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[Alexandr Korol]

and I can repeat it. “Alternative History” is a journey in search of truth, the unraveling of everything that is unexplained in the world. I come into contact with it, I decode it, and it decodes itself. But I want you to know that I don’t sit here thinking like a person and coming up with: “Oh, I’ll figure out who the Anunnaki are and where this tribe or civilization lived and why.” It’s not like that. I’m not doing it with my mind or from my personal self or internal desire; it’s simply fate, a true chain of events from above, as I see it. And it’s really paradoxical, what happened — like when I worked at the Contemporary Art Center as the director of development, and a certain man came in. It turned out that this man worked in the election campaign of a woman who was a politician. He started telling me that he had an idea to prove to the world that Alexander the Great was Russian. He told me that he even had a document he had gathered himself, an ideology about the Olympics, about Olympians, with some supposed evidence that Alexander the Great was Russian and that he was born in the city of Pella, and we have a city near St. Petersburg called Pella, which is now called Otradnoye. There’s even a factory there where a royal structure once stood. He just tossed this idea to me like a hook, and I took note of it. It all started to come together in a chain. I listen to him, and I don’t really care about Alexander the Great at all, but then he tells me... Well, he’s not a messenger, just some guy who walked into the office, and honestly, he wasn’t even there to talk to me, but to others. He just decided to chat with me about this. Why did he decide to talk to me? I don’t know. But he told me, and he gave me this file, which I still have. I then Googled it online, and indeed, there is a city called Pella. And that... Now I can’t recall exactly, but it was something like this: supposedly there was something with Catherine the Great, something with our tsars there, and that it was destroyed. And I thought, “What if what was destroyed there was actually something else? Maybe that’s where Alexander the Great was born?” Then there was another case, with people I met by accident, for a completely different reason, and then one person, and then another (I can’t remember who exactly), told me that when they were building a restaurant and placing their ship on the embankment in St. Petersburg, they found ancient amphorae in the Neva River when they were setting it up. And they also saw something else. Someone told them from above that they should never talk about it, or everyone would face problems.