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Alexey Lvovich Sherstobitov(born January 31, 1967, Moscow) - a member of the Medvedkovskaya organized crime group, known as "Lesha-Soldier". On account of his 12 proven murders and attempts. Engaged in literary activity, wrote autobiographical books "Liquidator", part 1 (2013); "Liquidator", part 2 (2014), "Skin of the Devil" (2015), "Someone else's wife" (2016), "Liquidator, full version(2016)".
Biography
Life before the organized crime group
Aleksey Sherstobitov was born into the family of a hereditary career officer and dreamed of serving all his life. The family lived in Moscow on Koptevskaya Street, in a house where many military men lived, mainly from the Ministry of Defense. Sherstobitov's ancestors served in the Tsarist army. The grandfather of Alexei Sherstobitov, Colonel Alexei Mikhailovich Kitovchev, participated in the battle for the liberation of Sevastopol, for which he was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky. From an early age, Aleksey Sherstobitov knew how to handle weapons, after graduating from school he entered the Leningrad Higher School of Railway Troops and Military Communications named after M.V. Frunze at the Faculty of Military Communications, which he graduated in 1989. He was engaged in the same football school together with Alexander Mostov and Oleg Denisov. During his studies, he detained a dangerous criminal, for which he was awarded an order. After the military school, by distribution, he ended up in the Special Transportation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation on the Moscow Railway, where he worked as an inspector, and then as a senior inspector. At that time, Sherstobitov was fond of power triathlon and regularly went to the gym, while still in the military. There he met former KGB senior lieutenant Grigory Gusyatinsky. ("Grinya") and Sergey Ananievsky ("Cult"), who at that time was the head of the Federation of power triathlon and powerlifting and deputy leader of the Orekhovskaya organized criminal group Sergey Timofeev ("Sylvester"). Initially, Gusyatinsky instructed Sherstobitov to ensure the safety of several stalls. The senior lieutenant showed himself to be a good organizer, able to solve (including by force) emerging problems. The leaders of the Medvedkovskaya organized criminal group appreciated his abilities and forced him to agree to a new position - a full-time killer.
Killer career
First task "Lyosha-Soldier" was an attempt to assassinate the former deputy head of the special forces of the OMSN Filin, who subsequently resigned from the authorities and became a criminal. On May 5, 1993, on Ibragimov Street, Sherstobitov fired at Filin's car from a Mukha grenade launcher. Owl and his friend, who were in the car, were slightly injured and survived, but Sylvester was pleased with the work done. Later, "Lyosha-Soldier" killed several more people. The most famous crime of Sherstobitov was the murder of Otari Kvantrishvili on April 5, 1994.
In 1994, Timofeev had a conflict with thief in law Andrey Isaev ("Painting"). Sherstobitov installed a car filled with explosives near Isaev's house on Autumn Boulevard and, when he left, pressed the remote control button. Isaev himself was injured, but survived. The explosion killed a little girl.
After Timofeev's assassination on September 13, 1994, Gusyatinsky and Sherstobitov left for Ukraine for security reasons. After this trip, Sherstobitov, together with the brothers Andrey and Oleg Pylev ("Small" and "Sanych") agreed to liquidate Gusyatinsky. Sherstobitov seriously wounded his boss in Kyiv from a sniper rifle when he approached the window of a rented apartment. Gusyatinsky lay in a coma for several days, after which he was disconnected from life support devices. After that, the Pylevs allowed Sherstobitov to assemble his own team of three people.
In January 1997, Alexander Tarantsev, who headed Russian Gold, had a conflict with the owner of the Dolls club, Joseph Glotser. Sherstobitov, on the instructions of the Pylevs, went on reconnaissance to a nightclub located on Krasnaya Presnya Street, where he killed Glotser with a shot to the temple. The next task of his group was to spy on Solonik, who, after escaping from the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center, lived in Greece. Sherstobitov's people recorded a telephone conversation in which Solonik uttered the phrase "They need to be thrown". In these words, the Pylev brothers felt a threat to themselves. The killer of Solonik is Alexander Pustovalov (Sasha the Soldier).
In 1998, the Pylevs, on the basis of the distribution of business income, had a conflict with the president of the Russian Gold company, Alexander Tarantsev. Sherstobitov followed the businessman for almost four months and realized that he, having very professional security, was practically invulnerable. Sherstobitov built a remote-controlled device with a Kalashnikov assault rifle in a VAZ-2104. The car was installed at the exit from the Russian Gold office. Sherstobitov saw Tarantsev descending the stairs on a special display and pressed the button on the remote control, but the device did not work. An automatic burst rang out only after 2 hours, a Russian Gold guard died from it, and two bystanders were injured. Tarantsev survived. He also tried more than once to kill the Orenburg thief in law Aliyev Astana, nicknamed "Ali", so in 2015 Aliyev's cortege consisting of 7 cars was shot on the street. Donguzskaya, but then Aliyev remained alive, then Aliyev's bodyguards worked professionally and saved the life of their authority, after which Sherstobitov was pursued by the lads, but the police officers found him before they did.
Arrest
Law enforcement agencies found out about the existence of Sherstobitov only after the arrest of the Orekhovo-Medvedkovo leaders in 2003, when Oleg Pylev wrote a statement asking him to be released on bail with a promise find "Soldier" who committed the murder of Otari Kvantrishvili and Glotser. Ordinary militants spoke during interrogations about a certain "Lesha the Soldier", but no one knew either his last name or what he looked like. The investigators believed that "Lesha the Soldier" was some kind of mythical collective image. Sherstobitov himself was extremely cautious: he did not communicate with ordinary bandits, did not participate in their gatherings. He was a master of conspiracy and reincarnation: going to work, he always used wigs, fake beards or mustaches. Sherstobitov left no fingerprints at the crime scene, and there were no witnesses.
Group members:
- Alexey Sherstobitov ("Soldier")- senior lieutenant of the internal service (convicted).
- Sergei Chaplygin ("Chip")- Captain of the GRU MO (killed by his own for drunkenness).
- Alexander Pogorelov ("Sanchez")- Captain of the GRU MO (convicted).
- Sergei Vilkov - captain of the Internal Troops (convicted).
Personal life
June 9, 2016 Sherstobitov married in a penal colony Lipetsk region where he is serving time. His wife was a 31-year-old female psychiatrist from St. Petersburg. Before the ceremony, the newlyweds had a photo shoot, for which they dressed up in costumes of gangsters from the time of Prohibition in the United States, the photos ended up in social media, after which they were published in the Russian media. An employee of the registry office arrived at the colony. The registration procedure took place in the room of the deputy head of the educational department of the ITC
Moscow city court sentences
He was accused of committing 12 murders and attempted murders and more than 10 articles of the Criminal Code related to his activities.
First judgment
- Jury verdict of February 22, 2008 "Guilty, not worthy of leniency."
- The verdict of the Moscow City Court dated March 3, 2008 - 13 years of strict regime, Judge Zubarev A.I.
Second judgment
- Jury verdict of September 24, 2008 - "Guilty, worthy of leniency"
- The verdict of the Moscow City Court of September 29, 2008 - 23 years of strict regime. Judge Shtunder P.E.
The term by the addition of sentences is 23 years in prison in a strict regime colony, with the retention of the title and awards.
At the trial, Sherstobitov stated that he fully admits his guilt, but asked for leniency. In particular, he cited the following arguments in his defense: he refused to blow up 30 members of the Izmaylovo group, saved the life of one entrepreneur without eliminating her, and, having left the criminal community, was engaged in a peaceful craft - he worked as a plasterer. Sherstobitov often went against the interests of the criminal community and its leaders, refusing and delaying the elimination of persons they did not like: V. Demenkov, G. Sotnikova, A. Polunin, T. Trifonov, including did not initiate an explosive device at the Vvedensky cemetery in Moscow , during the celebration of the anniversary of Shukhat's death there, which is confirmed by the materials of the criminal case (the decision to refuse to initiate a criminal case of 06/25/2007).
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Rostov, blushing and turning pale, looked first at one officer, then at another.- No, gentlemen, no ... don’t think ... I understand very well, you shouldn’t think so about me ... I ... for me ... I am for the honor of the regiment. but what? I’ll show it in practice, and for me the honor of the banner ... well, it’s all the same, really, it’s my fault! .. - Tears stood in his eyes. - I'm to blame, all around to blame! ... Well, what else do you want? ...
“That’s it, count,” the captain shouted, turning around, hitting him on the shoulder with his big hand.
“I’m telling you,” Denisov shouted, “he’s a nice little one.
“That’s better, Count,” repeated the captain of the staff, as if for his recognition he was beginning to call him a title. - Go and apologize, your excellency, yes s.
“Gentlemen, I’ll do everything, no one will hear a word from me,” Rostov said in an imploring voice, “but I can’t apologize, by God, I can’t, as you wish!” How will I apologize, like a little one, to ask for forgiveness?
Denisov laughed.
- It's worse for you. Bogdanych is vindictive, pay for your stubbornness, - said Kirsten.
- By God, not stubbornness! I can't describe to you the feeling, I can't...
- Well, your will, - said the headquarters captain. - Well, where did this bastard go? he asked Denisov.
- He said he was sick, zavtg "and ordered pg" and by order to exclude, - Denisov said.
“This is a disease, otherwise it cannot be explained,” said the captain of the staff.
- Already there, the disease is not a disease, and if he doesn’t catch my eye, I’ll kill you! Denisov shouted bloodthirstyly.
Zherkov entered the room.
- How are you? the officers suddenly turned to the newcomer.
- Walk, gentlemen. Mack surrendered as a prisoner and with the army, absolutely.
- You're lying!
- I saw it myself.
- As? Have you seen Mac alive? with arms or legs?
- Hike! Campaign! Give him a bottle for such news. How did you get here?
“They sent him back to the regiment, for the devil, for Mack. The Austrian general complained. I congratulated him on the arrival of Mack ... Are you, Rostov, just from the bathhouse?
- Here, brother, we have such a mess for the second day.
The regimental adjutant entered and confirmed the news brought by Zherkov. Tomorrow they were ordered to speak.
- Go, gentlemen!
- Well, thank God, we stayed too long.
Kutuzov retreated to Vienna, destroying the bridges on the rivers Inn (in Braunau) and Traun (in Linz). On October 23, Russian troops crossed the Enns River. Russian carts, artillery and columns of troops in the middle of the day stretched through the city of Enns, along this and that side of the bridge.
The day was warm, autumnal and rainy. The expansive vista that opened up from the elevation where the Russian batteries stood defending the bridge was suddenly covered by a muslin curtain of slanting rain, then suddenly expanded, and in the light of the sun objects, as if covered with varnish, became far and clearly visible. You could see the town under your feet with its white houses and red roofs, the cathedral and the bridge, on both sides of which, crowding, the masses of Russian troops poured. At the turn of the Danube one could see ships, and an island, and a castle with a park, surrounded by the waters of the confluence of the Enns with the Danube, one could see the left bank of the Danube, rocky and covered with pine forests, with a mysterious distance of green peaks and blue gorges. The towers of the monastery could be seen, standing out from behind a pine, seemingly untouched, wild forest; far ahead on the mountain, on the other side of the Enns, the enemy patrols could be seen.
Between the guns, at a height, stood in front the head of the rearguard, a general with a retinue officer, examining the terrain through a pipe. A little behind, sitting on the trunk of the gun, Nesvitsky, sent from the commander-in-chief to the rearguard.
The Cossack accompanying Nesvitsky handed over a purse and a flask, and Nesvitsky treated the officers to pies and real doppelkumel. The officers joyfully surrounded him, some on their knees, some sitting in Turkish on the wet grass.
- Yes, this Austrian prince was not a fool that he built a castle here. Nice place. What don't you eat, gentlemen? Nesvitsky said.
“I humbly thank you, prince,” answered one of the officers, talking with pleasure to such an important staff official. - Beautiful place. We passed by the park itself, saw two deer, and what a wonderful house!
“Look, prince,” said another, who really wanted to take another pie, but was ashamed, and who therefore pretended to look around the area, “look, our infantrymen have already climbed there. Over there, on the meadow, behind the village, three people are dragging something. "They're going to take over this palace," he said with visible approval.
“This and that,” said Nesvitsky. “No, but what I would like,” he added, chewing the pie in his beautiful wet mouth, “is to climb up there.
He pointed to a monastery with towers, visible on the mountain. He smiled, his eyes narrowed and lit up.
“It would be nice, gentlemen!
The officers laughed.
- If only to scare these nuns. Italians, they say, are young. Really, I would give five years of my life!
"They're bored, after all," said the bolder officer, laughing.
Meanwhile, the retinue officer, who was standing in front, pointed out something to the general; the general looked through the telescope.
“Well, it’s true, it’s true,” the general said angrily, lowering the receiver from his eyes and shrugging his shoulders, “it’s true, they’ll start hitting the crossing. And what are they doing there?
On the other side, with a simple eye, the enemy and his battery were visible, from which a milky white smoke appeared. Following the smoke, a long-range shot rang out, and it was clear how our troops hurried at the crossing.
Nesvitsky, panting, got up and, smiling, approached the general.
“Would your Excellency want to have a bite to eat?” - he said.
- It's not good, - said the general, without answering him, - ours hesitated.
“Would you like to go, Your Excellency?” Nesvitsky said.
“Yes, please go,” said the general, repeating what had already been ordered in detail, “and tell the hussars to be the last to cross and light the bridge, as I ordered, and to inspect the combustible materials on the bridge.
“Very well,” answered Nesvitsky.
He called a Cossack with a horse, ordered him to put away his purse and flask, and easily threw his heavy body onto the saddle.
“Really, I’ll stop by the nuns,” he said to the officers, who looked at him with a smile, and drove along the winding path downhill.
- Nut ka, where he will inform, captain, stop it! - said the general, turning to the gunner. - Get rid of boredom.
“Servant to the guns!” the officer commanded.
And a minute later the gunners merrily ran out of the fires and loaded.
- First! - I heard the command.
Boyko bounced 1st number. The cannon rang metallically, deafeningly, and a grenade flew whistling over the heads of all our people under the mountain and, far from reaching the enemy, showed the place of its fall with smoke and burst.
The faces of the soldiers and officers cheered up at this sound; everyone got up and took up observations of the visible, as in the palm of your hand, movements below our troops and in front - the movements of the approaching enemy. The sun at that very moment completely emerged from behind the clouds, and this beautiful sound of a single shot and the brilliance of the bright sun merged into one cheerful and cheerful impression.
Two enemy cannonballs had already flown over the bridge, and there was a crush on the bridge. In the middle of the bridge, dismounted from his horse, pressed with his thick body to the railing, stood Prince Nesvitsky.
He, laughing, looked back at his Cossack, who, with two horses in a lead, was standing a few steps behind him.
As soon as Prince Nesvitsky wanted to move forward, the soldiers and wagons again pressed against him and again pressed him against the railing, and he had no choice but to smile.
- What are you, brother, my! - said the Cossack to the Furshtat soldier with a wagon, who was pushing against the infantry crowded v the very wheels and horses, - what a you! No, to wait: you see, the general must pass.
But the furshtat, ignoring the name of the general, shouted at the soldiers blocking his way: “Hey! compatriots! keep to the left, stop! - But the countrywomen, crowding shoulder to shoulder, clinging with bayonets and without interruption, moved along the bridge in one continuous mass. Looking down over the railing, Prince Nesvitsky saw the fast, noisy, low waves of the Enns, which, merging, rippling and bending near the piles of the bridge, overtook one another. Looking at the bridge, he saw equally monotonous living waves of soldiers, kutas, shakos with covers, knapsacks, bayonets, long guns and from under the shakos faces with wide cheekbones, sunken cheeks and carefree tired expressions, and moving legs along the sticky mud dragged onto the boards of the bridge . Sometimes, between the monotonous waves of soldiers, like a splash of white foam in the waves of Enns, an officer in a raincoat, with his physiognomy different from the soldiers, squeezed between the soldiers; sometimes, like a piece of wood winding along the river, a foot hussar, orderly or inhabitant was carried away across the bridge by waves of infantry; sometimes, like a log floating on a river, surrounded on all sides, a company or officer's cart floated over the bridge, superimposed to the top and covered with skins, a wagon.
“Look, they burst like a dam,” the Cossack said, stopping hopelessly. – How many of you are still there?
- Melion without one! - Winking, a cheerful soldier, passing close in a torn overcoat, said and disappeared; behind him passed another, old soldier.
“When he (he is an enemy) starts frying a taperich across the bridge,” the old soldier said gloomily, turning to his comrade, “you will forget to itch.
And the soldier passed. Behind him, another soldier rode on a wagon.
“Where the devil did you put the tucks in?” - said the batman, running after the wagon and groping in the back.
And this one passed with a wagon. This was followed by cheerful and, apparently, drunken soldiers.
“How can he, dear man, blaze with a butt in his very teeth ...” one soldier in a highly tucked overcoat said joyfully, waving his arm wide.
- That's it, that's sweet ham. replied the other with a laugh.
And they passed, so that Nesvitsky did not know who was hit in the teeth and what the ham referred to.
- Ek is in a hurry that he let in a cold one, and you think they will kill everyone. said the non-commissioned officer angrily and reproachfully.
“As it flies past me, uncle, that core,” said a young soldier with a huge mouth, barely restraining himself from laughter, “I just froze. Really, by God, I was so frightened, trouble! - said this soldier, as if boasting that he was frightened. And this one passed. It was followed by a wagon unlike any that had passed before. It was a German fallow steamer, loaded, it seemed, with a whole house; Behind the bowstring, which was carried by a German, was tied a beautiful, motley, with a huge neck, a cow. A woman sat on a feather bed baby, an old woman and a young, crimson, healthy German girl. Apparently, these evicted residents were let through by special permission. The eyes of all the soldiers turned to the women, and as the wagon passed, moving step by step, all the remarks of the soldiers referred only to two women. On all faces there was almost the same smile of obscene thoughts about this woman.
- Look, the sausage is also removed!
- Sell your mother, - hitting on last syllable, said another soldier, addressing the German, who, lowering his eyes, walked angrily and frightened with a long step.
- Ek got away like that! That's the devil!
- If only you could stand by them, Fedotov.
- You see, brother!
- Where are you going? asked an infantry officer who was eating an apple, also half smiling and looking at the beautiful girl.
The German, closing his eyes, showed that he did not understand.
“If you want, take it,” said the officer, giving the girl an apple. The girl smiled and took it. Nesvitsky, like everyone on the bridge, did not take his eyes off the women until they had passed. When they had passed, the same soldiers were walking again, with the same conversations, and, finally, everyone stopped. As is often the case, at the exit of the bridge, the horses in the company's wagon hesitated, and the whole crowd had to wait.
- And what do they become? Order is not! the soldiers said. - Where are you going? Damn! There is no need to wait. Worse than that, he will set fire to the bridge. Look, they’ve locked up the officer, ”the stopped crowds said from different directions, looking at each other, and still huddled forward towards the exit.
Alexey Sherstobitov - Lesha the Soldier
The murder of Joseph Glotser
At the beginning of 1997, one of the entrepreneurs whose company was “protected” by the Pylevs had a conflict with businessman Iosif Glotser, co-founder of the Rostiks network, founder of the Dolls strip club. Then bodyguards from both sides entered the battle, as a result, the victory remained with Glotser's bodyguards. Angered by the defeat, the businessman rushed to his patrons for retribution, and they decided: the best way out from the current situation will be the elimination of the offender.
Joseph spent the last day of his life in the company of his brother Yuri. On January 19, the men took a steam bath in the Sandunovsky baths, dined, after which Yuri went home to watch TV, and Joseph decided to drop by his club.
Arriving at Krasnaya Presnya, where the Dolls are still located, Glotser did not pay attention to the Volkswagen minibus parked not far from the club. And Alexey Sherstobitov was already sitting in it in the company of an Orekhov militant and a driver. It is noteworthy that the liquidator did not plan to deal with Glotser on that very day: he came to study the place, taking with him a small-caliber revolver. The idea to "execute" suddenly came to Lesha Soldat's mind.
There was no opportunity to approach the victim, and Sherstobitov decided to shoot from a distance of 47 meters. Leaning on the back of the front seat and ordering the driver to duck, the killer pulled the trigger. The bullet hit Glotzer in the temple, he died instantly. Sherstobitov and company managed to leave the crime scene unnoticed.
Hunting for "Russian Gold"
In the summer of 1999, the leadership of the Orekhovo-Medvedkovo OPS decided to eliminate the president of the Russian Gold company. What was the reason for the conflict between him and the bandits is not known for certain. Meanwhile, the first attempt on the banker was made back in 1992. Miraculously avoiding death, Tarantsev significantly increased security and acquired an armored car. It was not easy to get close to such a goal, and then Alexey Sherstobitov came up with a “knight’s move”.
The killer remembered how in the Hollywood action movie The Jackal the hero of Bruce Willis dealt with unwanted people with the help of a crossbow installed in the car, and decided to use this method to eliminate Tarantsev. In ordinary tinted Zhiguli, he installed a Kalashnikov assault rifle, firing on command from the control panel, and a video camera, with the help of which it was possible to observe the course of events from a distant place.
Designed by Sherstobitov "death machine"
The killer followed Tarantsev's movements for several months. Sherstobitov decided: the porch of the building where his company is located would be the best point for the “execution” of a businessman. On June 22, the killer parked a car with a shooting device opposite the entrance to the Russian Gold office, and he himself settled in another car on a nearby street.
As soon as Tarantsev's figure appeared on the monitor, Sherstobitov pressed the button, and... nothing happened. The businessman quietly disappeared behind entrance doors, and Lesha Soldier, annoyed by the failure, after sitting in the car for some time, went home. The mechanism "woke up" only after a couple of hours. A sudden burst of automatic fire killed a bystander and wounded an office guard.
Traitor from the Kurgan organized crime group
After the failure with Tarantsev, the killer lay low. The operatives all this time doubted the existence of Sherstobitov's figure, believing that they were dealing with a collective image of a killer named "Soldier". The Pylev brothers, the leaders of the Orekhovo-Medvedkovskaya organized criminal group, detained in the first half of the 2000s, said: yes, they say, there was such a killer, but he was killed long ago.
Light on the existence of a mysterious person was shed by a colleague of Sherstobitov - a killer (Baker). In a fit of remorse and hope for a short time, he told the operatives everything he knew about Lesha the Soldier. And although the law enforcement officers, thanks to Gribkov's stories, were convinced that the liquidator exists in a single and living copy, they did not succeed in getting on his trail.
Andrey Koligov is the leader of the Kurgan organized criminal group. It was he who handed over the Soldier to the investigators
And Alexei Sherstobitov was killed by a fatal passion for a woman named Irina. Lesha Soldier, who was already married, literally lost his head from a 17-year-old beauty. Their secret relationship continued until 1995, when the killer decided: to continue meeting means to endanger the life of his beloved. And he simply disappeared.
He showed up, tired of fighting with his feelings, two years later. Then, after the murder of Glotser, Sherstobitov planned to go on a trip abroad and decided to take Irina with him. What was his amazement when he found out that his beloved had gathered down the aisle, and even with one of the leaders of the warring with the Orekhovskys. True, the wedding never took place: Sherstobitov eventually took the girl with a fake passport to the Canary Islands. Enraged, Koligov vowed revenge by killing both. But he didn’t have time - during the grandiose cleansing of the Kurgan people, he thundered into prison.
Eight years have passed since then. Returning from a trip, Alexei and Irina began to live in a civil marriage, they had a daughter. Irina got a job at a modeling agency and once even got on the cover of a fashion magazine. This magazine, by the will of fate, ended up in the hands of an abandoned fiance who spends his days in the zone.
The happy look of the traitor again awakened in him a thirst for revenge, and he, knowing that there was a hunt for the Orekhovo-Medvedkovskys, told the operatives about the identity of his rival on the love front. What happened next was a matter of technique: law enforcement officers found Irina, who did not know what her cohabitant was doing, and, having received all the necessary information, began to prepare for the arrest.
23 years for 12 murders
Lyosha Soldat ended up in the hands of operatives in early 2006. On this day, he came to visit his father, who ended up in the Botkin hospital. When he closed the car and saw policemen running towards him from different sides, he immediately understood: this time there was no chance to escape. During interrogations, Aleksey Sherstobitov did not deny involvement in the liquidation case and told everything as it is: yes, he killed, but under duress, and had long since retired. He lived a peaceful life and even found himself in the plaster craft.
The investigation managed to prove Sherstobitov's involvement in 12 contract killings and assassination attempts. On February 22, 2008, he was sentenced to 13 years in prison, and in September the term was increased to 23 years. It is noteworthy that all the titles and awards received by the killer in his past, pre-criminal life, were left to him. Ironically, the Order of Courage remained with Alexei, which he received back in 1990 for his help in catching a particularly dangerous criminal.
Sherstobitov was sent to serve his term in a strict regime colony located in the Lipetsk region. They nevertheless broke up with Irina, and a 31-year-old native of St. Petersburg named Marina became the new chosen one of Alexei. Lesha Soldier married her on June 9, 2016. Now Sherstobitov is trying his hand at writing: several books have come out from under his pen.
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I have repeatedly refuted the PR articles about this swindler and liar! I knew Lesha Shersobitov from the moment he appeared in the group and I will say right away that this character is not who he claims to be. This is an image artificially created by TV and the press of the image of a people’s patient who was allegedly forced and forced to kill, but in reality all this is an excuse for the cops to give them a jury trial in order to avoid a life sentence, which he is proud of that he charmed the jury grannies - housewives, and even the victim Glotser from whom he killed brother. Half of what he writes is pure lies. The episode of the assassination attempt on Berezovsky was invented by him from beginning to end in order to give weight to his person and avoid reprisals in the pre-trial detention center. Even the court did not consider this episode seriously. The girl he killed during the assassination attempt on Painting was not an accidental victim, and this murder was deliberate, since Lesha was lit up and these girls became unwitting witnesses to the assassination attempt, Lesha, without regret, detonated an explosive device. The fact that no one knew him and did not see him in person is also a lie, the Internet is full of videos with chaps and photos at all sorts of picnics and other events. During the attempt on Otari, he knew perfectly well who he was attempting, and now he disowns this, fearing that a “torpedo” will fly in for the murder of Otari and he will not live. This is an excuse for those who do not bother with the facts, because the killer is charged to the fullest for such serious persons and there should not be a miss, otherwise the object of the assassination will take countermeasures, hide himself and return will fly in response. Lesha gave himself away when describing this attempt on Otari, it turns out that he knew Mikhail's bodyguard a hundred, but Otari himself, whom he shot first and into whose body he fired three bullets, he did not know! But who can believe in this nonsense? As for the conspiracy, I would not say with such confidence as the press writes, Lesha burned down three apartments with weapons, so moreover, there were also hostages on one, and this is his conspiracy ?! Another myth and excuse for the court is that Lesha lived in the peaceful profession of a plasterer and tied up with the past. This is not so - he was taken red-handed, so to speak, while working off another object to eliminate the director and founder of a secret research institute on Varshavskoe highway in Moscow. Then in 2006, A. Trushkin ordered the capture group to detain him when there was a danger of eliminating the object of the attempt. The result of all this lies is that Sherstobitov was believed by everyone except the COURT itself, which did not even take into account his fake award and his repentance, and if it weren’t for the jury and the victim Glotser’s speech asking for leniency, then this swindler would have rotted for life! Here is such a “Legendary” and elusive Indian “Lesha the Soldier”.
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(deprived of award by court order)
Alexey Lvovich Sherstobitov ("Lesha-Soldier") - (January 31, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR). Hereditary officer, holder of the Order "For Personal Courage", was the leader of a conspiratorial group of specialists from the GRU, KGB, Ministry of Internal Affairs as part of the Orekhovskaya organized criminal group, designed to collect, process and use information, as well as to physically eliminate particular complexity. Member of the Orekhovskaya OCG, known as "Lesha the Soldier". On account of his 12 proven murders and attempts.
Biography
Aleksey Sherstobitov was born into the family of a career military man and dreamed of serving all his life. From an early age he knew how to handle weapons, and after graduating from school he entered the Military Railway School. During his studies, he even detained a dangerous criminal, for which he was awarded an order. Then he served in the unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, providing special deliveries. A radical turning point in Sherstobitov's life occurred during the 1993 coup. He was returning home when he was beaten up by demonstrators, believing that he, being a military man, was a threat to democracy. Sherstobitov then realized that a man in an army uniform no longer commands respect from his compatriots, whom he planned to protect even at the cost of his own life. Shortly thereafter, he retired with the rank of First Lieutenant.
At that time, Sherstobitov was fond of power triathlon and regularly went to the gym. There he met Grigory Gusyatinsky (“Grisha Severny”) and Sergey Ananyev (“Kultik”), who at that time was the head of the Powerlifting and Powerlifting Federation and at the same time Gusyatinsky’s deputy in the Medvedkov group. Initially, Gusyatinsky instructed Sherstobitov to ensure the safety of several stalls. Starley proved to be a good organizer, able to solve (including by force) emerging problems. The leaders of the Medvedkovskaya organized crime group appreciated his abilities and offered a new position - a full-time killer.
One of the first tasks of Lyosha the Soldier was the murder of Otari Kvantrishvili. In a few days he was given a German-made small-caliber Anschutz rifle, which he slightly improved by adapting a plastic butt from a blowgun. The name of the victim was not given to Sherstobitov. On April 5, 1994, Kultik brought him to Stolyarny Lane. There Sherstobitov was ordered to go up to the attic, from where a view of the entrance to the Presnensky baths opened. The goal was simply stated: “Several Caucasians will come out. You will need to shoot at the largest one. They turned out to be Kvantrishvili. Having fired three times, Sherstobitov wanted, just in case, to shoot the one walking next to Mamiashvili, but took pity on him when he saw how he rushed to help his wounded friend. About whom he killed, Sherstobitov learned from news releases. After that, he hid for several months - he was afraid that the customers would “remove” him. But the leaders had other plans for him - he received and fulfilled several more contracts. During interrogations at the MUR, he stated that he did not regret anything, since all his victims were unworthy of life. Already at the trial, Sherstobitov said that the leader of the Orekhovskaya organized crime group Sergey Timofeev, who worked closely with the Medvedkovskaya organized crime group, instructed the leader of the Medvedkovskaya Grigory Gusyatinsky to deal with Kvantrishvili, and he had already transferred the "order" to Lyosha Soldat. Moreover, the killer was only told that it was necessary to eliminate the person who “mortally threatens” the interests of Timofeev.
In 1994, Timofeev had a conflict with thief in law Andrey Isaev, known by the nickname "Painting". Shortly before this, Timofeev organized an explosion at the LogoVAZ office, during which Boris Berezovsky received minor injuries. The oligarch and the authority had a long-standing dispute over the amount of 100 million rubles received from several transactions. Timofeev liked the effect that the explosion produced, and he ordered to deal with Isaev in the same way. Lyosha Soldier installed a car filled with explosives near Isaev's house on Autumn Boulevard. When he left, the killer pressed the remote control button. Isaev himself was injured, but survived. The explosion killed a little girl. In spite of unsuccessful attempt, Sylvester was satisfied with the operation, he personally rewarded Sherstobitov with a TT pistol. And soon Timofeev himself was killed. It is noteworthy that no separate payments for the work performed were provided for Sherstobitov in the group. He had a monthly salary of $ 2.5 thousand, sometimes he was also given bonuses. For the murder of Kvantrishvili, Lyosha the Soldier was awarded the VAZ-2107. Sherstobitov received money only from the hands of Gusyatinsky, while the rest of the group, with the exception of a few more of its leaders, did not know his real name and did not see his face (she came to general meetings in makeup, a wig and a false mustache). Sylvester himself met with Lyosha the Soldier only once.
After the murder of Sergei Timofeev on September 13, 1994, Sherstobitov and Gusyatinsky left for Ukraine for security purposes, where the Pylev brothers found Lyosha the Soldier. They offered him to kill Gusyatinsky, because they wanted to single-handedly rule in the Medvedkovskaya organized criminal group. Lyosha Soldier, as he admitted during interrogations, was delighted with such an “order” - Gusyatinsky was the only person in the group who knew everything about him: places of residence, relatives, real name etc. The killer shot his boss in Kyiv with a sniper rifle when he approached the window of a hotel room.
After that, the Pylevs raised Sherstobitov's salary to $ 5 thousand and sent him to sit out in Greece. Sherstobitov was even allowed to assemble his own team. In one of the private security companies controlled by Orekhovsky, he spotted two people. One of them - former employee GRU, a specialist in radio electronics, the second is a former firefighter (he was engaged in outdoor surveillance, got weapons and the like).
Again, the services of Lyosha the Soldier were needed only two years later - in January 1997. Then the Medvedkovskaya organized criminal group had a conflict with the owner of the Dolls club, Joseph Glotser. Sherstobitov went on reconnaissance to a nightclub located on Krasnaya Presnya Street. Suddenly, he saw Glotzer leave the building and get into his car. The killer had a small-caliber (5.6mm (.22LR) Ruger) revolver with him, and he decided to take a chance and fired through an open window from a distance of 50 meters. The bullet hit Glozer in the temple. The next task of his group was to shadow Solonik, who after sensational escape from the pre-trial detention center "Matrosskaya Tishina" lived in Greece... Sherstobitov's people stuffed his Athenian house with listening devices and conducted round-the-clock surveillance from the cottage opposite. It was they who recorded the telephone conversation in which Solonik uttered the fatal phrase for himself: "They must be brought down." With these words, the Pylev brothers felt threatened, and Solonik was eventually killed.
In 1998, the Pylevs, on the basis of the distribution of business income, had a conflict with the president of the Russian Gold company Alexander Tarantsev. And again, Sherstobitov was involved to solve the problem. He followed the businessman for almost four months and realized that he, having very professional security, was practically not vulnerable to killers. Tarantsev could only hit the scope window when he was walking down the steps of the office in Moscow. Lyosha Soldier built a remote-controlled device with a Kalashnikov assault rifle in a VAZ-2104. The car was installed right at the exit from the Russian Gold office. Lyosha the Soldier saw Tarantsev descending the stairs on a special display. He aimed at the businessman's head and pressed a button on the remote. But for some reason, the complex device did not work. An automatic burst was heard only a day later, a Russian Gold guard died from it, and two bystanders were injured. Tarantsev survived.
Law enforcement agencies learned about the existence of Sherstobitov only after the arrest of the Orekhovo-Medvedkovo leaders in the early 2000s. Yes, but only in general terms. Ordinary militants spoke during interrogations about a certain Lyosha Soldier, but no one knew either his last name or what he looked like. The Pylev brothers said that they had heard of such a person for the first time. Then the investigators decided that Lyosha the Soldier was some kind of mythical collective image. Lyosha the Soldier himself was extremely cautious: he did not communicate with any of the ordinary militants and never participated in their gatherings. He was a master of conspiracy and reincarnation: going to work, he always used wigs, fake beards or mustaches. Sherstobitov left no fingerprints at the crime scene, and there were no witnesses. The detectives eventually came to the conclusion that Lyosha the Soldier is a myth. And yet, he managed to get on his trail.
In 2005, one of the members of the Kurgan organized crime group (she was associated with the Orekhovskaya and Medvedkovskaya organized crime groups), who was serving a long term, unexpectedly called the investigators to him and stated that a certain killer had once beaten off his girl. Through her, the detectives went to Sherstobitov, who was detained in early 2006, when he came to the Botkin hospital to visit his father. During a search of his rented apartment in Mytishchi, detectives found several pistols and machine guns in Sherstobitov's possession. As it turned out, by this time Sherstobitov had long since moved away from the "Orekhovo-Medvedkovo" cases and was engaged in his own criminal business.
Group members:
Alexey Sherstobitov (Soldier) - Art. lieutenant in the Ministry of Defense;
Chaplygin Sergei (Chip) - captain of the GRU MO;
Pogorelov Alexander (Sanchez) - captain of the GRU MO;
Vilkov Sergey - Captain VV.
press portrait
Hair Color: Brunet
Eye color: Brown
Height: 185 cm
Weight: 87-90 kg
Body Type: Athletic
Age: 45 years old
Special Features: None. Looks 10 years younger.
Date of birth: 01/31/1967
Marital status: Single, no family.
Children: Two
Higher education
Specialty: Army reserve officer.
Awards: Commander of the Order "For Personal Courage"
Role in the organized crime group: One of the main participants in the Orekhovskaya group.
Profile: Special challenging tasks requiring the ability to wait. Murders. Single.
Arrested: Penultimate in February 2006
Convicted: By two jury trials
Charge: 12 murders.
Basis of accusation: Own confessions.
Term: 23 years. The content regime is strict.
Estimated release date: 02/02/2029
Opinions of those who know him
Character traits:
Intelligent, calm, reasonable, patient, sympathetic, honest, devoted comrade, has a healthy sense of humor, optimist, capable of self-sacrifice, monogamous, well-read, not arrogant, not vindictive, not vindictive, suspicious, analytical mindset, propensity to humanities, rarely listens to the opinions of others, focusing mainly on his own, which he can defend even with some aggression, being jealous.
Arrest and trial
- February 2, 2006 - arrest, then 4 years in SIZO 99/1.
- Jury verdict of February 22, 2008 "Guilty, not worthy of leniency."
- The verdict of the Moscow City Court dated March 3, 2008 - 13 years of strict regime, Judge Zubarev A.I.
- Jury verdict of September 24, 2008 - "Guilty, worthy of leniency"
- The verdict of the Moscow City Court of September 29, 2008 - 23 years of strict regime. Judge Shtunder P.E.
The term by the addition of sentences is 23 years l / s in a strict regime colony with the retention of the title and awards. He was accused of committing 12 murders and attempted murders and more than 10 articles of the Criminal Code related to his activities.
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Alexey Lvovich Sherstobitov(born January 31, 1967, Moscow) - a killer of the Medvedkovskaya OPG and an ally of the Orekhovskaya OPG. Known as "Lesha-Soldier". On account of his 12 proven murders and attempts. Engaged in literary activity, wrote autobiographical books "Liquidator", part 1 (2013); "Liquidator" part 2 (2014), "Skin of the Devil" (2015), "Someone else's wife" (2016), "Liquidator, full version (2016)".
Biography
Life before the organized crime group
Aleksey Sherstobitov was born into the family of a hereditary career officer and dreamed of serving all his life. The family lived in Moscow on Koptevskaya Street, in a house where many military men lived, mainly from the Ministry of Defense. Sherstobitov's ancestors served in the Tsarist Army. The grandfather of Alexei Sherstobitov, Colonel Alexei Mikhailovich Kitovchev, participated in the battle for the liberation of Sevastopol, for which he was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky. From an early age, Aleksey Sherstobitov knew how to handle weapons, after graduating from school he entered the Leningrad higher school of Railway Troops and Military Communications named after M.V. Frunze at the Faculty of Military Communications, which he graduated in 1989. He studied at the same football school together with Alexander Mostov and Oleg Denisov. During his studies, he detained a dangerous criminal, for which he was awarded an order. After the military school, by distribution, he got into the Special Transportation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation on the Moscow Railway, where he worked as an inspector, and then as a senior inspector. At that time, Sherstobitov was fond of power triathlon and regularly went to the gym, while still in the military. There he met the former senior lieutenant of the KGB Grigory Gusyatinsky ("Grinya") and Sergey Ananievsky ("Cult"), who at that time was the head of the Federation of power triathlon and powerlifting and deputy director of Orekhovskaya OPG Sergey Timofeev ("Sylvester"). Initially, Gusyatinsky instructed Sherstobitov to ensure the safety of several stalls. The senior lieutenant showed himself to be a good organizer, able to solve (including by force) emerging problems. The leaders of the Medvedkovskaya organized crime group assessed his abilities and appointed him to a new position - a full-time killer.
Killer career
First task "Lyosha-Soldier" was an attempt to assassinate the former deputy head of the special forces of the OMSN Filin, who subsequently resigned from the authorities and became a criminal. On May 5, 1993, on Ibragimov Street, Sherstobitov fired at Filin's car from a Mukha grenade launcher. Owl and his friend, who were in the car, were slightly injured and survived, but Sylvester was pleased with the work done. Later, "Lyosha-Soldier" killed several more people. The most famous crime of Sherstobitov was the murder of Otari Kvantrishvili on April 5, 1994.
In 1994, Timofeev had a conflict with thief in law Andrey Isaev ("Painting"). Sherstobitov installed a car filled with explosives near Isaev's house on Osenny Boulevard and, when he left, pressed the remote control button. Isaev himself was injured, but survived. The explosion killed a little girl.
After Timofeev's assassination on September 13, 1994, Gusyatinsky and Sherstobitov left for Ukraine for security reasons. After this trip, Sherstobitov, together with the brothers Andrey and Oleg Pylev ("Small" and "Sanych") agreed to liquidate Gusyatinsky. Sherstobitov severely wounded his boss in Kyiv with a sniper rifle when he approached the window of a rented apartment. Gusyatinsky lay in a coma for several days, after which he was disconnected from life support devices. After that, the Pylevs allowed Sherstobitov to assemble his own team of three people.
In January 1997, Alexander Tarantsev, who headed Russian Gold, had a conflict with the owner of the Dolls club, Joseph Glotser. Sherstobitov, on the instructions of the Pylevs, went on reconnaissance to a nightclub located on Krasnaya Presnya Street, where he killed Glotser with a shot to the temple. The next task of his group was to spy on Solonik, who, after escaping from the pre-trial detention center "Matrosskaya Tishina", lived in Greece. Sherstobitov's people recorded a telephone conversation in which Solonik uttered the phrase "They need to be thrown". In these words, the Pylev brothers felt a threat to themselves. The killer of Solonik is Alexander Pustovalov (Sasha the Soldier).
In 1998, the Pylevs, on the basis of the distribution of business income, had a conflict with the president of the Russian Gold company, Alexander Tarantsev. Sherstobitov followed the businessman for almost four months and realized that he, having very professional security, was practically invulnerable. Sherstobitov built a remote-controlled device with a Kalashnikov assault rifle in a VAZ-2104. The car was installed at the exit from the Russian Gold office. Sherstobitov saw Tarantsev descending the stairs on a special display and pressed the button on the remote control, but the device did not work. An automatic burst rang out only after 2 hours, a Russian Gold guard died from it, and two bystanders were injured. Tarantsev survived. He also tried more than once to kill the Orenburg thief in law Aliyev Astana, nicknamed "Ali", so, in 2005, Aliyev's cortege, consisting of 7 cars, was shot on the street. Donguzskaya, but then Aliyev remained alive, Aliyev's bodyguards worked professionally and saved the life of their authority, after which Sherstobitov was pursued by the lads, but the police officers found him before they did.
Arrest
Law enforcement agencies found out about the existence of Sherstobitov only after the arrest of the Orekhovo-Medvedkovo leaders in 2003, when Oleg Pylev wrote a statement asking him to release him on a subscription not to leave with a promise find "Soldier" who committed the murder of Otari Kvantrishvili and Glotser. Ordinary militants spoke during interrogations about a certain "Lesha the Soldier", but no one knew either his last name or what he looked like. The investigators believed that "Lesha the Soldier" was some kind of mythical collective image. Sherstobitov himself was extremely cautious: he did not communicate with ordinary bandits, did not participate in their gatherings. He was a master of conspiracy and reincarnation: going to work, he always used wigs, fake beards or mustaches. Sherstobitov left no fingerprints at the crime scene, and there were no witnesses.
In 2005, one of the leaders (convicted).
Personal life
On June 9, 2016, Sherstobitov married in a penal colony in the Lipetsk region, where he is serving a term. His wife was a 31-year-old female psychiatrist from St. Petersburg. Before the ceremony, the newlyweds had a photo shoot, for which they dressed up in the costumes of gangsters from the times of Prohibition in the United States, the photos got into social networks, after which they were published in the Russian media. An employee of the registry office arrived at the colony. The registration procedure took place in the room of the deputy head of the educational department of the ITC
Moscow city court sentences
He was accused of committing 12 murders and attempted murders and more than 10 articles of the Criminal Code related to his activities.
First judgment
- Jury verdict of February 22, 2008 "Guilty, not worthy of leniency."
- The verdict of the Moscow City Court dated March 3, 2008 - 13 years of strict regime, Judge Zubarev A.I.
Second judgment
- Jury verdict of September 24, 2008 - "Guilty, worthy of leniency"
- The verdict of the Moscow City Court of September 29, 2008 - 23 years of strict regime. Judge Shtunder P.E.
The term by the addition of sentences is 23 years of imprisonment in a colony of strict regime with the retention of the title and awards.
At the trial, Sherstobitov stated that he fully admits his guilt, but asked for leniency. In particular, he cited the following arguments in his defense: he refused to blow up 30 members of the Izmaylovo group, saved the life of one entrepreneur without eliminating her, and, having left the criminal community, was engaged in a peaceful craft - he worked as a plasterer. Sherstobitov often went against the interests of the criminal community and its leaders, refusing and delaying the elimination of persons they did not like: V. Demenkov, G. Sotnikova, A. Polunin, T. Trifonov, including did not initiate an explosive device at the Vvedensky cemetery in Moscow , during the celebration of the anniversary of Shukhat's death there, which is confirmed by the materials of the criminal case (the decision to refuse to initiate a criminal case of 06/25/2007).
Alexey SHERSTOBITOV
[Lesha Soldier]
LIQUIDATOR
Confessions of a legendary killer
AN EPOCH IN THE SIGHT
"Killer number one" - this is exactly what investigators dubbed Alexei Sherstobitov, nicknamed "Soldier". Ten years of his crimes rocked the news feeds. Everyone knew about his murders, but no one knew about his existence. He was a phantom, a genius of reincarnation: dozens of passports, names, images ... His atrocities were attributed to others, including Alexander Solonik, who fled from the Matrosskaya Tishina special center and was then killed in Greece by his “brothers in arms”. All the secret services of the country were hunting for the Soldier, who could not even imagine that they were dealing with a loner.
He was taken when he retired, devoting himself to his family and little daughter. For twelve proven murders, the court sentenced the Soldier to 23 years in prison. The killer's targets were big businessmen, politicians, leaders of the organized criminal group: Otari Kvantrishvili, Iosif Glotser, Grigory Gusyatinsky, Alexander Tarantsev ... Aleksey Sherstobitov also had an order to eliminate Boris Berezovsky, but seconds before the shot, the “light out” command followed.
It's extremely frank true story about gang wars in which special services actively participated, about the fate of the leaders of the most powerful organized criminal gangs. The author does not hide the methods he uses to collect information, blackmail, conspiracy, and prepare for liquidation ... The scenes are shocking with cruelty, achieved not by savoring the physiological specifics of the murders, but by the deep psychologism of the confrontation between the victim and the executioner. Killing is not for money and power, and certainly not for the sake of killing. Each next crime of the Soldier is an attempt to save his loved ones from reprisal, to save the love that brings him to the dock.
"Liquidator" is not fiction, not a detective story, not literary "soap", not boring memoirs. Reading is not for sleep or boredom. We have never heard or read anything like it. From the first pages of Confessions of a Legendary Killer, an era unfolds in front of us in the reticle of an optical sight. Until now, this genre has been a fantasy of writers and screenwriters, trying on the role of killers and executioners: sad cartoons or bloody comics. This book overthrows psychologists who have studied the minds of murderers and dared to raise their conclusions to scientific truths.
Any glass has a critical point that destroys it, which is impossible to find, you can only accidentally stumble upon it. In crime literature and psychology, this book has become a similar point of collapse, erasing the usual idea of life and death, murderer and victim, fate and fatalism, love and morality. This is not a snotty repentance with an overlap of self-flagellation and longing, this is not a cynical bravado with sniper virtuosity and elusiveness, this is not love lamentations covering bloody traces on life path author. Aleksey Sherstobitov, with his cold mind, but with warm feelings and passionate style, dissects his own fate, in the stormy mirror of which the battlefields are reflected civil war for the socialist heritage. “Do not cry, do not laugh, do not curse, but understand” - this philosophical aphorism most accurately reflects the author's message of the “Liquidator” to its reader.
We met Lesha Soldat five years ago in prison, where I was held on suspicion of an attempt on Anatoly Chubais. I wrote about this in detail in the book “Immured. Chronicles of the Kremlin Central. We spent two weeks in one cell - not long, but quite enough to understand each other. Spiritual, intelligent in a good way, calm and restrained. Outwardly, he looked more like a vacationer than a prisoner, over whom the guillotine of criminal cases hung over him with a long enumeration of the victims who died at his hands. In prison, Alexey read a lot: world history, philosophical treatises, popular psychology, revelations of the holy fathers. Reading was more than just leisure for him. Sherstobitov seemed to be trying to pick up the keys that could reveal the meaning of his own existence, the keys to righteous repentance.
And now, years later, in my hands was a thick manuscript, the price of which is human lives, broken love, years of searching and the timelessness of prison corridors. The author does not beg forgiveness from the reader, although notes of justification sometimes sound from the instinct of salvation. It seems that he meekly accepts the punishment, contempt and hatred with which society generously pays him, happily seeing in that redemption before people and God.
Ivan MIRONOV,
Candidate of Historical Sciences,
member of the Writers' Union of Russia
A BOOK ABOUT A TERRIBLE LIFE
Started on the first day of the week of the Last Judgment on February 27, 2011.
“I dedicate to the million who did not live to read this book, having paved the way with their lives for those who wanted to live “better than the gods”, and for those of us who survived, but dream of freedom and family - finally realized true values. To remember".
Each person, from birth, has his own way, they have their own road, resting on the unknown. Mine is like this - through the fate of my own and my loved ones, through other people's lives, misfortunes and tears. There is nothing to atone for the pain caused by me, and, in most cases, not before anyone ... But even in such cases, there is a way out for each person - to start his Anabasis to repentance.
Is the loneliness of a person who, by chance (in accidents, however, I lost faith a long time ago) becoming a professional killer, comparable to the loneliness of an ordinary person? How much can you dilute it or, having got used to it, not want anyone else in your society?
I will say, judging by myself and because I have read or heard: only a book (but not fiction, but a book that makes you think) can replace an interlocutor, although, sometimes, even here one cannot do without lies, to get used to which from relatives, and even from strangers, and could not.
Of the books that mankind has created, the most remarkable, in my opinion, are works about history (especially those written by its participant). Many who do not recognize this science have never been fond of it and have heard about it only in the corner of their ear. The passion that seized me, of course, at the everyday level, because I do not speak the languages of primary sources and have no communication with the luminaries and artifacts. Even in this perspective, a point of view is emerging, thanks to which anyone can enter into a debate with a scientist, at least in the form of a dialogue “to himself”. Over time, as one of the beneficial consequences, some patterns begin to be traced in the life of states, city-states, nations, politicians, leaders, warriors, and simply individuals who have stood out from the general human historical mass. But each of us plays his own role, even a screw or a nut, and the point is not at all in interconnections, not in unity and fusion, and not even in God's Providence, but in understanding this by the person himself, and understanding every minute! And in combining the worldview and perception of a person of that time with the worldview and perception of a person today, which we rarely think about, just dwelling on facts and emotions.
