Soviet Nostradamus Wolf Messing foresaw a lot

Wolf Messing- Soviet Nostradamus, whose predictions came true with terrifying accuracy. He made money with variety performances, reading the minds of the public. Someone considered him a liar and a clown, someone a prophet and a phenomenon. Messing himself tried all his life to explain his amazing abilities from a scientific point of view.

Miracles happen

Wolf Messing was born on September 10, 1899 into a Jewish, very devout family, in a small town near Warsaw. Oddities have been watching the boy since childhood. One day he told his father that their cow - the only breadwinner in the family - would soon die. The man did not believe his son and beat him hard. But soon their cow was gored to death in the herd.

Wolf was a sleepwalker, which scared his brothers and parents. By cunning, the relatives sent their son to a yeshiva, a religious institute. But, having learned about the forgery, the teenager ran away from the institution. And at that time the first miracle happened to him. The hungry ragamuffin climbed into the train and hid under a bench in order to "hare" to get from Warsaw to Berlin. But the conductor found the stowaway and demanded a travel document. Beside himself with fear, Messing felt the first piece of paper that came across on the floor and handed it to the formidable man. He really wanted the controller to take the dirty scrap for a ticket. And the incredible happened: the conductor, twisting the paper in his hands, punched it.

Amazing Gift

Messing lived in Berlin for five months. Once he fell on the street due to fainting from hunger, passers-by noticed him and sent him to the hospital. Doctors considered the young man dead and placed in the morgue. And only on the third day, a student pathologist discovered life in a lifeless body.

An unusual case became interested in a psychiatrist, professor Abel. It was he who saw in Wolf an amazing gift to control the vital functions of his body and read other people's thoughts. Abel helped Messing develop his abilities and introduced him to his first impresario. The young man amazed the German public, lying for three days in a glass coffin and not showing signs of life. He began to earn good money and was even able to send part of the funds to his family.

A disastrous march to the East

In 1937, when Adolf Gitler was already Chancellor of Germany, when racial laws were already adopted, and Jews were deprived of civil rights, Wolf Messing, in a public speech in one of the Warsaw theaters, predicted the death of Hitler if he went to the East with the army. This prophecy was printed in the newspapers.

They assured that after that, leaflets with a portrait of Messing were pasted all over Warsaw, and 200 thousand marks were promised for his head (then the exchange rate was 2.5 marks for 1 dollar). And the psychic himself was declared a personal enemy of Hitler. Messing then said that he was seized and put in jail, and that he managed to inspire the guards to go into his cell, and slipped out unnoticed. However, there is no proof of this wonderful story. However, Wolf managed to escape to the Soviet Union, unlike his relatives who died in concentration camps.

A little later, Messing announced that the USSR would go to war with Germany. His words were heard at a time when the non-aggression pact, signed in August 1939, was in effect. There is also a legend that even before the start of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, in 1940, Wolf Grigorievich saw tanks with red stars driving through the streets of destroyed Berlin. And this prediction also came true.

100 thousand on an empty piece of paper

In Moscow, Messing impressed everyone with his extraordinary abilities. He, as in Germany and Warsaw, became a variety artist. Rumors of his colossal popularity reached Stalin. The head of the country decided to check the gift of the Jewish artist.

They say that Messing was given the task to get 100 thousand rubles from the bank on an empty piece of paper. And he did it, and the actions of the predictor were observed by the NKVD. In another test, Wolf had to get into the heavily guarded office of an official. Naturally, without a pass. And the artist did it brilliantly. During the war, Messing donated his earned money to the construction of two fighters. And in 1943, together with the State Concert, he was evacuated to Novosibirsk, where he continued to conduct psychological experiments from the stage.

Victory Day

It was in Novosibirsk that Messing predicted the end date of the war. Local historians say that this happened during a speech in the hospital. The illusionist was asked the question that worried everyone at that time: when the war would end. And he replied that our country will defeat the Nazis on May 8th.

Another time, in response to a similar question, Wolf Grigorievich stated that in 1945. And so the rumor appeared among the people that Messing predicted the day of victory - May 8, 1945. The capitulation of Germany came into force late in the evening of May 8 (Central European time) - Moscow time, the 9th had already begun. They say that after signing the surrender, Stalin allegedly sent a telegram to the clairvoyant, where he pointed out the error of his prediction in one day.

scary flight

There were rumors that Messing was Stalin's personal psychic. Iosif Vissarionovich unconditionally believed the telepath. And only one prediction of Messing caused Stalin's anger. Wolf Grigorievich warned the leader that if he did not change his attitude towards the Jews and did not influence their persecution, he himself would die on a Jewish holiday. And so it happened: Iosif Vissarionovich died on March 5, 1953. On this day, the Jewish people celebrate Purim, which is set to commemorate the salvation of the Jews from extermination in the Persian Empire.

They also said that Messing saved Stalin's youngest son Vasily from death. Allegedly, Wolf Grigoryevich told the leader that the plane on which Vasily was going to fly with the hockey club of the MVO Air Force to Chelyabinsk would crash. The disaster happened on January 7, 1950: during the landing approach, a Douglas C-47 military transport aircraft crashed, all passengers and crew members died.

Later, at the end of the 60s, a short interview with Wolf Messing was published in one of the Azerbaijani newspapers. And in it, the psychic said that he actually told Stalin about his son. According to the clairvoyant, he could not have foreseen the death of the aircraft, otherwise he would have tried to save the entire crew and pilots. He simply said that it was better for Vasily Stalin to go to Chelyabinsk by train.

Damn

Wolf Messing didn't talk much about the future. He believed that people should not know their future in order not to suffer. But he was constantly asked about it. Unlike the same Wangi, he never spoke allegorically, preferred simplicity and clarity.

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

Biography of Wolf Messing

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

By nationality, Wolf is a Jew and his father carefully tried to make a respected rabbi out of his son. He suppressed in the child his abilities, which manifested themselves in childhood. Most of all, my father was frightened that Wolf walked at night.

Dad put a bowl of ice water by the bed so that he would pour Wolf if he dared to get out of bed.

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

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

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

My nerves were strained to the limit. I reached out and grabbed some piece of paper lying on the floor - it seems like a piece of newspaper ... Our eyes met. With all the strength of passion and mind, I wanted him to take this dirty piece of paper for a ticket ... He took it, somehow strangely turned it over in his hands. I even shrank, tensed, burned with a violent desire. Finally, he thrust it into the heavy jaws of the composter and snapped them... Handing me back the "ticket", he once again shone in my face with his conductor's lantern with a candle. He was apparently completely at a loss: this little thin boy with a pale face, having a ticket, for some reason climbed under the bench ... "V. Messing" About myself "

Baby Messing at the age of 10 was completely alone on the streets of Berlin. What he just did not do there - he swept, worked as a messenger, 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 unambiguous - starvation. The dead child was taken to the morgue to show his body to the interns. And then the incredible happened - one of the young doctors heard the heart beating, very slowly, but still clearly.

The psychiatrist Abel took the boy and waited for three days for the child to come out of the coma. After the baby came to life, the doctor began to work with him, teaching him to slow down the heart at his command. Abel also found the first impresario for Wolf, who gave work in the panopticon - the 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 in the panopticon for more than six months. So, for about three months of my life I lay in a transparent cold coffin. They paid me as much as five marks a day! For me, accustomed to a constant hunger strike, this seemed like a fabulously large sum. In any case, it is quite sufficient not only to live on your own, but even to help your parents in some way. It was then that I sent them the first news about myself ... "

Such famous personalities as Freud and Albert Einstein also went to see him. Wolf Messing tells how he came to the apartment of scientists and they communicated with the help of thoughts, in their minds giving him orders to bring a newspaper or serve a glass of water. A 16-year-old teenager easily guessed what bright minds asked for. From that time on, their patronage helped the boy a lot.

Wolf Messing decided to complete psychology courses in order 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 hall intended, he also went from house to house, he was often invited to help find the stolen. 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, compromise, kill him, but Wolf, the great mentalist and hypnotist, always got away with it.

He could not escape only on the day when he dared to predict a failure in the east of the USSR in 1939. He had to run.

He, along with other refugees, moved to the Soviet Union, where he went to the houses of culture until he was hired. The USSR was wary of his talents, but still he was able to earn fame for himself there. He worked in Moscow, and then went to Minsk. There the first meeting of Wolf Messing with Stalin took place.

Wolf Messing and Stalin

“And again an unfamiliar room.

A man with a mustache enters. Hello. I recognized him immediately. I answer:

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

How is it on hand? - 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 detachment of psychics on how widely this is happening 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 in a 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 win, 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, she herself volunteered to be his assistant, and until the end of her life she remained a reliable support for him. Aida did not live long - she died in 1960.

In addition to speaking, Wolf also helped in other ways. Once he transferred from Tashkent the amount of one million rubles for the needs of the Red Army. True, prison guards forced him to do this, he offered 50 thousand. After that, Staly sent him a letter of thanks and released the Jew to freedom. Later, with his savings, he bought 2 aircraft for the Soviet army.

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 a period of strong tension, for example, during a rage or public speaking.

So, while still in Germany, he predicted a fatal war for Russia and the victory of the USSR over fascism. Of course, he did not want to do this during a speech in front of thousands of people. But the words escaped his lips on their own, like the sleepwalking he had been unable to control as a child.

The next prediction for Russia was 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 of Stalin's other connections. So, for example, in this article we wrote about Dorogov's secret laboratory, where he carried out Stalin's secret order to develop.

Wolf Messing participated in espionage, identifying those who are against the USSR. He knew how to detect lies, truth, and people's thoughts. He did this by some special method, reading information from body movements, heartbeats, wave vibrations. He himself described his gift as follows:

“Psychological experiments are my job, and it is not at all easy! I need to gather all my strength, strain all my abilities, concentrate all my will, like an athlete before a jump, like a hammer before hitting with a heavy sledgehammer. My work is no easier than that of a hammer fighter and an athlete, or a designer bending over a drawing of a new machine, or a geologist looking for a rare mineral along an unknown path in the impenetrable taiga ... And those who have been to my psychological experiments sometimes saw 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 mentioned, these meetings have not been confirmed, but the real facts - Stalin's allocation of an apartment in Moscow to the famous Messing, his release from prison in Tashkent in 1943, his evacuation to Novosibirsk to save his life - speak for themselves. Stalin clearly 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 death of people 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 the age of 75. He fell ill, and while lying in the hospital ward, he said - “Well, that's it. I won't go home again." Wolf went 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 up the money that, after his death, went to the state. Anyway. After himself, Wolf left only his own name, famous in different countries.

Messing believed that people should not know their future, because this would only hurt them, as it caused suffering to himself.

Many people consider Messing 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 it is possible to learn his method if you can feel someone else's and your own body.

Be that as it may, but 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.

Wolf Messing

The name of Wolf Messing is practically unknown to modern youth, because they rarely write about him and are rarely interested in Messing's biography. It is hard to imagine that some half a century ago, the name of Wolf Messing was on the lips of all of Europe. In the Soviet Union, Messing gained fame as a skilled hypnotist and soothsayer, and in European countries Messing was known as an unsurpassed psychic, clairvoyant, predictor and prophet of the 20th century. Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein admired him, and Hitler considered him a personal enemy.

Wolf Messing, oddly enough, enjoyed the patronage of the leadership of the USSR. Joseph Stalin did not in the least interfere with his activities and tours, on the contrary, he even allocated a good apartment in the capital, not wanting to somehow cross the road for Messing. The science of that time was not so supportive of Wolf Messing, because at that time it did not recognize telepathy and the like, considering it quackery. This contributed to the fact that Messing's prophecies sunk into oblivion and left with him, as he himself had predicted - on November 8, 1974. Wolf Messing was not afraid of death and somehow did not even try to escape. Predictions taught him to calmly accept the twists of fate.

Wolf Messing - the greatest hypnotist and telepath of his time - was born on September 10, 1899 in Poland, which at that time was part of the USSR. As a child, he suffered from sleepwalking, so it was not uncommon for him to get up from his bed in the middle of the night in clear weather and watch the moon in his sleep.

The father found a way to save his son from this disease: he put a bowl of cold water near his bed, so during the next attack, Wolf inevitably stepped into the water, from which he immediately woke up.

At the age of six, he was sent to study at a cheder, a religious elementary school attached to a synagogue. In it, young children most of the time learned prayers from the Talmud, a book that outlines the legal foundations of Judaism. Wolf Messing showed extraordinary ability to memorize complex texts, so they decided to send him to continue his studies at a school for clergy.

Wolf had an excellent memory, and in this rather meaningless activity - cramming the Talmud - he succeeded. He was praised, set as an example. It was this ability of his that was the reason for the meeting with Sholom Aleichem... Noting Wolf's piety and his ability to learn, the rabbi decided to send the boy to a special institution that trained spiritual servants - a yeshiva. But the boy did not want to be a priest. And then the first miracle happened in his life.

One day, his father sent Wolf to the shop for a pack of cigarettes. It was evening, the sun had set, and dusk had come. He approached the porch of his house already in complete darkness. And suddenly a giant figure in a white robe appeared on the steps. Wolf made out a huge beard, a broad cheeky face, unusually sparkling eyes ... Raising his hands in wide sleeves to the sky, the messenger said:

My son! From above I was sent to you to predict your future in the service of God. Go to Yeshiva! Your prayer will be pleasing to God... It is not difficult to imagine the impression that these words, spoken in a thunderous voice, made on the nervous, exalted boy. He fell to the ground and lost consciousness... Shaken by what had happened, he had no strength to resist and agreed with the will of the mentors.

Later, Wolf moved to Berlin, where he developed his psychic abilities. He developed a mind-reading technique that quickly drew attention to himself throughout Europe.

In Vienna, Messing met Sigmund Freud, who researched him. Freud was amazed at the results. Freud gave Messing psychic commands. In the words of Messing himself: “I still remember Freud's mental commands. Go to the bathroom, open the closet and pick up some drugs with tweezers. Return to Albert Einstein and pull out three hairs from his magnificent mustache. Messing did everything as he was ordered.

Years later, when talking about this incident, Freud said that "If I began to live my life again, I would like to devote it to psychic research."

The loudest prediction of a psychic is the prediction of Wolf Messing about Russia, a few months before the start of the war. Then he predicted Hitler's death if the Fuhrer "went to war in the East." Hitler then offered the sum of 200,000 marks for his head.

Now it is already known that during one of the meetings with Stalin, Messing warned the leader: Stalin's son, Vasily, should in no case fly to Sverdlovsk with the Air Force hockey team. By the will of his father, Vasily had to travel by train ... The plane with the team crashed, all the hockey players died.

In 1943, in Novosibirsk, Messing predicted that the war would end with victory on May 8, 1945. Stalin sent him a telegram thanking him for accurately naming the day the war ended...

After Stalin died, Messing cooled down a bit. The fact is that he could not make friends with Nikita Khrushchev, who asked Wolf Grigoryevich to speak at the XXII Party Congress with a story, as if Vladimir Ilyich Lenin had come to him in a dream and asked that Stalin's body be removed from the Mausoleum. Messing flatly refused such an offer, saying that he does not communicate with the dead, and does not believe in spiritualism at all. And after that, he began to have certain problems with concerts, but he paid little attention to this. He had a great grief - his wife died, and he fell into a depressive state. But the thing is that he himself predicted her death, up to a certain day.

During the time spent in the USSR, Wolf Grigorievich managed to travel all over the country, visiting even its most remote corners on tour. At the same time, in the late 60s and early 70s, he stopped his tours, despite the real boom in parapsychology. The reason for the termination of performances was the fear of the great magician for his health, Messing was afraid that if he continued to show his "psychological experiments", then his brain would collapse.

Messing himself spoke of his gift: “I just concentrate and suddenly see the end result of the flow of events. Bypassing the whole chain. I call it “direct knowledge.” It’s impossible to explain. What do we know about time? About its effect on the brain? I think there are some "These are the points of intersection of the future, the past and the present. Perhaps, in moments of trance, my brain is able to tune in to them. And then it's like jumping into another time, to another point in space. I can't say more."

He wrote about his telepathic abilities “People's thoughts come to me in the form of drawings. I usually see visual images of a specific action or place. First, I put myself in a certain state of relaxation in which I experience feelings and powers. Then it is easy to achieve telepathy. I can only get some thoughts. If I touch the sender, it helps me figure out where the thought is going from the general "noise". But direct contact is not necessary for me.”

At the end of his life, Messing was seriously ill for a long time. The escape from German captivity in Warsaw made itself felt and the legs began to fail. In order to somehow correct the situation, an operation was scheduled for the famous surgeon Vladimir Ivanovich Burakovsky. Leaving his house, before leaving for the hospital, Messing looked at his own portrait in front of witnesses and said that he was not destined to return here again. The operation was successful, but after a sudden failure of the heart and kidneys. Burakovsky was furious when he found out what Messing said before the operation, because if Wolf Messing himself was against it, then it was necessary to reschedule it. A great mind and an amazing psychic who made the most accurate predictions, the mysterious personality of his era, Wolf Messing, died on October 8, 1974.

"Shurik, you are a telepath! Wolf Messing ...", - said the heroine of the most popular Soviet comedy. Everyone in the Soviet Union knew who Messing was. There were legends about his abilities, and, most surprisingly, many of these legends were true. Wolf Grigoryevich Messing amazed his contemporaries with his unique abilities: he could read the thoughts of others and predict the fate of the powerful of this world.

The attitude to the phenomena that Messing demonstrated has always been ambiguous. Various scientists, including Freud, tried unsuccessfully to unravel the nature of his abilities. Some still consider Messing an ordinary charlatan.

Who Messing really was and what was behind his actions - the authors of the documentary two-part film "I am Wolf Messing" on Channel One, dedicated to the 110th anniversary of the psychic, which is celebrated on September 10, tried to answer these questions.

Childhood of a psychic

As a child, the future psychic hypnotist did not differ from his peers. He was born into the family of a poor gardener from the Jewish town of Gora-Kavaleriya in the Russian Empire (today it is the territory of Poland). In addition to Wolf, the family had three more sons, whom the cruel father often beat for misconduct.

The only thing that distinguished Wolf from his brothers was sleepwalking. But this problem was solved with the help of the trick of the mother, who placed a wooden trough with water on the floor by his bed. The lunatic could jump up in the middle of the night, but immediately woke up by stepping into the water.

Messing's father wanted his son to become a rabbi. Wolf himself did not like this idea, but one day an unusual incident happened to him, which convinced him to agree with his parents. In the evening he went out into the courtyard and suddenly saw before him a man in shining white clothes. "You will become a rabbi," the boy heard. After that, he did not remember anything, but woke up only in his bed, when his parents read prayers over him, writes peoples.ru.

Wolf became a student of the cheder, but soon the riddle of the man in white robes was solved. He recognized him in one of his father's friends, after which he ran away from home. Eleven-year-old Wolf boarded a train to Berlin and during his trip for the first time realized that he was endowed with the gift of suggestion.

When the conductor demanded a ticket from Wolf, with trembling hands he handed him the first piece of paper he found on the floor, mentally begging this man to imagine that this was the ticket. To the surprise of the boy, he reacted exactly like that. Moreover, the conductor advised the young man to take a comfortable seat and get some sleep. However, the realization of what had happened so frightened Wolf that he could not close his eyes.

mind reader

Poverty and hunger awaited in the capital of Messing. Once he lost consciousness on the street and ended up in the hospital, where amazing things began to happen to him. Messing realized that he could arbitrarily fall into a trance. Soon, his ability to control his own body interested a prominent neurologist, Professor Abel, writes evrey.com.

The professor began to teach Messing and conduct various experiments on him. The results of the study shocked the scientist: his ward not only knew how to hypnotize, but also read minds. The young man himself was no less surprised.

“When I first discovered telepathic abilities in myself, when I realized that I had a mysterious gift to command people, I swore to myself that I would never, under any circumstances, use my gift to the detriment of a person and society,” Messing said for many years later.

Abel helped 12-year-old Wolf find an impresario, and soon the boy became a variety show artist. The young artist quickly became a local celebrity. They began to talk about him as a famous guest performer, able to guess the thoughts of the public, find objects, look into the future and past of the audience. At the age of 18, the name of Wolf Messing was already thundering around the world.

Messing's speeches were called modestly - "Psychological experiments". In the course of these "experiments", the psychic easily carried out the orders that the audience mentally gave him, told in detail the biographies of people he did not know, and had the ability to stop the heartbeat. There were rumors that Messing could lie in a cataleptic stupor in a crystal coffin for three days.

Hitler's main enemy

By the age of forty, Messing managed to visit all continents, meet such celebrities as Einstein, Freud, Mahatma Gandhi, Marlene Dietrich. By that time, Polish President Jozef Pilsudski himself was among his clients.

Messing also had sworn enemies. So, Hitler, having learned that the psychic predicted his death in the event of a war with Russia, promised a reward of 200 thousand marks for the capture of the psychic. As a result, Messing was arrested, but they didn’t have time to bring him to Hitler: the psychic gathered all the guards in the cell with the power of thought, and then fled. He freely left the city first, and then Germany, and on the border with the USSR presented a leaflet instead of a passport, instructing Hitler to find him.

They say that after escaping from Germany, Messing's fight with Hitler continued on a telepathic level. And this was allegedly one of the reasons why the psychic was included in a narrow circle of people close to Stalin.

Messing made an indelible impression on the Soviet leader. Once a psychic received from Stalin the task to enter his office without a pass, bypassing three internal security posts, Izvestia writes. Soon the genius of hypnosis entered Stalin's office without a report, and he was very frightened when he saw him. "I know your thoughts, do not consider me an enemy," Messing said to the frightened leader.

The medium is not wrong

After the war, Messing traveled a lot with concerts throughout the USSR. In the questionnaires in the column "profession", Wolf Grigorievich wrote: "variety artist." Messing demonstrated his "experiments" with ease, like twenty years ago. But even he, the genius of hypnosis, sometimes had to get into trouble.

Once a woman turned to Wolf Grigorievich with a request to tell what happened to her son, who did not return from the war. The soothsayer asked her for a letter from her son, and as soon as he touched the paper, he realized that the one who wrote the message was already dead.

Messing had to tell the sad news to the soldier's mother. However, two weeks later the woman returned, but not alone, but arm in arm with a young man, who turned out to be allegedly "killed" by this. The young man attacked the psychic with accusations, but Messing, knowing that there could be no mistake, asked whose hand the letter was written. It turned out that the son did not write it, but dictated aloud to his neighbor in a bed in a military hospital.

And what happened to him? - asked Messing.

He soon died, - answered the young man.

Messing performed thousands of miracles in his life, but paranormal abilities did not make his own life easier. In recent years, Wolf Grigorievich suffered from illnesses, some of which were the result of his arrests in Nazi Germany. He, like all people, was afraid of death, although, according to relatives, he knew not only the cause of his death, but even the date and hour.

The material was prepared by the editors of rian.ru based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources

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

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

heavy gift

“I was very interested in Wolf Messing Joseph Stalin, - tells historian Roy Medvedev. - And often invited him to his place for conversations. Stalin himself had absolutely obvious hypnotic abilities. Many confirmed: when he spoke in his quiet voice, he seemed to paralyze the will of the listener. Stalin somehow invited Messing for a conversation and at the end of it he says: “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 now Stalin is sitting in his office and waiting for the call to tell him that Messing was detained without a pass. But time goes by and no one calls. Stalin could not stand it and he himself dialed the number of the final point of protection, asked the duty officer: “Was Messing passed?” They say to him: "Yes, he passed." Stalin was indignant: “But how did you let him out?” The officer on duty replied: “So he gave us his pass with your signature.” Stalin ordered that this piece of paper be brought to him. The guard found Messing's "pass", looked and was confused - it was an ordinary piece of newspaper.

Money for the brain

Not only Stalin was afraid of Wolf Messing. Hitler offered a reward of 200 thousand Reichsmarks for the head of the seer, after Messing publicly stated that if Germany unleashed 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 a great scout Mikhail Maklyarsky, whom the Germans called the brain of Soviet intelligence, - says Luiza 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 the Victory - May 8! It's not a trick! He even predicted the date of his death. When Wolf Grigorievich left for the hospital for an operation, he said goodbye to everyone, and then stopped in front of the entrance of his house and said: “I won’t come back here again.” Messing was a wealthy man. And he really wanted to leave money to scientists to 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 norms were found.

Expert opinions

“I believe that Messing had hypnotic abilities,” says Roy Medvedev. - But I strongly doubt that he predicted the date of the end of the Great Patriotic War. 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.

“The brain of Wolf Messing is stored with us at the Moscow Brain Institute,” AiF told Head of the Brain Research Department of the Center for Neurology of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Sergey Illarioshkin. - He was examined, and his sections were left at the institute exclusively as exhibits. Subsequently, no more studies of the brain of Messing were carried out.

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