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# There is an old Finnish legend about a tsar who could not build a city on a marsh, because the stones kept sinking
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/est-starinnaia-finnskaia-legenda-kak-tsar-ne-mog-postroit-gorod-na-bolote-potomu-chto-kamni-tonuli/
- Published: 2018-05-26T11:37:33.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:44:34.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: NB!, Architecture, Saint Petersburg, Ethnography

There is an old Finnish legend about a tsar who could not build a city on a marsh, because the stones kept sinking. And what did he do then? He built the city in the heavens and lowered it onto that boggy ground