35 years ago, a woman from Sverdlovsk died who could read with her eyes closed. Her performances in the 60-70s of the last century divided the scientific world into two camps. Some considered Rosa to be unique: they wrote articles about her, collected scientific and practical conferences. Others called them a swindler and also wrote articles, but of an exposing nature.
Foreign lovers of mysticism and Soviet "competent authorities" showed interest in her … So who is she - the famous Rosa Kuleshova?
Rose was born in March 1940 in the village of Pokrovskoye near Nizhny Tagil. With the beginning of the war, the head of the family, Alexei Borodin, went to the front and never returned. Little Rose lived sometimes with her mother in the city, then with her grandmother in the village. From the age of eleven she had seizures of epilepsy. The girl finished seven classes of school number 7 and went to work as a nurse in an infectious diseases hospital.
To do amateur performances, she went to school for the visually impaired. Seeing how blind people read Braille, she also tried to "touch" the letters in an ordinary book and felt that she could distinguish white from black. Rose began training and achieved significant success in a year and a half.
Later, scientists called this period the formation of her contact skin-optical sensitivity. By the fall of 1962, she not only knew how to read ordinary printed text, but also recognized the color tones of paper and fabrics by touch and perceived the contents of pictures and drawings with her fingers.
At the same time, Rosa is married to Valentin Kuleshov, an assembly fitter at the UVZ, their daughter Irina was born. The young woman's health was still poor; she received a disability group and spent a lot of time in hospitals. One of her treating doctors - I. M. Goldberg - having learned about the patient's unusual talent, he told his colleagues about it. Employees of the Department of Psychology of Nizhny Tagil
Pedagogical Institute began research work on the topic of "skin-optical sensitivity". Rosa and her family moved to work at a school for the blind in Verkhnyaya Pyshma, and began teaching children according to her own method.
Soon, on the initiative of the Knowledge Society, Kuleshova was allocated an apartment in Sverdlovsk. During the winter season, she worked as a nurse in a hospital or as a dishwasher in a canteen. And in the summer she went on tour to the sea. Here is how her daughter Irina Palamarchuk recalls these trips:
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- Mom took two tickets to any southern city - Anapa, Dnepropetrovsk, Sochi. In the carriage, she always sat down to play cards and always won. When they arrived, I went to the Knowledge Society. There she was always welcome. Immediately they made up a schedule of performances, and for all this time I was assigned to the pioneer camp.
At concerts, my mother, with a tight bandage over her eyes with her fingers and toes, read newspapers, identified the colors of objects through thick cardboard … The audience was delighted. Mom rejoiced at every success, she loved to be in sight, on stage she felt like a queen. And when the curtain went down, I experienced nervous breakdowns, often negative energy splashed out on me …
The daughter of Rosa Kuleshova did everything not to repeat the fate of her mother, and she does not like it at all when her own daughters show extrasensory abilities. Photo by Galina Sokolova.
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Rosa Alekseevna was especially keen on criticism. Each devastating article led to a nervous breakdown. In 1976, an extensive examination of Kuleshova was carried out in Moscow, after which the Literaturnaya Gazeta wrote that the Tagil "clairvoyant" was a charlatan who could skillfully peep. It should be noted that these experiments were already carried out with a seriously ill woman, and, according to many scientists, then “the child was thrown out along with the water”. In 1978, Rosa died of a brain tumor.
Rose loved being a unique person, and she was. Only the acquired gift did not bring happiness to the woman. She lived with her husband for only five years. How to keep your family together when you are not at home for a long time: you are being treated, then you are giving concerts. There were other men in her life, but the novels quickly ended. And the daughter rarely saw her mother, grew up with her grandmother, aunt, father and stepmother.
When Irina was 13 years old, her mother began to teach her to read with her hands. The girl did not want to, but obeyed. I began to distinguish large letters, numbers, intuition suddenly developed. As soon as the mother was gone, the daughter did everything not to repeat her fate.
“I crushed all the skills I had acquired,” says Irina Palamarchuk. - I hold on to my husband, gave birth to three daughters, now I help to raise my grandchildren. I live in our ancestral village - Pokrovskoye, I am engaged in fattening cattle for meat. I'm sure the desire to be special did not make my mother happy. She experienced moments of glory, and I relied on long-term family happiness.
