The biography of Wolf Messing is interesting to millions of people, because even about 50 years ago the whole of Europe spoke about it. During his life, he made acquaintance with such prominent people as Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein, who considered him the most prominent soothsayer of the 20th century, earned the hatred of Adolf Hitler, who appointed a fabulous reward for that time, and also achieved the status of a personal soothsayer of Stalin.
Oddly enough, it was the âleader of the peoples,â who was hard on converging with people, who appreciated the abilities of the Polish psychic, repeatedly using Messing's predictions about the future for his own purposes. It was by his order that Wolf was allowed to continue his concert activity, during which he was able to demonstrate his talent to the masses.
Basic data
Despite the diversity of talents, it was the ability to providence that played a key role in the life of a psychic. It is noteworthy that Wolf himself, whose predictions stunned the whole world, at first did not even know that he was able to see the future, and even in the future he was not too keen on predictions.
Soviet science denied the very possibility of the existence of telepathy, and that is why Wolfâs impressive abilities have not been studied in detail. Modern scholars admit the possibility that there are some unknown predictions of Messing, but they are so impressive that they are still hidden from the masses under the heading "secret."
Childhood
Wolf G. Gershkovich (Messing) was born on September 10, 1899 in the small Polish city of Gura Kalwaria, not far from Warsaw. The Jewish family of the boy was very large and poor. Since childhood, Wolf had to work hard.
It is noteworthy that his childhood passed under the close supervision of his parents, who feared that a boy suffering from sleepwalking could cause himself significant harm in a dream. Nevertheless, his father came up with an unusually simple way to cure Wolf. To do this, he placed a basin of water near his sonâs bed, and when the boy, about to get out of bed, lowered his legs into him, he immediately woke up. A similar method over time gave an impeccable result - Wolf was completely cured.
Studying in a header
Being religious people, and to the point of fanaticism, Wolf's parents observed all the holidays and fasts.
Therefore, when the question arose about Wolfâs training, he was immediately sent to school at the synagogue, the religious atmosphere of which had a great influence on the fragile psyche of the child. It is noteworthy that the impressions that Wolf received in the classroom at home only intensified due to the fanatical faith in God of his parents, which not only made the boy extremely pious, but also had a detrimental effect on his nervous system.
Wolf easily remembered those prayers that were given to other children quite hard. This was the reason for his meeting with Sholom Aleichem, who advised his father to continue his sonâs education in Yeshibot, nevertheless, the boy himself did not show such a desire, and it was then that Wolfâs parents decided to resort to a small deception for the benefit of his unreasonable son, who did not realize what had fallen to him in their opinion luck.
Transfer to Yeshibot
The father persuaded his acquaintance to play the role of one of God's messengers in front of Wolf, and when the boy went home, having bought cigarettes for his father in the store, he saw a tall figure in white, who told him that his future was to serve God. After this incident, the boy told his parents that he was ready to continue his studies.
The institution, where it was now to continue training, was in another city. Having got rid of the excessive influence of his parents, Wolf calmed down, his psyche gradually began to return to normal. In his second year of study, he saw in Yeshibot a man who seemed vaguely familiar to him. It was in him that the boy recognized the very âdivine messengerâ whom he had met near the house. Guessing that his parents had deceived him, he immediately ran away from school, but did not want to return home.
The first manifestation of the gift
With a capital of nine kopecks, Messing, whose predictions will subsequently make him world famous, went to the nearest railway station and, entering the first train he got, climbed under a bench. As it turned out later, the train went to Berlin. The inspector, examining tickets for passengers, noticed the boy and asked to present a ticket.
Frightened that he would be taken off the train, the boy handed the conductor the first piece of paper that came across, hoping that he would pity him and allow him to go on. You can imagine Wolfâs surprise when the conductor, with complete seriousness, not only took a piece of paper, but, after composting it, in surprise asked why the boy was going under the bench.
Relocation to Berlin
The train in which the boy was traveling departed for Berlin. Feeling constant hunger, he got a handyman in a guesthouse. Despite the heavy workload, he received extremely little money, as a result of which he had to save on almost everything, which ultimately led to a hungry faint.
The boy was taken to a hospital where doctors pronounced death from starvation. Nobody would have known Wolf Messingâs predictions about the future of Russia if one of the students who had been practicing at the hospital morgue had not noticed that Wolfâs heart muscles were still contracting, albeit very weakly.
Professor Abel, who was an extremely popular neuropathologist in Germany at that time, began to study the boyâs body. Wolf woke up only on the third day. The professor told him in detail not only about where he is, but also how much time he spent without movement. Then Wolf still did not suspect that acquaintance with Abel would play a key role in his life.
Conducting experiments
Professor Abel during an examination of the boy, when he was unconscious, drew attention to the fact that his body behaves completely differently than most people who are in a state of lethargic sleep. He was extremely interested in this case and, having secured the support of his colleague Schmitt, he suggested that the guy, as soon as he got stronger, undergo a series of paid experiments, during which he had to enter into a state of complete paralysis on his own so that the doctors could comprehensively study his phenomenon .
Wolf, agreed, almost without hesitation, because for such a burdensome job he received 5 marks a day, which were a fabulous sum for him at that time.
Working with a professor, Wolf began to think about the nature of his gift and gradually engage in self-development.
Work in the circus
The constant training of the gift allowed the boy to raise his consciousness to a new level. After completing his research, Abel, attached to the boy, assigned him an impresario, Mr. Zellmeister, whose main task was to place Wolf in the famous Bush circus, where he received the post of fakir. His duties were that while piercing him with sharp objects, he had to mentally turn off his pain. In the final part of the program, an artist appeared on the stage, depicting a millionaire.
Then ârobbersâ appeared on the scene, who carried out the murder of the rich man and handed out to the audience his âjewelryâ with a request to hide them in any part of the hall. After that, Wolf appeared on the stage, who, to the surprise of the public, unmistakably pointed to their location. This number brought Messing the first success with the audience, who were impressed by his talent.
The end of circus activity
Despite the outbreak of World War I, nothing has changed in Wolf's life. He still performed in the circus. The only change affected the performance program. Now the "robbers" took away things from the public and, dumping them in a heap, offered the boy to distribute them to their owners.
During the time that Messing spent in the circus, he managed not only to win the favor of the audience, but also to make a name for himself. The year 1915 was marked for Messing with a trip to the first independent tour organized by his impresario. His performances brought him overwhelming success, thanks to which he was able to end the circus life forever and begin an independent life.
Meet Freud and Einstein
During a tour in Vienna, Albert Einstein visited Messing's performance and, being interested in the unusual abilities of a 16-year-old boy, invited him to visit him. At home at Einstein Wolf, another man was met by the ownerâs friend Sigmund Freud, a talented doctor and psychologist who created his own theory of psychoanalysis. Einstein told him about the outstanding teenager, and he wanted to personally look at him.
It was Freud who suggested Messing to conduct a series of experiments, thanks to which he managed to become Wolf's personal inductor, passing him his mental orders. In the future, Messing, whose predictions almost always came true, became known throughout the world.
Military service and meeting with Pilsudski
He went on a big four-year tour, during which he visited all the most significant European countries. In 1921 he returned to Poland as a wealthy and famous person.
As he became an adult, he was drafted into the Polish army. From where, one day, on the orders of his commander, he went to see Jozef Pilsudski. With the whole society, Wolfâs abilities were tested, after which Pilsudski, who was quite superstitious, turned to Messing with a personal request, about which Wolf himself was silent, only mentioning it in passing in his memoirs.
Life in Poland
Thanks to a personal acquaintance with the head of the Polish state, Messing was not burdened with military service. He again began experiments in the field of psychology. Hiring a new impresario, he continued his tour of European countries.
People began to turn to the famous psychic with private requests - to resolve problems in family relations, find stolen values, and much more.
An example is the case in the castle of Count Czartoryski - he helped to find a diamond brooch, which the idiot son of a servant hid in a stuffed bear.
Hitler's "personal enemy"
Speaking in one of the Polish theaters in 1937, Wolf Grigorievich Messing, whose predictions often came true, says that Hitler would die if he began to advance his troops to the East. The FĂźhrer found out about this prediction quite quickly, because all Polish editions immediately published it.
Hitler's hatred intensified even more after a conversation with his astrologer Eric Ganussen, from whom he learned that Messing is not a charlatan and really has amazing abilities. Once two psychics crossed on tour and tried to penetrate each other's thoughts. Despite the fact that they broke up almost immediately, Eric was left with the impression of a complete loss in this silent duel.
After this story, Hitler announced that Messing had now become his personal enemy. 210 thousand German marks were even appointed for his capture.
The capture of Poland by German troops
After the German army crossed the borders of Poland (September 1, 1939 ), thereby marking the beginning of World War II, Messing, knowing the vindication of the Fuhrer, decided to flee Poland.
The place where he spent his childhood was soon occupied by the Nazis, organizing a ghetto in it. Wolf Messing managed to move from his native village to Warsaw, and all his relatives - his father and three brothers - were arrested and died in Majdanek. At the same time, Messing himself was glad that his mother did not live up to this terrible day and did not see the torment of her relatives, who died much earlier from a heartbreak.
Arrest
In the Polish capital, Messing took refuge with one of the meat traders. Despite the observance of conspiracy, one of the days of Messing is arrested. Wolf tried to convince the Nazis that he was just a poor artist, but according to one of the posters massively pasted on the streets of the city, he was identified by a German officer.
Confused, Messing did not have time to use his amazing abilities. He was taken to the station and locked in one of the cells. Only there, Wolf fully realized that if he could not escape as soon as possible, he would soon be killed. Psychologically gathered, he was able to use his amazing gift again - all Germans, obeying his mental order, gathered in his cell. Messing himself, who was previously motionless, got up from his bunk and quickly went outside, closing the camera on a deadbolt.
After such a strong nervous strain, the forces completely left him, he could not even go down the steps and leave the building. Then he decided to take a risky jump from the window of the second floor, hoping only for luck, and she did not fail him. Messing with injured legs was picked up by compassionate people and taken him out of the city under a mop of hay. Having regained his strength a little, Messing crossed the Western Bug in a boat and ended up on the territory of the USSR.
The beginning of a new life
Of course, he crossed the border of the Soviet Union at his own risk. Knowledge of the Russian language was minimal, which is why at first it was quite difficult for him. However, thanks to the phenomenal memory, he easily coped with his study. Despite the fact that Messing with his performances was not too famous in the USSR, there was one person (head of the department of arts Abrasimov) who supported his attempts to start life from scratch.
At the risk of his successful career, he issues an order to include Messing in the artistic team, which served the residents of the Brest region. After that, the life of a psychic gradually began to enter into his usual course. In 1940 he was sent to Minsk, from where he, having made several extremely successful performances, went on tour throughout the territory of modern Belarus.
Acquaintance with Stalin
The fame of Wolfe as the most interesting and mysterious person continued to spread throughout the USSR. That is why Messing was not too surprised when at one of the concerts he gave in Gomel, several people in uniform caps took him right in the middle of the concert, apologizing to the audience. In his memoirs, Messing recalls that the event that followed this played a decisive role in his life. As it turned out later, people brought him to Stalin, which came to the individual predictions of Wolf Messing about the future of Russia. Meeting face to face with the âleader of the peoples,â he declared that he carried it in his arms and, seeing Stalinâs surprise, explained that this had happened on May 1 at a demonstration, thereby relieving a rather tense situation.
According to Wolf's recollections, he met more than once with the head of the USSR. In one of these meetings, Stalin asked him to check whether he really had the abilities that people talk about, and Messing agreed. The essence of the first check was that the psychic, acting on the bank teller, could receive money without a check, and Wolf brilliantly coped with this task. He presented the elderly cashier with a blank notebook sheet, âhaving familiarized himselfâ with which, the latter gave him the required amount of 100 thousand rubles. Employees of the NKVD, observing the experience from the outside, immediately returned the money to the bank. The elderly cashier, realizing what happened, was hospitalized with a heart attack.
Stalin, however, was not convinced by such a check. He suggested that the cashier was in conspiracy with the telepath. Therefore, he gave Wolf an even more difficult task - to get into the Kremlin without documents, but the telepath did it impeccably. Later, to the questions of the âleader of the peoples,â he replied that he had inspired the guards that he was Beria.
Talking in his memoirs about the meeting with the âleader of the peoplesâ, Messing briefly mentions that Stalin was most interested in his life in Poland and his opinion of the most prominent people of that time.
The prediction that saved the life of Stalin's son
Messing Wolf G. predictions about Russia considered his hobby and almost never kept their records. However, in his memoirs, he indicates that, thanks to his gift, he was able to save the life of Stalin's son, Vasily. The fact is that the young man was going to go to Sverdlovsk by plane. Wolf warned Stalin about the impending disaster, and he ordered his son to go by train. It is noteworthy that the plane really fell from a great height
Acquaintance with Khrushchev
In the late 40s, the telepath will get acquainted with Nikita Khrushchev, who has repeatedly heard conversations about Messing's true predictions about the future of Russia. During Wolf's tour in Ukraine, Comrade Bulgarin himself flew after him, who at that time held the post of chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. His main task was to deliver Messing to Khrushchev as soon as possible. As it turned out later, a high-ranking official disappeared in Moscow, who had a number of secret documents with him. Upon learning of the missing papers, Stalin became furious and gave only 3 days to be discovered.
Wolf was brought into the office of the missing official, where he had been led: he saw a village with a river and a rickety bridge. Finding a place was helped by experts in local history, whom Wolf described in detail what he saw. The documents were eventually found next to the body of the deceased official.
After the âleader of the peoplesâ died, interest in Messing's talent significantly decreased. The fact is that he had a conflict with Nikita Khrushchev, who did not forgive the telepath that he refused to speak at a party congress with a speech written in advance for him. Khrushchev wanted the people to hear Wolf Messing's predictions about Russia, in which he should declare that he saw in a dream Lenin, who allegedly requested that Stalin's body be removed from the Mausoleum.
Messing said that he does not believe in spiritualism and does not communicate with the dead. After such a categorical refusal, Wolf immediately began to have problems with performances. People who wanted to personally hear Wolf Messing's predictions about the future wrote a lot of letters to him, but after Khrushchev forbade his concert activity, the psychic became depressed. He tried to hide from people, especially since at the same time he began to have serious health problems.
Messing's predictions about Russia
Messing's biography abounds with many interesting incidents, but in reality it is not so rich in episodes where Wolf would mention the future fate of the USSR. Despite this, some of Messing's predictions about the future of Russia have survived to the present day. For example:
- Wolf predicted the end of World War II, naming the exact date of its end - May 8, 1945. This became known to Stalin, who believed in Messing's predictions. The year turned out to be extremely difficult for Russia, but the Soviet troops did not stop the offensive and nevertheless reached Berlin. As you know, the act of surrender of Germany was signed on May 8, 1945, and May 9, 1945 became the official date for the celebration of the victory over fascism. This holiday is still revered as one of the most significant in Russia. Messing even received thanks from Stalin for such an accurate prediction. It is noteworthy that Messing himself did a lot for victory. Despite the fact that his salary in the USSR was significantly different from what he earned on European tours, he nevertheless gave all his savings to the construction of several military aircraft. The first was built in 1942, and the second in 1944.
- At one of the speeches at the NKVD club, where everyone present wanted to hear Wolf Messing's predictions about Russia with their own ears, the psychic received a question about what he thinks of the Soviet-German pact. After some deliberation, the psychic declared that he saw tanks with red stars on the streets of Berlin. Somehow Messing's predictions about Russia became known to Germany, which expressed perplexity to the Soviet government about what had happened.
- Thousands of people wrote letters to the seer asking them to tell what happened to their relatives, but he flatly refused to answer them.
- One of the telepath's most outstanding predictions was the prophecy of Stalin's death. While at a personal reception with the âleader of the peoples,â Messing asked him to reduce the persecution of Jews and, having received a harsh refusal, said that the head of the USSR would die on a Jewish holiday. It is noteworthy that the death of Stalin really coincided with the Jewish holiday of Purim, falling on March 5, 1953 .
Predictions about Ukraine
Oddly enough, Wolf Messing also mentioned future events in Ukraine about 50 years ago. Predictions about Ukraine boiled down to the fact that, despite all the attempts of people to start a war, there will be no third world. The soothsayer said this at a concert in Uzhgorod, trying even then to warn people about the consequences that their rash actions might lead to.
I would like to believe that this amazing person, as always, will be right, and all attempts to unleash the Third World War will be futile.
Personal life
A year before the end of World War II, after a speech to workers and wounded in Novosibirsk, a young woman turned to Wolf, reproaching him for incorrectly addressing people in the opening statement before the concert, to which Messing suggested that the girl read it next time on her own . That is how Wolf met for the first time with his future wife Aida Mikhailovna.
For a long time she went with him to all performances, but with age her health deteriorated. At one of the tests, doctors found her had a cancerous tumor. Despite the pain experienced, they continued on tour, flatly refusing to go to the hospital. Returning home after one of the concert tours, Messing had to carry her from the train in her arms as Aida could not walk on her own. The luminaries of science of the USSR â Nikolai Blokhin and Joseph Kassirsky â urgently arrived at their home. Despite all their beliefs, Wolf stated with confidence that Aide would not help anything - she would die on August 2, 1960 at seven oâclock in the evening, and, unfortunately, he was right, as always.
After burying his wife, Messing fell into a deep depression. He was not interested in living, and he hardly forced himself to do at least basic things.
From that day on, Wolf began to perceive his abilities as a curse. For about a year he did not leave the walls of his house and did not communicate with anyone except his dogs and the sister of his wife, who had continued to look after him all this time. Over time, the pain of the loss subsided, and Messing gradually resumed the concert program, believing that it became much easier for him to communicate with people.
In the 60s he was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR, which he was very happy, considering that his phenomenal abilities would finally begin to be studied by specialists. However, it turned out that this prediction was not destined to come true.
last years of life
At the end of his life, Messing was greatly bothered by his legs injured during the escape from the Nazis. It took an urgent operation, which took one of the most famous doctors of the USSR - V. I. Burakovsky. Before leaving for the hospital, Messing, whose predictions almost always came true, stood in front of his portrait and, with several witnesses, announced that he would never return home.
Despite the fact that the operation went well, Messing's kidneys suddenly fail and his heart stops. The great telepath died on October 8, 1974. And Messing was buried at the Vostryakovsky cemetery in Moscow, where anyone can visit his grave.