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Who has not heard of the famous Butyrka? The sad glory of this an architectural monument located along Novoslobodskaya street, stretches from the distant XVIII century. Inside its walls were thieves, murderers, robbers, political prisoners. Many never left her walls. Even birds do not fly over this Butyrka without bearing its negative energy.
How can such a place do without ghosts?
The ghost of Pugachev
Butyr Castle was built at the behest of Empress Catherine II and immediately built like a prison. It was here that they brought the captured Emelyana Pugacheva. The leader of the rebels was kept in the basement of the tower, which has since been called Pugachevskaya. In the dungeon “thief and the robber, posing as Emperor Peter III, was chained to the wall.
December 31, 1774 Pugachev was sentenced to death through a quartering. January 10 at Bolotnaya Square, he bowed in all sides and said “I’m sorry, Orthodox people!”, after which lay down on the chopping block.
However, there is a version that it was not himself who was executed on Bolotnaya Square Pugachev, and his double. The grounds for such assumptions are: Catherine really could fear a popular rebellion. Free Pugachev’s rebellious crowd – and she, led by a literate an active leader, she could really do things in Moscow. Therefore, the real Pugachev was stabbed with peaks in the basement of the tower.
The prison guards are sure that it was so. Many of them, who, on duty, moves at night along the corridors of Butyrka, repeatedly saw the ghost of the “eminent” well.
Mikhalych
No less Pugachev among the convicts famous Mikhalych. Unlike he is not afraid of other ghosts and can appear during the day. Moreover, one person can see and hear him, and those standing nearby not. In bloodstained rags he turns to the prisoner with demanding to give him his liver.
From meetings with Mikhalych, I went for a walk among the Butyrka sitters legend that secret transplant experiments were conducted in prison organs. Mikhalych was then left without a liver, and since then he has been walking along the corridors of Butyrka, looking for a replacement for the lost organ. According to an established belief, meeting him is a mark of death.
Girl in white
But a meeting with a girl in white, on the contrary, is for luck. Believed that the nameless deceased in custody by her appearance warns that soon the prisoner will receive good news: commutation of sentence, and perhaps the long-awaited amnesty will come. Therefore, let the guards who see her reflection in the mirror get scared, let the guard dogs whine, and the convict has a holiday in his heart.
To meet a ghost is not necessary to walk on the corridors of Butyrka. Sometimes he comes himself, right into the camera.
Many inhabitants of Butyrka sleep uneasily. In a dream, as if someone strangles them with cold hands, stabs with a knife, twists his arms. Nightmare? Tricks of cellmates? However, even when sedentary alone (!) find bruises on the neck, abrasions and wounds on the body, involuntarily one has to believe in the most incredible.
According to Butyr beliefs – this is the ghost of a serial pedophile killer Sergey Golovkin, the last executed criminal in Russia takes out his anger at the living. Just a few weeks “did not reach” maniac before Russia declared a moratorium on death sentences. Contrary to all the rules, the employees informed the criminal in advance about date of execution to increase his torment. To the appointed Golovkin’s day has already become obsessed and his soul cannot find it all tranquility in the world of the dead.
Underground Legends
The Butyrka prison building is over 200 years old. How can there be no legends about mysterious dungeons! The most common – about the underground passage Catherine II. On it the formidable empress went to look at Pugacheva, and at the same time check whether her a trusted spouse? The move is so huge that it was possible to move in a carriage (the whole street!).
The secret story is not inferior to this legend in popularity. underground passage connecting Butyrka with the Kremlin, specially dug by order of Stalin. Say the leader of the peoples also sometimes showed desire to look at their defeated enemies. Confirm or impossible to refute these legends: no dungeon plans Butyryk not preserved. The deputy warden assures that personally covered all the cellars and there are no moves. However, in 2001 three specially imprisoned spoons scooped the floor in the cell, went down into Butyrka cellars … and soon ended up outside the prison.
So, is there something?
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