Lyova's friends knew that he kept a diary from the age of 12 - they read about himself in it together. And then it turned out that it was a diary of predictions: of the Great Patriotic War, and space exploration, and the more distant future. The last entry was made by 20-year-old Red Army soldier Lev Fedotov on July 23, 1943, two days before his death.
Today Leva Fedotov is credited with prophesying the Hadron Collider, the swine flu pandemic in 2009, and even the assassination of the "black US president" that is about to happen. All this is supposedly taken from an unknown part of Levine's diary found by unknown diggers. However, no one presented the find itself.
"Botanist" with fists
The writer Yuri Trifonov was the first to tell about a schoolboy with a visionary gift in his novel "House on the Embankment". Leva also lived in this famous Moscow house, studied at the same school with Yura and stood out for his phenomenal abilities in any field.
He was a talented writer, artist, musician, he had a deep interest in natural sciences and an unusually broad outlook for a teenager. In addition, Leva was distinguished by his fearlessness - he demonstrated it, for example, by walking along the railing of a balcony on the 9th floor or while exploring deep underground passages with boys. There were quite a few of them in pre-war Moscow. His ability to stand up for his friends was especially appreciated: Fedotov was a thunderstorm of hooligans - he was fluent in jiu-jitsu, endlessly trained the edge of the palm for a "killing" blow and was able to master any, the most extreme situation. He kept diaries for eight years. These were 15 thick handwritten notebooks, of which only four survived after the war.
Historical clairvoyance
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Jester on the Internet. The main and most reliable are associated with the Great Patriotic War, its course from the first to the last days. Fedotov gives a fairly accurate forecast of its beginning in 1941: "The war will begin either in the second half of June, or at the beginning of July, not later - the Germans will strive to end the war before frost." He predicts the first defeats - human losses, surrender of cities: "We will lose a lot of territory, but we will take it back."
Residents of Minsk meet Soviet soldiers.
There are accurate predictions of a series of victorious battles and a brilliant overall victory in the war. “But there are also incredible insights,” notes Irina Volkova:
In addition to the predictions that have already come true, there were others, no less fantastic for their time - today they are especially intriguing.
Fiction or revelation?
Lev Fedotov wrote that in the future a pill would be invented, which "when it enters the human body, it will allow to control his will and mood." Now it is logical to call “control tablets” an embedded microchip. He predicted that mankind, having mastered the Earth and the above-ground space, would settle down the bowels as "underground apartments". And that over time, the very corporeal shell of a person is transformed - until he gains immortality.
Irina Volkova believes that Lev Fedotov was fascinated by the ideas of Russian cosmism. This was the name of the philosophical movement of the early 20th century, founded by the futurologist Nikolai Fedorov. Among the famous cosmists was Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. Fedotov, most likely, shared the views of biocosmism - a utopia about the spread of human influence in space. According to Irina Volkova, who professionally deals with the memoirs of pre-war youth, almost all of their authors were visionaries:
Lev Fedotov lived only 20 years. And his main nickname since childhood was and remains "Leonardo", in honor of da Vinci. Perhaps he really was a genius. In genetics there is an observation that a child with the makings of genius is born, as a rule, in the marriage of the most ordinary person with an unusual person, moreover, with some kind of pathology. Leo had a “usual” mother, in his diaries he calls her “mother” or “my parent”. Unusual was the father to whom Leo was attached and who conveyed to him heroic inclinations, an interest in everything, and a strong literary talent. The father suffered from epilepsy and also died early, like his son.
Olga Bugrova