The biography of Sofia is gold

Born on April 1 in the village. Truns in the suburbs of Warsaw - died in the year for the post of Aleksandrovsky now Alexandrovsk -Sakhalinsky on the island of Sakhalin. The famous Russian criminal, fraudster. Golden pen gained fame under the nickname Sonya. Sophia Solomoniac, who became widely known as Sonya the Golden Handle, was born on April 1 of the year, the real date of birth is sometimes called into question in the village of Pogona in the suburbs of Warsaw since the year - the urban microdistrict in Warsaw.

It is worth making a reservation right away that there is no exact information about the time or about her birth. Information is based on the data that Sonya herself provided, being arrested by the police. However, she herself was inclined to mislead the surrounding, and even more so the police. Therefore, almost all researchers of her biography indicate that the information given by her about her origin can be falsified.

For example, in some court documents it is indicated that it was born in the year. But during the baptism of the Orthodox rite that she took place shortly before her death, in the year she indicated the year for her birth, and the place - Warsaw. She received a good education, knew six languages, played perfectly, had a good voice. In addition, she had innate acting talent and the gift of reincarnation.

She had good taste and was trained in secular manners. Regarding the origin of the nickname Sonya, the gold pen, then, according to her own stories, it came from childhood. The music teacher, with whom young Sophia was engaged, constantly praised her, saying: "You have a girl, golden pens." Later, when she took up a criminal craft, she herself was already proud of her dexterous pens, which brought her considerable income and truly became "golden" for her.

This was recognized in the criminal community. From her youth she loved to read adventurous novels, her beloved hero was a romantic robber of Rockbool. She left the girl in the care of her father in the turns of the Warsaw province. Her fate is unknown. In police reports, she was known under the names of Rubinstein, a schoolboy, Brenner - perhaps they or some of them also belonged to her husbands.

Her last official husband is known - Mikhail Michel Yakovlevich Bluvstein, card Shuler.

Two daughters were born in the marriage: Tabba Mikhailovna Bluvstein G. appearance Sophia Bluvstein Sonya Golden Handle: contemporaries described Sonya differently - some as a beauty, others as an ordinary woman who did not differ in a particularly spectacular appearance. However, everyone noted that she had a well -known charm, in addition, she masterfully knew how to use makeup, wigs, overhead eyelashes, etc.

This is how they described her in the police: “Growth 1 m 53 cm, a rack -haired face, a moderate nose with wide nostrils, a wart on her right cheek, brunette, her eyes are curly, her eyes are moving, daring and talkative.” Sofya Bluvstein in his youth according to one version, at the age of 17, grabbing her father’s money, fled abroad with the young handsome Greek.

But then the money ended, and the passion cooled down. He returned home. Sonya took up a criminal craft. She was engaged in organizing large -scale scams and thefts, which gained fame thanks to the adventurous component and a tendency to hoax. In the 10ths, she was engaged in criminal activities in large Russian cities and in Europe. Repeatedly lingered by the police of different states, but without serious consequences.

The first time Sonya was detained for theft in Klin on April 14, but released. Then they tried 5 times in Warsaw. In the year, the Leipzig Police interrupted the foreign voyage of the experimental thief and returned it to their homeland - under the supervision of the Russian police. At the same time, Sonya confiscated a whole chest with jewelry. Then she formed a family thieves' gang, which included her former husbands, and even a certain subject of Sweden and Norway.

She always worked only in a large way. So, at the Nizhny Novgorod Fair, General Frolov stole rubles. Each of her business looked like a well -stripped performance. Sonya Golden Hand invented the original way to steal from hotels on the "Guten Morgen" in this way thieves are still used. Entering the rooms early in the morning, she was cleaning the wallets of the guests, and if they accidentally woke up, she immediately began to undress and was terribly embarrassed, pretending to be mistaken.

In the same way, she worked in wagons of the first and second class on trains. For thefts in jewelry stores, she sewed a special bag dress, in which kilograms of prey could be placed. She also hid especially precious stones under the sleek, specially grown nails. Sometimes she went to business with a trained monkey. While the hostess was selling, the monkey quietly grabbed the stones and hid them by the cheek or swallowed them.

At home, Sonya put an enema product. In the year in Odessa, for major fraud was arrested, transferred to Moscow. After the trial in the Moscow District Court of December of that year, he was exiled to a settlement in the most remote places of Siberia.The place of exile was determined the deaf village of Luzhki in the Irkutsk province. In the summer of the year she escaped from the place of exile.

Prior to the detention in the year, she committed a number of large property crimes in the provincial cities of Russia. In the year in Smolensk, she was captured by the police. From the criminal case instituted in the year: "Sofya Eduardovna Kilsgevden, Baroness, arrived in Moscow from Courland. Up, accompanied by father Eduard Karlovich, a baby’s baby and mother visited the jewelry store of Khlebnikov to purchase jewelry from diamonds.

The manager of the store T. Two hours later, it was declared to the station. It was established that the child is taken for use from the inhabitant of the Khitrov Market, known for the thieves' naming of Mashka, a switch. The bourgeois N. Baron Kilsgevden, the retired headquarters of the N-nsk regiment, Mr. Ch. For large thefts and fraud, the hard labor was sentenced to three years in hard labor at the discretion of the court in hard labor in the European part of the Russian Empire and fifty lashes.

Sonya Golden Handle during the arrest four months later was arrested in Nizhny Novgorod, and now for the escape from hard labor and new crimes, he was again convicted and sent from Odessa by a steamer for hard labor to the Aleksandrovsky Tymovsky district on the island of Sakhalin now the Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky region, where after two attempts to escape in the shackles.

In total, she made three attempts to escape from the Sakhalin hard labor. She was subjected to bodily punishments by decision of the prison administration. In the year, the famous writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov met her, who left the description of the convicts of Sofia Bluvstein in his book “Island of Sakhalin”: “This is a small, thin, already graying woman with a rumpled, old woman.

She has shackles in her arms: on the bunks there is only a fur coat from gray sheepskin, which serves her and warm clothes and bed. She walks around her chamber from corner to corner, and it seems that she all the time sniffs the air, like a mouse in a mousetrap, and her facial expression is mouse. Looking at her, I can’t believe that until recently she was beautiful to such an extent that she fascinated her jailers.

” But already in the year she left for Khabarovsk, and then returned to the island of Sakhalin to the post of Aleksandrovsky. In July, she was baptized by the Orthodox rite, called the name of Maria. At the beginning of the 20th century, versions of her successful escape and about her forthcoming face, who had served hard labor for her. According to some reports, shortly before her death, Sofya met and cohabited with a certain Nikolai Bogdanov, who also had previously served his sentences for various crimes, claimed that he greatly beat her and she tried to escape from him into the forest.

Sofya Bluvstein died of a cold in the year, as evidenced by the message of the prison authorities, and was buried at the local cemetery in the post of Aleksandrovsky. At the same time, a number of researchers are inclined to the fact that she died in the years in Moscow, where she lived after hard labor with her daughters who hid in every possible way who their mother was.

In Moscow there is a grave attributed to Sonya the Golden Handle, every year different people bring flowers and coins every year, mostly criminals, trying to show respect for the famous thief and get its intercession and patronage. There are many inscriptions on the monument with a request to Sonya to help in the thieves' craft, protect from arrest, etc. Tourists claim that the Italian dancer, or the Russian wife of the Italian ambassador, is resting in this place.

Sonya Golden Pen became one of the most famous figures of the domestic criminal world, turned into a legend in which it became difficult to distinguish the truth from fiction. Of the 8 episodes, 4 were preserved. The negative is stored in the State Film Fund of Russia. Continuation of the legend is the continuation of the series of director Viktor Merezhko. The image was used by Boris Akunin in the detective novel “Peak Valet”.

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