Resident of Karelia Artem Muller waved the Taj Mahal in India

Artem Muller combined pleasant with useful. Work is work, but you also need to cultivate. During the trip, we managed to carve out time and see one of the most famous sights of India. Impressions shared with “MK in Karelia”.

It was a big surprise to me – and I’m really happy about it. Glad it worked. I'm glad that happened. And I am glad that I not only saw it, but felt it, Artem Muller, who was working in India, told Mk in Karelia.

In 1631, Shah Jahan lost his wife, Mumtaz Mahal, a woman he truly loved. She died in childbirth, and the grief of the ruler of the empire with millions of subjects was not cured by power or time.

In 1632 he began to build. Not a palace, a tomb for her.

Twenty-two years. Twenty thousand masters: architects, carvers, stonecutters, calligraphers. White marble was carried from Makrana for hundreds of kilometers - on elephants and oxen, in pieces, in the heat. Dozens of types of gems were inlaid in marble: each twig on the walls is laid out by hand, each pattern - up to a blade of grass, which is visible only when you come close.

There's no random line here. All of this is symmetry pushed to the limit, where the building itself repeats itself in gardens, in minarets, in the geometry of water. A form behind which lies not calculation, but loyalty.

I learned a simple and uncomfortable thing. All great things do not begin with marble or money. It begins with a feeling that cannot be faked, and with courage - first a person decides, and then there are masters, stone and time.

And yet, such a surprise does not come to those who wait and do not dare. He comes to the one who honestly wants, who is not afraid and who creates for good, not only for himself. I didn't know this trip would be about that.

Thank you to this country and this place for preserving the beauty that you can see with your own eyes for four centuries.

Thank you very much for the feeling I brought from there. It's not on the phone, it's not in pictures. You can't show him. But this is the main gift, said Artem.