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About the holy foolish prophet Ivan Yakovlevich Koreysh now few people remembers, and in the mid-nineteenth century, fame was so great that this healer and clairvoyant went into all Russian encyclopedias issued before the formation of the USSR. Besides he became a hero of the works of such venerable writers of his time, as F. Dostoevsky (“Demons”), N. Leskov, L. Tolstoy, A. Ostrovsky, I. Bunin.
Fool in the Smolensk region
Ivan Koreisha was born in 1783 in the Smolensk region. Since father have he was a priest, then the same fate was destined for his son. However, after graduating from the seminary, Ivan Koreysha took the rank of the priest refused, becoming a teacher in a religious school. IN 1813 for some serious offense, about which history silent, Ivan Yakovlevich could go to jail. Frightened by this, a young man runs away into the forest, where, apparently, he starts to move mind. Only four years later he was accidentally found in a state wildness and clouding of reason the peasants, then settled newly-made holy fool in a bathhouse on the edge of the village.
Soon, the foolish Koreish became famous in the district, which, they say, he knows how to predict the future, to expel any ailments, helps find the lost and much more. The people tumbled down to the bathhouse, where huddled holy fool from all over Russia. He took all, pay for his I didn’t take help, but I put a strange condition: I talked only with those who crawled into the bathhouse on their knees.
Holy fool in Moscow
In 1817, Ivan Koreisha was arrested on a false denunciation of an important nobles and sent to Moscow, where he ends up in Preobrazhenskaya Mental Hospital – Crazy Home. Barin galloped at the holy fool for the fact that he upset his “fake wedding” on the daughter of Smolensk merchants – a great beauty. And although the proposal was flattering for the girl, fearing that the nobleman would deceive her, turned to to the seer Koreisha, and he told her that the master was married and he had three children. It was an absolute truth, but such a truth itself it cost the holy fool freedom, because in a mad house he was kept in basement on a chain, planting on bread and water.
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True, the glory of the prophet flew to Moscow earlier than here. they brought the most holy fool, and the people again tumbled down to him in droves. The authorities realized that you can make good money on it, and began to let people to Ivan, taking 20 cents per entrance. And although it was a lot of money in those days, on the day the holy fool took a hundred-odd sufferers of his help.
He not only predicted the future of man, but also healed from all diseases, gave wise advice on what to do in one or another cases, and so on. Over time, he was freed from shackles and even settled in a spacious room, but the holy fool continued to huddle in its corner – in the usual conditions for him. He didn’t take from anyone no fee for their help, so people brought him food that he again handed out to the needy.
Rich gentlemen also came to the prophet Koreisha, and not always with the desire to learn only about their fate, but also about the future of Russia, the world. They say that the holy fool always predicted something that then come true. For example, he predicted the Crimean War, death Emperor Nicholas I, who personally came to him in Transfiguration Psychiatric Hospital, and much more. Right away make a reservation, no prophecies about the distant future Koreysh not left. What will happen to Russia at the beginning of the twenty-first century and, especially, after 2016, he did not speak. Yes its most likely nobody asked about it …
The death of the holy fool and the prophet
In the memories of this holy fool more than the most ordinary household scenes. For example, he perfectly saw through every person, therefore, if rich shodders came to him to laugh over the old man, he easily convicted them of this and shamed him, which is wonderful said in “Demons” Fedor Dostoevsky. Ivan Yakovlevich not only expelled any disease from the body, but also warned the visitor, which he must beware of life. For example, having cured the tradesman Koreyev from drunkenness, the holy fool predicted his death from the fire. Since then became aware of fires and even slept restlessly for this reason, however, it burned down from the internal fire: ate or drank something unbroken, after which he died in agony and shouting what’s inside everything is on fire.
Ivan Yakovlevich Koreisha died in 1861, exactly on September 6, as he predicted to himself. On this day, he laid his feet on the images, yes and introduced himself. His funeral was so solemn that with they could not be compared even quite loud wires of the time Nikolai Gogol or Alexey Ermolov. Suffice it to say that to five days people walked the holy fool’s coffin, almost two half a hundred memorial services, and when the coffin was carried to the church cemetery Church of Elijah the Prophet in the village of Cherkizovo, several hundred people gathered thousand People fell in front of the coffin prostrate, tried to touch it (they even gnawed chips from the coffin, but grabbed the flowers in an instant), and the grave of the prophet and healer was thrown with money … And this despite that it rained heavily that day. And surprisingly, that with so many people no one was hurt.
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It is also striking that in godless times the Soviet regime did not neither the Church of Elijah the Prophet nor the ancient church suffered in Cherkizovo a cemetery near it, which today is called a mini-museum of small architectural forms – a unique collection of ancient tombstones, among which the cross on the grave of Ivan Yakovlevich stands out especially Koreshi. People still come here with their troubles, pains and ailments. They say that the holy fool and after so many years after of his death continues to help people …
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