Very often on the Internet you can find the phrase "Egyptian St. Petersburg." This is because anywhere in the world except St. Petersburg you will not find such a large number of Egyptian elements in the architecture of the city. According to the "official history" this is all explained simply - it was a wave of Egyptomania that swept the highest society in all of Europe. Personally, I get the feeling that either the rich representatives of the "Egyptian race" lived in St. Petersburg and were allowed to install sphinxes, obelisks, and pyramids. Or St. Petersburg was a colony of Egyptian pharaohs. Probably most likely, after all, St. Petersburg was a colony, as I repeat nowhere else in Europe there are Egyptian attributes in cities, well, except in museums. And the mysterious history of the construction of both the pyramids in Egypt and the construction of St. Petersburg is also approximately the same. The "official story" of course again simply explains everything. Simple slaves, squ