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[Alexandr Korol]

What kind of personality was awakening in me? This helps to see life and oneself more clearly. I really recommend this to everyone — it’s useful for all. It’s just that I’m this kind of person, that’s how I think — I always write. And it turns out this way because that’s how my mind works. There are things in life that fascinate me or make me wonder why — and I start looking for the answer. I love researching what is unknown. I love exploring what interests me, what captures my attention. I dedicate my whole life to it, all my time, all my health — I research it and write about it. And then I decide what to publish and what not to publish, and something eventually turns into a book. And “Alternative History” is one of those angles of perception of the world that I would sometimes fall into since childhood. I wasn’t always fascinated by the history of the city of Saint Petersburg and ancient sacred scriptures. No. It would just happen from time to time, like a mood — suddenly, and that’s it. I really want to decipher all of it, I put on the film “The Da Vinci Code,” “National Treasure.” I start watching all these films, listening to that kind of music. And then I’m off to Italy, or running around Saint Petersburg, or somewhere else, and I go into all these churches, cathedrals, listening to Catholic choirs. And it charges me, inspires me so much. I photograph all these building facades, all these stone angels, all those stained-glass windows. Why? Well, I like one of the facets of the worlds — this kind of facet, this kind of angle appeals to me. The different worlds I’ve been in, I describe them — this is one of those worlds, this is “Alternative History.” And I kept coming into contact with it, coming into contact with it, and then I decided to expand on that information, which is how it all evolved into a novel, and then into a multi-volume work. So, answering your question about a writer’s career and how it could have turned out — I would have been a writer anyway. I might just also be someone else right now in parallel, but I already am. But again, I don’t like all this — personalities, significance, statuses — I don’t like all those labels. But there are a great number of projects I’ve launched just for friends, various shops, companies. I poured my soul, my heart into them; they function on their own. That helps me survive, that income helps me realize myself as a writer, so that all my books can be published, translated into other languages, turned into audiobooks, and so on. And overall, to maintain the team that formats the books, translates them, uploads them to all those websites, so... No matter what I do, who I become, I will always be writing. I always wrote, I write,