Secrets and Mysticism of St. Petersburg

In the legends of all five continents, there are references to the civilization of giants that dominated the Earth. Then there was the Great Flood, and the time came for people who had subjugated the remnants of the once mighty peoples of the Atlanteans and caries. The memory of this victory the ancient Greeks immortalized in the statues of gigantic men (Atlanteans) and women (caryatids), propping up human palaces and temples. The most famous Atlantes in our country have been guarding the building of the New Hermitage in the city on the Neva for more than a hundred years. In 1852, German architect Leo Klyanets built a two-story building to store the Hermitage collection, which in all its diversity could no longer fit into the Hermitage. Together with the sculptor I. Galbigom, Klyanets planned to erect figures on the portico of the New Hermitage that resemble pharaohs in their form. But architects V.P. Stasov and N.E. Efimov created a project according to which the balconies of th...