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[Alexandr Korol]

has been restored; something new has been built. Everything is feng shui. The tsars were building this for the future, and they were all in a hurry, in a rush, as if everyone who had appeared here since 1703 had formed the foundation. Here they all were, with only one task. Build something, this mechanism. And as soon as they built it, the tsars’ empire fell. It’s like they just came to do it, and that’s it. And then the stagnation returned.