal apartment from the very top floor of the house told me how late at night she heard strange sounds in the corridor. The woman was not frightened and went to see what was there. And I saw a small translucent figure.

The woman is sure that it was the figure of a boy of about seven years old, only all black, albeit translucent. The woman got scared and tried to slam the door. But the boy did not allow her: he thrust his translucent hand between the door and the frame. The woman was wildly frightened and from fear could not even move. But by some miracle, the door slammed shut. She still cannot understand why the black boy came to her. She heard that ghosts don't just come. Either he came with a warning, or it was some kind of sign …

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Many ghosts are seen at the Smolensk cemetery. They say - and this is one of the most terrible legends associated with the cemetery - that forty priests were buried there alive. Many historians argue that this is not a legend. The fact that this is true is also indicated by a commemorative plaque. This atrocity happened immediately after the arrival of Soviet power. On that day, the arrested priests were placed near a huge pit-grave dug in advance and offered to renounce the faith. Whoever did not renounce, the fate awaited him to lie down alive in the ground. The priests preferred the latter. Petersburgers say that for three days the earth then moved and moans were heard.

They say that half of the houses in St. Petersburg are located in anomalous zones. This is true?

- Truth. In addition to the anomalous zones, there are also the so-called "black spots". In the old days, such places were determined very simply: a piece of meat was taken, hung over a chosen place, and if it quickly decayed, a building was not built in this place. But that was in the old days, now nobody cares about such "superstitions". So people in new homes are sick …

In addition, there were many pagan temples within the city limits. On the site of one of these temples, where sacrifices were performed, the Peter and Paul Fortress was built. They say that Peter knew about this and even himself made the first sacrifice in modern history. They also say that eagles constantly circled over this place, which Peter considered heralds of otherworldly worlds, guarded and fed. He ordered to start building the fortress only after the eagles made two circles over this place. Pavel Globa spoke about this.

Naturally, in all these places there are ghosts, including the executed Decembrists (many told me that they often hear groans from the place of execution and see the outlines of five human figures), a poltergeist occurs, people get sick for no reason.

However, St. Petersburg is standing and the inhabitants live in it - they do not die out. How do you explain this?

- The city itself is very "strong", I have already spoken about this. He has heavenly protectors. Plus the residents' love for their city. All this does not allow the dark forces of the city to take power over the inhabitants. I think Vasiliev, when he wrote "The Face of the Black Palmyra", knew something like that, because not a single fantastic work is born from scratch, there are always some prerequisites, some knowledge, revelations … few!

In St. Petersburg there are several buildings that are either built topsy-turvy or very strange. For example, the building of the Twelve Collegia. It does not stand along the embankment of the Neva - as, in theory, it should have been built, because all the buildings of the time of Peter were built this way. It stands across the embankment. Why?

- I was curious too! After all, the building is very beautiful, monumental, very significant in its social essence, it could be the compositional center of the University embankment. However, it did not, although according to the original plan, its 400-meter facade was to be located exactly along the embankment. There is a legend about this. They say that Peter, when he was forced to leave the construction site of the new capital, entrusted control over the building of the Twelve Collegiums under construction to Alexander Menshikov.

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That, as is known from history, was a cunning guy. He changed the project, because if the building had been built, there would have been no room for his palace, which he planned to build on the same embankment. And Menshikov launched construction perpendicularly. Peter, when he saw what happened at the exit, was furious, he even wanted to execute Menshikov. But Menshikov flattered the tsar, and the matter was limited to a large fine.

However, there is another version. They say that the building of the Twelve Collegia should have been oriented not along the University Embankment, but along the central square, but then the breading of the city was changed, and the building was already built. In any case, its strange position disturbs the smooth and correct flow of energies, which is why ghosts inside and around the building are commonplace.

And many more say that you can get lost around him. Literally in broad daylight! However, there is another place where people wander more often. This is Griboyedov's canal. Many Petersburgers have told me that sometimes they cannot simply cross from one side of the canal to the other. They walk along the embankment, walk … Then they turn in the other direction - they think they made a mistake with the direction, they walk again … They find themselves in unfamiliar places, although every now and then they come across signs "Griboyedov Canal".

What is the reason is unknown. Either they fall through space, fall into a kind of parallel worlds, where space is looped, or the point is in the name - Griboyedov was a very mysterious figure.

When I was in St. Petersburg for the first time, the guide told me that almost the most mysterious and mysterious place in the city is the Mikhailovsky Castle. I took this into account, although I did not believe in any anomalous phenomena especially at that time. However, after a few years, from my own experience, I was convinced that this was so: before my eyes, the person walking in front of me literally disappeared into the air. Can this be explained somehow?

- It is believed that in the Mikhailovsky Castle and around it there is a kind of "hole" where you can fall through and from where all sorts of entities and even people from the past appear from another time. It's all about the personality of Paul I. Paul ordered to build this castle for himself, but he lived in it for only forty days - he was killed. He had a persecution mania - he was waiting for assassination attempts all the time, so he did not want to live in his official residence - in the Winter Palace. The Mikhailovsky Castle was to become his refuge.

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But, as we can see from history, he became his grave. And after his violent and terrible death (although it seems to me that Paul deserved his fate), the castle was abandoned, acquired a bad reputation. The emperors of Russia did not want to live in it or even be there. Many were scared off and scared away by its color, which is completely uncommon for Petersburg architecture in general. There is an interesting legend why such a gloomy color was chosen. They say that somehow Pavel attended a ball, where he met his future favorite Anna Lopukhina.

The girl dropped her glove (maybe on purpose!), Pavel picked it up and drew attention to the unusual red-brick color. He liked the color - well, just imagine Pavel was sick! - and he ordered to paint his castle under construction in the same color. The ghost of Paul is often seen in the Mikhailovsky Castle. He walks and whispers: "What will be, that will not be avoided." Many recalled that Paul always had a presentiment of his death and said this phrase on his last evening, going to the bedchamber.

I saw Paul's ghost personally. By the way, both Paul himself and his inner circle were inclined towards mysticism, towards mystical interpretation of any event. They began to meet the spirit of Paul since 1819, when, in connection with the establishment of the Imperial Engineering School, the reconstruction of the Mikhailovsky Castle, which had been empty for a long time, began. The workers said that they constantly encounter a short man in a cocked hat and jackboots. A man appeared out of nowhere, as if leaking through the walls, pacing up and down importantly and shaking his fist.

They say that even Arakcheev saw the ghost, who was very kind to Pavel and tried to suppress rumors about his idol. The ghost of Pavel attracted many, including Grigorovich, then a cadet. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, he and his comrades arranged "young pranks and spiritualistic studies" in Pavel's chambers. Grigorovich described one session: “Suddenly the pranksters were seized by an inexplicable horror that bound their limbs. I don’t remember how I got to the bedroom, but from now on I decided not to tempt fate by mocking the mysteries of the incomprehensible.”

Another well-known cadet of the Engineering School, Dostoevsky, also had the "pleasure" of meeting Pavel. There is even a version that the epileptic seizures of the great writer began precisely after "communicating" with a ghost. Petersburgers meet the spirit of Rasputin. He lives in the famous house on Gorokhovaya. Most of the residents of the house see him, however, they say that there is little harm from him, he just "keeps order" and only occasionally hooligans.

Every spring, in March, the ghost of Sophia Perovskaya appears on the bridge of the Catherine Canal. The ghost waves a white handkerchief, the same as Sophia used to signal the bombers. They don't like this ghost in the city, it is considered one of the most creepy.

Are there any funny ghosts?

- Well, I don’t know about the funny ones, but they were funny. One appeared after the seventeenth year in the Kunstkamera. Even before the revolution, the Kunstkamera had a huge human skeleton. After October, some of the Kunstkamera exhibits, including the skull of this skeleton, disappeared somewhere. Either they stole them, or lost them, or sold them. Employees of the Kunstkamera began to notice that a giant skeleton without a skull was wandering along the corridors and looking for this very skull. And these are not stories, this ghost was seen even by the late director of the Kunstkamera Rudolf Its and told later about these "meetings" of his.

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Meetings with the ghost became more and more regular, they got on the nerves of the museum staff so much that they got together and decided to do something about it. At first glance, the idea was completely idiotic and absolutely did not fit into the Soviet materialistic worldview, but it turned out that it worked! The staff of the Kunstkamera planted someone else's skull on the skeleton, and the ghost stopped appearing! Like, you see, a gift to the skeleton …

Another curious story is associated with the Malokhtinsky cemetery. Suicides, as well as alchemists and sorcerers were buried on it. This is probably why it was notorious. At the cemetery they saw ghosts, and a greenish glow, which seemed to be alive - moving between the graves, and a milky-white fog, and even "fragrant" ghosts - smelling of incense. They also talk about more terrible phenomena. One woman saw something there that she fainted and has since stopped talking. But the curiosity is connected not with ghosts, but with … the first cemetery advertisement!

It happened just like in a Jewish joke: "Here lies Moisha Rabinovich, my father, a wonderful dentist, who he received at 10 Malaya Arnautskaya, and now I accept them there." An inscription appeared on the fence of one of the graves: "In the eternal memory of Lukerya Sidorova. The grate around the grave was made by the saddened husband of the deceased, a blacksmith who lives in Malaya Okhta and accepts orders for such works. I take it cheaply and work in good faith."

It is not known what it was - a real anomalous phenomenon or a rather dubious PR action by the husband of the deceased, but the case got into the "Petersburg newspaper" on January 20, 1898. The newspaper angrily condemned the unfortunate blacksmith, who swore and swore that he had nothing to do with it.

Have you met the ghost of Peter I in St. Petersburg?

- Oh, these are some of the most widely known ghosts! He also appeared in the old days. The entourage of Paul I - Baroness Oberkirch and Prince de Linh - said that Paul saw his ancestor during one of the walks with Kurakin and told them about this meeting. Allegedly, Peter pointed to the place where the Bronze Horseman was later erected and said: "Paul, goodbye, but you will see me here again."

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It turns out that Peter himself chose the place where the symbol of St. Petersburg was later installed. The ghost of Peter also allegedly said: "Poor Paul! I am the one who takes part in you. I wish you were not particularly attached to this world, for you will not stay in it for long." The next one to whom Peter I appeared was Paul's son Alexander I. It was in 1812, and Alexander, expecting that Napoleon would undertake a campaign against St. Petersburg, settled in the Elagin Palace.

One night Peter appeared to him and said: "You condole with Russia. Do not be afraid! While I am standing on a granite rock near the Neva, my beloved city has nothing to fear. Do not touch me - and the enemy will not touch!" It is interesting that at almost the same time the ghost of Peter appeared to Prince Alexander Nikolaevich Golitsyn, the closest friend of the emperor. He appeared in the form of the Bronze Horseman, who gallops through the streets of the city with the air of a winner.

Golitsyn told this story to Count Vielgorsky, a famous Russian philanthropist, and he passed it on to Pushkin word for word. And how it ended, everyone knows: Pushkin wrote the poem "The Bronze Horseman". During the Great Patriotic War, they wanted to evacuate the monument, but someone remembered the prophecy, and the monument was disguised. In general, it must be said that the monument itself is also covered with a bunch of legends and around it they also see all sorts of devilry.

Those who initially disliked Peter argued that this monument is nothing more than a "horseman of the Apocalypse" that brings death and suffering to the city and all of Russia. The stone on which the rider stands is also shrouded in legends. So, according to one of them, the stone was indicated by a local holy fool near the village of Lakhta - in the place where a huge boulder was found, which was searched for a very long time.

Some say that Peter himself climbed this stone, observing the course of the battles of the Northern War, others - that this stone is sacred, next to it there was an ancient temple.

Are there any "safety rules" for dealing with ghosts?

- The very first and most important rule - do not go where it is not necessary without proper preparation! And if you have already encountered a ghost, try to leave this place as quietly and calmly as possible. One may or may not believe in ghosts, ghosts, anomalous phenomena, but if we assume that the subtle world exists, then it is better not to face it. Because we do not yet know its nature.

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