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One of the most prominent and revered sights Petersburg – St. Isaac’s Cathedral. However, this unique temple of Russia keeps many secrets and even mysterious prophecies.
And the main ones are related to the long construction of this architectural and cult masterpiece of the capital of Russia. Fourty years – almost unfinished, as they say now. It is believed that the fault that was the prophecy that architect Auguste Montferrand received under whose leadership the greatest temple was erected (the fourth according to the account) of the city on the Neva. In secular circles, it was said that The witch guessed Montferrand that he would die as soon as St. Isaac’s Cathedral will be built, because, they say, the architect and pulls with the end of this affair.
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Today, researchers proved that everything was completely different and much more prosaic. Just in the calculations of this grandiose object was made a mistake, which prevented the talented the architect to complete it on time. However, not everyone agrees with this. Nothing prevented Montferrand from consciously making this miscalculation, and then under his pretext in every way delay the completion of the construction the temple.
Like it or not, but as soon as Auguste completed the construction St. Isaac’s Cathedral in 1858, as he immediately fell out of favor with Alexander the Second – Emperor of Russia, who is rude and thanklessly treated the architect. After such a blow, Montferrand laid down and no longer rose to his feet – a prophecy fulfilled.
But this was only one prediction related to the mysterious Cathedral of St. Petersburg. The second said that the USSR would last until as long as St. Isaac’s temple stands in the woods. What’s under that implied – many did not quite understand. But since 1986 the cathedral actually began to be put in order, that is, to remodel from the museum again to the Christian church. And in the early nineties last century, the forests on it were removed, and Isaac again accepted parishioners ..
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We’ll clarify that the forests from St. Isaac’s Cathedral were completely removed in 1991, and what happened next – probably everyone knows. It was from this year that the Soviet Union ceased its Existence.
By the way, back to Auguste Montferrand, who, as talented architect, built in St. Petersburg also Alexander the column is a very fantastic monument, which is still not gives rest to researchers of similar artifacts of the past. But about that we will talk to you in the next article on the mysterious the history of St. Petersburg …
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