Testimonies of predictions for great people contain pages of history. Many of these incredible incidents left in the memory of posterity are very instructive. And although one cannot grasp the immensity, one can definitely assert: in every country of the world in every period of time there were wonderful predictors, whose words came true regardless of whether they were believed or not.
Thus, in 1039, the Monk Gregory of the Caves met the brother of Vladimir Monomakh, Prince Rostislav Vsevolodovich, who was on his way to the Pechersk monastery for a blessing in the war against the Polovtsians.
Noticing that some of the warriors were laughing at him, the saint advised them to pray: “You ought to be distressed and ask for prayers, but you are doing something displeasing to God. Do you know that the wrath of God will soon overtake you? All of you and your prince will soon find death in the water."
Rostislav Vsevolodovich, disturbed by this prediction, nevertheless replied: "I can swim well, die yourself." The holy elder was tied hand and foot and thrown into the water. The monks searched for his body for several days, but did not find it. However, a week later, entering his cell, they found the body of the monk there, still wet, but emitting light (at present, the holy relics are in a cave not far from the Caves monastery).
The Polovtsi were defeated by Russian regiments. On the way back, Vladimir Monomakh swam across the Stugna River, and his brother Vsevolod died in its waves. Thus the prophecy of the saint was fulfilled.
Tsar Vasily III also did not want to listen to the predictions. In order to marry Elena Glinskaya, the tsar decided to send his first and lawful wife Solomonia to the monastery. At that time it was customary to petition for a new marriage before the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Alexandria and Jerusalem.
As expected, all three hierarchs resolutely refused to give their blessing for this criminal act, and one of them, Patriarch Mark of Jerusalem, in his reply to the Russian Tsar explained the reason for the refusal: “If you dare to enter into a criminal marriage, you will have a son who will surprise the world with its ferocity."
Vasily III, however, decided to do it his own way. Born from a marriage with Elena Glinskaya, the son, who entered the pages of history under the name of Ivan the Terrible, was indeed an extremely cruel ruler.
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As for Ivan the Terrible himself, his heir, according to the prediction of Basil the Blessed, learned about how he was to ascend to his father's throne. At the time when the famous holy fool and prophet Basil the Blessed was dying, Ivan the Terrible, along with both sons and his daughter, Princess Anastasia, came to him to say goodbye.
As you know, the eldest son of Ivan the Terrible was Tsarevich Ivan, who was considered the heir. What was the surprise of all those present when Basil the Blessed on his deathbed predicted that the younger Tsarevich Fyodor would reign, and not Ivan the seamstress. Everything happened as the holy fool had predicted, although nothing, it would seem, foreshadowed filicide.
Once Ivan the Terrible arrived in Pskov to begin merciless executions there. At that time, the famous holy fool Nikolai was in Pskov. He went out to meet the king and began to persuade him not to shed human blood. "Do not touch us, leave, otherwise you will have nothing to leave on." The obstinate king did not heed the advice. At the very hour when the first convict was executed, Ivan the Terrible's favorite horse fell. When the king was informed of this, he was horrified and immediately left the city.
Among the Russian saints in general there were many seers. Thus, once the Monk Gennady in Moscow visited the boyaryn Yulia Fyodorovna. Seeing her daughter Anastasia, he told her: "You, beautiful and fertile branch, will be our queen!" Indeed, in 1548 Anastasia became the wife of Tsar Ivan the Terrible.
And here is how Ivan the Terrible received the last prediction in his life. Subjected to bouts of extravagance, the king unexpectedly for everyone ordered the twelve most famous soothsayers (sorceresses, or witches, as they were called then) to be brought to the royal chambers. In response to the king's question about the day of his death, they said that the monarch would die on March 18. Ivan the Terrible, laughing at the prophecy, ordered to put them in a "stone bag" before that date.
On the morning of March 18, the tsar ordered to convey to the prophets that the day of death had come, and he felt himself in the best possible way, and therefore, for their lies, the sorceresses were condemned to death by burning. Upon learning of their bitter fate, the old women cried out that the day was not over yet. As Grozny's contemporaries wrote, nothing foreshadowed misfortune that day.
Indeed, the tsar felt great and more than once remembered witches with unkind words who had overtaken such fear on him. At dinner, Ivan the Terrible even sang a few songs and played chess. Suddenly, clutching his chest, the king lost consciousness and died almost immediately. Thus, the prediction of the witches came true.
France also had its own prophets. The royal astrologer of the Bourbon dynasty predicted the future king Louis XVI to be afraid of the 21st. However, despite all the precautions that the king took, it was on these days that all sorts of misfortunes happened to him.
At the very beginning of the revolution on June 21, 1791, the French royal couple made an attempt to leave revolutionary France, but they failed to accomplish their plans - they were captured in Varenia. On September 21, 1792, the Convention abolished the monarchy in France by a special decree and proclaimed a republic, and a year later, on January 21, 1793, the French king was guillotined. So the prediction of the astrologer came true.
If kings and kings are often incredulous, then poets and writers, as a rule, are very sensitive to mystical revelations and tend to trust fate. Once, while still at the Lyceum, Pushkin visited the famous fortune teller Charlotte Kirchhoff. After that, the poet seemed to be transformed: he began to pay attention to various little things, to attach importance to signs. And in response to the reproaches of friends, he said literally the following:
No doubt, I forgot about the fortune-telling and the fortune-teller that very day. But two weeks after this prediction, and again on Nevsky Prospect, I met with my old friend who served in Warsaw under the Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich and went to serve in St. Petersburg; he suggested and advised me to take his place in Warsaw, assuring me that the Tsarevich wanted this.
This is the first time after the fortune-telling, when I remembered about the fortune-teller. A few days after meeting with an acquaintance, I really received a letter from the post office with money, and could I expect them? This money was sent by my friend from the Lyceum, with whom we, who were still students, played cards, and I won; he, having received an inheritance after his deceased father, sent me a debt, which I not only did not expect, but also forgot about it. Now the third prediction must also come true, and I am absolutely sure of that."
The third prediction, which the poet heard from Charlotte Kirchhoff, was as follows: "Perhaps you will live a long time, but only if you will beware of a white man, a white horse and a white head at the age of 37."
Many of the poet's contemporaries pointed out in their memoirs that on the eve of his 37th birthday, Pushkin was worried about this prediction.
It is known, for example, that in 1927 he wrote an "evil" epigram on A. Muravyov, a blond handsome man. This epigram appeared in the Moscow Bulletin magazine, edited by M. Pogodin. “How would we not pay for the epigram,” the poet told him. "I have a prediction that I must die of a white man."
In addition, there was talk for a long time that Pushkin, having met with Dantes shortly before the duel, jokingly said to him: “I saw your cavalry squadron once. Looking at your snow-white uniform, blond hair and white horse, I remembered a strange prediction. A fortune-teller told me to beware of a white man on a white horse. Are you going to kill me?"
Tormented by thoughts of death, Pushkin involuntarily looked for it everywhere. At the same time, was the famous fortuneteller really so right? Pushkin died on January 29 at 2:45 am. Charlotte Kirchhoff was wrong by almost 6 months.
During the Patriotic War of 1812, when the Russian army, which defeated the emperor Napoleon's army, glorified in battles, entered Paris, several Russian noble officers, out of nothing to do, decided to visit the famous fortuneteller Maria Lenormand. As is customary in such cases, she told each of them what she expected in the future. These were the most common phrases - about inheritance, about a career, about marriage, etc.
But when the last officer approached Madame Lenormand, she looked up at him and shuddered. No, she did not tell him that he would live happily ever after with his family, and what success he would achieve in the military field. She uttered a single phrase: "Death awaits you on the gallows."
Sergei Muravyov-Apostol, who was promised such a strange future, chuckled. “Madam,” he said. “In our country, nobles do not die on the gallows. We have abolished the death penalty altogether."
It did not fit into his head how he, a representative of an ancient family, a descendant of a noble family, a brilliant officer, could end his days in a noose. But now, 14 years later, Muravyov-Apostol, along with other four participants in the December uprising, was thrown around his neck with an ominous noose. Was he thinking about Madame Lenormand at this time, remembering her prediction?
One of Lenin's comrades-in-arms, a communist, a Bolshevik who played a significant role in the history of Russia, N. I. Bukharin, while in Germany on the occasion of the conclusion of the Brest-Litovsk Peace, together with a friend decided to visit the famous fortuneteller for fun. The fortune-teller, barely glancing at Bukharin, immediately said: "You will be executed in your own country."
Naturally, this seemed so implausible that Bukharin asked again: "So the Soviet power will not last long?" “I don’t know,” was the answer, “how long Soviet power will remain, but death will overtake you in Russia”. It is known from history that almost twenty years later, by order of Stalin, Bukharin was arrested, then an investigation was carried out and, finally, the sentence was pronounced: the death penalty.
Back in 1979, the Bulgarian fortune teller Wanga said that Indira Gandhi would come to power, but not for long, because death would interrupt her reign. Indeed, soon early elections were held in India, in which I. Gandhi won, while all other politicians considered her chances to be zero. Four years later, on October 31, she was killed by her personal bodyguard.
In January 1945, the famous American fortuneteller Jane Dixon predicted to Winston Churchill that he would be defeated in the upcoming elections. This prediction seemed more than ridiculous - Winston enjoyed immense popularity among the people.
And the politician himself, barely hearing this, exclaimed: "The British will never reject me!" But everything happened as Dixon had predicted: in the elections held 6 months later, Churchill was defeated and was forced to leave his post.
In 1968, during a breakfast attended by American soothsayer Jane Dixon, one of the guests mentioned that a protest march had begun in Washington, led by Martin Luther King. Jane, after thinking for half a minute, exclaimed: “But Martin will never come to Washington. He will be shot in the neck. He will be the first, and the next will be Robert Kennedy."
Indeed, a few days later, Martin Luther King was killed, and exactly as the prophet predicted.
In addition, D. Dixon said that Robert was never destined to become the head of the country. "This will happen because of the tragedy that will happen in a week at the Ambassador Hotel." On June 5, a week later, at the Ambassador Hotel, Robert Kennedy was shot in the head.