Until the age of 25, he grew up like everyone else, then time seemed to stop for him. After several years of unstable equilibrium, it rolled back - Soso began to rapidly grow younger.
Youthful Soso Lomidze
At the age of 25, early gray hair disappeared, the stubble on the cheeks was replaced by a gentle youthful fluff, and the voice changed. The process progressed, every 5 years Soso lost weight and seemed to become smaller in height. Over the years, the difference between biological and calendar ages increased, 30-year-old Soso was given 20-25 years old, and 40-year-old looked like a 15-year-old teenager.
It is unlikely that any of the men would be delighted with the prospect of endless rejuvenation. It's great to return to youth, but to childhood … not to meet a woman, not to buy vodka in a store, or to knock in a men's company. But Soso was not at all upset with his rejuvenation - he was not like everyone else, he was a thief.
Criminal talent
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Soso Lomidze was a pickpocket. At the age of 15, he was already known and respected in the tweezers' circle as a top-class specialist. He was caught and given a term, in spite of his "youth" - a total of 13 years Soso spent behind bars.
The phenomenon of appearance did not in the least affect his mental abilities and psychological development - over the years the pickpocket became smarter, more cunning and resourceful. And in 1983, 41-year-old recidivist thief Lomidze gained all-Union fame among criminals.
Mikhail Georgadze
In 1982, as the newspapers wrote, "after a long illness," Mikhail Georgadze, secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, passed away. But in the criminal environment it was said that in fact the statesman committed suicide. The former Chekist Andropov, who replaced Brezhnev, opened a criminal case against Georgadze on the fact of receiving bribes on an especially large scale.
The apartment was searched, the values found - gold, diamonds were considered buckets and the politician, without waiting for the court to give him the death penalty, shot himself. The thieves were sure that the cops had not seized everything and decided to "shake" the widow of the deceased.
Robbing a widow
Tatyana (whom her husband affectionately called Manana) lived in Tbilisi, in an apartment with an armored door in a community of 3 huge Great Danes, she did not open the door to strangers. This is where the "young" Soso came in handy. Dressed in a school uniform with a pioneer tie on his chest, he rang the doorbell. To the question of the hostess "who is there?" squeaked: “Do you have any waste paper? The country needs paper! " Well, who would think something bad of a pioneer? The door locks clicked.
Lomidze's associates immediately launched three high-tech shepherd bitches into the house. Hefty mastiffs forgot about their direct duties and indulged in the joys of love. The owner was tied up, the apartment was ransacked.
The "pioneer" Soso received his share and left for Moscow to live with his mistress Tamara Badridze. The fame of a successful thief rolled after him. But the main thing for Lomidze was still ahead.
Robbed Shevardnadze
In 1989, Foreign Minister Shevardnadze visited Tbilisi. In the past, being the Minister of Internal Affairs, and then the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia, he greatly annoyed the criminal authorities. It was decided to take revenge - to rob the proud Georgian. The choice fell on Soso. Lomidze, who over the past 7 years has become even more rejuvenated, again decided to resort to the trick he had once used.
When the minister visited the Tbilisi Palace of Pioneers, a young pioneer jumped out of the crowd: “Batono Eduard! You are our messiah! We've been waiting for you for so long! Let me kiss your hand! Communist Shevardnadze was moved, took the boy in his arms and kissed him hard.
And only in the office of the director of the Palace, the Gray Fox, discovered that the “pioneer” had taken off his watch “Philip Patek” on a massive gold bracelet decorated with a scattering of diamonds - a gift from the Union of Industrialists of Germany.
The criminals tried to make the story public and announced that they were ready to sell the watch taken from the hands of the USSR Foreign Minister to anyone who offered the highest price. The watch was bought by Shevardnadze himself. Soso received the crown of thieves and the nickname Old Man as a reward.
56 year old kid
By the mid-90s, Soso's potency began to decline. It was only thanks to this juicy detail that Lomidze's story became known to doctors. A friend persuaded him to turn to Juna. She admitted that she could not help and sent Soso to the deputy director of the Research Institute of Experimental Morphology and Gerontology Semyon Dalakishvili.
The gerontologist, having examined the patient, said with regret: “Alas, I cannot help you in any way. Do not be fooled, your body is aging, like everyone else. As for your external "rejuvenation", if it does not stop, you will celebrate the 60th anniversary with a pacifier in your mouth. " The Minister of Health Chazov, who examined Lomidze after Dalakishvili, suggested that Lomidze's rejuvenation is a manifestation of an anomaly at the genetic level, the nature of which is unknown to science.
In the spring of 1998, a famous thief in law was buried at the Tbilisi cemetery. Lying in a coffin, the 56-year-old Old Man looked like an elementary school student.
Author Klim Podkova