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[Alexandr Korol]

that’s why I’m kind of fifty-fifty. But believe me, I know the limit — how much you can get a little dirty and wander among the madness, and still not lose yourself or your soul.

Question: What did you feel when you saw that your place in Karelia was on the same meridian as the pyramids in Egypt? And when the number written for you by the messenger Nadezhda later surfaced?

Well, I started... I mean, it wasn’t the first time during this whole journey of “Alternative History” that I kept returning to Egypt. Just a little, partially, but I kept coming back to it. There’s something about Egypt. And at that time, I started opening maps, looking at the pyramids from above — the ones in Giza, in Egypt. Then I saw where the city of Alexandria is located. It’s about two hundred kilometers away. And I saw that this is about the same distance as from St. Petersburg to my place in Karelia. And I thought: “Wow, maybe Alexandria is like St. Petersburg, and the pyramids of Giza are like my Karelia? Maybe something similar was there?” And I happen to have a mountain by the lake. I look at it from above, and it looks like a pyramid. That same square shape and similar corner outlines. I was shocked. I told Big Alexander about it, and he says to me, “Alex, actually, most mountains — almost all of them — are artificial.” And I’m like, wow! And of course, I climbed that mountain, I started walking through the whole forest near my land and began discovering many other different places. And imagine, I had all sorts of instruments — compasses and such. My team and I prepared ourselves in every way possible! And we headed to this peninsula. I got there and felt dizzy right away. But the paradox is something else — why did I even go there in the first place? Because when I was looking at the map — just sitting in my cabin and looking at my land on Google Maps from above via satellite — and suddenly, a number appeared.

Well, it wasn’t Google — it was some other map site. And suddenly, when I hovered over this area — it was like a peninsula — I pointed the cursor there, and suddenly a number appeared: 30.314152642. And that was it, everything just spun for me. I had no idea what was happening. How could that woman, Nadezhda,