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[Alexandr Korol]

characters and situations convey. And a year ago, in 2023, when I started working on this volume of “Alternative History” and began recalling everything, imagine — by that point, I had remembered 70% of my old story. And when I had fully recalled it and went through it all again, something happened — I ended up back in that world. Again, something occurred, I became different, and some force started driving me. Can you imagine? Exactly at the moment when I had completed 70% of the book, covering my entire life’s story, and I still didn’t know how this book would end, suddenly, that force reappeared. I started seeing signs again, I started hearing the voice again, but I was no longer the boy from the beginning of this story — I had grown up, gained experience, and now had something to compare it to. And with that, I could explain the inexplicable more accurately, choose my words more precisely. And at that moment, I realized that all this time, I had been trying to decipher the matrix.
That’s what’s interesting — there is so much in the first volume. Of course, the key, the final essence, is how the book ended unexpectedly, revealing what this voice is. That’s why, in the end, the book is about the voice. But how did the story lead to all of this? Why specifically St. Petersburg? Why the tsars? Why certain places of power? Those messengers who speak to me and seem to know everything about me – how do they know? What is the natural reaction of any person? They would probably think, “They must be watching me,” or “They are actors,” or “Someone set this up.” That’s how anyone would think. No one would assume that these are not just people but something else, something higher — no one would think that way. And then — the unraveling of this matrix. The same patterns appear everywhere: twelve zodiac signs, twelve months, twelve apostles, twelve labors of Hercules. This has never left me in peace since childhood — I always wanted to understand why. Why is it divided into four groups? Why does each group contain three? Or why are there three groups, each with four? Why? And “Alternative History” Volume One is a collection of notes, fleeting records of various situations that happened to me — situations for which I, as both the protagonist and the author, had no explanations. But without fear, I wrote it all down sincerely, not even knowing whether I would ever find answers to it. The goal was not to share how I deciphered everything but to share what was happening to me—perhaps so that one day you might help