There are probably few people who do not know who Wolf Grigorievich Messing is. This man lived an amazing life, predicted and even changed people's destinies. They knew him and feared him, believed him and did not trust him. Stalin himself favored the clairvoyant, allowing him to hold concerts throughout the Soviet Union.

Childhood

In 1899, on September 10, in a place near Warsaw, which at that time belonged to Russian Empire, Gure-Kalvary was born Wolf Grigorievich Messing, a man famous for his outstanding superpowers. His parents were very religious and wanted their boy to become a rabbi. However, Volka (that was the name of Wolf Grigorievich) resisted such a fate in every possible way. Then they resorted to a trick and bribed a colorful tramp to play the messenger of God in front of the boy. Volka believed the vision and went to study. However, two years later, having met that same tramp, he recognized him as an angel who had appeared with a sign and realized that his parents had simply deceived him. Then the boy, disappointed in everything, left home, stealing money from donations to the yeshiva.

He boarded the train to Berlin, but since there was not enough money for a ticket, he hid under a bench. When the controller came up and asked for a ticket, he was very scared, but he picked up some piece of paper from the floor and, wishing with all his being that it would turn into a ticket, handed it over. In response, the ticket holder calmly took the piece of paper, punched it and wondered why the boy was traveling under the bench if he had a travel card and the carriage was full of empty seats.

This is how young Messing learned about his ability to instill in people an illusory reality.

Youth

The newly discovered ability did not help in life at all at first. The boy worked as a messenger in a house for visitors and did everything he was told. At the same time, he earned almost no money. And once he even fainted from hunger right on the street. He was taken to the hospital, and not finding a pulsation, he was sent to the morgue. But some trainee still felt the heartbeat. Abel, a very famous neuropathologist and psychiatrist, was present. The professor became interested in the boy and began to teach him how to control his body, and then introduced him to the man who became his first impresario, Zelmester.

This is how young Messing began his career. He lay down in a crystal coffin and plunged himself into a state similar to death, receiving considerable money for this. Over time, I learned to read other people's thoughts and turn off pain, turning into a real artist.

The future psychic Messing Wolf Grigorievich became more and more famous. In 1915, Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein even attended his performance, but unfortunately, they did not leave any notes about this fact.

In a speech in Warsaw in 1937, he predicted the death of the Fuhrer if he moved his troops to the east. For this, the artist and his family were arrested, but thanks to his superpowers he managed to escape. He crossed the river and ended up on the territory of the Soviet Union, where Wolf Grigorievich Messing began his new life.

Mature years

The psychic hardly knew the Russian language, and during his entire subsequent life, having lived in the country of the Soviets, he never really learned it. Here he was hardly known, but having become a member of the concert brigade in the Brest region, Wolf Grigorievich Messing nevertheless became an artist. His biography apparently became known at the very top of the government. And one day, right at a concert in Gomel, two NKVD workers came on stage and, asking for forgiveness from the audience, took the artist to Stalin, with whom he later met more than once.

After this meeting, Messing receives a new start in life, and they begin to pay him fabulous fees.

When the war began, Wolf Grigorievich (according to at will or under duress from the NKVD) donated his money for two aircraft. It is known that at this time he was even arrested and interrogated. It happened during a tour in Tashkent.

Messing continued his travels with performances. By personal order of Stalin, he was allocated one-room apartment in Moscow on Novopeschanaya Street, where he lived happy years life with his wife Aida Mikhailovna since 1954.

Old age

Wolf Grigorievich Messing lived out the rest of his life alone in another, more spacious apartment on Herzen Street, already without his beloved wife. He was surrounded by two dogs (Mashenka and Pushinka), as well as his wife’s sister.

He knew about the date of his death, and the closer it became, the more phobias the old man developed. However, Messing said that he was not afraid of death, he was simply endlessly sad that this very special experience of living life on Earth would never happen again.

One day, when he was taken to the hospital, leaving the house, he looked back and said that he would never return here again. The operation was performed by a first-class surgeon and was successful. But then complications began and my kidneys began to fail. The legendary telepath Messing Wolf has died.

Years of his life: 1899-1974.

Tour

During his life, an outstanding person, artist and psychic managed to travel around different countries. He performed and traveled a lot, of course, in the Soviet Union.

Despite the materialism that reigned in the country, Messing managed to lift the veil of the unknown and show by his own example the existence of a different, intangible world.

Very often at his speeches he read people's thoughts and carried them out. For example, it was typical to guess what was in the hands of a certain person or written words on paper that was sealed in an envelope.

All these numbers seemed fantastic to the audience. Although skeptics, of course, came up with a rational explanation for them, talking about his excellent command of elementary idiomotor skills.

Personal life

In Novosibirsk, Wolf Grigorievich Messing met and fell in love with a woman, Aida Mikhailovna Rappoport, who became a reliable friend, assistant at performances and wife.

They lived happy years side by side, but in 1960 Aida Mikhailovna died suddenly of cancer. And Messing knew about her upcoming departure. He was left alone and did not give any concerts for six months, experiencing the loss very hard.

But as time went on, he began to gradually come to his senses and even perform sometimes. Wolf Grigorievich was surrounded by close people, but life began to become burdensome and the talent bestowed on him turned into a punishment.

Close

Messing was afraid to have children, so he did not have his own. But among those around him there were close people whom he treated with fatherly care.

One of them was Tatyana Lungina, who met him for the first time in June 1941, when she was only 18. Later, the latter used her notes about meetings with Messing to write his autobiography “About Myself.”

Many people described wonderful stories in which they became participants, and where the main character was the psychic Messing Wolf.

Vadim Chernov talked about an incident at the dacha when everyone went into the forest to pick mushrooms. Messing did not like this activity, but together with everyone else he also went into the forest. Everyone scattered in search of mushrooms. After some time, Vadim went out into a clearing, where he saw Messing sitting on a log, surrounded by local children. The guys squealed with delight and asked Wolf Grigorievich about the non-existent little animals that they saw and played with. When Vadim approached and Messing noticed him, their eyes met and the clairvoyant said that here was the beast for him. The young man suddenly saw a bear, but was not at all afraid, and numerous squirrels, bunnies and hedgehogs appeared around the children. However, what he remembers most is the basket, filled to the brim with excellent mushrooms (although before meeting their eyes, he knew for sure that it was empty).

Another case was described by Tatyana Lungina. It was a session at the Central House of Writers when Wolf Grigorievich Messing agreed to demonstrate a cataleptic state. By that time he was no longer young, so in case he could not get out of it on his own, Doctor Pakhomova assisted him. Forty minutes after Messing tuned in, she stated that the pulsation had ceased to be observed. The audience placed two chairs on the stage, on the backs of which they placed a lifeless body (heels and the back of the head). It looked like it was made of wood. The heaviest man sat on Messing's stomach. And even after that, the body did not bend one iota. The psychiatrist pierced the neck muscles through and through. There was no blood or other body reaction. Then Messing was asked a question, to which he did not answer, but when they put a pen in his hand and put the album on him, he, like a robot, raised his hand and wrote the answer on it.

With the help of medical manipulations, he was brought out of this state, but it was not easy for the 64-year-old medium. And a few days later he continued to remain unsociable and taciturn.

Gift or punishment

In old age, the gift began to weigh heavily on Messing. He was tired of other people's thoughts, which were mostly not the most pleasant. If in his youth everything was much easier, then in old age he treated his gift as a punishment. After all, he knew everything in the smallest details about his future, and all the miracles that he showed to the public had long become a daily routine for him.

He knew that many people were jealous of the gift, thinking that if they could do this, they would move entire mountains. However, Wolf Grigorievich argued that there could be no advantages in life from talent, and therefore there was no need to be envious. If a person is decent and does not intend to commit any illegal acts, no gift will give him superiority.

Wolf Grigorievich Messing, whose photo is given below, in last years life turned into a gloomy pessimist.

Messing and the greats of this world

The highest ranks and those in power were interested in the telepath. Hitler, Stalin, Khrushchev - they all knew Messing, and he even made predictions to some of them.

He did not see Hitler, but foresaw his death, for which he almost paid with his life.

Stalin wanted to personally test Messing's gift. For this purpose, he first suggested that he receive one hundred thousand rubles from Sberbank by presenting a blank piece of paper. When this succeeded, the poor cashier who gave out the money suffered a heart attack. Fortunately, he was saved. In addition, Messing himself unhinderedly walked to Stalin through all the patrols, and also left him, waving his hand to the leader from the street. When asked how this was possible, Wolf Grigorievich said that he simply convinced everyone he met that he was Beria.

However, the psychic did not always observe political caution, and at a time when almost everyone in the country was confident in the friendship of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, Wolf Grigorievich Messing predicted a completely different development of events. Because of this, his biography was almost cut short again. He said at his speech, answering a question from the audience, that he saw Soviet tanks on the streets of Berlin. Although his concerts were temporarily cancelled, he was not arrested. Later, when the war began, the artist continued his activities.

Predictions

In addition to the fact that Wolf Grigorievich predicted the death of Hitler and predicted war, he also named the date of victory (the eighth of May) at one of his speeches. True, the year was not named. But in the first days of the war, he was summoned by Stalin to the Politburo, where he predicted victory Soviet troops and named the year and month.

Stalin kept track of the predictions that the psychic made; he was overgrown with all sorts of legends, sometimes difficult to distinguish from those that actually happened. But on the day when the act of surrender of Germany was signed, Stalin sent Messing a telegram, where he noted the accuracy of the predicted date. And it's a fact.

They also say that the leader of the peoples asked the telepath about his date of death. But the latter, foreseeing awkward question, said that he would not answer, but at the same time promised to never tell anyone about it.

It is known that the psychic secretly kept a green notebook in which he wrote down predictions relating to both the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, about events in the USSR, the USA and Israel. However, she disappeared without a trace after Messing's death.

The life of this mysterious man was cut short on October 8, 1974. The place where Messing Wolf Grigorievich is buried is

Wolf Grigorievich Messing - a mysterious person . He made predictions with amazing accuracy, which attracted the attention of both ordinary citizens and government officials. He was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR for performances demonstrating the ability to read minds. However, this is only a small part of what attracted the attention of the general public.

Wolf was born on September 10, 1899 in small town near Warsaw. Parents were Jews. WITH early childhood the boy began to notice unusual visions, and those around him learned about them. At first, no importance was attached to Messing’s conversations, but everything prophesied came true. In Berlin, Wolf met with Professor Abel, as well as impresario Zellmeister. Thanks to the help of these people, the seer was able to further develop and demonstrate his skills. In 1939, with the outbreak of World War II, the telepath was able to move to the USSR. The master's relatives died in concentration camps. Concert activity continued in the USSR.

With the money received from the performance, Wolf purchased two fighters and donated them to the pilots of the Union Army. One of most interesting pages in the magician's biography - acquaintance with Stalin. Wolf prophesied the crash of the plane on which Vasily, the leader’s son, was planning to fly, thus saving his life. Messing also precisely named the date when the war would end.

Hitler declared the predictor a personal enemy and promised a good reward to anyone who would destroy the seer. The basis for the hostility was a prophecy published in the newspapers. The clairvoyant predicted Hitler's death if his army went east. After entering German troops Wolf had to flee to Poland to the USSR. So he became a Soviet soothsayer.

Messing failed to work well with Khrushchev. Predictions about the fate of Russia the telepath did based only on his own visions. The leader insisted on custom prophecies. Messing began to receive less and less permission to perform concerts and fell into a deep depression, which over time grew into a mania of persecution. A long-standing leg injury required surgery. The operation was successful, but the clairvoyant’s kidneys suddenly failed and his lungs swelled. Wolf died on November 8, 1974.

The unusual childhood of a seer

Wolf suffered from sleepwalking from early childhood. His father, Gregory, was able to save his son from the problem. A basin with cold water. When Messing got out of bed, he put his feet in the water and immediately woke up. At the age of six, the boy was sent to study at a cheder (a school operating at a synagogue). Another talent became noticeable here - an amazing memory. The boy easily memorized the texts of the Talmud. The father wanted to see a respected rabbi in his son, so sent for training to yeshibot.

Wolf did not want to follow the path of the clergy. In his second year of study, the boy ran away from the educational institution. Arriving at railway station, he boarded the first departing train and hid under a bench, as he was traveling without a ticket. When the inspector approached, Wolf handed the inspector an ordinary piece of paper, looking intently into his eyes. The controller not only did not disembark the stowaway, but also offered to sit more comfortably.

In Berlin, the boy began working as a messenger; the earnings were meager. The body, exhausted from lack of sleep and food, could not stand it. One day, Wolf fell in the middle of the street, and the doctors who came to take his body pronounced him dead. The child was taken to the morgue, but one of the trainees felt a slight heartbeat, which he reported to the mentor. It was Professor Abel.

Fiction or reality

Wolf Messing did not consider visions as magic, for him it was a physical ability. In 1965, the journal Science and Life published the seer’s memoirs. Thanks to the publication it appeared there are many myths about the soothsayer, this information needs to be debunked:

After a while it became clear: Messing was not involved in the memoirs.

A few unverified facts

Unverified, but interesting facts include the following:

Messing's predictions about Russia and other countries were of interest to a variety of segments of the population, so a lot of information appeared about the life of the seer.

Reasons to believe unconditionally

A lot of controversy arose around such an odious figure as Messing. The prophecies aroused and continue to arouse both admiration and mistrust. Arguments in favor of the soothsayer - predictions that have come true:

Whether to trust, each person decides for himself.

Prophecies for the 21st century

The unstable situation in the world forces people to pay attention to prophecies in order to understand what is happening. There is no verified evidence that the seer made predictions about world events for the 21st century. But there is some unverified information:

The medium also believed that the 21st century would mark the beginning of leveling out the confrontation between Russia and the United States. Friendly relations between countries can be established.

False Prophecy

Wolf Messing was distinguished by exceptional truthfulness and was a responsible person. He predicted only when visions came. There were no failures in the telepath's practice. But even a minor mistake had a negative impact on the seer’s reputation.

One day after a speech, a woman approached Wolf holding a letter from her son. Communication with him was cut off after how I left for Australia. The medium said that the text of the letter was written by the hand of a person who died. The seer's next visit to the city was not very pleasant. The son, whose death his mother had come to terms with, returned home. But when the investigation of the circumstances began, it turned out that the letter shown to the master was actually written by a man who had died at that time, and the woman’s son was forced to resort to help, since he was illiterate. Since then, Messing's prophecies began to be believed again, and the medium's reputation was restored.

Last vision of events

Due to the accuracy of the predictions, I want to believe that the last vision will come true. When asked about the third world war, the medium answered negatively. In relation to Russia, he said that there would be peace. Currently, when in various points As armed conflicts persist throughout the world, this prophecy can be considered irrelevant. However, they revered the master’s talent and believe that the prediction about peace will come true, local conflicts will subside, and global confrontation will be avoided.

Legacy of a Great Master

People perceive such a person as the predictor Wolf Messing differently. Many people treat prophecies with skepticism; this situation mainly arises due to the presence of a mass of unreliable materials created with the aim of speculating on the personality of the medium. And not everything told by Messing became public domain. According to unverified information, after the death of the seer there was many manuscripts found th with data about the future of different states. Now the documents are stored in the archives of the special services.

Messing argued: everyone has telepathic abilities, only the degree of their manifestation is different. A person must develop a gift. The medium has only one student - Olga Migunova. According to unverified information, Wolf gave Olga an encrypted prophecy with data about the future of humanity. The information has not become available to anyone, so it is impossible to talk about the content or authenticity of the message.

Olga Migunova and Wolf Messing met in Gelendzhik. A medium performed here; Olga was 16 years old at that time. Unexpectedly, the seer asked the parents to take the child out the door to wait for the end of the performance there. The girl, according to him, interfered with the session. It turned out that Olga has unique hypnotic abilities, and Messing can help develop the gift. On family council decided: pedagogical institute Olga will graduate in absentia, the main training will be given to Messing. Now Migunova is the President of the International Academy of Hypnosis. She opened health Center, patients are received here.

Even though the attitude towards Wolf Messing was ambiguous, it is impossible to deny that this man has superpowers. He himself said: there is no magic in visions. He was able to read thoughts by sensing a person's muscle impulses. As for the ability of foresight, it is much more interesting, since the future is not revealed to everyone. Are there any terrifying prophecies about the fate of the planet and states, it is impossible to answer with complete certainty. Taking into account that some of the manuscripts are in secret archives, it becomes obvious: the great master left a message for future generations that will eventually become the property of humanity.

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Wolf Messing is a legendary pop artist who acted as a mentalist, predicting the future and reading the thoughts of the audience from the audience. In 1971 he received the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR.

He was born in the Polish-Jewish village of Gura Kalwaria, which at the time of Messing’s birth was part of the Russian Empire. Wolf's family was large - his parents raised 4 sons. They lived quite poorly, and children from an early age had to work hard, helping their father and mother. In addition, the head of the family, Gershek Messing, was a very pious and strict person, so all his sons adhered to the rules established in the house.

Wolf suffered from somnambulism from birth, often wandering in his sleep and then suffered from headaches. However, he was cured folk remedy– using a basin of cold water placed in front of the bed. Having wet his feet, the child woke up, and subsequently sleepwalking completely disappeared.

At the age of 6, the boy began to attend the Heder Jewish school, where he studied the Talmud and memorized prayers from this book. The rabbi who taught the students noted the amazing memory of little Messing and contributed to the teenager’s enrollment in Yeshibot, a special educational institution, preparing clergy.

Wolf resisted this in every possible way, but his decision was influenced unexpected event which he for a long time will be considered his first vision. One day, a figure in white appeared before him in the dark and, calling himself an Angel, predicted a great future for him in the rank of rabbi. The devout boy believed and only found out many years later that he was a tramp arranged by his father and playing the role of God’s messenger.

Nothing in Yeshibota could interest Messing, and after studying there for several years, he escapes and goes to Berlin. On the train, Wolf first showed his unusual abilities, and at the most crucial moment. When the conductor asked the little passenger for a ticket, he handed him a piece of paper and looked carefully into his eyes. The ticket attendant punched the piece of paper and accepted it as a travel coupon.

In the capital of Germany, the boy got a job as a messenger, but earned crumbs, which were not enough even for food. One day, while performing his next task, he lost consciousness and fainted from hunger right on the street. The doctors, believing that the child had died, sent him to the morgue, where he lay for three days, after which he woke up.

Having learned that Wolf Messing was capable of falling into short-term lethargic sleep, the German psychiatrist and neuropathologist Professor Abel took him in and began to teach Wolf how to control his own body, as well as conduct various experiments on suggestion and reading thoughts.

Career in Europe

Soon, Professor Abel introduced Messing to the talented impresario Zellmeister, who arranged for the young man to work in the Berlin Museum of Unusual Exhibits. Wolf's task was to lie down in a glass coffin and fall into a breathless sleep. In parallel with this work, with the help of Abel and his assistant Schmitt, Messing was able to improve his abilities. He achieved an almost flawless understanding of the message transmitted to him mentally, especially with the help of contact telepathy, when he touched his interlocutor with his hand, and also learned to turn off any painful sensation in his body by force of will.

Later, as a fakir, he began performing in various circus troupes, including the famous Busch Circus and the Wietergarten variety show. His act was as follows: the artists acted out a robbery scene in front of the audience and hid the stolen items in various parts hall Messing, who then appeared, unerringly found all the hiding places. This number captivated the audience time after time, and soon the artist’s first fame came.

In 1915, a young man traveled around the First World War in flames. Central Europe with his first solo tour. Later he repeated the tours and in 1921 returned to Poland as a famous and wealthy man.

In 1939, when World War II began in Europe, Messing's father, brothers and immediate relatives, who were of Jewish origin, were arrested and executed in Majdanek. Han's mother had previously died of heart failure when Wolf was 13 years old. The artist himself managed to avoid a terrible fate and moved to Soviet Union

Career in Russia

IN new country Wolf Messing, thanks to the support of the head of the art department, Pyotr Andreevich Abrasimov, continued his performances with psychological experiments. At first he was a member of propaganda teams, later received the title of artist of the State Concert and went with independent performances in houses of culture. He also performed for some time as an illusionist in a Soviet circus troupe.

With the personal funds of Wolf Messing, a Yak-7 fighter was built in Novosibirsk especially for the pilot Konstantin Kovalev, who the day before received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, which he flew until the end of the war. Subsequently, Kovalev and Messing became good friends. Such a patriotic act raised the artist even more in the eyes of Soviet citizens, and his performances were always sold out.

It is known that Wolf Messing was familiar with, who was quite skeptical about his abilities. However, when the medium predicted the crash of the plane on which his son was supposed to fly to Sverdlovsk with the CDKA hockey team, the head of the USSR insisted that his son go by train, keeping silent about the reason. The plane really crashed, and the entire crew, except for Vsevolod Bobrov, who was late for the flight, died.

But the next General Secretary of the Soviet Union had antipathy towards Messing, which began with the artist’s refusal to give a speech prepared in advance for him at the CPSU Congress. Wolf Grigorievich made predictions about the future of Russia only if he was confident in them. And Khrushchev’s demand to “predict” the need to remove Stalin’s body from the mausoleum, according to the mentalist, was purely a settling of scores.

After abandoning the fictitious performance, Messing began having problems with touring. At first their geography changed, and he was sent to small towns and country clubs, and later they stopped giving permission to perform altogether. Because of this, Wolf Messing developed depression, he withdrew into himself and stopped appearing in public.

Predictions

Wolf Messing, as a legendary personality, is surrounded by all kinds of rumors and speculation. The same applies to his predictions. A book of memoirs published in the journal Science and Life in 1965, allegedly written by the telepath himself, added fuel to the fire. Subsequently, it was found out that these “memories” were fabricated by Mikhail Vasilyevich Khvastunov, head of the science department of Komsomolskaya Pravda. But, having made a huge number of mistakes and presenting unreliable facts, the author of the book raised a new wave of popularity for Wolf Messing.

In fact, the artist always regarded his abilities not as miracles, but as new scientific possibilities. He collaborated with scientists from the Brain Institute, doctors, physiologists, psychologists and psychiatrists, trying to explain his own skills from a physiological point of view. For example, he explained “mind reading” as reading the movements of facial muscles, contact telepathy allowed the artist to feel the microscopic movement of a person if he went in the wrong direction when searching for an object, and so on.

However, there are a number of predictions that have come true, which were voiced publicly by Wolf Messing, and which were recorded even before the events occurred. So, he accurately named the date of the end of World War II, although in the European time zone - May 8, 1945. He later received personal gratitude from Joseph Stalin for this prophecy.

Also, even before the start of the conflict between Germany and the Soviet Union in early 1941, when these countries signed a non-aggression pact, Messing, at a speech at the NKVD club, said that he saw tanks with a red star on the streets of Berlin. Another significant foreshadowing was made by a telepath to Joseph Stalin, who was intensifying the persecution of Soviet Jews. Messing said that the “leader of the nations” would die on a Jewish holiday. Indeed, quite symbolically, Stalin's death on March 5, 1953, fell on Purim, the day of Jewish celebration of the salvation of Jews from extermination in the Persian Empire.

Personal life

In 1944, at a performance in Novosibirsk, where Wolf Messing then lived, he met a young woman, Aida Mikhailovna Rapoport, who became not only his faithful wife, but also his closest assistant and assistant at concerts.

They lived together until the summer of 1960, when Aida died of cancer. Close friends claimed that Messing also knew the date of his wife’s death in advance.

After the funeral, Wolf Grigorievich fell into depression, aggravated by Khrushchev’s ban on touring. Until the end of his life, he lived in an apartment with his sister Aida Mikhailovna, who looked after her brother-in-law. Messing found solace only in two lapdogs, which brightened up his leisure time.

Death

Wolf Messing had injuries to his legs during his escape to the Soviet Union, which began to bother him greatly in the last years of his life. He repeatedly sought advice from doctors and, in the end, lay down on the operating table. In addition, Messing developed persecution mania.

Before leaving the apartment, as witnesses from the ambulance crew say, the artist said goodbye to the house, making it clear that he would not return there again. The operation was successful, the doctors were confident that the patient would soon recover. But unexpectedly, on November 8, 1974, Wolf Messing’s kidneys failed, his lungs swelled, and he died. The legendary medium was buried at the Moscow Vostryakovsky cemetery.

, “Messing’s spirit interferes with filming.”

Hypnotist, clairvoyant, magician and artist - all this is Wolf Messing, the most mysterious person of the 20th century. He knew in advance when the Great Patriotic War would end, named the exact date of Stalin’s death, stopped the Third world war, resolving the Cuban missile crisis. But was the soothsayer himself happy? Did the gift help him in his privacy? The answer to this question can be found in the new television film “Wolf Messing: Seen Through Time,” the filming of which is now in full swing.

One in a thousand years

In the corridors of the Sovetskaya Hotel everything is the same as it was 60 years ago - red carpets, marble columns, spreading palm trees, a gilded painted ceiling with luxurious crystal chandeliers and a portrait of Stalin on the wall. In 1943, the hotel greeted us with the same interior. Wolf Grigorievich Messing, a great artist and a great prophet. He and his wife Aida Mikhailovna were urgently summoned from Novosibirsk to Moscow to the country’s leadership after the artist, at one of his performances, predicted the exact date of Russia’s victory in the Great Patriotic War. There were still two years before the end of hostilities, and he could already call May 9, 1945, Victory Day with unshakable confidence. The hotel sheltered the Messing couple for several years until they got their own apartment.

Today, the chic interiors of Sovetskaya once again became home for Wolf Grigorievich and his wife for some time. And at the same time they sheltered the film crew under the direction of the directors. Vladimir Krasnopolsky And Valeria Uskova. Today a movie is being filmed here "Wolf Messing", which viewers will see in the next television season.

Directors with a capital D - Krasnopolsky and Uskov - do not take on bad films: both believe that the fate of a person and his personality must be in the foreground in the film. And, of course, there must be an epic scope, which is familiar to viewers from the directors’ previous works - “Ermak”, “Eternal Call”, “Shadows Disappear at Noon”. In the multi-part film about Messing, a man of extraordinary abilities with a difficult fate, Krasnopolsky and Uskov remain true to themselves - here is the life story of an outstanding person, and at the same time the history of our country in a very controversial period - Soviet times.

- This is again a study of human personality, individuality,- says Vladimir Krasnopolsky, - most importantly, Wolf Messing is a Personality, he is a man who is born once every thousand years, like Nostradamus and other famous predictors.

Much knowledge - many sorrows

In a historical film, it is important to convey the spirit of the era, so that the viewer looks and believes that the action is not taking place now, in the era of cars, computers and cell phones, but 50, 60 or even 100 years ago. But pre-war Moscow is not so easy to photograph - very few buildings of that time have survived, untouched by modernity. Interior filming has already taken place in the Kremlin, Alexander Garden, Dynamo Stadium and River Station. The geography of filming even went beyond the borders of our country - the creators of the film have already visited Poland, the Czech Republic, and Germany. Today is the last day in Moscow; soon the film crew will move to Belarus, to Minsk. Time is running out, we need to have time to finish filming everything. But there is no rush or confusion on the site - the process is personally led by Vladimir Arkadyevich.

- Let it come out as it is!- Krasnopolsky gives orders to the actress who hesitated in the dressing room in a voice that does not tolerate objections. So, everyone is in position. Motor! The scene of the Messing couple's arrival is being filmed. Evgeniy Knyazev, performer of the role of Wolf Grigorievich, and Tara Amirkhanova, playing his wife Aida, hurry along the long corridor to their room to rest from the road. They are helped to carry their things by military personnel sent “from above” either for a hospitable welcome or for vigilant control. All the actors are in perfectly chosen costumes: people in military uniform, Wolf Grigorievich dressed in a strict black coat and a large knitted sweater, and elegant Aida in an elegant fur coat and a small hat - the thorough work of the costume designers is felt in everything. However, the director is not happy.

- Don't go so fast - you're not late for the train!- he says to the military accompanying Messing, and they slow down.

No wonder the song says about Magic world cinema - the impossible is truly possible here. The creators of "Messing" not only arranged a journey from one era to another, but also shifted the seasons: icicles are melting outside the window, and in the "Sovetskaya" hotel it's about to dawn New Year. Right in the hall there is a green Christmas tree with glass toys and multi-colored serpentine on the branches and a cotton Santa Claus under it.

- With coming! With coming!- the great psychic politely nods to everyone left and right.

Krasnopolsky, viewing the footage on a special monitor, sighs again with displeasure. The eye of a professional noticed the falsehood.

- There are too many people here. A typical crowd turns out to be- and Vladimir Arkadyevich asks to remove from the scene the married couple that Messing meets on the way to the room . - It’s like Tverskaya Street, honestly!

The actors obediently follow instructions. Everyone obeys the director, who has long become a classic of cinema, unquestioningly - he knows better. Along the way, Knyazev is explained how best to walk in front of the camera in order to get into the frame from a more favorable angle.

- I see everything. I can walk to the room with my eyes closed,- assures the actor, this is not the first take he has been “walking” along this route.

- You're Messing!- they joke in response.

Yes, indeed, he is Wolf Messing. This man could not only see with his eyes closed - he could predict the future. Read people's thoughts. And even manage them. Only Messing never abused his gift, but on the contrary, he tried to help people as best he could. He even saved Stalin’s son Vasily from certain death. The soothsayer predicted the crash of the plane in Sverdlovsk on which he was planning to fly. The directors, who were personally at the site of the airliner crash in their youth, also included this episode from Messing’s life in the film. However, more often the seer could not influence events in any way - he predicted to Hitler the death of his army if it went to the East, but this did not stop the Fuhrer.

Wolf Messing met with many great people of his time - Freud and Einstein, Khrushchev and Beria, and each of them recognized this man's abilities as unique. However, it is difficult to call Messing happy man. He knew the exact date of death of his own wife, but, unfortunately, he could not do anything about it - you cannot escape fate. Truly, with much knowledge comes many sorrows. And can a person who knows the answers to such questions live calmly and happily?

Daria Mayorova, RUTV.ru

One of the most famous soothsayers of the 20th century, Wolf Messing, whom even Stalin himself is said to have feared, could not prevent own death, although he knew the date of his death.

The family of Louise and Boris Khmelnitsky were friends with Wolf Messing for about 20 years.

A heavy gift

“I was very interested in Wolf Messing Joseph Stalin, - says historian Roy Medvedev. - And he often invited him to his place for conversations. Stalin himself had absolutely obvious hypnotic abilities. Many confirmed: when he spoke in his quiet voice, it seemed to paralyze the will of the listener. Stalin once invited Messing for a conversation and at the end of it he said: “Wolf Grigorievich, what do you say if I keep your pass for myself, and you leave the Kremlin without it?” Messing replied: “No problem.” And so Stalin sits in his office and waits for someone to call him and inform him that Messing was detained without a pass. But time passes, and no one calls. Stalin could not stand it and dialed the number of the final security point himself and asked the duty officer: “Has Messing passed?” They tell him: “Yes, I passed.” Stalin was indignant: “How did you let him out?” The duty officer replied: “So he gave us his pass with your signature.” Stalin ordered this piece of paper to be brought to him. The security guard found Messing’s “pass”, looked and was confused - it was an ordinary piece of newspaper.”

Money for brain

Not only Stalin was afraid of Wolf Messing. Hitler offered a reward of 200 thousand Reichsmarks for the seer's head after Messing publicly stated that if Germany started a war in the East against the USSR, Hitler would die. As a result, Messing was nevertheless captured in Warsaw. But he hypnotized the Gestapo and escaped from custody.

My father-in-law was great intelligence officer Mikhail Maklyarsky, whom the Germans called the brain of Soviet intelligence, says Louise Khmelnitskaya. - So when I asked him: “How do you feel about Messing? Did he do something for our intelligence?” - He smiled and said: “I did, and a lot.” After all, he predicted not only the death of Hitler, but also the almost exact date of Victory - May 8! This is not a trick! He even predicted the date of his death. When Wolf Grigorievich was leaving for the hospital for an operation, he said goodbye to everyone, and then stopped in front of the entrance to his house and said: “I won’t come back here again.” Messing was wealthy man. And he really wanted to leave money to scientists so that they could study his brain after death. As a result, the money was left, but no one studied the brain. He was simply examined and reported that no deviations from generally accepted standards were found.

Expert opinions

“I believe that Messing had hypnotic abilities,” says Roy Medvedev. - But the fact is that he predicted the end date of the Great Patriotic War, I highly doubt it. Still, the outcome of battles is determined by hundreds of factors. You can inspire a person with anything - feelings, actions, but historical events are not controlled by any premonitions.”

“Wolf Messing’s brain is kept in our Moscow Brain Institute,” said AiF. Head of the Department of Brain Research at the Center for Neurology of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Sergei Illarioshkin. - He was examined, and his sections were left at the institute solely as exhibits. Subsequently, no further studies of Messing’s brain were carried out.”

“It is quite possible to suggest to several people at once under hypnosis that a piece of paper is a pass,” says Alexander Blinkov, Director of the Institute of Clinical Hypnosis of the Russian Psychotherapeutic Association. - Any person can master such hypnosis with sufficiently good concentration development. A fairly large number of people whose sensory sensitivity is well developed can also read minds and guess the intended word. Such people were studied in Soviet times because there were opportunities and means for this. Laboratories of both closed and open type. But, naturally, all this was classified as “secret”. Nowadays, even in closed structures there are no such laboratories anymore.”