Alexandr Korol

That’s the kind of invisible “friend” I have. I’m constantly interacting with this social system. I strike it — it strikes me. I strike — it strikes back. Seriously, it’s a real battle. And when I gathered my strength and stepped back into the ring, publishing the first and second volumes — that was a huge blow. A massive, crazy blow dealt to the social system. And we keep hitting each other: it hits me, I hit it — we’re fighting through these actions. I make a discovery, and it responds by turning it into a trend or vulgarizing it. That’s what this social system is like. Now that I’m about to start writing a separate book about the places of power in St. Petersburg, the social system will immediately start a trend around St. Petersburg, travel, and tours of “places of power.” And people will start going on these tours just for the sake of it, and it’ll become so widespread that when those people eventually hear about my book, they’ll say, “Oh, we already know all that, we went on the tour.” That’s how the social system works. Sure, the tours won’t be to actual places of power, but... That’s how the social system vulgarizes everything. But right now I’m preparing a new blow against it. So, as I answer questions now, I’m recording everything — video, audio — so I can turn it into a book. And that will be a big strike against the social system. It’s like we’re really trying to outwit each other — me and it. And I’ve got a surprise coming for it, another surprise it’s not expecting. Or maybe it does expect it, now that I’m already thinking about it — but we’ll see how it all turns out.

Question: Tell us, please — when developing Karelia, are you guided by your own preferences, or are you being led by higher forces who tell you where to build? For example, with the goal of Karelia becoming a city-mechanism in the future, like St. Petersburg.

Naturally, they don’t tell me — just like they didn’t tell the tsars back then — that they need to build some kind of mechanism. No, the story is that at the time, the voice told me many times that everything should happen in stages, and that I didn’t need to know what it would be or what it was for, and that I wouldn’t find out until the time came. They literally told me, “Right now, you have to restore all the objects.” And I ask, “What am I supposed to do with that third site? What will that be? A factory? A museum? Will I live there? Will it be a hotel? What is it?” And they say, “Alex, first finish the first site.