Weeping statue
The cemetery has always been a terrifying and mystical place. And each city churchyard has its own legend and history. There is also a Nikitsky cemetery. Alexander Maksimova-Rozhin is buried near the central alley.
A bust of a woman is installed on her grave. Many of the Kurds who passed by this monument paid attention to the fact that the sculpture was “crying”. Tears streamed down her cheek from the corner of the stone-frozen woman's eye, forming a thin, wet pink line. Then the sculpture was painted white and the crying stopped. True, for a while. Sometimes the "white lady" sheds tears, but not red ones.
Candle
On the descent from Perekalsky Square to Kirovsky Bridge, a long-term construction - a school of Komsomol activists - stood for almost 30 years. In the mid-80s of the last century, it was an All-Russian Komsomol construction site. It failed to complete. The USSR collapsed, and with it all large-scale construction projects. And as soon as the builders left the facility, the informal youth of Kursk took a fancy to it. As a rule, they arranged their parties on the roof of a long-term construction. It was rumored that Satanists gathered here and held sacrificial rites. The police checked these rumors, but found no one besides the homeless and informals. And yet there were some casualties.
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At the end of the 90s, a major official committed suicide here. In 2001, a student of an Orthodox gymnasium stepped into an open mine for some inexplicable reason. For the comrades who were with him, his act was a complete surprise. People who wrote their names on the walls got into unpleasant stories. One of these authors committed a senseless crime - he killed his grandmother. Now the object, which changed owners several times, has come to life. The new owner demolished the unfinished concert and cinema halls. Only a multi-storey building remained, which was originally planned as a hotel for the Komsomol members.
"Traces of the Devil" and the Souls of Poles
Another mystical place in Kursk is the Catholic Church on Marata Street. After the revolution, there were no services here for a long time, but various warehouses were located. But being in it, especially in the evening and at night, was scary. According to legend, the ghosts of the executed Catholics often came here, who at one time could not reconcile with its closure and protested against the actions of the authorities. They say that these were the souls of the descendants of the Poles exiled to Kursk after the 1863 uprising.
In the 70-80s of the last century, the Kursk repair and restoration section carried out serious work to restore the church building. At first, the House of Music worked here, and later the City House of Culture with a small hall was located here, in which concerts of organ music were sometimes given. And in the early 90s, a Kursk rock club also appeared here, and the place became a favorite for informal hangouts.
With the opening of the House of Music and before the building was handed over to the Catholic parish, at night footsteps were heard in the cathedral, organ sounds were heard - simple but gloomy melodies. Then there was the case of a frightened night watchman who, in late autumn, in his underwear, escaped from a ghost and, in this form, allegedly ran to Perekalsky Square. Finally, local ghosts received almost official status. The director of the House of Culture has repeatedly admitted that he himself heard sounds at night, to which he was hardly used to. The last straw that overwhelmed the director's patience was a new manner of ill-mannered ghosts - knocking idly on the window of the office, which, by the way, was located on the second floor.
But the most mystical and unusual were the "devil's marks". In the old masonry, right under the window of the director's office, there were as if deeply melted, as if charred, traces of claws and human hands. And on the facade of the building there were several prints of children's hands. They said that this was a cursed Catholic who sold his soul to the devil for wealth, and in exchange for the construction of the temple, he immured several children into it. But this is just a legend. These prints are of two dog's paws and a human finger. Most likely, they were left on the freshly formed bricks, before firing.
Bad road
In the very center of Kursk, until the mid-80s of the last century, the crossroads of Katya Zelenko and Maksim Gorky streets were notorious for all drivers. In a small area, accidents occurred more often than in other parts of Kursk. Drivers who got into accidents here said that when they turned into Gorky Street, they did not see the car rushing in front of their noses. As if something was forcing them to press on the gas. Everything changed when several high-rise buildings were built on Katya Zelenko. The number of accidents immediately declined sharply. And nothing more pressed on the drivers.