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[Alexandr Korol]

consequences, and that these are like feelings, but they’re false, and they take hold of you, and you shouldn’t feed them — you should, on the contrary, cultivate virtues. These kinds of messages or treatises about attention, about dynamics, how not to end up with dementia — those are the kinds of things I saw in the disintegration of social society, that kind of destruction. Of course, I wrote some books like that to show that I do care about them, that I haven’t given up on them, that I still reach out my hand to them. But I really don’t want to rummage through those dirty underpants, as they say, in that social world. I like my mythic world. And everything that connects me to that mythic world. This whole “Alternative History,” it truly has a boundary. And I’ll put it this way — “Alternative History” is a world where there are places of power, aliens, Egyptians, ancient Egyptians. But in it, there is no pandemic. The pandemic is like something beyond the fence. Those who believe in social media and all the trendy brands and buzzwords — they live in a completely different world. And if I keep getting distracted by questions about that world, it’ll suck me in, and I’ll end up there. That’s why many readers find rest from the social world, from society itself, when they read “Alternative History” — because they tune into a world where things like pandemics and other such problems simply don’t exist. People just breathe out. I mean that in the good sense — they exhale, relax. They find rest. Let’s put it that way. It’s funny, but there’s nothing funny about it either. So it’s better if I don’t read such questions and don’t answer them anymore — questions that don’t belong to the world of “Alternative History.”

Question: When you began to discover that there were places of power and radiating anomalous spots in Karelia, were there already paradoxes with the perception of time — for you, your staff, the builders, or those living there? And the mountain itself, where there were thoughts of placing something, for example, a chapel to connect to Petersburg — were there any radiating or anomalous spots detected by instruments there?

Well, let’s put it this way. When I was studying all these anomalous places, the metal detectors really did glitch in certain spots. They would either just shut off or the readings would spike so much it felt like the device was about to break, as if something extremely electromagnetic was affecting it. That’s how the