Video: Count Vronsky, Russian Cagliostro: a fortuneteller, intelligence officer, astrologer or a genius hoaxer?
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The namesake of one of the main characters has nothing to do with L. Tolstoy's novel, although a book can really be written about his life. Count Vronsky was an astrologer and fortuneteller, healer and doctor, a Soviet intelligence officer and a major in the Wehrmacht. However, today it is extremely difficult to establish which of the available facts are only part of the legend, and which took place in reality. Who was Vronsky in fact - the Russian seer-Nostradamus or the hoaxer-Cagliostro?
Sergei Alekseevich Vronsky was born in 1915 into the family of a general who headed the encryption department of the tsarist General Staff. (According to another version, he was not on the lists of generals of the Russian army, as well as the cipher department). After the revolution, the family was going to emigrate, but the new authorities instructed the general to create a new cipher system for the Soviet republic. After that, they promised to let him go abroad, but instead the whole family was shot. Miraculously, only Seryozha survived - he was mistaken for the governess's son. After these events, the boy and his governess left for Paris.
Abroad, Seryozha was found by her grandmother and transported to Riga. The grandmother came from a family of Montenegrin princes who were engaged in healing and occultism. Allegedly, it was she who passed on her knowledge in this area to her grandson. In 1933, Vronsky entered the secret Berlin Bioradiological Institute, where they studied occult sciences and trained specialists with supernatural abilities to serve the Hitlerite elite. There he studied hypnosis, telepathy, astrology, radiology, etc. According to him, once, using his knowledge, he cured several cancer patients.
Vronsky became a lieutenant in the Wehrmacht medical service. Once he made a horoscope for the approximate Fuhrer Rudolf Hess, and his predictions turned out to be correct. Since then, Hess has consulted with Vronsky more than once. Allegedly, it was on the advice of an astrologer that Hess decided to flee to England, since he predicted his imminent death in Germany. Hitler also turned to him for help, not knowing that the Russian count at that time had already been recruited by Soviet intelligence.
There are many blank spots and incredible twists and turns in Vronsky's biography. It is not known exactly how he got to the front and began to serve as a doctor in the medical unit of the penal battalion. Later he was interrogated by Beria, Stalin met with him. As a result, Vronsky was sent to the camp for espionage. After his release, he worked at the Institute of Cosmology, made astrological predictions for Korolev and Gagarin. He foresaw the death of the latter and urged him not to fly on the day that ended with the tragic death of the astronaut.
During the Brezhnev era, Vronsky provided healing services to Leonid Ilyich and made astrological forecasts for him. However, then astrology was treated as a pseudoscience, and the general public knew nothing about the success of the predictor. At one time he lectured on astrology, in the late 1980s. began to publish his forecasts in "Moskovsky Komsomolets", wrote a multivolume work on astrology. Today he is called the ancestor of classical astrology in Russia.
Many relate to the facts of Vronsky's biography and information about his psychic abilities with a certain degree of skepticism, and this can be understood - some of the details look too fantastic. The problem is that all the information is written down from his words and is not documented. But it is difficult to argue with the fact that he does not lack natural insight and wisdom! Vronsky said: “People think that they are in control of their own destiny, but this is an illusion, they do not even want to know about it. People have been engaged in forecasting or prophecy since time immemorial. But one thing is a purely individual forecast, another is to put it on stream. Unfortunately, there are more and more businessmen from astrology who are engaged in this science for the purpose of self-enrichment”.
The biography of another controversial character in Russian history raises no less questions: Olga Chekhova - Hitler's favorite artist or Kremlin secret agent?
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