Alexandr Korol

I always wanted to be with simple people, plus I was kind of shy about looking too much like I was in a suit, let’s say. Because why? I’m just a regular guy, I’m fine in a T-shirt, and all that stuff, the watches, I always avoided that. Well, I made attempts, and then again realized, “Yuck.” Then I made attempts again. And here, once again, the system, as if the voice says, that it’s necessary. And then I leave, I fly from Los Angeles to St. Petersburg. And in September, I was in Moscow. I was diving into all of this, as they say. And I kept thinking about it, just speaking out loud, to whoever I met and talked to, saying that I needed to buy land somewhere and build a castle, that this was my number one goal. And all the guys were like, “Yes, yes,” and each one suggested something: someone said Crimea, someone said Sochi, someone insisted on Siberia. “Since you believe in global warming, it’s definitely Siberia. That’s where everything’s happening now.” And this, you know, it immediately scared me the most, because if there’s going to be a cleansing, what does it cleanse? The mainstream, it cleanses all these same repetitive people. So, logically, if you see people who are completely unconscious on autopilot and they all gathered in Siberia, first of all, it means that Siberia will be shaken — that’s my logic, sorry, but that’s how I reason. I have nothing against Russia’s nature. Siberia is a beautiful place. And I’d feel worse for the animals there if something were to happen. And then, at first, my friend says:

– Let’s go to Karelia. There’s a mountain in Sortavala.
– Well, yeah, sure, we can. I’m actually interested in building a castle somewhere in Russia right now.
– Well, Karelia is just right, right next to St. Petersburg, not somewhere far away.
– Makes sense.

Plus, I also love the north, like Leningrad region, all that northern direction, Sestroretsk, Priozersk, Vyborg, well, everything in that direction. There’s Finland, forests, lakes, I love fishing. Then, imagine, I meet another person, and he says:

– Alexandr, I’ve been working as a tour operator in Karelia for more than seven years, arranging tours there. Maybe we should open a hotel together?