September 10, marked 118 years since the birth of one of the most mysterious and mysterious people of the XX century, the great artist and soothsayer Wolf Grigorievich Messing. He was extremely popular in the Soviet Union, toured throughout the country and even consulted Joseph Stalin himself.
Honored Artist of Russia Olga Migunova, who worked with Wolf Messing for five years and was his student, in an interview with the Zvezda website said that without exception, the magician's predictions about her life came true. It all started with the death of Olga Petrovna's fiancé Vladimir, who was a test pilot.
“I was 19 years old when he predicted that I would not have a wedding, the groom would not come. As a result, they really waited 6.5 hours for the groom, but he did not return. Then they brought his cap and said that he died in the exercises. He predicted the death of all close relatives, and so it happened,”said Migunova.
When the groom, dad, brother and mother were gone, Migunova at her mother's grave vowed that she herself would no longer be engaged in any predictions.
“Let people live, fall in love, and not go to fortune tellers. Because to live and to know all the time that something can happen is a phenomenon, of course,”explained Messing's student.
Wolf Grigorievich himself, at a young age, managed to understand that sometimes predictions can cost lives. So, from the stage of a theater in Berlin in front of a full hall of German officers, he predicted the outbreak of World War II, but then immediately dumbfounded the crowd with the words that the fascist regime was inevitable. After such a statement, Messing was put on the wanted list by the country's authorities, but he managed to escape to the USSR.
And World War II really began. And then already Soviet citizens asked the magician about the long-awaited date for the end of the terrible war. And Messing gave the answer. It happened in 1943 at a session at the Novosibirsk Opera House. One of the spectators gave the hypnotist a note in which there was a question so exciting for everyone. Wolf Grigorievich, just reading it, immediately said: "May 8" - however, he could not name the year.
“He was like an artist, he had long hair, and Messing dressed amazingly. He wore a beaver hat, was always in fashion, was always very precise and restrained. Wolf Grigorievich went to concerts, to venues in 1.5 hours. His polished shoes were the first to appear on the stage, and then Wolf Messing himself,”Olga Migunova described the soothsayer.
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Messing also predicted the date of death of the ruler of the USSR, Joseph Stalin. In 1953, he went to see Stalin to ask him to stop the persecution of Jews. The secretary general did not want to listen to Messing, to which he noticed that the death of the leader was already close and he would die on a Jewish holiday. And so it happened, on March 5, 1953, on the day of the holiday of Purim, Joseph Stalin died.
Realizing to whom and what the soothsayer dared to say, there is a feeling that he was not afraid of anything. However, said his student Olga Migunova, Messing had his own phobias. He was afraid of black cats and never rode an elevator alone, and after a car accident in which the magician got into with his protege, he was afraid to even get into the car.
“I came back somehow, I saw he was marking time in the street. Then he scolded why I was in the store for so long. He was afraid to enter the entrance to take the elevator.
And once we arrived in Murmansk, a port city, there were a lot of rats jumping, almost in hotels. Messing was afraid of confined spaces, so he says, they say, I'll go to wash, and the door will be ajar. And suddenly he jumps out in a towel and screams, followed by a rat.
I went to get a remedy for rodents, and at the counter the receptionist gave me a cat, Ilya. I come, and Messing, having calmed down, is already reading the newspaper. I say: “Wolf Grigorievich, I brought a“remedy”. He asked to put this remedy. And suddenly this cat meows like a meow, a black cat with a white collar, Messing shouted for me to remove the cat as soon as possible, he was trembling all over,”Olga Petrovna shared her memories.
Unfortunately for Messing, he was afraid not only of things that were understandable and simple to people. The most terrible thing for the soothsayer was that he absolutely knew the date of his death. Before the terrible day approached, he so did not want to say goodbye to life that he hoped for the help of doctors. Wolf Messing was assigned an operation, and, despite the fact that it was successful, the fortuneteller suddenly had kidney failure. On November 8, 1974, he was gone. Wolf Messing was buried next to his wife at the Vostryakovskoye cemetery in Moscow.
