Biography
In the biography of this famous adventurers, the truth, lies, secrets and falsification, which is now difficult to figure out where the truth, where fiction, and where is a beautiful legend. Versions of fate Sonya Golden Handles There are several, and each of them is fascinating as an adventurous novel.
No wonder the name of the challenges and the history of her life is perpetuated in books, films, serials and criminal bikes. The Queen of the criminal world of the XIX century became famous for the not number of asfer, but by the fact that it was erected in the rank of thorough art, which, as is known, always balances on the verge of vice and nobility.
Childhood and youth
Sheindl-Sura Leibovna Solomoniak - so the name of Sonya, obtained at birth. The future star of the criminal world was born in a Jewish family in 1846 in the village of Rowers (Warsaw Province, the Kingdom of Polish, Russian Empire). This is confirmed by official court documents. But then the facts are already alternating with myths.
Parents are small traders, whether smuggled, whether the buyer is stolen, which is quite reasonable, if we take into account congenital criminal talents of children. It is known that the sister of Sheindli Sura - Feig - also was a notable thief.
The girl declared about their thieves abilities early: at 13-14 years he had already made small thefts. And at the age of 18, called Sofia Ivanovna, the girl flies out of his native nest in search of a better life.
Crime
In 1864, in Warsaw Sonya fascinates the grocers of Isaac Rosenbad, who became her first husband. Soon the young woman gave birth to the daughter of Sura-Rivka. It would seem that it would be time to become the mother of the family, but not the very nature was in the newlywedheld - it was drawn to wealth, adventures and kits. In short, after a year and a half, a girl grabbing 500 rubles. From the shop of her husband and leaving the baby on his care, ran away.
According to one of the versions, a rainflower accompanied some recruit Rubinstein. The couple went to Russia, where the prime fishery began, nomadsya in Russian cities and Europe.
The first detention of Sonya, specified in the sources, belongs to 1866. A woman was detained in the city of the wedge for theft of a suitcase. The criminal twisted, repenting that she grabbed the thing by mistake, and they were released.
Then Sonya "lit up" already in the capital. In St. Petersburg, together with the lover, Mikhail Brenner, who won the giving the aristocrats, and then let the talent of the inborn actress, which was wondering a sprinkle on criminal soil.
Know-how Sony became a new kind of hotel theft called "Guten Morgen". The principle is as follows: Sonya sat down at the hotel under the guise of the rich lady, looked at the guests, in advance of the victims. In the morning, it was still darker, the thief cried into the room, deftly obscured the sleeping and retraced. If the "victim" woke up, Sonya was accepted to justify: they say, the number confused in the dark. And too incredulous had to be caught up with the help of women's char. The main thing for Sonya was not to leave without trophy.
The end of the 60s and 70s became literally golden for a young criminal. By this time, Sonya had already had a corporate handwriting and thieves. First of all, she never took for small things. Only the premonition of a large kosh caused those the most demonic lights in her eyes - the faithful harbingers of success.
To a large-scale scam, Sonya was preparing for a long time, thoroughly thought out the details. An integral part of its plans was "theatrical" component: the movement was changed, wigs, makeup, special attributes, hired "artists" and even trained animals.
So, for the robbery of jewelry stores, Sonya came up with special shoes with caches embedded in heels to hide prey. The thief itself went with the reflected nails, under which deftly hid precious stones. Pebbles larger than Sonya taught to swallow a manual monkey, and at home put the "commercial" to the enema.
Some time, the woman was playing in first class trains. Realizing that this vehicle would simply be topped with "cash bags", Sonya as a passenger was sitting in a coupe to the gentlemen and allowed the female charm, and sometimes a couple of droplets of the sleeping pill. By the morning, the victim discovered an empty compartment and the same empty wallet lying on the floor.
Trains, hotels, jewelry stores were the main "sphere of activity" of challenges. And every time a woman managed to slip out of the police paws. Success spoke Sonya: In the early 70s, she decides to go to Europe: take a breather and master new horizons.
Here the frauduger gives himself to the Russian aristocrat, which is no doubt due to her manners. Phenomenally, but Sonya, who did not receive due education and education, perfectly spoke in several languages, had good manners, exquisite taste and competent speech. In a word, at her disposal were the best houses of the old world, and the thief managed to use it.
Leipzig, Vienna, Warsaw, Krakow, Odessa. In these cities, the avanturist repeatedly detained the police. However, each time she went straight from under the nose of gendarmes or was worried about a meager term. For 10 years of criminal "tour" Sonya became an honorary member of the Criminal Club "Chervalnaya Valli" and the non-foster Queen of the Thieves world by Sonya Golden Handle. Nicknamed his woman adored, he considered him more important titles and awards.
In the people, too, heard about the Sony's practices: newspapers with delight describe its scams, publish photos. Such popularity was not to benefit the criminal. Her thieves became less likely, beauty began to fade. In a word, in 1880, the star Sonya had already clone to the sunset.
In this fatal year, Sonya first turned out to be on the dock and after a high-profile process sent to Katorga to Siberia - the village of Luzhka in the Irkutsk region. A year later, the woman accomplished escape and captured only in 1885 in Smolensk, having time to commit a series of corners. From Smolensk prison, Sonya Benhala, having waders. But this time it was not for freedom. In 1888, she was told from Odessa to Sakhalin Island, from where the woman was no longer returned, although attempts to escape.
Personal life
The stormy personal life of the famous criminal was an integral part of its criminal existence. Sony had many cohabitants from the criminal environment who became loyal accomplices of her scam. At the same time, the appearance of a woman had an ordinary. This is how Sonya contemporaries described:
"Little (153 cm), slender, face ripping, wart on the cheek, but live smart eyes and charming manners."It is known about three marriages of sweatshirts: with a grocery officer Isaac Rosenbad, a wealthy Jew from Dinaburg with a walking schoolboy, a card Shuler and a thief Mikhail Blyushtein, in marriage with whom Sonya gave birth to two more daughters - Tabbu and Mikhhelin.
However, all marriage mean nothing to Sony compared to the only love of her life - Wolf Bromberg on the nicknamed Volodya Kocherchchik. The 20-year-old lover turned out to be a fatal man for Sonya and became her "swan song".
Odessa Shuler and the raid turned out to be a lived Alphonse: I spent carelessly and lost all the money by the elderly mistress. Sonya could not cope with a detrimental passion and again gave her beloved diamonds, pulled out of the car houses.
To get rid of an annoying girlfriend, the kocher passed it, and a very extravagant way. He was presented with a luxury gift - a Barhotka with a blue diamond, which bought a mansion from the jeweler under the "linden mortgage". In a day, the kocher returned a diamond jeweler, demanding to cancel the transaction. Thoroughly examining the brought stone, the jeweler in horror discovered a fake. Schuler's gorgeous police "honestly" told that he acted in the Sony pointer. So a woman started wandering around Kathers.
Death
It is not known how death met and where the legendary thief was buried. The main version says that Sonya died from a cold on Sakhalin after an escape attempted in 1902 and was buried at the local cemetery in the post of Alexandrovsky.
On the other, Sonya lived the last days of daughters and grandchildren in Moscow. In this legend, probably believe those who visit the grave and a monument at the Vagankovsky cemetery, which allegedly belong to Sonya. The dilapidated memorial is written by inscriptions: young thieves are asking Sonya about good luck in "Affairs".
Interesting Facts
- Sonya loved to live in luxury: her beloved places of her rest - Crimea, Pyatigorsk and abroad Marienbad resort (today Czech city of Marianske Lazne).
- Before his death in 1899 adopted Orthodoxy, after Christening was informed by the name Maria.
- Description Katorzhans Sofia Bliststein is in the book A. P. Chekhov "Sakhalin Island": a writer personally met with a criminal in 1890.
- It is also known about the noble deeds of theft. So, the gun in the hotel, Sonya discovered the sleeping young man, near which a gun lay and a suicide note, in which a young man repented that she was distinguished by stateless money in favor of medicines for a sister sick. Sonya, without thinking, leaving on the table a large amount and retired. Another time Sonya, having learned that he robbed a widow with two daughters, returned money.
Memory
- 1914 - Dumb "Sonya - Golden Handle" (Actress Nina Hoffman)
- 2007 - Series "Sonya - Golden Handle" (Actress Anastasia Mikulchina)
- 2010 - TV series "Sonya. Continuation of the legend "(actress Anastasia Mikulchina)
- 2013 - TV series "Loop of Time" (Actress Liana Ermakova)