Moscow is a very ancient city with a rich history. Centuries passed, various historical events took place in the city. The number of urban legends also grew. Today we will talk about mystical Moscow.
Any old city is necessarily inhabited by ghosts and ghosts. London can be called the real capital of the other world. If you believe the locals, then there is simply nowhere to spit - you will definitely fall into a ghost.
However, in order to see the ghost, a Muscovite does not need to go to Foggy Albion at all. In our capital, there are enough domestic representatives of the other world, who, in their color, are able to compete with their London colleagues. We will talk about some of them in this article.
The ghosts of the Kremlin
How old the city is, so is its heart the Kremlin. Over the centuries, many events have taken place behind the red brick walls, a huge number of state leaders have changed. If you believe the legends, then not all of them wanted to leave their homes after death. Many people still wander in the night somewhere behind the Kremlin walls.
People met many ghosts in the Kremlin, ranging from Ivan the Terrible and Boris Godunov to Lenin Stalin and even Fanny Kaplan. Unfortunately, these ghosts were seen only by a limited number of people, due to the closed nature of most of the territory of the Kremlin. This category of ghosts may well be called the elite among ghosts. We will consider simpler ghosts.
Model Zhuzhu on Kuznetsky Most
Young Frenchwoman Juju worked as a fashion model in one of the fashionable shops on Kuznetsky Most Street. In addition, she was the mistress of the famous capitalist Savva Morozov, who in 1905, while in Nice, had the misfortune of committing suicide. When the boys selling newspapers shouted at the top of their lungs about this news, Juju rode in a carriage. Hearing their cries, she jumped out of the cab on the way and rushed to one of the boys in order to buy a newspaper. At that moment, she fell under the wheels of a cab. The efforts of the doctors did not lead to anything, and by the evening Zhuzhu died. On the same day, in one of the back streets, the police found a newspaper boy selling her a newspaper, strangled. Since then, there has been talk about the ghost of a French woman walking on warm spring and summer nights along Kuznetsky Most Street.
Witnesses claim that they saw a tall girl in white, who seemed to be sliding along the sidewalk.
Meeting Juju does not bring anything good. If a girl sees her, then she is in danger of an early loss of her beloved, if a journalist or newspaper dealer, certain death awaits him.
Saltychikha
Not far from the Kitay-Gorod metro station, in the side streets, there is an old Ivanovsky convent. He became famous for the fact that Daria Mikhailovna Saltykova, aka Saltychikha, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the brutal murder of her serfs, spent many years in it. She committed crimes for 4 years and during this time she killed more than 130 people.
There is an underground passage near the monastery, in which belated passers-by more than once met a gloomy-looking translucent figure in something black that looked like a cloak. Some people explain the appearance of Saltychikha in this very place by the fact that the gas chamber for its sins was buried outside the monastery, somewhere in the area of the passage built later. However, according to historical data, Saltychikha was buried at the other end of Moscow, on the territory of the Donskoy Monastery. However, the exact place of the burial is, unfortunately, unknown. Historians and simply lovers of antiquity are constantly looking for him, but so far her grave is considered lost.
The appearance of a ghost in the area of the Ivanovsky Monastery can perhaps be explained by the fact that it was outside its walls that Daria Saltykova suffered the most severe sufferings. She spent many years in a pit, closed from above by a grate. All these years she ate only bread and water.
They say that, having met Saltychikha in an underground passage, you should expect not very pleasant changes in your life in the near future.
Black boomer on Prechistenka, black cat on Tverskaya, old man Kusovnikov on Myasnitskaya
However, not all ghosts bring trouble to the citizens who meet them. There are also quite harmless specimens.
Approximately once a month, closer to the night at breakneck speed, a black limousine rushes along Prechistensky lanes. The speed is so great that few have managed to see it. However, some claim it is a BMW car. This legend dates back to the dashing 90s.
Once on Prechistenka, the killers staged a hunt for one of the reputable businessmen of that time. The mortally wounded driver, fleeing the shootout, drove the car into an alley, where, in front of the surprised passers-by, the car rushing at great speed simply disappeared into thin air. Nobody knows what happened then, but the fact remains, and since then, the rushing BMW has been seen many times.
We all, of course, read the novel by M. A. Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita". But few people know that the Behemoth cat described in the book is far from a fiction of the writer. This character has its own prototype.
In the area of Tverskaya Street, closer to the Pushkinskaya metro station, passers-by more than once saw a large black cat, which, without paying attention to anyone, slowly left the wall of one house and just as slowly disappeared into the wall of another. They say that you can see this cat infrequently and more in summer. They see him, as a rule, with the onset of evening twilight. It is possible that during one of his walks along Tverskaya, he ran into this cat and M. A. Bulgakov.
On Myasnitskaya Street (metro Chistye Prudy), in house number 17, once lived an elderly married couple, a merchant and a merchant's wife, the Kusovnikovs. The elderly couple was distinguished by simply phenomenal greed and manic caution. Leaving home on business, they put all their savings in a special box and took them with them. Once the old people, having got a little sick, for some unknown reason, put the box into the extinguished fireplace, after which they dozed off. The unsuspecting servant made a fire to keep them from freezing. Upon learning of what had happened, Mrs. Kusovnikova instantly died of a stroke, and the old man for a long time beat bureaucratic thresholds at various levels in order to restore his savings. In the heat of the struggle, he completely became impoverished and even had to sell the house. But fighting the bureaucracy then was as useless as it is in our time, and in the end he also died from a blow. Since then, after seven in the evening, near the house number 17, you can sometimes see a poorly dressed shaking old man quietly wailing: "Well, where is my money?"
Ghosts of the Moscow Metro
One could write a separate article about the ghosts of the Moscow metro. The most mystical station of the Moscow metro is Sokol station. The fact is that it was built very close to the place where there used to be a cemetery with the mass graves of soldiers and nurses of the First World War. The cemetery was located in the area of Sandy Streets, and now there is a children's park in its place. In the place where mothers and babies are now walking peacefully, there were once mass graves, and during the times of War Communism, mass executions of priests took place.
Subway workers on duty at Sokol station unanimously speak of the strange, foggy figures that can be seen in the tunnels in the early morning even before the subway doors open for passengers.
Vague personalities behave in general peacefully. However, many passengers complain that they are very uncomfortable while at the station. Quite often, fainting and even heart attacks occur at the station. Suicides and criminal incidents occur. Whether they are associated with the foggy inhabitants of the tunnels or not, it is, of course, not known for sure. But metro workers do not like Sokol station very much, and passengers do not like it either.
No less famous ghosts of the Moscow metro are the "lineman" and "black machinist". Where they live is not known for certain. They were seen in different parts of the subway. The stories of these two ghosts are quite entertaining.
There was an old man in the 70s who worked as a trackman for the Moscow metro all his adult life. He did not want to retire - he really loved his job. When the old man turned 75, he was still by hook or by crook kicked out to retire, and at 82 he died. However, even after his death, he could not leave his favorite work - he wanders through the tunnels at night.
The story of the black engine driver is extremely sad. They say that in the same 70s, a very strong fire broke out in one of the metro lines in the tunnel. The train with passengers caught fire. The driver stopped the train and rushed to save people. As a result, all the passengers were saved, and the driver was badly burned and died 2 weeks later in the hospital.
In the meantime, the investigation of the incident was in full swing and the then leaders of the metro, in order not to get on the cap, decided to shift the blame on the dead driver. His wife and children were left without monetary compensation and other benefits. It was this circumstance that angered the spirit of the deceased most of all. Outraged so much that he still wanders through the tunnels in search of justice.
Speaking about the ghosts of the Moscow metro, one cannot but mention the ghost train on the Circle Line.
Of course, it's hard to believe in the existence of this train. The train timetable in the Moscow metro is calculated almost per second, and the appearance of any train outside such a schedule would at least not go unnoticed, but in fact would bring complete confusion into the precise operation of the metro.
However, the legend says that once a month, closer to midnight, an unusual train arrives at the platforms of the stations of the circular line. This train is clearly of the old model. Some managed to make out a pale-faced machinist. He is dressed in the uniform of a subway worker of the 30-50s. In the carriages, we saw a few passengers, also dressed in something incomprehensibly gray and old.
The doors of this train never open. After standing a little on the platform, he leaves for the tunnel.
It is said that when he is at the station, it is best to stay away from his doors. Sometimes for one person they still open up. And the one who gets into the car does not return any more.
Where this train came from and who its passengers are is also unknown. According to some, these are the souls of people who died in the subway under various circumstances.
Ghosts of Moscow suburbs: evil and kind old women
Ghosts and ghosts have chosen not only the center of the capital. There are many of them on the outskirts of the city. We will tell only about the most famous ones. We will start from the Moscow region of Ostankino. On its territory there is a television center and the Ostankino television tower, as well as the Sheremetyevsky palace with ancient ponds.
Since ancient times, Ostankino has had a bad reputation. There was once a suicide cemetery in this area. They buried suicides right in the swamps without funeral services and other church rites. As a result, the area is teeming with ghosts and ghosts. There are especially many of them on the territory of the television center, or rather in the ASK3 building, located opposite the main building.
The ASK3 building was built in 1980 for the technical needs of the television center. The employees working in it vying with each other talk about the constant groans and rustles that are heard in it, and many have even seen something similar to ghostly figures.
However, the most terrible ghost of Ostankino does not live in this building. From time to time in the area of the TV tower you can see an old hunchbacked woman in black, hobbling slowly towards the Sheremetyevo Palace. Meeting this old lady is just awful. Anyone who meets her is said to die in the near future.
This information has been confirmed more than once. In the 16th century, an old woman in black predicted the death of the boyar, who decided to build up the previously empty Ostankino lands. He dismissed the old woman, but in vain. After a short time, her warning came true, and the boyar died in the dungeons of Malyuta-Skuratov.
The next, who received her warning and did not heed him, was Emperor Paul I. Being a guest of Count Sheremetyev, he decided to walk a little along the grove adjacent to the palace. There he met the hunchback and, after a short conversation, drove her away. How it ended is known.
The old woman predicted the death of the serf actress of Count Sheremetyev Praskovya Zhemchugova. The actress was supposed to go on stage in one evening in two performances at once. In the first she played Ophelia, in the second - Juliet. The hunchback in black met her on one of the avenues of the palace.
“Where there are two deaths on stage, a third in life cannot be avoided,” she hissed to the frightened actress. A little time passed, and the old woman's prediction came true: Zhemchugova fell seriously ill and died in the prime of life.
The last time a black hunchback was seen in 2000 in the area of the Ostankino tower. "Oh, it smells like smoke!" she lamented. A few days later, a massive fire broke out in the TV tower, and people died.
Since we would not like to end the article with a story about such a terrible ghost, we will add a small spoonful of honey to the ointment, telling about the complete antipode of the black hunchback - the kind ghost of the Transfiguration grandmother.
Everyone who has seen her speaks of her as a person of flesh and blood. The fact that she is still a ghost is indicated only by the fact that she, like the black sorceress in Ostankino, was seen unchanged for more than one hundred years.
The Preobrazhenskaya grandmother can be seen in the area of the Preobrazhenskaya square metro station or next to the Preobrazhensky market and the cemetery. However, some witnesses claim that they met her in the Northern Izmailovo district, located quite far from Preobrazhenka. This, most likely, is just fiction, although it cannot be denied altogether, either. Several buses and trolleybuses run from the Preobrazhenskaya Ploschad metro station to Severnoye Izmailovo. If desired, the ghost could easily get there by public transport.:)
The Transfiguration grandmother always looks the same. She is short. She is dressed in a blue coat, obviously of old tailoring, and generally looks very poor. She is holding an ordinary shopping bag. In these in Soviet times, they carried potatoes. Sometimes the old woman was seen with a shopping cart, the same old model.
Anyone who meets the Transfiguration grandmother can consider himself a happy person. In the very near future, remarkable changes are taking place in the life of such a person. Difficult problems are solved as if by themselves, troubles that previously seemed inevitable pass away. A lonely person finds a soul mate and finds happiness. Those who are in dire need of money find an excellent source of income.
They say that those who meet the Transfiguration grandmother with a shopping cart will be especially lucky. The most cherished dreams of such a person will certainly come true.
It is on this positive note that we will end our article, in which we tried to briefly talk about the most famous Moscow ghosts. We can only regret that we did not manage to tell about all the others, each of which is undoubtedly interesting in its own way.
Whether they actually exist or not is not so important. To believe or not to believe is everyone's personal business. Undoubtedly different. These stories will make any walk through the capital of our Motherland, Moscow, truly entertaining and exciting.
And finally, I would like to wish only one thing. So that while walking along the streets of our ancient city, each of us, regardless of whether he believes in ghosts or not, nevertheless met, somehow, a Transfiguration grandmother and found real happiness.
