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In a rare European city you will not be told a chilling soul the story of a ghost wandering at night through the corridors of the long-dead baron or count. In palaces emperors and kings roam. we no worse. If fate brings you to Vologda, you must they will talk about the spirit of Stalin, who is constantly seen here.
Why Vologda?
Ghosts always visit the places where they “marked” during life. What attracts them here: pleasant memories of a hectic life, or remorse about the crimes committed – is unknown. But nobody saw in the Kremlin chambers the ghost of the English king Richard III, Napoleon’s spirit disturbs the inhabitants St. Petersburg.
Stalin was exiled to Vologda twice: from July to September 1911 and from December 1911 to February 1912. During the last exile he rented a room in the house of a retired gendarme Korpusov, where in 1937 In the year it was decided to open a museum. Vologzhanka Sofya Kryukova in 1912 was a ten-year-old girl often in that house: Korpusov’s wife taught her sewing and needlework. According to her recollections, she was exactly the decor of the room where the exiled Joseph lived was restored Dzhugashvili. So where else does the spirit of Stalin appear, if not here?
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A ghost or …?
In 1941, rumors went around Vologda: they saw Stalin in the city! IN predawn hours he walks along Osoviahimovskaya street near of his museum. The NKVD stopped these rumors: several people disappeared, several were urgently mobilized. But rumors continued to haunt town.
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Some biographers of Stalin tend to believe that a ghost 1941-1942 was not so incorporeal. In November 1941 according to the secret decree of T-bills construction began several command posts for military leadership and government of the country. Secret bunkers were built in Yaroslavl, Saratov, Kazan, Gorky, Kuibyshev, Ulyanovsk and Stalingrad.
There is no information in the archives that Stalin visited these objects, but in his official biography so many gaps! One of the builders Samara bunker claimed to have personally seen Stalin twice. So which is quite possible that in 1941-1942. in the city they saw it “leader of the peoples.” But if Stalin himself, having visited Vologda, left the city, its ghost lingered here for many years.
Meeting with the ghost
On a late March evening in 1953, the head of the museum, cooking reporting documentation, delayed until late. Finishing things, he dressed, went out into the corridor and heard unhurried heavy steps. He looked around. A short, overweight man in a jacket was walking along the corridor, stopped at the room of the exiled Dzhugashvili and grabbed the handle. On the a moment he turned around, measured from dumb to head dumbfounded head gaze and hid behind the door. Next Radio Day reported the death of the “leader of the peoples.”
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After death, the spirit of Stalin became frequent in the city. Museum staff night watchmen, janitors repeatedly met a familiar figure in overcoat and cap, which terrified them. Soon the ghost became stroll along the adjacent streets. In 1973 on him came across a group of cheating students. Of course they drank a lot of drunken things that just can not imagine, but could not all at the same time dream of the same thing!
In early 1991, a high-ranking visitor from Moscow Party Bonz, leaving the Government House, saw the ghost of Stalin in front of the building. He was as if alarmed by something and tried something say, but then turned and disappeared into the darkness of the evening. And through several days the failed coup GKChP put an end to the existence USSR. Maybe I wanted to warn about this the spirit of the deceased generalissimo party functionary?
Memo
… May 2014, a Kremlin employee Maria Khobotova, while wet cleaning in the office of the President of the Russian Federation, I saw in an armchair head of state ghost of Stalin. According to her fame, he was dressed in a military uniform with shoulder straps, in his hand he held a pipe. Cleaning lady crossed herself and began whispering to read “Our Father”. Ghost, raising his eyes, he said: “You’ll still get trouble, don’t make noise,” – released a stream of smoke, after which it melted. With Khobotova, a subscription about non-disclosure. She is currently being assisted qualified specialists – psychiatrists.
What future changes this time I wanted to warn ghost?
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