Each person at least once in his life had to encounter extraordinary and often inexplicable coincidences. Probably many wondered what these coincidences of circumstances might mean. Perhaps this is a sign from above?.. Sometimes people, faced with such omens, abandoned worldly life and went to a monastery. Some were disappointed in their faith.
It should be noted that religion interprets various kinds of miracles as the providence of God. At the same time, science generally does not allow any coincidences, if only because of the existence of the theory of probability. Scientists do not study coincidences, since it is impossible to repeat the experiment in this phenomenon.
What is the nature of coincidences? What natural mechanism determines their appearance? Not only do coincidences refute the theory of probability, but also their frequency is excluded by the same theory.
If we analyze such cases, then one gets the opinion that in most of them a certain symbolic meaning is hidden, as if someone is trying to prove something to people. Unfortunately, often people do not understand hints of this kind.
Only such a symbolic meaning can, for example, explain the story that happened in 1848. Then a tradesman named Nikifor Nikitin was exiled to a distant settlement for seditious speeches about a flight to the moon. And the most striking thing is that the place of his exile turned out to be Baikonur, the very one where the famous cosmodrome is now located.
And here's another interesting story. Since 1955, the press periodically appears to mention a certain resident of Great Britain by the name of Waterman (from English his surname is translated as "water"), whose house has been subjected to daily floods for many years. Plumbers can't do anything about it …
In 1975, a small child from Detroit fell out of a 14th-floor window. Fortunately, a man named Joseph Figlock was passing under the windows at this time. Both participants in the incident escaped with a slight fright, the baby weighed a little, and the gentleman was quite obese. However, the story did not end there. It so happened that a few years later the same man again found himself under the windows of the same house, and, of course, the same child fell on his head again. True, the baby gained a little weight and fell from another window, located a little lower. It is not known how the child ended up at the window, but this time everything ended quite well.
An interesting story happened in 1664. In early December, the English ship "Meneu" sank in the Pas-de-Calais Strait. Only one sailor managed to escape - Hugo Williams. 120 years later, another ship sank in the Irish Sea, near the Isle of Man. Once again, one person was saved. And his name was … Hugo Williams …
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There are many such examples. But in history there was one person whose life was almost completely determined by such unusual coincidences. We are talking about the famous Russian poet A. Pushkin. So much has been written about him that it is very difficult to surprise a person who is interested in his persona and work, but the mysticism, which literally pursued the poet through life and repeatedly determined the most important stages of his fate, is able to interest even the most notorious skeptic.
So what do we know about Pushkin? Yes, almost everything, the majority will answer, and it will not be right. There were many moments in the poet's life that somehow escaped the attention of his biographers. Almost nowhere is it mentioned that Pushkin was a very superstitious person. Sometimes he was even accused of excessive faith in various kinds of superstitions, omens and predictions. To such attacks, the poet said that each person has his own oddities. However, once he nevertheless admitted that he had become superstitious when he was already an adult. And the whole reason was a chain of mysterious incidents that greatly influenced his future life.
Of course, it's hard to believe, but the beginning of the drama that took place in 1837 on the Black River in the suburbs of St. Petersburg was laid back in 1817-1818, exactly when the famous German fortune teller Alexandra Kirchhoff arrived in the city.
One winter day, Pushkin with his friends P. Mansurov, actor Sosnitsky and brothers N. and A. Vsevolozhsky decided to take a walk along Nevsky Prospect. While walking, they came across the house where the soothsayer from Germany was staying, and about which they talked so much in St. Petersburg. Pushkin decided to check if she was telling the truth, and if anything, to laugh at her and tell about charlatanism.
However, the company's plan went awry from the very moment the young people stepped into the house. After all, the appearance of the fortuneteller did not fit in with the stereotype that was established in the representation of friends. The German woman very arrogantly and dryly, but at the same time emphatically calmly greeted the visitors and asked about the purpose of the visit. The men asked to tell fortunes, while emphasizing that the past does not interest them at all, but only the future.
The German woman began fortune-telling. First, she told Pushkin that in the very near future he would receive a letter that would bring unexpected money. One of these days the poet will meet an old friend who will offer him a good job. In addition, A. Kirchhoff said that Pushkin will become the idol of his compatriots and will go to exile twice and get married. But she also warned that the poet's life would end in an unnatural way.
At that time, Pushkin was not so gullible, so he forgot about everything he heard on the same day. But the events that happened to the poet in the evening of the same day made him think seriously about the prophecy of the German woman. And it all started with the fact that he really received a letter with money, although he did not expect any cash receipts. As it turned out, later, it was an old card debt, which was returned to him by his fellow student Korsakov.
Pushkin wondered how the German woman could have known about the old debt. But after long deliberation, I came to the conclusion that the fortune-teller just guessed.
However, soon Pushkin had to make sure that this was not at all the case. A few days later, on Nevsky Prospect, the poet met an old friend who served in Warsaw at the court of Prince Constantine. However, some reasons made him look for a place in St. Petersburg. But the official did not want to create problems for his boss, so he decided to find a worthy replacement for himself. He offered this place to Pushkin.
It turned out that the German woman in the first part of her predictions was not at all wrong. Then Pushkin realized that everything else said by A. Kirchhoff would come true. The poet was convinced that it was not in vain that they talked so much about the German woman in Petersburg. From that moment on, he became overly superstitious.
Frau Kirghof warned Pushkin that the life scenario that she predicted was not the only one, and if the poet manages to survive the life milestone at the age of 37, then a calm long life awaits him. But to get around the dangers that awaited a man at the age of 37 will be very difficult. The German woman warned to beware of a white man, a white head, or a white horse.
After, for many years, Pushkin waited for the prediction to come true. And he really hoped that he would somehow be able to avoid it. Then the poet decided to leave for Poland, but having learned one circumstance, he decided to stay in Russia. The fact is that the name of one of the rebels was Weisskopf, which translated as "white head".
Because of the predictions of the German fortune teller, Pushkin parted with the brotherhood of Freemasons. Initially, the poet joined the organization of free masons out of his own convictions, but when he learned that a man whose name also meant "white head" was related to this lodge, he decided: it was better to remain inconsistent, but alive, than ideological, but dead.
However, all these tricks did not help Pushkin to deceive fate. On the day and hour predicted by the fortune teller, a man appeared in the poet's life, who was destined to put an end to his life. Pushkin's killer, Dantes, fully fit the description given by Kirghof: he was a blond young man who wore a white uniform and served in a regiment of cavalry guards, in which all horses were white ….
It should be noted that not only a German soothsayer warned Pushkina about a violent death. Few people know that Pushkin's sister, Olga, was a rather strong medium, and was very well versed in palmistry and physiognomy. The girl tried not to guess close people, but Pushkin insisted that the girl make an exception for him. Olga read the fate of her brother by hand, but for a long time she did not dare to tell about it. Finally, she confessed that she was very worried about her brother, because he would face a violent death.
According to some experts, the prophecies that promised death to the poet, and in which he believed, united in a powerful energy-informational impulse. In Pushkin's subconscious, this impulse was transformed into a certain program of future actions. And the first predictions, which so quickly came true, acted as a kind of magic hook, which was simply impossible not to bite. Creative imagination, the power of belief in the irreversibility of fate and ordinary fear became the factor that helped materialize thoughts, turning them into real events.
But did Pushkin have a chance to cheat fate? A. Kirghof warned that there are two possible scenarios in Pushkin's life. We have already talked about the first, now let's turn to the second. So, initially Pushkin was going to marry Ekaterina Ushakova, but literally before the wedding he decided to visit a fortune teller, who predicted that the poet was destined to die from his own wife. When he told his bride about this, she decided that it was better to cancel the wedding. Then Pushkin drew attention to another subject of his adoration - Natalia Goncharova, whom he first saw at a ball in a white (!) Dress. Perhaps it was this white stroke that became the beginning of the fatal chain that led to the death of the poet. The couple's family life, by the way, was very unhappy. Natalia was especially windy, she shone in secular society, the emperor was fascinated by her, and Pushkin burned with jealousy.
However, the emperor did not succeed in achieving reciprocity, and Georges Dantes did it, who later became the killer of the great poet. Pushkin hated Dantes, their quarrel lasted for many months and the matter repeatedly came to a duel. But the most striking thing is that at the moment when the deadline for the fulfillment of Kirghof's prediction came, everyone for some reason forgot about him. You can even say that someone seemed to have erased all the memories of the prophecy's prediction.
But let's imagine for a moment that Natalia would not have rejected the emperor's claims. Pushkin, of course, would have fallen into a rage, but he certainly would not have fought in a duel. Most likely, he would have gone abroad, which he so dreamed of, and it is quite possible that he would have lived to a ripe old age. But … everything happened as it happened …
So it turns out that all accidents in life are not accidental at all.