On September 10, 115 years ago, the chief soothsayer of the Soviet Union was born.
There are many legends about the main soothsayer of the Soviet Union, Wolf Messing: that he predicted the fall of the Third Reich, prophesied us a victory over the Nazis by the beginning of May 1945, that he personally told Stalin the date of his death … True, some researchers believe that Messing himself came up with all these miracles.
Neck sensor
“Now they are trying to belittle Wolf Messing somehow,” says Louise Khmelnitskaya, the sister of actor Boris Khmelnitsky, who personally knew the famous hypnotist. “They say he was an illiterate charlatan. Yes, Messing spoke Russian with a strong accent, perhaps he did not graduate from high schools, but he was a genius.
Wolf Grigorievich Messing during a psychological experience. 1968 year
Mom and Dad met Wolf Grigorievich at one of the concerts, invited him to visit us. Mom, at the first meeting, realized that she really liked Messing. In the course of our many years of communication, it turned out that Wolf Grigorievich was really in love with her.
He always kept within the bounds of decency, did not show his feelings, but sometimes he looked at his mother so that it became clear how he really treated her …
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And then one day my brother and I are standing on the balcony and see: Messing is going towards our house. I run into the room and shout: "Mom, in my opinion, Wolf Grigorievich is coming!" Mom punishes me: "Tell me I'm not at home." And Wolf Grigorievich had never seen Borya and me until that day. And so he comes up to the house, raises his head, sees us on the balcony and says: "Luzochka, Borya, good afternoon!"
I immediately inform him: "Wolf Grigorievich, mom is not at home!" And he says smiling: “Luzochka, you must have been mistaken. After all, my mother is lying in the back room on a sofa, on a pillow embroidered with a cross. " I was confused.
Since then, Wolf Grigorievich came to us quite often for lunch. He was very fond of the borscht that my mother cooked. While Messing was eating, Borya and I examined him.
Wolf Grigorievich had a wen the size of half an apple on the right side of his neck behind his ear. Borya and I were absolutely sure that this was a sensor. Somehow we decided to examine Messing.
They suggested: "Wolf Grigorievich, can we think of something, but can you guess?" He replied: "Of course!" Messing stayed in the kitchen, while Borya and I went into the room.
We took the first volume of Dahl's dictionary, found a page with the word "borsch" printed on it, and put the book back on the shelf. They called: "Wolf Grigorievich, we are ready!" He entered, we stood up to the window, he did not touch us, he only repeated: "Think!"
And we, without looking at the book, thought: "To the right, to the left, towards the closet, the second shelf from below, the third book." Mentally, standing at the window, they gave him commands.
When he came to the closet, I thought: "Dahl, the first volume." He takes the first volume of the dictionary. I continue: "One hundred and eighteenth page." He opened. I think, "Fifteenth line from the top." And then he laughed: “Ah! Borscht! Let's go to the kitchen! " We were amazed.
Then Wolf Grigorievich told me: "Write any word on paper and hide the sheet." I wrote my dad's name: "Lyosha." She clenched the note into her fist. He came up and touched my hand. And he says: "Lyosha."
In the early 1960s, Borya, to the amazement of his parents, decided to enter a theater institute: he always stuttered a lot and even at school never answered orally, only wrote. But we all the same got together to go to Moscow to the Shchukin school.
At parting, my mother advised: "Come to Wolf Grigorievich." We arrived in Moscow. Messing had no idea that we were in town. But when we went up to his floor and rang the doorbell, we suddenly heard: "Luzochka, Borya, I'll open it now."
We went in, sat down, did not have time to say anything yet, and Messing himself asked: "Have you decided to enter the theater?" When we were leaving, he told Bora: "Find out the names of the members of the selection committee, call me and name them."
Wolf Grigorievich took Borin's hand, put it on his wen and said: "Never be afraid of anything, Wolf Grigorievich is always with you." And in the exams, in some unusual way, it turned out that when Borya entered the classroom, he stopped stuttering.
I'm scared
“Wolf Grigorievich loved Borya and me very much, apparently because he did not have children of his own,” continues Luiza Khmelnitskaya. - He was afraid that his children would be born with some anomalies. When he talked with his parents about this, he always said: "I'm scared!"
In general, Messing was very lonely. One day he came to us and said: “How good it is that you are! I don’t communicate with anyone”. I was surprised: "Why?" He replied, "Because I know what other people think." After the concerts, I tried not to talk to anyone, immediately left for the hotel. I think he suffered from his gift. He wanted to be a normal person. But…
Wolf Messing during one of the psychological sessions. 1966 year.
It so happened that he even predicted the date of his death. When Wolf Grigorievich was leaving for the hospital for the operation, he said goodbye to everyone, and then stopped in front of his house and said: "I will not come back here."
Messing was a wealthy man, during the Great Patriotic War he allocated a huge amount for the construction of two aircraft for our army. And he really wanted to leave money to scientists so that when he dies, they can study his brain. The money was left, but no one studied his brain. He was simply examined and reported that no abnormalities were found.