Mistery Moscow

Alexandra Borshchenyuk and her superstitious legends about Moscow.

Mistery Moscow

Everyone knows a legend about the black crossing the street before you. Some people truly believe that it is a bad sign. What about ghosts? Do you think they exist?

  • The train

    Metro is a very popular and convenient public transport. But try arriving after midnight at a circle line (Koltsevaya). As people say, every month an empty old train passes without passengers along this line. Moreover, it slows down as it should at all stations, but without opening doors.

    At the helm, the driver sits in the uniform of an old subway model. The appearance of such a train is overgrown with legends. It seems to be the "restless" souls of the prematurely dead metro builders "traveling" in it.

  • Stingy Ghost

    According to one legend, in the 19th century a couple of merchants Kusovnikovs lived in the old tea and coffee store (a Chinese-style house) on Myasnitskaya street, 17.

    Most of all, they were afraid that their wealth would be stolen from them, and so they always carried  all their savings with them. Once they decided to hide all they had ​​and so temporarily placed them in the fireplace where no one could find it. But the servant, who knew nothing about it, decided to set a fire and so all savings were gone.

    The Kusovnikovs soon died of grief, but there are rumors that at night on Myasnitskaya near their house you can still see the ghost of an old man throwing himself at passers-by shouting “Where is our money?”

  • Ivan The Terrible

    If you have not visited Kremlin for a long time – you definitely should. The ghost of Ivan IV shows himself only to the permanent visitors of the Kremlin. Even the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II told about how the spirit of the famous tyrant had been seen on the eve of the Nicholas

  • The Behemot Cat

    This is not the Bulgakov’s cat, this ghost of a cat is just its prototype. If you want to admire a ghost of a huge black cat – visit Tverskaya street. Residents of this street claim that they not only often see it, but even take pictures of it. This ghost arises directly from the walls of houses, and then hides in other buildings. By the way, the cat is listed in the International ghost directory.

  • The ghost of a Frenchwoman Zhuzhu

    At the beginning of the XX century, the charming Frenchwoman Zhuzhu was the mistress of the patron Savva Morozov. One morning in 1905, Zhuzhu was riding a carriage along the Kuznetsk Bridge when she suddenly heard the cries of a newspaper boy: “Savva Morozov committed suicide in Nice!”

    Zhuzhu jumped out of the carriage to buy a newspaper and fell under the wheels of a carriage passing along the oncoming lane. In the evening, in one of the gateways, the police found a dead newspaper delivery boy strangled by a black stocking. As the examination established, the stocking belonged to Zhuzhu, although her body was already stored in the morgue. Since then, the insidious Frenchwoman has avenged revenge on journalist and newspaper sellers, attacking them and trying to kill.

  • Fatal Mother

    Nikulinskaya street in Moscow is considered to be a not very happy street, because drivers often get into accidents there. Every third of them claims that before the accident heard a lullaby, which was sung by a female voice. They saw the following picture: a young woman with a baby on her hands sits on a swing in a green garden. People say that at this place a long time ago a car shot down a woman "in position" to death. Now her spirit takes revenge on drivers.

Do you know any other ghost stories?

Text by
Alexandra Borshchenyuk