Butyrka is one of the worst prisons in our country. Today, thanks to the Internet, everyone can learn everything about it. Almost all. For example, the fact that it was built during the reign of Catherine on the site of the village of the same name. In Russia, the empress felt uneasy, and there were not enough prisons.
The first famous "inhabitant" of Butyrka is the villain Emelya Pugachev, who was executed here in 1775. And then who else has not been sitting here … During the years of the proletariat's rule, the cellars of the Butyrka prison, in the literal sense of the word, were bursting with overpopulation. But the enemies of the people were “freed” promptly - not a single prison in the Soviet Union had so many executions … Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who first came to this place, began to write a novel, which, in the end, was burned. Later, Solzhenitsyn's wife said that the reader would not understand him. “Sasha would have been recognized as mentally ill,” Solzhenitsyna explained.
Butyrskaya prison. Scary tale. Eyewitness account of Alexei
In 1993, my cousin Sergei went to jail. It so happened that after graduating from university I took up science, and Seryoga - business. And what kind of business in the dashing nineties could be without crime? I regularly went to see my brother on dates, and then I met Butyrka. To be honest, the building is not impressive. Here the Vladimirsky central and "Kresty" in St. Petersburg have a really frightening gloomy solemn appearance.
The brother looked good. I was afraid it would be worse. There were no bruises, no knocked out teeth, only longing in his eyes.
- How are you, Seryoga?
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- It's okay, just scary here. This Butyrka, and her perfume …
To be honest, I myself experienced an eerie feeling, passing through the corridors of a terrible institution. Every time, coming on a date, I thought more and more about this place and about whether evil spirits can live here?
- Have a drink? - Asked me a young, but very shabby woman, when I once again left the prison building. As if hypnotized, I took her with me to the nearest dumplings.
After drinking two hundred shots, the woman began to talk.
- Here, I live in that house. Windows directly overlook Butyrka. I inherited the apartment from my grandmother. As soon as I moved here, I immediately began to hear scary voices at night, hallucinations are also terrible. I even went to the path, and she said that Butyrka does not let anyone go alive. Now I can't even sleep without booze. By the way, my neighbor also suffered, could not stand it, and put his head in a noose …
Fortunately, Seryoga received a condition. Once freed, he told me that he constantly watched ghosts. Many ghosts were even given names by prisoners. There were also creepy ghosts in rags from the century before last, and "enemies of the people" of the thirties …
Butyrka. A lost place and bloody history
If you believe the legends, then from ancient times there was a bad name about the Butyrka lands. People who lived in these places tried to bypass them. It was believed that this land is cursed and can change a person's life, of course, not for the better. This place was feared by both Orthodox and Muslim Tatars from the village of Cherkizovo, and even pagans who lived in Kitay-Gorod. And then a prison appeared here.
Butyrka had her own spirit and her own appetites. Maybe that's why in the thirties of the last century this place became a giant frontal place. Rumor has it that it was slippery to walk along the corridors, how much blood was spilled here. And within these walls, experiments were carried out on prisoners by crossing monkeys and humans.
Many inmates of Butyrka prison not only hear terrible groans, but also feel heavy breathing and footsteps behind their backs. By the way, even if the most thugged prisoner laughs at the ghostly inhabitants of Butyrka, you will not envy him. There is no joke on this topic here.
