Moscow is a big city, and, like any big city, it has its own secrets, secrets … Some of them are governmental (like Metro-2 or an underground city), and some defy rational explanation. I did a little digging on the Internet and with interest I discovered some interesting things about the mystical side of Moscow.
Ghost Train This is the ghost of the Moscow metro. During the construction of the Circle Line, the government used the labor of a huge number of prisoners. They say that the guilty were thrown into ventilation shafts or walled up in the subway walls. Now you can see a strange thing in the night metro - a completely empty train stops at every metro station, but does not open the doors. The train driver is dressed in the old uniform of a subway worker. They say that the souls of the prisoners who died during the construction are imprisoned in the carriages of this cursed train. Sometimes its doors open, but you cannot enter them - otherwise you will become one of the unfortunate passengers of this express, going nowhere. The train operates once a month after midnight on the Circle Line.
Sweetheart Juju. Charming Zhuzhu worked as a fashion model in one of the fashion houses on Kuznetsky Most. She was the mistress of the famous entrepreneur and philanthropist Savva Morozov. One morning in 1905, Zhuzhu was driving in a carriage along Kuznetsky Most, when she suddenly heard a newspaper boy shouting: "Savva Morozov committed suicide in Nice!" Zhuzhu jumped out of the carriage to buy a newspaper and fell under the wheels of a carriage driving in the opposite lane. The girl was taken to the hospital, but, despite the efforts of the doctors, she died.
After dark, in a gateway on Kuznetsky Most, the corpse of a young newsboy was found strangled by a woman's stocking. As the examination established, the stocking belonged to Zhuzh, although her body was already stored in the morgue. Since then, the peddlers have never appeared on this street again. And the cabbies, fearing the fashion model's revenge, reluctantly agreed to call in at Kuznetsky Most after dark. Now Juju can be seen on warm spring and summer nights. A tall, slender girl in white seems to be sliding along the street without touching the pavement with her feet. Meeting with Zhuzhu for women portends the imminent loss of a loved one. Kuznetsky Most, after dark
Black limousine From the side of the Garden Ring to the house where Beria used to live (now the Embassy of Tunisia), two small luminous points approach, and the sound of a car is heard. At the house, the limousine stops, you can hear a man getting out of it and talking about something with the ghost of the guard. Then the car drives off. They say that a girl who happened to be nearby at this time should in no case accept an invitation from a charming middle-aged man to "ride around Moscow at night." The ghost appears on moonless nights, most often seen from October to April. M. Nikitskaya, 28
Black cat. They say that it was from this cat that Bulgakov wrote his Behemoth. The ghost appears twice a month, on odd numbers, on the odd side of Tverskaya and represents a huge fat black cat. He emerges from the wall of one building and goes into the wall of another. Incidentally, this is the only Moscow phantom listed in the international ghost guide. A meeting with a cat speaks of imminent good luck and success. Tverskaya, between st. Metro "Pushkinskaya" and "Mayakovskaya"
Bibliologist Rubakin If you are looking for a rare book in Leninka, you should definitely ask for help from the famous bibliologist Nikolai Rubakin (1862-1946), who bequeathed his huge collection to the library. If you don't contact him, you will hardly find the information you need. When in complete silence in an empty reading room footsteps are heard, it is important to bury yourself in the book and not raise your head, otherwise Rubakin will be offended and will not help in the search. Russian State Library, Vozdvizhenka, 3/5
Old man Kusovnikov. Next to the eastern building of the “Tea. Coffee”in the 19th century there was an unremarkable house. The fabulously rich and stingy spouses Kusovnikovs lived there, who rarely went to visit, did not let anyone into their house and never gave it to the poor. Being already elderly people, out of greed, the Kusovnikovs did not keep extra servants.
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At night, fearing thieves, they took jewelry boxes and rolled around the city. One day, going to one of their estates, they hid money in the fireplace. The janitor, in the absence of the owners, lit a fire, and on their return the Kusovnikovs saw only the ashes from the burnt bills. The old woman died on the spot from a ruptured heart, and the old man, hastily buried his wife, fussed for a long time before the city authorities about exchanging the burnt banknotes for new ones. The ghost is a gray-haired old man in a long coat, wailing: "Oh, money, my money!" Appears after seven in the evening. Meeting with him promises unexpected expenses or loss of money. Myasnitskaya, 17
Princes Khovansky By order of Princess Sophia in 1682 in the village of Vozdvizhenskoye, not far from the modern Yaroslavl highway, the father and son Khovansky, whom the archers wanted to elevate to the royal throne, were beheaded. The bodies of the Khovansky were trampled into a swamp, from where strange groans soon began to be heard. After that, the executed Khovanskys began to appear on the road to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, who stopped the travelers and asked them to go to Moscow to see Princess Sophia - to put in a word for them. You can see the Khovanskys even now - they slow down cars, take off their severed heads like hats, and bow to the drivers. Yaroslavskoe highway
Saltychikha. (Saltychikha Daria Nikolaevna. 1730 -1801) - Moscow noblewoman, "torturer and murderer", who killed more than 100 of her courtyard girls and flooded with her atrocities horror throughout the district. Her name has become a household name for meaningless cruelty. Daria Nikolaevna Ivanova was born in 1730 in the family of a nobleman.
Having married captain of the Life Guards Cavalry Regiment Gleb Alekseevich Saltykov, she gave birth to two sons, and at the age of 26 after her husband's death she remained the owner of 600 serfs and estates in the Vologda, Kostroma and Moscow provinces. The widow's life took place in a Moscow house on Stretenka and in the Troitskoye estate (on the bank of the Klyazminskoye reservoir), where all the bloody events took place. For seven years, Saltychikha tortured to death more than 100 people, mostly women, including two 12-year-old girls. Sources cite figures from 120 to 139 people, of which 38 are proven murders.
The torture lasted a long time, death had to wait for hours, sometimes several days. After the beatings, one peasant woman was herded into a pond up to her throat in November. A few hours later she was taken out and finished off, and the corpse was thrown under the windows of Saltychikha. A living baby was thrown onto the mother's corpse. The child also did not die immediately.
In torture and murder, Saltychikha did not show ingenuity. She usually attacked the girls while they were washing the floors or doing laundry. She beat them with a log, a roll, an iron, and when she got tired, the hayduks, on her order, pulled the victim out into the yard and flogged. With special inspiration, Saltychikha tied her victim naked in the cold, starved her, poured boiling water over her, burned her hair out and pulled out her ears with hot tongs.
After the civil execution, Saltychikha was imprisoned in the underground prison of the cathedral church of the Ivanovo nunnery. Here she sat until 1779, and then until her death - in a dungeon attached to the wall of the temple. In total, Saltychikha lived in prison for 33 years and never showed a single shadow of remorse. To this day, her ghost is found in the Lubyanka area ….
Ksenia Zhekina