Monsters, ghosts and missing treasures. What the old-timers will not tell you, if you ask them well.
After the outbreak of the First World War, Nicholas II ordered the evacuation of the treasury of the Russian Empire further inland. For this, the reliable cities of Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod were chosen. However, after the revolution and the overthrow of the government, most of the imperial treasures ended up in the hands of the Bolsheviks who seized Kazan. Later, the troops under the command of Colonel Vladimir Kappel managed to recapture the treasury and transport it to Omsk. It was there, in the main residence of the White Guards and the "third capital" of Russia, in the hands of Admiral Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak, and there was gold totaling more than 650 million rubles at the prices of that time. As is known from history, the admiral was soon arrested, and the treasury returned to the hands of the Bolsheviks. But it lacked a very significant amount. Rumor has it that gold and jewelry are still hidden somewhere in Omsk. Some argue that the Kolchakites buried the remains of the royal treasury somewhere outside the city, others claim that the treasures rest at the bottom of the Irtysh, others believe that they need to be looked for in secret city dungeons. Many have tried to find riches, but luck has not smiled on anyone yet.
It happened on New Year's Eve, on December 31, 1955, at 84 Chkalov Street, which belonged to a woman named Claudia Bolonkina. Her son decided to invite guests on New Year's Eve; among those invited was a young girl Zoya Karnaukhova, a pipe plant worker, and Nikolai, a trainee, whom she met the day before. By the time the dancing began, all of Zoya's friends were already with the guys, and she was sitting alone, Nikolai was delayed. Without thinking twice, Zoya went to the corner with the icons and declared: "If my Nikolai is not there, I will dance with Nikolai the Pleasant" and took the icon of Nikolai the Wonderworker. Friends shouted in horror that it was a sin, but the girl insisted on her own: "If there is a God, let him punish me!" As soon as Zoya with the icon in her hands entered the circle of dancers, she suddenly froze in place. It was impossible to move itand the icon could not be pulled out of her hands. The girl did not show external signs of life, although her heart was beating. The militia and doctors came to the immobilized Zoya, and later priests began to come, but nothing helped. The doctors could not even give an injection, because the needles simply broke without penetrating the skin. This continued until the appearance of Hieromonk Seraphim, who was able to pull the icon out of Zoe's hands. He said that her standing would end on Easter. And so it happened: Zoya stood for exactly 128 days. He said that her standing would end on Easter. And so it happened: Zoya stood for exactly 128 days. He said that her standing would end on Easter. And so it happened: Zoya stood for exactly 128 days.
Bloody communist - Chelyabinsk
In 1917, one of the leaders of the revolutionary movement, comrade Samuil Moiseevich Tsvilling, lived in Chelyabinsk. It is with him that this terrible story is connected. They say that in the house number 20 on the street, which now bears his own name, a brutal communist hacked to death with an ax the local police chief. Old-timers in the city say that the soul of the murdered man, as if not at peace, sometimes appears near the house and walks back and forth, frightening bystanders.
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Jealous killer - Volgograd
The hero of this legend is a certain Kotov, a merchant who is madly in love with a young beauty from a very wealthy family. Once, leaving the church, Kotov saw a carriage passing by, in which his beloved was embracing another man. The jealous man was hurt so much that he rushed after the carriage, jumped into it and stabbed first his unknown rival, and then his beloved screaming in horror. A little later that day, Kotov was seen crying on the bank of the river, where he tried to wash blood-stained clothes, and at night he returned to the crime scene and stuck a knife in his heart. They say that since then the ghost of a jealous killer sometimes appears near the blood transfusion station and asks the lovers walking about if they really love each other, and, having received an affirmative answer, tells them his sad story. As eyewitnesses describe it, the ghost is almost no different from a real person, only his hands glow in the dark and he does not walk on the ground, but as if floating through the air.
Walled up alive - Perm
The building of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs is rightfully considered the most terrible and mysterious in the whole city. In backgammon it was even nicknamed "the tower of death" and they tell many terrible stories associated with this building. Especially popular among the people are the legends that during the Stalinist repressions, people were secretly shot in this tower, who were then taken along an underground passage directly to the Yegoshikhinskoye cemetery and buried. But to debunk these myths is quite simple: in fact, the building was built only in the 1950s, respectively, there could be no talk of any executions in 1937. But another popular legend in the city is connected with the builders of the “tower of death”: they say that after the project was completed, all of them were walled up alive in the walls so that they would not give anyone the secrets of the secret rooms and corridors that they built there.
Empty headstone - Kazan
There is Arskoe cemetery in Kazan. They say that somewhere in its depths there is a small grave of a seven-year-old boy with a tombstone made of white marble. His father died on his birthday, and his mother was so poor that, having spent her last savings on a gravestone, she could not even pay for the inscription on it. Tormented by grief, she died right on her son's grave on the day of his funeral, cursing the whole world. Since then, an empty piece of white marble has stood in the cemetery. From generation to generation, citizens of Kazan warn each other against reading other people's tombstones. If you believe the legend, everything usually happens like this: a person walking around the cemetery looks around and involuntarily reads the inscriptions on the gravestones. Suddenly, among dozens of other people's names, he sees his own, which seems to have been scrawled in an uneven child's handwriting on a white marble slab. Trying to see the dates, the traveler sees only the inscription "you will die". Making your way through the labyrinth of paths, it is only necessary to let this grave out of sight for a second, as the inscription immediately disappears. And the man himself mysteriously dies in a week. They say that the child's soul, so not at rest, takes revenge and waits for his name and years of life to be knocked out on the cold marble. But who knows them now, three centuries later?
Chekist city - Yekaterinburg
The city of Chekists is the name of the residential quarter in Yekaterinburg, located at the intersection of Lenin and Lunacharsky streets. Construction began in the early 1930s. And as the name implies, it was intended for the workers of the NKVD. There were both residential and administrative buildings in which the Chekists themselves and their families lived and worked. It was because of them and their activities that almost immediately this quarter began to acquire rumors and legends. Mostly they talked about huge dungeons and secret passages that entwine the entire quarter. These hidden tunnels were rumored to lead to the House of Industry and the District Officers' House. Naturally, there were many rumors about people tortured by the Chekists. Some say that the ghosts of those unfortunate people who have disappeared forever in the Chekist basements still sometimes appear there.
Monsters in the dungeons - Rostov-on-Don
This story happened around 1949. Then the military was instructed to investigate and check the underground caves in the Kobyakovsky settlement and the gully adjacent to it for the possibility of building a SKVO there in case of war. The first trip ended quite well: we went, looked, and made sure that the caves are very long and have lateral branches. But the second sortie has already turned into a real tragedy. At first, no one could understand what was the matter: signals from the soldiers simply stopped coming. Some time later, those who were outside pulled out a telephone cable, the end of which was soaked and covered in blood. It became clear that something was wrong. While they reported to the authorities, while the authorities were thinking and deliberating, a day passed. The next day, a rescue expedition was sent for the missing soldiers, having previously supplied them with machine guns. They returned only with the bodies of their comrades. Eyewitnesses said both bodies were torn to pieces. One had no head, and pieces of skin and meat had been torn from the bones. Only half of the body remained from the other. By all indications it appeared that some huge ferocious animal had attacked the soldiers in the caves. But neither the monster itself, nor at least traces of it could be found.
Tower of Griffins - St. Petersburg
What is now called the "tower of griffins" is just a remnant of a brick boiler pipe, located on the 7th line of Vasilievsky Island. Since 1858, this house has belonged to Wilhelm Pel and his sons. According to one of the legends, the pharmacist Pel kept a secret laboratory in his tower, where he experimented with converting mercury into gold, and once even invented the most real "formula for happiness." This explains the fact that some of the residents of the neighboring houses suddenly became rich and successful. And the tower of the brilliant scientist is guarded by no less than real griffins who are afraid of sunlight and fly over the city at night.
Chumnoy Lane - Moscow
This place, which is now called Chertolsky Lane, has been known since ancient times. Once upon a time pagans lived here and made sacrifices to their gods. The local ravine was called Chertoy, so the devil was digging. And in 1656, Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, passing this road to pray to the Novodevichy Convent, ordered the bad name of this place to be changed to a pure one. But this land never became holy. In a side street next to them they set up a "poor house" - a morgue, to which they took the departed poor fellows without a family without a tribe. The Church of the Savior Not Made by Hands was demolished under Stalin: in Chertolsky Lane there were dug bags of bones for a long time. Then a model school was built on this site. But only the orphans from the Chertol graves do not calm down: until now, in the alley, black shadows are whispering every now and then at night. And to local schoolchildren, according to their own stories,sometimes dark old women from the local shelter for the poor, which was demolished two hundred years ago, drop in.