Cup marked stone in Gogland island (photo-author)
Fragment of stone circle in Olhovka (photo-author)
Place of power and megaliths around Saint-Petersburg, north-west Russia
* Cup-marked stones, menhirs and stone circle
* Foot, Saddle and Thunders stones
* Stone Cairns and Sami Seidas: dolmen and perched boulder designs
* Stone labyrinth
Around St.-Petersburg are located some types of monuments marked places of power:
stone circles, burial-mound, cup-marked stones, seids (perched boulders and dolmens). foot-stones etc
Many these objects settle down in geologic faults and the special places (in russian - "Urochisha", place difference from an around landscape)
In this page you looking photos ancient monument around Saint-Petersburg region, north-west Russia.
Cup-marked stones and stones circle
Olhovka, Yarkoe sites and Gogland island. This stones located in big complexes of monuments about lakes Vuoxa and Suvanto(Sukhodolskoe).
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Cup marked stone in Gogland island (photo-author)
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Fragment of stone circle in Olhovka (photo-author)
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 Petroglyphs, Olhovka (photo-author) |
 Menhir, Olhovka (photo-author)
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 Altar, Olhovka (photo-author) |
 Cup marked stone in Olhovka (photo-author)
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Besov kamen ("Devil-stone")
Huge sacred stone having petrogliphs-two cross and letters of ingermanlands (finnish people in 17centure) prayers. Pagan centres or Izhorian plateau. Original name for this stone - "Veles-stone", name of russian pagans god Veles (Volos), the orthodox christians named Veles by a bes (devil).
 "Besov-kamen"(photo-author) |
 cross (photo-author) |
 finnish-ingermanland letters(photo - Vadim Baronov) |
Ground pyramid the Shum-gora ("Noise-mount")
Ancient burial mound on Luga river. Sacral center. Height of an this hill, ground pyramid (looking in photo two terraces-steps) - 14 meters.
 Menhir around Shum-gora (photo - B. Korotkevich) |
 idol of russian pagans god "Makosh" (Photo - S. Alexashin) |
 Ground pyramid - "Shum-gora" in north Novgorod region. (photo-author) |
links in english : http://www.peredol.com/index.html - Alexashins web-site "Peredol Project", "Shum-gora" and Rurick - the first Russian prince, scandinavian konung...
Other cult stones...
Sacred stones in north-west Russia - Saint-Petersburg, Novgorod and Pskov regions
 Foot-stone in Skreblovo, Saint-Petersburg regions (photo-author)
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 Foot-stone around Shum-gora Novgorod region (photo- S. Alexashin)
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 Foot-stone in Dorbishi Pskov region (photo- D. Drozdezcky)
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 "Pyatnica Kamen"(Friday-stone) in Konezerye (Luga region). This stone a connected ancient legend: water in stone never dries up. (photo-author) |
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 Split stone in top of Kirchgof mountain ("Church mountain"), southern from St. Petersburg. The stones cracking by impact of a lightning referred to as "Grom Kamen" (Thunders-stones) (photo-author) |
Stones platform cairns in Essari island
Vyborg gilf, Baltic sea
 Platform cairn - the graves (photo-author) |
 Round stone platforms cairn (photo-author) |
 Essari "Saddle stone" (photo-author). Karelian and russian ancient tradition. |
The Essari Island (Essari - finish name "Essaari", in russian -"Longitudal") is disposed in 23km from Vyborg in Vyborg gilf. On island is disposed beside 200 ancient karelian ritual-graves platforms and other constructions (rows of stones, stone heaps, standing stones, "saddle"-stone). This archaeologist object is dated Iron age-dark age 8-10 centuries. Karelian stone ritual platforms are bound with cult of dead parents - spirits of protectors of tribe. Some constructions are oriented on lines "north-south", "west-east", other are located without system. In finno-ugrians mythology-religions the Islands have greater importance, to which settle down pagans ritual place - known "saint island" an lapps (in lakes of north Scandinavia (finland - Inari lake), White see (Kuzova, Solovki), Seid-lake (Shaman-island), Onego lake (Ratkolje island)...). Continuation of this tradition buildings of Russian Orthodox Churchs on islands - pagan ritual centres in north Europe (Solovki in White see, Valaam and Konevetc in Ladoga lake, Kizhi in Onego lake) |
"Sami seidas" - megaliths in Saint Petersburg region
Karelian Isthmus and Finnisn gift islands, ancient sami (lapps) traditions
Ancient sami (lapps, lapland) peoples sacral stones in Saint-Petersburg region, Karelian Isthmus. The St.-Petersburg region (Karelian Isthmus, Northern coast of Ladoga lake, islands in Finnish and Vyborg gilfs) - southern areas distribution of sami seidas tradition. The basic regions of seidas stones- Karelia and Kola peninsula.
 Sami seid (dolmen-construction) around Vyborg (Viipuri) (photo-author) |
Sami seid (perched boulder-construction) in Gogland island (Suursaari) (photo-author) |
Stone labyrinth (maze)
Finnish gilf, Baltic sea
 Stone labyrinth in Essaari(western) island. Ancient stone labyrinth a rare construction for the Saint Petersburg area. (photo-author) |
 Center of stone labyrinth (photo-author) |
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