Yura graduated from a construction technical school and worked all his life at a construction site, Sasha, too, after the orphanage moved to the builders. They both got married at the same time, and gave birth to children in the same year. “But our spouses are completely different in character,” Litvinov admits. "He still has a daughter, but I don't." Now, not a month goes by without the brothers who have found each other meet and go fishing. It turns out they are both avid fishermen
All his life, Alexander Osadchiy wanted to find a twin brother, from whom he was separated in the hospital. The dream came true only at the age of 44. And it's nothing that they have different surnames and even dates of birth - according to the passport, Alexander is younger than his twin brother Yuri Litvinov by two whole years. Looking at each other as if in a mirror, the men realized that they were twins. And neither the certificates from the hospital, nor the column "parents" in the birth certificates will disbelieve them of this.
Look for a father - you will find a twin
For nearly thirty years, Yuri Litvinov dreamed of finding a dad. “If only I could go to his grave,” he pressed on his mother, raising a glass on duty “for parents” at his birthday party. Only the woman, at every mention of her husband, seemed to hang a lock on her mouth. Yes, not a simple one, but a granary: “You have no father! And don't ask any more about it."
- So if he was guilty of anything, tell me! Yurka is no longer small, tea, he will understand, - the daughter-in-law did not concede, once again over a cup of Ceylon trying to extort from the mother-in-law the ancestral secret of her second half.
She asked once, asked twice, and on the third woman Katya would throw herself into tears: “Swear that you won't tell Yurka! He has no one dearer than me. His mother refused him in the hospital. Only a twin brother lives somewhere, but I will not say his name. And I don't know where he lives …"
So Larisa found out that she had a brother-in-law. And the spouse has a brother. Yes, not just the seventh water on jelly, but like two drops of water similar to her husband. Second Yurka. The Santa Barbara writers are smoking nervously in the corner.
- I could not find a place for myself for a month, I walked as if lowered into the water, - recalls Larisa. - I was thinking how to tell Yura. I swore after all. And once she could not stand it and laid out everything to him.
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Son squared
This story with a "serial" touch could be born somewhere in the pavilions of Brazilian film studios. And it happened in the village of Pugachevka, Kiev region, in the family of a strict military man. Exactly in the early seventies.
"If you bring a child in the hem, I won't let you on the threshold!" - the father instructed one of his daughters Lidka, watching her with the crowing of roosters in the doorway.
Gulena was silent. After all, she could no longer get rid of her love for the visiting warrant officer with all the consequences ensuing from this feeling - the time was not the right one. She decided to give birth in a neighboring village - so as not to plague the eyes of the intractable father with her roundness. And the acquaintances did not want to open the "belly" position either, because the "consequence" the girl firmly decided to give to the state for feeding. True, by that time, a woman who dreamed of adopting a baby appeared very opportunely in the neighboring maternity hospital.
- My adoptive mother really wanted a child - she thought that it would bring her husband home from drunken parties. She already had her first-born, but died of pneumonia, - Yuri retells the story laid out to him by his wife. - And she could no longer give birth - then she was about forty. Age is not the same.
The agreement on "surrogate" motherhood was concluded, and the ladies went about their business: Lydia - to give birth, Catherine - to prepare diapers for the future savior of the family.
Imagine the surprise of the woman in labor when the girl heard from the obstetrician who examined her: "You will have twins."
Lida did not have time to find relatives for the second twin. In addition, the boys were born very different: Yurka is blood and milk, and Sasha is frail, the doctors barely left. Who needs such a goner?
- She gave Yura to her foster mother almost immediately, and decided to keep Sasha for herself. Probably, she felt sorry for the baby, because she suffered so much with him, nursed him, - suggests Larisa. - In the hospital, they lay together for a long time.
In the maternity ward, the twins saw each other for the last time - a bundle under the name Yura went with his foster mother to raise a family. His "clone" Sasha became a burden for his own mother for several years.
Equation with one unknown
Soon, Yura and his new parent had to move to the Crimea: the plan to resurrect the Litvinov family as a baby was completely failed. Seeing through the fusel shroud how Catherine was busy with out of nowhere a child that had appeared - in no way walked up from a neighbor - her husband capitulated. Now the twins were separated not only by different mothers, but also hundreds of kilometers.
“As Baba Katya herself told me, fellow villagers sent her letters for a long time, telling how Yurkin’s twin brother lives there,” recalls Larisa Litvinova. - She showed me those photos and notes once. It turned out that Sasha's fate was not sweet.
As soon as she left the hospital, Lydia began to drink bitterly: maybe she was flooded with love for the ensign-stork, maybe she regretted that she had given her second baby to an unfamiliar aunt. As soon as Sasha got to his feet, he and his mother began to walk home - begging. And once, in a drunken stupor, a woman decided to drown a seven-year-old child. She took him to the river and did not let him out of the water. The neighbors rushed to the screams - Gerasim's successor was deprived of parental rights, and the boy was sent to an orphanage.
- As Sasha and I later realized, it was the same orphanage that stood in our city. But fate is a strange thing: during those years we never met, - Litvinov is surprised. “I didn't know at all that I had a brother. And Sashko knew. He often asked our mother: "Where is my brother?"
Lydia answered without lisping: "They handed over for your brother's spare parts - that's where!"
Until the conscious age, Alexander Osadchiy (this is the family name of the twins) did not try to find his "neighbor in the womb": there was no time for that in the orphanage. How not to lose yourself when you are always hungry, and warm boots - one pair for the whole boarding school.
- He still has the orphanage habits preserved, - Yura notes. - You put a plate of sweets in front of him - he almost swallows them all with candy wrappers. Although he is thinner than me in build.
Litvinov, on the other hand, did not know about the existence of his "clone" until the age of 26 - until his wife, privy to the secret of her husband's birth, rashly blurted out all the ins and outs to him. Yuri immediately rushed to his mother. "No, I don't know anything, you are only mine, mine!" - as the old woman repeated the spell.
“Then we began to turn the whole house over, look for those letters that my mother showed to my wife,” Yuri recalls. - Until we heard from her: “Don't look, you still won't find. I burned them long ago."
The only clue that could reunite the separated twins was the maternity hospital indicated on the birth certificate. It was there that they began to send letters asking for information about the twin brother of the boy, who was born 26 years ago. But they were never honored with an answer.
The search was forgotten for twenty long years. Only Yuri himself, as soon as there was enough too much, kept repeating: "Am I really going to die, and I won't see my brother?.."
At the same time, the mother stubbornly pursed her lips. Yura does not quite understand the “partisan parent”, but rather justifies.
“I think she was afraid that I would find my brother, my own mother and leave her. And for her it was tantamount to death. She is alone in this world - she lost her parents at the age of eight, her younger brother was separated from her in the orphanage …
So the old woman kept repeating until her old age: "I am alone with you, alone." To the daughter-in-law, who had betrayed her oath, she did not say another word …
Our dad is shown here and there …
On the October evening of 2005, Yura, as always, came home from work and turned on the TV. "Politics, politics, why are they still not going to calm down," Litvinov muttered to himself, fingering the channels with his usual movement. Suddenly he stopped: he was saying something from the screen … he himself. True, in the credits it was written: "Alexander Osadchiy, the city of Vasilkov."
Yes, an old woman named Life clearly loved the cartoon "Winter in Prostokvashino" in her childhood …
- I immediately ran to my wife shouting: “Larka, I found my brother! Vasilkov lives in the city,”Yuri recalls. “She didn’t believe it then: she says that you need to lose less at work. But in the morning they started calling the administration, the information desk, to find out if a person with such initials lives in the city.
… Three days later, Yura and his wife walked through the streets of a small town in the Kiev region. "Hello, Sashko!" - a figure in a quilted jacket pounced on him. Yura just waved his hand, and thought to himself: "So, he was not mistaken: they will find out."
We went to a local store to buy a cake and a bottle of champagne.
- Sashko, tea, what is your anniversary, you haven’t drunk shampoo before?.. - the “stakhanovka counter” suspected something was wrong.
- Yes, a holiday. Found a twin brother, - Yura was not at a loss.
Yura cannot remember anything worthwhile about the first "date" with Alexander. He says they were nervous.
- We then hugged, something inside me skipped a beat. And then they fell silent: they did not know what to talk about, - explains Litvinov. - It's good that our wives were not at a loss, they immediately started some kind of conversation. It can be said that they brought us into conversation.
Plagiarism nicknamed Destiny
The first tête-à-têtes of relatives and unfamiliar brothers were more like filling out a questionnaire: everyone wanted to learn more about the biography of their "double".
- How is your family life?
- Wife, son … And you?
- And I have: wife, son …
Yura did not need to ask anything further: he immediately understood that his twin brother had exactly repeated his fate. Or maybe the opposite. Who will figure it out now?
Yura graduated from a construction technical school and worked all his life at a construction site, Sasha, too, after the orphanage moved to the builders. They both got married at the same time, and gave birth to children in the same year. “But our spouses are completely different in character,” Litvinov admits. "He still has a daughter, but I don't."
Now, not a month goes by without the brothers who have found each other meet and go fishing. It turns out they are both avid fishermen.
- Only, probably, we fight over fish eating. After all, everyone here has their own traditions. For example, I say that the ear is cooked like this, and he told me: "No, in a different way." But we are trying to give in to each other: we did not meet to quarrel over trifles.
But wives sometimes make fun of their faithful: they say, what kind of twin brothers you are, you even have different ages. Indeed, Litvinov's date of birth is 1962, his twin Osadchy is 1964.
- When Sasha was sent to the orphanage, he had no documents with him. So they wrote him his age by eye. And since he was always frail as a boy, they knocked off two years, - explains Yura.
In the photo, Yura and Sasha still have one face. Only Litvinov is a few centimeters taller. That does not prevent relatives from time to time to confuse "two from the casket".
- I remember that Sasha's daughter came running from the yard - and ran to me: "Dad, dad, I hurt my knee!" I calmed her down and only then admitted that I was not her dad.
None of the brothers tried to find their own mother.
- What for? - Yura asks. - Is that to look into her eyes and ask how she so easily let her two sons around the world …
The men roughly know what happened to their "biological" mother: when Sasha's wife Marina tried to find her brother-in-law, she went to the twins' native village. There, the locals said that Lydia had walked up another daughter and went with her to live in Russia.
- And how did your adoptive mother, Baba Katya, react to the fact that you still found your brother?
- No way. She even never looked at the photo where the two of us were. She just kept repeating: "I am alone with you, alone" …
The most famous meeting of twins after a long separation
American twins Shirley McGer and Pat Goodinas met 71 years after their birth. In childhood, the girls were adopted by different parents, but each of them knew that she had a sister. Pat Goodinas has been looking for her "soul mate" almost all her life, but she was only able to meet in old age, when the nurse of the orphanage, where the little ones were planted, found in the archive the data of the second sister's adoptive parents.
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In March 1973, two twin girls were born at the Las Palmas maternity hospital in the Canary Islands. True, immediately after birth, one of the sisters was replaced by another child and given to someone else's family. For 28 years, the girls did not know about each other's existence, until a friend of one of them came across a "clone" of her friend in a department store. Now the girls, whose names are still kept secret from the ubiquitous reporters, are demanding compensation from the city authorities for moral damages.
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The twin brothers Tibor and Miklos Blair were torn apart by the war: both 13-year-olds were sent to Auschwitz, from where they left for different countries. None of the brothers knew where his "double" took root and whether he was alive at all. Until 60 years later, Tibor saw on the local TV channel a documentary about the fate of the concentration camp prisoners. In one of the heroes, he recognized the lost twin brother.
