Clairvoyants are different: some are able to consider the future of specific people, there are those who can predict the fate of entire states, but still others discover in themselves the ability to technology and make incredible discoveries in the technical field.
During his vacation in Tsarskoye Selo, the writer Alexei Tolstoy met the engineer Apollo Tsimlyansky. The local Kulibin worked part-time at school, teaching children mathematics and physics, and in his free time he came up with projects of deadly weapons.
The famous writer was so shocked by the engineering level and obsession of Tsimlyansky that he made him the prototype of his hero of the science fiction novel "The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin". And although the author "twisted" the plot amazingly, the real life of Tsimlyansky turned out to be even more intense and mysterious …
Apollo Tsimlyansky from childhood was fascinated by the design of the most unusual devices. At the beginning of the 20th century, he entered the Technological Institute of St. Petersburg, but violent revolutionary events did not allow the talented inventor to complete his studies. However, this fact did not affect Tsimlyansky's work in any way: he, as always, was absorbed in creating another invention. In 1921, the designer presented a weapon working on the principle of a "heat gun". The essence of the device - a bright and powerful beam emerged from the glass tank, which easily cut an armored sheet located at a distance of several tens of meters. All who saw the device in action only shrugged their shoulders in bewilderment, and they did not even imagine that they were facing the very first example of a combat laser.
At the same time, the engineer became interested in working with a radioactive substance. Tsimlyansky was the first to calculate the mathematical model of a chain reaction. But in vain a talented inventor knocked over numerous thresholds of state organizations, trying to prove the need to implement his ideas. The country was just recovering from the devastation and did not care about Tsimlyansky's fantastic projects. His brilliant ideas were simply considered the ravings of a "crazy" scientist. To get rid of the annoying "kulibin", the inventor was sent on a scientific trip to Germany.
So the talented Russian designer ended up in one of the German laboratories of atomic physics, which carried out orders from the Krupp concern. And here the incredible projects of the Russian were received with great attention. Almost immediately, Tsimlyansky became the right hand of a novice but talented German scientist - Wernher von Braun. Both scientists were carried away by the dream of interplanetary flights. It was then that the materials of Tsimlyansky, brought from Russia, came in handy regarding the development of the launch vehicle.
It is no secret that Soviet intelligence "looked after" Tsimlyansky. But Soviet experts assured the secret services that the projects of the abnormal Russian Kulibin were not worth attention.
And at this time, Tsimlyansky began to be received in the highest offices in Germany, he got access to secret archives and closed laboratories. The most influential Nazi - Martin Bormann often met with Tsimlyansky. According to archival records, most of their conversations concerned a future lunar expedition, the implementation of which was directly related to the development of a ballistic rocket or aircraft capable of flying into space (analogous to the Soviet Buran). For a start, the Germans wanted to use such a jet aircraft on the battlefields of World War II as an interceptor. Tsimlyansky actively worked on this project. Werner von Braun took advantage of Tsimlyansky's professional advice and set about developing the A-3 rocket, better known as the FAU.
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The lunar project was also implemented by the Germans: the first tests of jet fighters were carried out on the basis of the aviation giants Messerschmitt and Heinkel in 1939.
It was according to Tsimlyansky's drawings that the first anti-tank grenade launcher was designed, which the Germans called the faustpatron. This anti-tank weapon became the ancestor of all modern grenade launchers.
Tsimlyansky's role in the implementation by the Germans of their atomic project is enormous. He participated in a nuclear explosion test carried out in one of the abandoned mines in Saxony.
Finally, in the USSR, they realized that the former Russian "projector" was behind the Germans' push to create effective weapons. The hunt for the designer began, but after a while it suddenly stopped, as if the Soviet services had lost all interest in him …
Only many years later did the fate of the brilliant inventor become known. In the fall of 1938, Tsimlyansky, at the invitation, visited the Soviet embassy in Berlin. The engineer was unequivocally hinted about the need to return to his homeland, but the designer received a categorical refusal. One of the KGB officers present suggested that Tsimlyansky have a drink in a friendly way. According to the documents, the next morning the Russian designer died from poisoning …
But it turned out that the story of Tsimlyansky's life and work did not end there. On the day of the official death of the designer, the latest jet plane took off from the Messerschmitt test base, which then did not return to the range. Tsimlyansky had access to both the airfield and this aircraft. There is a version that Tsimlyansky flew on a jet plane to Sweden, and Ambassador Alexandra Kollontai helped him return to the USSR, where he died in 1944.
Such a "strange" life and death of a brilliant designer, in which there are more questions than answers, led to the emergence of another version of Tsimlyansky's fate. According to her, the inventor was a Soviet intelligence officer in the camp of the enemy. He allegedly learned the secrets of German weapons and prevented the Germans from switching to the mass production of the latest weapons. It is believed that it was Tsimlyansky's work that sent the Germans on the wrong track in the creation of atomic weapons, and they did not manage to use it during the Second World War.
After 1945, Wernher von Braun settled in the United States, where he took full advantage of Tsimlyansky's developments and ideas. After the Americans managed to implement the Saturn-Apollo project on landing astronauts on the moon, Werner von Braun publicly said: “My teacher is the Russian engineer Tsimlyansky, to whom I am very grateful and grateful for the knowledge I received from him.” It was then that it became clear why the word "Apollo" appeared in the name of the US space program. This was a recognition of the merits of the Russian scientist Apollo Tsimlyansky.
Esotericists believe that such phenomena as Tsimlyanskiy are capable of working with the information field of the Universe. A detailed study of all Tsimlyansky's ideas gives reason to believe that the designer was able to find the entrance to the universal storehouse of knowledge and drew ideas from there "in handfuls". It was hard to say it was bad and good: as a designer, he overtook humanity for many decades, but perhaps the emergence of such a genius helped rid the world of atomic destruction.