Why men could not resist Sonya's golden pen

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

The most famous fraudster, known as Sonya the golden pen, obviously turned scams not only for the sake of profit, but also because she was reckless, dependent on emotions and lived with passions. These qualities gave her everything that she had, and then ruined. After all, she had a weakness not only for expensive jewelry, but also for handsome men, all this floated into her hands while she was young and beautiful, but along with the charm, everything that she loved so much was gone.

Much is known about the biography of a woman who changed her herself in order to confuse traces, but it is impossible to say with certainty about what was in fact and what was not. Sofia Ivanovna Bluestein was born in the middle of the 19th century, according to some sources in 1846, and then at baptism the date 1851 was indicated, according to other sources 1895 is indicated. It’s too big a difference to talk about one person, even if it was a brilliant adventurer, no one can erase half a century of life.

Further, her biography becomes even more interesting, according to one version, she was born in a large Jewish family and after losing her parents early, at the age of 12 she runs away from her adoptive parents and begins to work in the wealthy house of a famous artist. Say, from there she has a craving for luxury, and the ability to behave with people of a certain circle. Be that as it may, she received a good education and had a lively and brilliant mind, had the ability to learn languages and was endowed with an unconditional artistic talent. In which direction to direct their talents - everyone chooses for himself, for Sonya - this became an opportunity to leave a mark in history as the most cunning fraudster.

Sonya's men, how she always deceived them and how in the end she was deceived herself

Men played a huge role in Sonya's life, they met her at different periods of her life, were her lovers, husbands, her right hand, partners in robberies and scams, but one thing remained unchanged - she used all of them, and then abandoned them. However, the system crashed as soon as she fell in love, but first things first.

Love appeared in her life very early, as a teenager she was not afraid to leave home with some Greek. However, this man did not play any significant role, except that it all started with him. Then she gets married and even gives birth to a daughter, but apparently at that time nature and takes her own, she flees to Russia with a new man, leaving both the child and her husband. And finally, she also robbed her husband to the bone. A very unexpected outcome for a marriage with a godly lady with secular manners.

But this attempt to find a betrothed failed, two years later she was arrested on a train with someone else's suitcase in her hands. Her resourcefulness and agility then helped her avoid punishment. The sweet and charming girl was believed that she took that suitcase by mistake, and not by malicious intent.

By that time, she was already firmly convinced of the idea that her husband and family were not among her priorities, and that adventures and fraudulent schemes turned out to be better for her than work for a modest salary of a servant. The thieves' schemes, which she successfully carried out, sooner or later had to lead to her, and she finds a new victim - she marries an old and, of course, a rich Jew and leaves Petersburg.

However, the new-old spouse turned out to be a long-liver, and Sonya simply did not have the patience to wait for the inheritance. Since then, her international scams and entry into the criminal environment begin. Having become a part of Jacks of Hearts, in just a couple of years she will head this association of cheats, thieves and crooks.

Later, Sonya marries a man under whose last name he is then included in all police reports - Bluestein. However, the spouse managed to light up the surname without the help of his wife - he was a famous railway thief. From their union, two girls are born. But the role of wife and mother does not suit Sonya in any way and, despite the fact that the husband already closed his eyes to her frivolous behavior, given the specifics of her activities, this was a habitual thing, he does not withstand her systematic betrayals.

So the famous thief would change men until she herself became the one who would be exchanged without hesitation. By the time she moved to Odessa, there was no trace of her youth, but she had the name and reputation of a famous thief. What attracted card sharper Volodya Kochubchik more strongly to her is not known, but at that time he was 18 years old. Their relationship was built on the principle of "mom-son", Sonya earned more and more money to please her spoiled boy, to earn his approval and love. He invariably used this and demanded more and more. Rumor has it that the beloved called her mother, which made the famous adventurer mad.

Every night he played what Sonya had robbed, his appetites grew, she tried to get more and more, was nervous, made many mistakes. She herself understood this, her instinct told her that she needed to run, but she could not leave her young lover. It was this sick affection that killed the thief, whose name became a legend of the thieves' world, she lived her life in hard labor, and her former lover, finding her hidden treasures, became a major landowner.

How did Sonya look like a golden pen and why men loved her so much

Her career as a thief would not have been so successful if she did not have a special magnetic attraction for men. At the same time, it cannot be said that they did not have any special external data. She was not very tall - just over one and a half meters. In addition, according to the canons of beauty of those years, she did not have a very noble and sophisticated face, and her nostrils were wide, and her lips were thin and maliciously pursed. The skin wanted to leave the best, and there was a wart on the right cheek.

But with all this, charm, self-confidence and the ability to transform into exactly the one that a certain man wants to see now, could not help playing into her hands. In addition, she had a good musical taste, played musical instruments, and knew several foreign languages. All this, coupled with immorality, made her a magnet for men.

In addition, she was also loving, so it is quite possible that men only reciprocated her. Expensively and tastefully dressed, knowing how to behave in one society or another, she often presented herself as a lady of blue blood and no one doubted that she was. She actively used makeup, wore wigs and glued on eyelashes, had a huge wardrobe, which, however, she parted with without regret when life changed abruptly.

One of her fraudulent schemes was built precisely on her personal charm and acting talent. She checked into fashionable hotels for a few days and found out which of the visitors was rich and from whom what to profit from. Then, in the morning, when the sleep was especially strong, dressed in shoes with soft soles, she made her way into the rooms and robbed the guests. Such an undertaking did not always pass without a trace, because the owner could wake up, then she pretended to be wrong with the number, and she was wildly embarrassed. There could be another option, as if she, unable to cope with the attraction of love, came to the gentleman in the room herself. This method of robbery even got its name in the thieves' circles of those years and was called "guten morgen". Yes, the morning of the robbed was clearly nowhere kinder.

Myths and fun facts about the most famous fraudster

According to one version, the girl's father or stepfather bought stolen goods and resold them. Therefore, since childhood, she communicated with thieves and this way of earning money for her was quite acceptable. According to the same version, Sonya had a sister, who also became a thief.

There are several options why Sonya began to be called the Golden Pen. Allegedly in childhood, the teacher praised the skillful student, repeating that Sonya had golden hands and everything in them was arguing. Already the adult Sonya had beautiful sleek hands, besides, she loved jewelry and wore them a lot. Under her long nails, she knew how to carry away precious stones directly from jewelry stores. She also had a special dress - a bag was sewn under the hem, in which it was possible to carry at least a cut on the dress.

After she was caught on a train stealing a suitcase, she realized that she needed to hunt on the railways larger, so she began to take tickets for elite compartments. There, she presented herself as a baroness or countess, and her manners and clothes only confirmed this, entered into confidence, flirted, and after waiting for the night, she cleaned one compartment after another.

Her artistry and ability to present herself have always played into her hands, in fact, making her that very "Golden Hand". For example, once again playing a trick on the aristocrat, she took out the jewelry from the jewelry store under the pretext that she had forgotten her wallet, because her father and child were waiting for her on the street. However, after a long time it turned out that these two were hired by her just a few minutes before the visit to the store.

Another case is even more egregious, she came to a jewelry store, chose jewelry, and asked to send the bill to her husband, a famous psychiatrist. She herself, guessing the time, came to see a psychiatrist and began to complain to him about her husband, who always demands money from everyone for jewelry. Then a deceived jeweler appeared with a demand for money …

Many did not believe that Sonya had not found a way to escape from prison or escape imprisonment. She tried to escape several times, because it was possible to use her charm and acting skills on the prison guard. But then they were more careful with her, by this moment her name spoke for itself.

The last time she tried to escape, disguised as a soldier who is escorting a prisoner (her roommate). After the deception was revealed, she was brutally flogged, and all the prisoners gathered to watch this spectacle. But this punishment seemed not enough, she was imprisoned in shackles and kept in them for more than two years. At the same time, her photographs were sold. There were plenty of people who wanted to see Sonya the Golden Handle in shackles.

Many believe that another woman was serving her sentence instead. Actually, there are the same legends about her grave that this is not the place of her burial at all, despite this, a marble monument was erected here for thieves' money (at least, so the legend says). However, the monument itself, which has become a place of pilgrimage, is often repainted, since inscriptions from "lads for memory" appear on it every now and then.

Those who can lead a huge number of people and create sects undoubtedly have an equally talent for persuasion. Moreover, their organizers use them for profit and deceiving ordinary people..