Many People Build Small Buildings In Their Backyard,

a shed, gazebo, your kids play house, or say a folly,

 but this is the strangest backyard folly I have ever seen outside of a stately home, it is the pyramid of Istinka, which is 19 times smaller than the structure that inspired it – the Great Pyramid of Giza, in Egypt, the couple who had it built are from Istinka, a small village located 12 kilometres outside St Petersburg, Russia, they have built a concrete replica of the Great Pyramid of Giza right in their own backyard, measuring 9 meters above ground and 9 meters deep, and consisting of about 400 tonnes of concrete blocks,

according to its owners, Andrey Vakhrushev and his wife Victoria, apart from the size difference, the two imposing structured are actually quite similar. The couple claim that attention to detail was crucial for this project, adding that they spent years studying the design of the Pyramid of Cheops and visited it many times just to get everything right, “I was really striving to achieve exact sizes, up to one-centimetre accuracy, on the right level, not with one or two-centimetre error, but the exact size, perfect and nothing less,” Andrey said. “Of course, the blocks we used are different, but this is still a monolithic structure, we made careful calculations in terms of masonry, making it in a special way so that it is as close (to the original) as possible.”

the Vakhrushevs have made some pretty wild claims about their pyramid, including that it can protect people from harm and heal them, for example, Nevsky News reports that Andrey Vakhrushev said that all workers who suffered injuries during the construction process were healed by the pyramid, and that none of the members of the construction team was ever sick during the building process. In a conversation with a correspondent of Nevsky News, Vakhrushev said that he and his wife began to build a pyramid in order to save the Earth, according to Metro News, Victoria said that their pyramid can boost immunity and protect from coronavirus infection,

for those who would like to benefit from the healing and protective powers of the pyramid will be able to book a stay inside it to meditate and fill themselves with its energy, the cost of the stay is between 3,500 ($50) and 10,000 rubles ($140) a night, well I am sure it is nice, but for us I think we would rather pay the extra and see the real thing!