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They say that writers can somehow predict future events. This was demonstrated, for example, by Edgar Poe, who described a case of cannibalism on a boat after a shipwreck. Moreover he not only accurately described how all this happened, but even guessed the name of the young man who was killed by hungry sailors in just a few minutes to your rescue.
However, such mystical insights or creative foresights inherent not only to the masters of the pen, but also to the masters of the brush, that is artists. Here, for example, what an amazing case described from Head of Criminal Investigation Department of his criminal practice Russian Empire Arkady Koshko, who after the 1917 revolution immigrated to France, and there, in 1929, published his memoirs.
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This incident occurred in St. Petersburg at the end of the nineteenth. century. In the attic of one of the houses on Vasilievsky Island once found the corpse of a fourteen-year-old girl who was raped, and then strangled by a villain. The capital literally began to boil from such news, at that time it was unheard of in its cruelty and godlessness crime, today it’s like no one else surprise that does not honor our generation in terms of morality and spirituality.
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The police knocked down in search of a criminal, but time passed, and the killer remained at large. Shock in society from this the villainy was so great that one Petersburg artist painted a picture of what happened, which depicted a half-dark attic, murdered child and escaping crime scene hunchback villain. Moreover, on canvas, the criminal half-turns before by slipping through the attic door and opening his an ugly face with a red beard, small evil eyes and huge voluptuous mouth.
The artist’s creative foresight nearly ruined him
The artist’s painting won an award and was exhibited in city art gallery, where people scorched in a crowd for the sake of only in order to see this canvas. And then one day in a crowd near this a sharp cry came out of the picture, and one of the spectators collapsed on the floor. It turned out to be a hunchback man. But god are stupefied present, the hunchback from the picture and this hunchbacked visitor to the gallery were in one person …
When the hunchback regained consciousness, he asked to call the police and further admitted that it was he who committed a crime in the attic, he abused the unfortunate girl, and then strangled her. Since since her image and her death throat tirelessly pursued the villain, but who could see him in the attic at that moment, could not understand dumbfounded criminal?
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Captain Chulitsky, who was in charge of the detective police in St. Petersburg, did not believe in any miracles, but because immediately suspected the artist, at least in concealing the crime, to say the least – in complicity. However, the artist it turned out to be a solid alibi: at the time of the crime he was in Italy, then no one could participate and even see the criminal way.
But the secret was easily clarified. Shocked by what happened, the artist I decided to write a picture about this terrible villainy, why even traveled to the crime scene several times and made sketches attic with a dead girl. It remained to find the image of the vile and disgusting murderer. For some reason, he introduced himself to the artist freak like quasimodo. Once, quite by accident, a brush master I went into the tavern and saw a hunchback there, outwardly responding to that the image that arose in his head. Learning from the innkeeper that this is a regular visitor to the institution, the artist several times he caught a hunchback in him, and for five evenings he copied an image from him the killers. He could not imagine that in fact the killer drew…
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The villain was sentenced to twenty years of hard labor, while time, wrote in his memoirs Arkady Koshko, executed in Russia extremely rare, except for particularly grave state crime. But what’s remarkable, the author of the memoir adds, how accidental was the artist’s visit to the inn? What the providence forced him to go there, and at that very moment when was the killer there? Moreover, he answered one hundred percent the image that the artist has intuitively caught in his imagination. Here are the incomprehensible secrets of creativity and being …
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