On Yule week 1789 Moscow Governor-General Peter Dmitrievich Eropkin told: in the ancient capital declared the country a tramp dressed in tattered monk's habit.Wiping around churches and other crowded places, it happened the day before the predicted fire in the house of the merchant Ahlopkova - ran to the building and began throwing handfuls of snow into the window.The police tramp told that his name Username Trifonov son surnamed Kochkarev.He supposedly saw the house burning and hurried him stew.Login locked in the cold, and the next day the house of the merchant is really on fire!
On repeated questioning Kochkarev showed that he is about sixty years old, and all his life he travels to the holy places, predicting the fate of the people and talking about future events.Curious Peter D. ordered to bring Kochkareva.When the tramp was taken under guard to the order postraschav his whip and the rack General snidely inquired whether Login say Yeropkina expect in the near future?
Kochkarev not at all embarrassed and confidently announced - not later than the next day the governor unintentional expect great joy!In response, General laughed: nothing to say, clever rascal!And he waved to have withdrawn magician.Much to the amazement of Yeropkina the next day really happened inadvertent great joy - Empress generously rewarded him for his faithful service by sending a gift to the gem studded gold snuffbox with a portrait of his own: it was tantamount to rewarding the highest order!
General ordered evaporate Kochkareva in the bath, dressed, well-fed and back to deliver to it for "private interviews" Soon these "conversations" over the fact that the soothsayer entered into a secret chamber in prison and put her strict guard, and Eropkin drove incapital courier with a personal letter to the Empress Catherine II.
He wrote about the amazing predictions Kochkareva, pinpoint the onset of certain events.But, most importantly, what was predicted: in 1812, Russia will invade the European nations, led by self-styled king "of the Germans" and, after a terrible battle, take Moscow, which burned to the ground!Eropkin seriously feared that if the terrible prophecy seep into the wild, may break out a rebellion.
answer from St. Petersburg came surprisingly quickly, and came as a surprise: the Empress ordered immediately send the seer in the capital!The further fate of the Login Trifonovicha evolved since.In St. Petersburg, he carefully examined the medical and then he had an audience, and the Empress.Later, she wrote Peter Dmitrievich, that prophet, and she repeated the prediction of a war that happened in 1812 and will certainly end in victory for Russia.
Kochkarev also predicted a long war in the Caucasus, accession to the Empire of many lands in Asia and the terrible war in the early XX century.What's seer I told my mother-Empress remained a mystery.Most likely, she learned something extremely unpleasant or too scary, because after all traces of the audience poritsateley Kochkareva completely lost.
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