The life and prophecies of Wolf Messing. Wolf Messing - Hitler's nightmare, Stalin's friend

Stalin and the clairvoyant

Relations between Stalin and Messing developed unevenly. The leader was unnerved that some telepath was talking to him as an equal, and most importantly, without flattery and servility. The death of his wife, Nadezhda Sergeevna Alliluyeva, probably hardened his already rough heart so much that he found relief in the subservience of other people to himself, in the murder of those who were disobedient or even, as it seemed to him, those who disagreed with him in some way.

And then some actor asks him questions and gives advice. Mentally, Joseph Vissarionovich had already put a gun to the back of his head, but in time he remembered that he himself needed the services of a clairvoyant, and he himself called him to Moscow on an urgent and exciting matter. In addition, Stalin did not feel even a hint of aggressiveness in his interlocutor and intuitively felt in front of him an intelligent, if not a brilliant person, who would not tell anyone about their purely intimate conversation. He knows the value of life, he himself went through hellish torment, and his relatives were killed by the Nazis, towards whom both the leader and the clairvoyant now have the same attitude.

Stalin suffered for a long time and painfully from Hitler’s betrayal, and less than two months had passed since the start of the war when the Germans captured his eldest son, Jacob. Stalin did not like this wayward boy, especially after he independently, without mentioning his father, entered the Institute of Railway Engineers, without asking advice, married the beautiful dancer Yulia Meltzer. Stalin looked for his own traits in him - ambition, power, cruelty, but he saw kindness, calmness, prudence. This sometimes infuriated my father. In addition, Yakov is too straightforward and told his wife a lot about the life of Stalin’s family.

The leader’s secret and irresistible dream was to transfer power in the country to one of his two sons. The eldest was least suitable for this role; Stalin was not sure about his youngest son, Vasily, either, but he stubbornly “cleared” the country for him of smart people and dissidents who could become rivals to the future heir.

By character, Yakov was not suitable for this tough role; moreover, he was Georgian - his mother, a laundress, who died early from hard day labor, bore the surname Svanidze in her maidenhood. And Stalin intuitively felt that the heir must have a particle of Russian blood. After all, the majority in the country were Russians. And it is no coincidence that after the war, Stalin proclaimed a toast to the Russian people who had defeated fascism.

And in art, by his unspoken order, friendship and even love between the Russian and Georgian peoples were cleverly and persistently promoted.

This was especially evident in the film “The Pig Farm and the Shepherd,” where the Jew Zeldin, who played a Georgian shepherd, literally devoured the Russian pig farm played by the actress Ladynina.

A burning brunette and a blue-eyed blonde, who met at VDNKh, fell in love with each other brightly and madly. This is how the leader would like to see the relationship between his people and the indigenous peoples. Therefore, Stalin gave his youngest son, who had long been assigned the role of heir to the throne, a purely Russian and common name - Vasily. It seemed that he had done a lot for his ascension to the throne, and most importantly, he had drowned almost half of the country in blood, which could take advantage of the change in power and show willfulness.

Even in a dream I saw Vasily reading an oath on his grave, an oath of loyalty to his father’s cause. No, the leader was not going to die, but, in the words of those years, he was preparing a reliable replacement for himself. He perceived Jacob’s captivity as another and insidious blow from Hitler, who had betrayed him. And to the offer received through neutral channels to exchange his son for the German Marshal Paulus hastened to answer loudly and proudly: “We do not exchange privates for marshals.”

Then he regretted it, but not because he was losing his son - he showed the country that for him the fates of all his soldiers were the same - but because Hitler could use Jacob, who was in captivity, for all sorts of insinuations. Already at the beginning of August 1941, German planes scattered leaflets with his photographs: “This is Yakov Dzhugashvili, Stalin’s eldest son, who on July 16 surrendered near Vitebsk along with thousands of other commanders and soldiers. By order of Stalin, Timoshenko and other commanders teach you that the Bolsheviks do not surrender. To intimidate you, the commissars lie that the Germans treat prisoners poorly. Stalin's own son proved that this was a lie. He surrendered. Therefore, any resistance to the German army is now useless. Follow the example of Stalin's son - he is alive, healthy and feeling great. Why should you go to certain death when the son of your top boss surrendered? Move over too!”...

Stalin casually handed the leaflet to Messing. The two of them were alone in the Kremlin’s Orekhovoy room. Messing read the text twice.

– Is Yakov alive? - asked Stalin.

“He’s alive and doesn’t know about this leaflet,” Messing said and, leaning back in his chair, forced himself to enter a state close to catalepsy. It did not last long, and Messing soon came to his senses.

“I want to understand what I saw,” Messing answered and plunged into his thoughts for a few minutes, and then slowly began the story:

– Your son fell into a specially prepared trap.

– Who prepared?! – Stalin said indignantly.

- Don't know. Sorry, Joseph Vissarionovich. Many people flashed by in officer's uniform and with diamonds on the collars of their jackets.

– Were our officers among the traitors? Can't be! - Stalin exploded. Messing remained silent, giving his interlocutor the opportunity to control himself. Stalin clenched his hands nervously.

“He could have surrendered himself, especially since his battery was surrounded. This was reported to me. A weak-willed young man. He was chasing an actress older than himself, a Jew, and, without listening to me, he married her. They say that he even made love to Nadya. But I don't believe this! A Georgian is not a Georgian if he does not respect his father and his family. What else have you seen?

- Interrogation of Yakov. They tried to recruit him, but to no avail. They asked me to write letters to you and my wife.

-Where are the letters?

- He didn't write them. And most of all he was afraid that you would believe in his betrayal. I wanted to commit suicide, but the battery was seized too quickly.

- My boy! - a groan suddenly escaped from the father’s chest, for a moment his face was distorted with pain, but he took out a pipe, lit a cigarette and began to look like the stern, thoughtful Stalin, as he is depicted in portraits, only without embellishment and with ripples on his face.

– What can they do with him? - he asked Messing and himself a question and said angrily: - They will manipulate his name! Humiliate me! The whole country.

“By the way, your son didn’t believe that the Germans came close to Moscow,” Messing noted.

- Don't defend him! – suddenly, like a big shepherd, Stalin grinned. - He is to blame for the fact that he was captured by the enemy! There he poses a danger to the country, a great danger!

Messing was surprised by the leader’s conclusion, but, having read Stalin’s thoughts, he shuddered, turned pale and remained silent.

– Where is he now? – Stalin squeezed out of himself.

- In the Sachsenhausen camp.

“In Sachsenhausen,” Stalin said slowly, making Messing’s heart go cold. “Thank you for the kind words about Yakov,” he smiled unexpectedly gratefully. “I hope no one will know about our conversation,” and he narrowed his eyes menacingly. - I really hope so!

Messing answered with dignity:

– I don’t break my promises.

“That’s good, Comrade Messing,” Stalin hugged the telepath, escorting him to the door.

All the way to Novosibirsk, Messing felt bad; the thoughts read in Stalin’s mind could not leave his head. Later they were confirmed. In the camp, Yakov was constantly under pressure. The local radio endlessly broadcast the words of his father: “There are no prisoners of war, there are traitors to the motherland.” And on April 14, 1943 - it was on this day that Messing foresaw the death of Yakov - in the camp canteen, where Russian and English officers were having lunch together, a quarrel broke out, one of the English called Yakov a “Bolshevik pig” and hit him in the face.

The Germans treated the British better than the Russians, for which ours called them sycophants. There were many reasons for the quarrel. “But why did they insult and hit Yakov?!” - then Messing thought, remembering Stalin’s words that Yakov, being with the Germans, posed a great danger to the country, and the thoughts read in the leader’s mind: “It would be better if he weren’t there!”

Yakov grabbed electrical wire fence and shouted to the German officer on duty: “Shoot me! Don't be a coward! The officer acted according to instructions. Jacob's body was burned in the crematorium.

Stalin learned of his death immediately, although the Allies announced it much later, not wanting to tell the world that Stalin's son had died after a quarrel with the British. Lieutenant Dzhugashvili was posthumously awarded the order Patriotic War. A few months after his death.

Messing thought long and painfully about the tiny obituary he read in the newspaper, and decided that with this Stalin had rehabilitated his son, and perhaps himself...

In addition to the case of the clairvoyant, where there were descriptions of his miracles recorded by witnesses, the source of information about the telepath were rumors whispered to the leader by his courtiers.

He took quite seriously the hypothesis that Messing was a saint, for some reason living among mere mortals. “Perhaps in order to read their thoughts and foresee their destinies?” - thought Stalin.

Even in the case brought by Beria, he drew attention to the statement of the Georgian, one of the founders of neuropsychology, Alexander Luria: “The fact of clairvoyance is indisputable, but we tremble before the essence.” After reading these words, Stalin thought: he did not believe in God as such, but he did not deny mystical phenomena. He considered people capable of incredible and inexplicable thoughts and actions to be a kind of holy fools and tried not to touch them. These included the poet Boris Pasternak and the clairvoyant Wolf Messing.

Stalin even had the thought of trying his abilities in raising his son Vasily or predicting the date of his death, but he was afraid. He was afraid that under the influence of enemies - and Stalin saw them everywhere - Messing could lie in any direction and thereby mislead and upset him. I thought about destroying the clairvoyant, but decided to hold off. Moreover, he allowed Messing to tour throughout the country with a lecture-concert “Reading Thoughts at a Distance.” If you need it, it’s always at hand...

Vasily creates the Air Force sports power. Seriously. He lures the best athletes from other teams into his society and goes to their homes for negotiations. Promises apartments and other benefits. This will cost the army and the country a pretty penny. But the main thing is that the son is busy and drinks less. Maybe, over time, he will also be captivated by the leadership of the entire Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin will have nothing to worry about. He will be replaced on the throne by his own son - just as powerful, strong and tough as his father. They report to Stalin: Vasily has already formed the best hockey, basketball, water polo teams in the country... Things are worse with the football team. It is difficult to assemble and quickly create a well-coordinated team of eleven players. But they play hockey for the Air Force former first triples of CSKA, Spartak, Dynamo... Such hockey stars as Bobrov, Babich, Shuvalov, Tarasov, Novikov, Zikmund, Artemyev, Bocharnikov, goalkeeper Harry Melloops from Riga...

Unexpectedly for Stalin, Messing seeks a reception from him.

“What does he need when things are getting better in his son’s family? - thinks Stalin. “He probably wants to ask for something for himself.” What? Money? An apartment? He will get them if his appetite is not excessive!”

Stalin does not look up at the person who entered the office. He flips through papers and pretends to be busy. Messing is also silent. Finally, Stalin turns his gaze to him and thinks how the clairvoyant has aged. One day he asked Messing why his face was wrinkled beyond his age. Messing responded without hesitation: “I had to think a lot and suffer, the death of everyone loved one reflected as a wrinkle on my face.” Now Messing’s temples have turned gray, his forehead is very wrinkled, and his body has become decrepit. He himself has probably aged over the years. You usually notice this when meeting a person you haven’t seen for a long time.

-Have you come to see me? - Stalin remarks, not without malice.

Messing feels the irony and shrinks from humiliation. He feels no fear of Stalin. He knows his fate, the date of death, even what will follow it.

“Your son is flying with the hockey team to Sverdlovsk,” says Messing.

“I don’t know, but it’s quite possible,” Stalin responds.

“To a meeting with the local Spartak,” Messing continues confidently. - Let him go by train.

There is amazement on Stalin's face. But the eyes of either a saint or a holy fool sitting in front of him sparkle so mystically that Stalin nervously says:

– Do you advise or insist?

“I insist,” Messing answers, stands up to his full height, and in front of Stalin is no longer a hunched over man, but a stately, self-confident clairvoyant and artist who has come out to the audience.

“Okay, okay,” Stalin agrees, just in case, and lowers his eyes, indicating that the meeting is over.

It was very difficult to persuade Vasily to go to Sverdlovsk not with the team on the plane, but by train.

- I order you! - Stalin says sternly into the phone. Vasily does not understand what is going on, but decides not to quarrel with his father over a mere trifle. He persuades hockey players Bobrov and Vinogradov to go with him on the train for company.

“Father is weird,” Vasily explains his request to them. The players agree with a laugh. And the plane with the hockey team that took off in the morning of the same day crashes near Sverdlovsk. Every single one of the Air Force hockey players, players of the USSR national team, are dying.

Stalin soon finds out about this and asks him to ask Messing if he needs anything.

“I’m working, thank you,” Messing answers.

Stalin spent almost his entire life clearing the country of enemies, but now it seemed to him that there were immeasurably more of them. At the end of 1947, he summoned Messing, disrupting him from the Far Eastern tour and replacing them with performances at the State Jewish Theater on Malaya Bronnaya.

Messing greeted the leader and thanked him for the offer.

“You will perform in front of your own people,” Stalin bared his teeth.

“I don’t distinguish between spectators by nationality,” Messing answered.

- You're lying! – Stalin told him rudely for the first time. – Mikhoels will definitely come to see you backstage. Your idol!

“But I perform in the theater only on Mondays,” Messing noted. He had known Mikhoels for a long time, but did not tell Stalin about this.

- So what? - Stalin frowned. - Make him come to you. Read his thoughts. Find out what he has started against the country. His plans. Connections with America. After all, our Jewish publishing house, together with the American one, are creating the “Black Book” about the atrocities of fascism against Jews.

“It’s a useful book,” Messing noted, “all my relatives were killed by the Nazis.”

– Not useful, but nationalistic! - Stalin exploded. – And you protect your own!

- From what? From whom? – Messing answered calmly. “All my relatives have been buried in the ground for a long time... You can’t bring anyone back,” he said hoarsely. (It later turns out that one of his nieces, Martha Messing, miraculously survived. V.S.)

“Okay,” Stalin softened, “you’re an internationalist, but feel out Mikhoels.” Necessarily!

The conversation with Stalin upset Messing, and he conducted his speech that evening unevenly. I often couldn’t concentrate and found the ordered item only on the third try. The hall was noisy, a sensation was brewing: the great telepath was suffering a fiasco. He was nervous, almost begging the inductor to constantly repeat his wish to himself, and only mustering his will into a fist, he finally found a cigarette case lying under the seat on the last row of the balcony, from which he needed to get three cigarettes. The excitement of the audience turned into a flurry of applause - the audience felt that Messing had completed a very difficult task.

Mikhoels himself came to Messing’s dressing room. They met like old and good friends.

The appearance of the artist discouraged Messing. stood in front of him strong man, with disproportionate facial features often characteristic of geniuses, radiant kind eyes betrayed his talent and naivety. Messing looked into his mind for a moment and immediately abandoned it, Mikhoels’s thoughts were so pure and bright, like his soul. But the future of the artist forced Messing, who was horrified, to sit down on a chair so as not to reveal his excitement.

“I always sit down before going on stage, as if before a long journey,” Messing said.

“And I sit down in a chair, as a people’s artist and King Lear, I’m entitled to a chair,” Mikhoels joked.

They parted very amicably, shaking each other's hands firmly. Messing held Mikhoels' hand in his.

“I have a feeling that you are saying goodbye to me,” Mikhoels was surprised.

Messing blushed with confusion, but found something to answer:

“It’s not very often that I get to shake hands with royalty!”

Both laughed: Mikhoels - sincerely, Messing - nervously and tensely. He was simply afraid to tell his friend what awaited him. He hoped that the vision was wrong and Stalin would change his intentions.

Stalin received Messing in the room, closed with curtains, between which the first spring sun still broke through. He probably didn’t want the telepath to be able to see his face during their conversation.

– Have you seen Mikhoels? – the leader said gloomily.

- I know. Even what you were talking about. But I wonder what you read in his thoughts?

“They are clean...” Messing began.

“You’re covering for your own,” Stalin twitched.

- For what? - said Messing. – I know that when the Jewish theater, together with its main director Granovsky, decided to stay abroad, it was Solomon Mikhoels who led the group of artists who returned home. In my opinion he is too much soviet man. Did I say “too much” correctly? Sometimes I still get confused in Russian.

-You won't tell the truth? – Stalin noted ambiguously. - Why are you silent? What else did you see when you met Mikhoels?

- His death. In the dark... It was hard to see.

- Ha ha! – Stalin suddenly laughed wildly. – Even I am not eternal. But Georgians live long!

After Messing left, Stalin instructed the Department of Culture not to engage this artist in concerts far from Moscow.

And Messing, getting into the Kremlin car, heard a clear-sounding bass behind him:

- Wolf? Is that you, Wolf?

- Paul? – Messing turned around!

They hugged like old friends who had once performed together in Berlin in the same variety show and had not seen each other since the pre-war years.

The Kremlin cadets with bewilderment, but according to the regulations, calmly watched the strange, unscheduled meeting.

The famous progressive American singer Paul Robeson came to receive Stalin at a time when Messing was leaving the Kremlin.

“I will perform on TV,” Robson said, having difficulty finding Russian words. - Live broadcast!

Messing took Robson aside and wrote three verses of the song on a piece of paper in Latin letters, whispering its name. Robson nodded his head in understanding.

- Okay, kamarad!

The concert took place a few days later, and at the end of the performance Robson sang the song. The announcer, taken aback by surprise, nervously and stuttering, said that the singer sang the song of the defenders of the Warsaw ghetto.

Stalin looked at the screen in confusion, not understanding how this song could have passed decades of well-established censorship, and Wolf Grigorievich Messing looked at Robson through tears, mentally thanking his colleague who told the world about those killed in past war six million of his compatriots.

The unpredictability of Stalin's behavior worried Messing, and he could not get used to the calls to the KGB, to the absurd and rude demands of the security officers.

One of the last meetings with Stalin took place at the beginning of 1948. Stalin was gloomy and not in the mood. “Probably didn’t sleep well,” Messing thought, but during their conversation, reading the leader’s thoughts, he realized what was annoying him.

- The Americans have an atomic bomb! – he suddenly blurted out. “But my scientists only promise to create it, they say very soon.” Can they be trusted?

“If they are respectable people, real scientists,” said Messing, “then I see no reason not to trust them.”

- They seem to understand science. As Beria reported to me, Stalin perked up. “But these Americans got really proud.” They think they are the strongest in the world. Animals. They threw their atomic bombs at Japanese cities, killed a lot of people and turned their noses up, you know!

Messing was surprised by such harsh condemnation of the Americans for using formidable weapons against common enemies. There was a war going on. Then the newspapers were very loyal to atomic bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the bombing that essentially forced the Japanese to capitulate. It led to the end of the war Far East, which can drag on for a long time and cost us considerable human losses.

Suddenly, Stalin’s drowsiness left him and he changed the topic of conversation.

– You made me very happy, Comrade Messing, you made me happy with your faith in our scientists. I hope they won’t let me down with promises not to break deadlines,” he said more vividly than a minute ago and suddenly handed Messing a photograph of the woman.

“She’s alive,” said Messing, looking at the picture, accustomed to being shown photographs for one purpose: to find out whether a person is alive, and if he’s dead, where he is.

- Take a closer look, Comrade Messing, and tell me what kind of woman this is? – Stalin asked with a cunning face.

- Too sociable! - Stalin exploded. – She was at a reception at the American Embassy! Can you tell whose wife she is?

“I can’t,” Messing sincerely admitted.

“That means you can’t do everything,” Stalin said, not without satisfaction. - I'll tell you who it is.

Molotov's wife! We are now finding out her connections with American intelligence!

– Is she in prison? – Messing said nervously.

- Where else? – the leader, in turn, expressed surprise. – And Kalinin’s wife is there too.

Messing wanted to say that in the West it is customary to invite diplomatic workers of other states along with their wives to embassy receptions, but he remained silent, beginning to penetrate the thoughts of Stalin, who rested his chin on his hand and was lost in thought.

“That means you can’t solve everything either!” Do you know the name of Molotov's wife?

– Polina Semyonovna Zhemchuzhina! Does this mean anything to you? Semyonovna... Or maybe Solomonovna? My minister found a “pearl”! Yesterday he came up to me and, lowering his head, said in a trembling voice: “Polina was arrested!” - "So what? - I answer. – My Georgian relatives were also arrested. And not only Georgian. The security officers have their own information about people, and it is more accurate than you and I.” This is their job. I'm not even saying that this “pearl” met with Israeli Ambassador Godda Meir. That's how it happened. We recognized Israel. Quite recently. Golda Meir presented Molotov with her credentials. Then my Vyacheslav Mikhailovich introduced them. According to diplomatic etiquette. Both forgot that Israel is supported by America and the American embassy! Knowing that I will be immediately informed about what happened. This is impudence. And you say – a cultured woman! Spy! I'm off to make contacts! Lavrenty Pavlovich will find out what she was doing there. But you, Comrade Messing, don’t be upset. It turns out that you cannot grasp the immensity either. I am still grateful to you for reassuring me about our nuclear scientists. We'll kill the Americans! I can imagine what will happen to them when they find out that we have our own atomic bomb! Goodbye, Comrade Messing! I have no doubt that no one will know about our conversation today, like all others. Nobody! Never! Do you understand the dangers of being talkative? – Stalin said threateningly and turned away from Messing. He left the office, quietly closing the door behind him.

At home, he “finished reading” Stalin’s thoughts. His suspicion grows. He knows that Molotov and Kalinin are narrow-minded people who, thanks to him, jumped above their heads, but have they become to the limit? faithful dogs, he doubts this. So he arrested their wives to test the slavish obedience of both.

The situation with Kalinin is clearer than with Molotov. He graduated from a rural school. A hidden drunkard and womanizer. But Lenin himself recommended him to the party. Kalinin played on this, quoting Ilyich’s words in his book that he “has the ability to find an approach to broad sections of the working masses.” He came up with a definition for himself - “all-Union headman” and taught the newspaper people to call him that. The headman is not a leader or a teacher. God be with him, with this rural semi-literate old man. Let him amuse himself with an incomprehensible title. He has no powers, he cannot decide anything serious and significant.

Molotov is a different matter. He took a pseudonym similar to Stalin’s, from the word “hammer”. But in reality - Scriabin. Some kind of noble family. He quickly got rid of it. Born into the family of a clerk - not a proletarian. Participated in February Revolution. I wonder whose side? We need to ask Lavrenty Pavlovich to clarify this point in his biography. Or maybe it’s not necessary. Currently he is an insignificant person. In his information about him, Beria cited a poem by a certain emigrant satirist Don Aminado (Grigory Shpolyansky. - V.S.), whom another emigrant Bunin called a classic of Russian humor. The poem contains a surname unknown to anyone - Lombroso. (Cesare Lombroso is an Italian scientist who determined by appearance a person's propensity to commit crimes and his general development. – V.S.). The rhyme is vile, but funny: “Forehead from Lombroso. Tie. Muffler. The muzzle of a water carrier, and on it is a pince-nez.” And this is written about the Minister of Foreign Affairs Soviet Union! Even if it was published in France, it is still an abomination; it affects the ability of him, Stalin, to select personnel who “decide everything!”

However, such personnel as Molotov and Kalinin suit him. He arrested Kalinin’s wife in vain. She is nothing. Doesn't affect her husband, unlike Zhemchuzhina. Smart, well-read and active Jewish woman. Sometimes Molotov allows himself statements and proposals that were clearly not invented by him. Logical and constructive. This irritates Stalin, and he knows that they were suggested to Molotov by his wife. Let him grow wiser away from her. Let him realize his true position in the party and his complete dependence on the leader. It seems that he has already realized this and only allowed himself to squeak about his wife’s arrest, nothing more. But he retained his position and life. He should be awarded an order for his birthday. Slaves crave handouts, it is more important to them than any kindness. But they are afraid of freedom. Give Molotov and Kalinin power, the opportunity to make government decisions on their own - they will be confused and will beg to be returned to slavery. He checked them once again by arresting their wives. Trust, but verify.

Then Stalin thought about Wolf Grigorievich. Thank God, I didn’t classify him as one of my slaves. “It’s amazing,” Stalin chuckled to himself, “that this brilliant seer is content with little and is even happy because he was given the opportunity to work. And he is forever grateful to the country that saved him from fascism, even, probably, not to the country, but to me personally – Stalin.”

“No,” thought Wolf Grigorievich, “to the country.”

I couldn’t get one of the moments from his previous meeting with Stalin out of my head. The leader did not like something in Messing’s answer, and his eyes became bloodshot. In Stalin's pupils, Messing saw the rivers of blood he had shed.

– What do you see?! – Stalin could not resist, and their gazes crossed at the fly sitting on the door. Suddenly the fly shrank, withered and fell to the floor.

- It was you who killed her?! - Stalin exclaimed.

“I am,” Messing said calmly.

- So you can kill?! - Stalin guessed.

“I can’t,” Messing answered after a pause, “except for an insect that could interfere with the work.”

- And people?! – Stalin asked with zealous curiosity. - Your enemies? Schemers? Envious people? Can't you kill?!

“I can’t, I don’t want to,” Messing said quietly. – Even predicting people’s time of death, especially since there are miracles in life.

Having gone through insults, hassle and torment, Wolf Grigorievich Messing will write: “The property of a telepath allows me to sometimes hear things about myself that make my ears wither. So, perhaps the most enviable thing is the ability to see the future? Yes, no either! I never tell people sad news. Why disturb their souls in advance? Let them be happy. So don’t envy me!”

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Marvelous accurate predictions left to the descendants of I.V. Stalin, some of which have already been fulfilled. Prophetic prediction by I.V. Stalin about Russia - the USSR, the Russian people and the East (quoted from the article by R. Kosolapov, “What kind of truth is it to Stalin?” Pravda newspaper, July 4, 1998).
1939, on the very eve of the war with Finland, I.V. Stalin invited the famous revolutionary (since 1915) Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai, daughter, to his office for a conversation tsarist general, who at that time was ambassador plenipotentiary to Sweden (1930 - 45). The conversation was very confidential and made an extraordinary impression on A. M. Kollontai. “When I left the Kremlin, I didn’t go, I ran, repeating, so as not to forget what Stalin said. Entering the house... I began to write down. It was already late at night... An indelible impression! I looked at the world around me differently. (I turned to this conversation in my mind many, many times already during the years of the War and after it, re-read it, and always found something new... And now, as if in reality, I see Stalin’s office in the Kremlin, in it there is a long table and Stalin... Saying goodbye , He said:
- Be strong. Hard times are coming. They must be overcome... We will overcome them. We will definitely overcome it! Stay healthy. Temper yourself in the fight."
A recording of this conversation with I.V. Stalin was found in the diaries of A.M. Kollontai, which she kept for a long time. For the first time, these archival extracts were published by the historian and biographer A. M. Kollontai, Doctor of Historical Sciences M. I. Trush in collaboration with prof. R. I. Kosolapov in the magazine “Dialogue” for 1998
J.V. Stalin said:
“Many of the affairs of our party and people will be distorted and spat upon, primarily abroad, and in our country too. Zionism, striving for world domination, will brutally take revenge on us for our successes and achievements. He still views Russia as a barbaric country, as a raw materials appendage. And my name will also be slandered and slandered. Many atrocities will be attributed to me.
World Zionism will strive with all its might to destroy our Union so that Russia can never rise again. The strength of the USSR lies in the friendship of peoples. The spearhead of the struggle will be aimed, first of all, at breaking this friendship, at separating the outskirts from Russia. Here, I must admit, we have not done everything yet. There is still a large field of work here.
Nationalism will raise its head with particular force. It will suppress internationalism and patriotism for a while, only for a while. National groups within nations and conflicts will arise. Many pygmy leaders will appear, traitors within their nations.
In general, in the future, development will take more complex and even frantic paths, the turns will be extremely sharp. Things are heading to the point where the East will become especially agitated. Sharp contradictions with the West will arise.
And yet, no matter how events develop, time will pass, and the eyes of new generations will be turned to the deeds and victories of our socialist Fatherland. New generations will come year after year. They will once again raise the banner of their fathers and grandfathers and give us full credit. They will build their future on our past.”
Further, according to this diary entry, I.V. Stalin said:
“All this will fall on the shoulders of the Russian people. For the Russian people - great people! The Russian people are good people! The Russian people, among all nations, have the greatest patience! The Russian people have a clear mind. It’s as if he was born to help other nations! The Russian people are characterized by great courage, especially in difficult times, in dangerous times. He is proactive. He has a persistent character. He's a dreamy bunch. He has a purpose. That’s why it’s harder for him than for other nations. You can rely on him in any trouble. The Russian people are invincible, inexhaustible!”

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, Messing’s conversations were not given any importance, 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 developed 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 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 wellness 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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Supernatural

Wolf Messing rightfully earned the title of the First Soviet psychic. First not only in terms of count, but also in the quality of the information provided, which is relevant to this day. Where did the belief in witchcraft and witchcraft come from in the godless Soviet times?

Biography of Wolf Messing

Everything we know about the biography of Wolf Messing is recorded from his words. He did not skimp on details, but many question the words of the great mentalist and hypnotist. We won't do this.

Wolf is Jewish by nationality, and his father carefully tried to make his son a respected rabbi. He suppressed in the child his abilities, which manifested themselves in childhood. What scared my father most was that Wolf walked around at night.

Dad placed a basin with ice water so that he would douse Wolf if the latter dared to get out of bed.

The son was sent to school at the synagogue, and there Wolf showed excellent abilities - he memorized long prayers from the Talmud, and could read any text from memory. His father decided to send him to a school where they trained clergy. But Wolf Messing went against his father’s will. He ran away from home and took a train, deciding to escape to Germany.

The boy had no money, but he had the gift of convincing people. He was able to convince the conductor that the dirty piece of paper from the floor of the carriage was his ticket. The conductor punched the piece of paper and, in addition, seated the child in a comfortable place.

“Young man,” his voice still rings in my ears today, “your ticket!”

My nerves were tense to the limit. I reached out my hand and grabbed some piece of paper lying on the floor - it seemed like a piece of newspaper... Our eyes met. With all the strength of my passion and mind, I wanted him to mistake this dirty piece of paper for a ticket... He took it and somehow turned it strangely in his hands. I even shrank and tensed, burning with frantic desire. Finally, he thrust it into the heavy jaws of the composter and snapped them... Handing me back the “ticket,” he once again shone his conductor’s flashlight with a candle in my face. He was apparently in complete bewilderment: this little thin boy with a pale face, having a ticket, for some reason climbed under the bench...” V. Messing “About Himself”

Little Messing, at the age of 10, found himself completely alone on the streets of Berlin. Whatever he did there—swept, worked as a delivery boy, carried bags—but his attempts to survive were in vain. The growing organism was dying of hunger.

One day he fainted on the street and was taken to the hospital. The doctors' diagnosis was clear: death by starvation. The dead child was taken to the morgue to show his body to the trainees. And then the incredible happened - one of the young doctors heard his heart beating, very slowly, but still clearly.

Psychiatrist Abel took the boy and waited for three days for the child to come out of his coma. After the baby came to life, the doctor began to work with him, teaching him to slow down the heart rate at his command. Abel found the first impresario for Wolf, who gave him a job at the panopticon - a Berlin exhibition center where all sorts of rarities were presented. One of them was Wolf Messing. His task was to immerse his body in suspended animation for three days, for which he received 15 marks - unprecedented money.

“I worked at the panopticon for more than six months. This means that I spent about three months of my life in a transparent, cold coffin. They paid me as much as five marks a day! For me, accustomed to constant hunger strike, this seemed like a fabulously large amount. In any case, it is quite enough not only to live on one’s own, but even to help one’s parents in some way. That’s when I sent them the first news about myself...”

Such famous personalities as Freud and Albert Einstein also came to see it. Wolf Messing tells how he came to scientists’ apartments and they communicated through thoughts, mentally giving him orders to carry a newspaper or bring him a glass of water. The 16-year-old teenager easily figured out what the bright minds were asking for. From that time on, their patronage greatly helped the boy.

Wolf Messing decided to take psychology courses to develop his skills. At that time, he often used his gift of persuasion and learned to read people’s thoughts. In addition to speeches, where he managed to read what people in the audience had planned, he also went from house to house and was often invited to help find stolen property. After some time, when his influence in Germany and Poland reached an incredible limit, he began to interfere with many people. They tried to slander him, compromise him, kill him, but Wolf, a great mentalist and hypnotist, always came out unscathed.

He was unable to escape only on the day when he dared to predict failure in the east of the USSR in 1939. He had to run away.

He, along with other refugees, moved to the Soviet Union, where he visited cultural centers until he was hired. The USSR was wary of his talents, but still he was able to earn fame there too. He worked in Moscow, and then went to Minsk. Wolf Messing’s first meeting with Stalin took place there.

Wolf Messing and Stalin

“And again an unfamiliar room.

A man with a mustache comes in. Says hello. I recognized him immediately. I answer:

Hello. And I carried you in my arms...

How is it on your hands? - Stalin was surprised.

On the first of May... At the demonstration..."

Stalin did not immediately believe that Wolf Messing had any special abilities. They have not yet practiced a squad of psychics on how widespread this is now.

Wolf was the first. Stalin forced him to carry out difficult checks - to pass by the guards in the Kremlin, to receive 100,000 rubles from the bank without documents... The checks continued, but they were all passed with dignity and brilliance.

Finally, Wolf was allowed to work. He went on tour and on June 22 the Great Patriotic War began.

Wolf was not forgotten, he spoke to the soldiers in Novosibirsk, inspiring them to victory, opening their eyes to this war, to their personal capabilities. In 1944, a miracle happened for Messing himself - he met his only love, Aida Messing. She approached him herself, volunteered to be his assistant and remained for him until the end of her life. reliable support. Aida did not live long - she died in 1960.

In addition to performing, Wolf also helped in other ways. Once he transferred the sum of a million rubles from Tashkent to the needs of the Red Army. True, the prison guards forced him to do this, and he offered 50 thousand. After this, Steel sent him thank you letter and released the Jew to freedom. Later, with his savings, he bought Soviet army 2 planes.

Stalin no longer sought a meeting with Wolf Messing, but Wolf himself wanted such a meeting. In 1953, he came to a reception to ask the leader of the world proletariat to eliminate the persecution of Jews in the country. Stalin rejected his wish and, enraged, Wolf predicted his death during a Jewish holiday. And so it happened, Stalin died a few weeks later, on March 5, on the day of Purim - the miraculous salvation of all Jews

Wolf Messing: predictions about Russia

Wolf Messing was not a predictor in the usual sense of the word. His predictions were intuitive in nature and usually happened during periods of great stress, for example, during rage or public performances.

So, while still in Germany, he predicted a fatal war for Russia and the victory of the USSR over fascism. Of course, he didn’t want to do this while speaking in front of thousands of people. But the words themselves fell from his lips, like sleepwalking, which he could not cope with as a child.

The next prediction for Russia happened on the clearly indicated date of Victory Day - May 8th. He did not name the year, but Stalin himself noted the clarity of his predictions.

There is no mention even by Wolf Messing that he worked closely with the Kremlin, however, such a connection existed.. It was carefully classified, like many other connections of Stalin. So, for example, in this article we wrote about Dorogov’s secret laboratory, where he carried out Stalin’s secret instructions to develop.

Wolf Messing participated in espionage, identifying those who were against the USSR. He knew how to identify lies, truth and people's thoughts. He did this using some special method, reading information from body movements, heartbeat, and wave vibrations. He himself described his gift this way:

“Psychological experiments are my job, and it’s not easy at all! I need to gather all my strength, strain all my abilities, concentrate all my will, like an athlete before a jump, like a hammerman before hitting with a heavy sledgehammer. My work is no easier than the work of a hammer hammer and an athlete, or a designer bending over a drawing. new car, or a geologist, along an unknown path looking for a rare mineral in the impenetrable taiga... And those who have been to my psychological experiments have sometimes seen drops of sweat appearing on my forehead..."

Thus, psychics say that Stalin arranged meetings with suspicious people and listened carefully to what Wolf had to say about them. Often his word turned out to be decisive in the fate of a failed spy.

As already stated, these meetings are not confirmed, but real facts- Stalin's allocation of an apartment in Moscow to the famous Messing, his release from Tashkent prison in 1943, his evacuation to Novosibirsk to save his life - speak for themselves. Stalin definitely used the services of the hypnotist Wolf Messing.

Wolf Messing 2016

Wolf Messing died in 1974, having determined his own date of death with terrifying accuracy. This ability to know the dates of people's deaths was the scourge and curse of Messing. He also predicted the death of his beloved wife, who was suffering from cancer, and was inconsolable not only five years after her death, but also a year before - knowing the truth about her chances for life.

His own death occurred at age 75. He got sick, and lying in the hospital room he said, “Well, that’s it. I won't come home again." Wolf was taken out, but a day later his kidneys failed and his last prediction came true.

Wolf Messing did not make predictions for 2016 or 2015. In general, he thought little about the future, although he diligently saved money, which after his death went to the state. One way or another. After himself, Wolf left only his own name, glorified in different countries.

Messing believed that people should not know their future, because it would only cause them pain, as it caused him suffering.

Many people consider Messing to be a magician and do not believe in his abilities, which, in their opinion, he carefully falsified. In his book, Messing reveals the secrets of illusionists and thereby tries to explain that his method has more serious possibilities. Now there are sites that teach people hypnosis using the Messing method. This is not entirely quackery, because Wolf was studied by various scientists and they concluded that his method can be learned if you can feel someone else’s and your own body.

Be that as it may, Wolf Messing was the first to pave the way for psychics in the USSR and now, in 2016, thanks to the predictions and speeches of Wolf Messing, psychics are not afraid to declare their superpowers.

What do you think about the famous Jew Wolf Messing? Do you consider him a great illusionist and showman or do you believe in his sincere psychic skills? Share your own impressions and thoughts about the first hypnotist and psychic of the USSR.

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 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. He was hardly known here, but having become a member of the concert crew in the Brest region, Messing Wolf Grigorievich 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 appeared 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, guessing what was in the hands of a certain person or written words on paper that was sealed in an envelope was typical.

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 Himself.”

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 right 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 whole 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 recent 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. Despite the fact that his concerts were canceled for a time, 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 the 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 for the 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