13 ghosts in Moscow

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Slightly humorous mystery

Terrible 1.Ivan
Terrible Ghost is just the regular denizens of the Kremlin. Preserved even the memory of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II on how to him and the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna on the eve of the coronation has welcomed the spirit of the famous tyrant.

Where to look: the Kremlin, the lower tiers of the Ivan the Great Bell.



2. Ghost Train
Once a month, on the Circle Line can observe a strange phenomenon - completely empty train, gently stopping at every station, but did not open the door. The cab driver - a man in the old form of underground workers. It is said that on the train gathered restless souls of the dead on the construction of the metro. Sometimes it happens that the cars doors open, but in no case can they go and even come close to them, otherwise this trip will last for you.

Where to look: Circle line, after midnight



3. Limousine Beria
Witnesses repeatedly watched from the Garden Ring to the house where he lived before Beria, approaching the sound of the car and riding a small point of light. Himself limousine can not see, but hear it stops, the door slams, from interior and invisible man goes about something talking with an invisible security guard. Specter appears moonless nights, the most commonly seen between October and April. It is said that the girl, which happened in this time around, in any case can not accept the invitation charming middle-aged man "ride on the night Moscow».

Where to look: Malaya Nikitskaya street, d.28 (now the embassy of Tunisia), m. Barricadnaya.



4. bibliologist Rubakin
The famous writer and publicist Nikolai Rubakin founded more than one library. Before his death in 1946 he bequeathed all his books Library. VI Lenin, which then moved and his spirit. Rubakin - good ghost. As they say the elderly librarians to find the book you want, you need to ask for help from Rubakin. When complete silence in the empty reading room heard steps, it is important to bury in the book and not to raise the head, otherwise Rubakin offended and will not help in the search.

Where to look: a reading room and library Library. VI Lenin, m. Library. VI Lenin.



5. Herzen and Ogarev
Gave the oath of relentless struggle against the autocracy on the Sparrow Hills, they appear at the parapet summer nights the lookout. Dressed in a suit of XIX century. Meeting with them to bring good luck, especially Herzen and Ogarev supportive to students his alma mater, the University of Moscow.

Where to look: a viewing platform on Sparrow Hills



6. The old man Kusovnikov
According to legend, once near the old shop "Tea and coffee" on Butcher was the house where the late XIX century, the couple lived Kusovnikovy known for its wealth and avarice and phenomenal. Every night they took out of the house with her jewelry box and shabby gig drove through the city, has saved them from thieves. But once fallen ill and stayed the night at home, and hid the box in the fireplace. To the old man felt chilly, the watchman threw the fire in the fireplace, and all their savings burned. Learning of this, Mrs. Kusovnikova died on the spot, and the old man for a long time even petitioned the city authorities that they have restored him to banknotes. Fighting bureaucracy brought him to the grave. Now the full moon at the store in the old man's ghost appears ridiculous coat adheres to the passers-by with a question: "Where is my money, where's my money?" Appears after seven in the evening. Meeting with him promises unforeseen expenses or loss of money.

Where to look: Butcher Street, 17, m., Or Turgenevskaya Chistye Prudy.



7. Cat Hippopotamus
On Tverskaya Street twice a month on odd days wandering the huge fat black cat. He comes out of the wall of a building and goes to the other wall, and to whom he ran the road to wait for trouble. Almost all the residents and patrons of Tver ever seen him yes, he was repeatedly photographed and filmed with a video camera, and even brought in a International directory of ghosts. They say that it is with this cat Bulgakov wrote his Behemoth.

Where to look: Tverskaya Street, between Art. metro "Pushkinskaya" and "Mayakovskaya»



8. The Black Monk
Who he is - nobody knows. Typically, the ghost looks like a tall skinny monk with a white face, dressed in a long black robe. He appears not at night, like most other ghosts, and in the afternoon, and, as a rule, in the damp warm weather - for example, in the summer after the rain. What's strange - the birds when he appeared not fly, dogs do not bark at him, horses shy away from him, but people are beginning to feel irrational fear. Locals say that you can not hail a monk or talk to him - or misfortune.

Where to look: Alёshkinsky forest m. Glider.



9. Fatal mother
They say every third driver, had an accident on Nikulinskaya street before the collision fancied a quiet female voice crooning lullaby. This mirage rose before his eyes: green garden, a young girl on a swing, a baby in her arms, she lulls. Legend has it that once on Nikulinskaya scorcher knocked a pregnant woman, and now her ghost revenge "four-wheel" for his unfulfilled dreams of their own child.

Where to look: Nikulinskaya street, m. Southwest.



10. Grey crew
According to the legend of the XIX century, when a Moscow casino after midnight, leaving the loser lost all their possessions, and began to think about suicide, immediately before it shows a gray crew and the driver in a gray cloak proposed "master" to take you anywhere for 10 cents. The tariff for the services of a cab within the Garden Ring was at the time of 30-40 cents. Those who took such a good offer, no one else saw. In our time, as they say, appears before the crew Grey playboy as a ghostly gray broken-sixes.

Where to look: in the street the Kuznetsk bridge, m. Kuznetsky Most.



11. Juju
At the beginning of XX century, a charming French Juju was the mistress of Savva Morozov. One morning in 1905 Juju rode in a carriage at the Kuznetsk bridge, when suddenly I heard screams newsboy: "Savva Morozov committed suicide in Nice!" Juju crew jumped out to buy a newspaper, and fell under the wheels of a passing on the wrong side of the carriage. And in the evening in one of the alleys police found the dead boy, newsboy, strangled black stockings. As established expertise, stocking belonged Juju, although her body was kept in the morgue. Since insidious revenge French journalists, the papers and media sellers, attacking and trying to kill them.

Where to look: Theatre Way, m. Lubyanka.



12. Player with
Drivers are not seen as at the Gorky Highway votes scary bearded man, similar to the usual homeless. If someone stops, each time a man utters the same strange phrase: "Forgive me, my good man!" Legend has it that it was a ghost robber-convict, deprived the lives of over a hundred people dead and at the Vladimir tract without repentance, and burials. In response, I must say, "God forgive!" And leave immediately. If left unanswered ghost or insult him, he can take revenge - to arrange an accident.

Where to look: Gorky highway, about 5 km away. from Moscow.



13. Headless Khovansky
On the orders of Sophia, setsry summary of Peter I, in 1682 in the village of Exaltation, near modern Yaroslavl highway Khovanskii father and son, which the archers would like to build on the throne, were beheaded. Body Khovanskys trampled in a swamp, where soon were heard strange groans. Then on the way to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra began to appear executed Khovanskii, which stops the travelers and asked them to go to Moscow to the Princess Sophia - put in a good word for them. Khovanskys can see now - they slow down vehicles, remove the severed heads as hats and bow drivers. To the ghosts behind, enough to promise them to fulfill their request. However, as a rule, meet headless princes "lucky" faint with terror.

Where to find: Yaroslavl highway.



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