There are many places in Yekaterinburg that enjoy mystical and “anomalous” fame. There are ubiquitous ghosts, and creepy gnomes, and a mysterious window into another dimension … One of the local urban legends even features the late ex-President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin. However, about everything in order …
The spirit of the house of Zheleznov
There is a brick mansion on Rosa Luxemburg Street. They say that with the onset of darkness, a subtle scent of perfume begins to hover there, and the silhouette of a lady in a luxurious dress wanders through the rooms. This is the ghost of Maria, the wife of the merchant Alexei Zheleznov, the former owner of the house.
Maria Zheleznova died under strange circumstances, having appeared at the local Opera and Ballet Theater for the premiere of Charles Gounod's ballet Romeo and Juliet. On the ninth day after her death, November 21, 1914, her spirit appeared in the mansion.
Legend has it that Maria, going to the theater, forgot at home a bottle of her favorite perfume, which has an extraordinary aroma that can drive any man crazy … And when Romeo drank poison from the bottle on the stage, she suddenly remembered the perfume and was so upset because of her forgetfulness that she had a blow … Since then, the ghost has been walking around the house in search of the ill-fated perfume …
Ghost of the Musical Comedy Theater
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According to legend, for several years in a row, when the theater was empty in the evenings, strange sounds and knocks began to be heard in it. It began after the ashes of the People's Artist of the Russian Federation Nina Engel-Utina, who died in 1992, was scattered around the building. This was her will.
However, the materialists blamed the noise effects on the neighborhood with the Uralsky Rabochiy printing house, which was literally across the wall …
Ghost from new buildings
It is rumored to appear in the courtyards and entrances of houses in the vicinity of the regional government building on Boris Yeltsin Street. The ghost looks like a silhouette of either a girl or a girl, sometimes holding a rubber ball in her hands. Sometimes she plays with a ball right on the landing.
There is a version that this is the ghost of Magdalena Zlokazova, who lived in the 19th century. Magdalena had a lover named Wilhelm Peretz. They were going to get married, but their parents were against their marriage. The fact is that the Zlokazovs belonged to the Old Believers' faith, and the Peretsy belonged to the Jewish.
Relatives did not even want to hear about the son or daughter changing their faith by getting married. The lovers were forced to part, and Magdalena was poisoned … It is her restless spirit that now disturbs the residents of the central new buildings.
Gnomes from the unfinished TV tower
The unfinished building of the TV tower rises in the city center. Once, somewhere in the late 90s - early 2000s, the police received a message that terrible screams were heard from the tower. At the top of the unfinished building, a guy was found with his palms ripped off in blood. He seemed to be out of his mind and shouted something inarticulate. The guy began to fight off the rescuers, and then, breaking free from them, rushed to the wall and wrote on it with a marker: “Someone said that the gnomes are afraid of heights. Unfortunately he is right . It was possible to remove the unfortunate man only after he received an injection of a sedative. And since then the rumor has spread that gnomes are found in the tower …
And the spirit of a certain Misha Katsman allegedly "lives" there. The guy was an amateur climber and loved to climb to the very top of the tower. Once he proposed to his girlfriend, but she said that she would agree to become his wife only if he stopped climbing the tower.
Misha promised and on the night before the wedding decided to go up there for the last time. Apparently, he was worried - he fell down and died. Since then, at sunset, at the very top of the tower, you can see a ghostly male silhouette with a cigarette in his mouth …
Yeltsin and the aliens
But the most amazing story is connected with Boris Yeltsin, who in stagnant times served as the first secretary of the Sverdlovsk regional party committee. When they were going to build a new building for the regional administration, they demolished the old wooden house that stood on the site of the future construction.
And they say that in the basement his workers found a strange window, closed by shutters. When they were opened, a bright radiance spilled out from there and a chorus of voices rang out …
We decided to call the authorities to the scene. It turned out to be the first secretary of the regional committee, that is, Boris Yeltsin. Having examined the basement, Boris Nikolayevich asked to be left there for a while, and then demanded that the window be carefully dismantled and taken to his home …
According to local conspiracy theorists, through a mysterious window, communication was carried out with aliens, who subsequently dictated important decisions to Yeltsin - for example, to surrender their party membership card. It is possible that thanks to his alien “friends” he became the first president of Russia …