Vanga (Vangelia Pandeva Gushterova, née Dimitrova) (January 31 or October 3, 1911 – August 11, 1996) was a blind Bulgarian woman. Born in Ottoman Empire in the family of a poor Bulgarian peasant. Most lived her life in the village of Petrich, at the junction of three borders (Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia). For the last 20 years she has been receiving visitors in the village of Rupite. In just 55 years, Vanga received more than a million people from different countries. Even major politicians came to visit the blind and illiterate grandmother. Vanga is a popular brand in Bulgaria; it brought the country $100 million.
Vanga was born at midnight on January 31, 1911 in Strumica, in what is now the Republic of Macedonia. However, she barely showed signs of life and only on February 26 she took a deep breath and cried loudly; this day is considered her second birthday. The name “Vangelia” translated from Greek (Greek Ευαγγελία) means “good news.” With the outbreak of the First World War, Vanga's father, Pande, was mobilized into the Bulgarian army. His mother died when Vanga was four years old. The girl grew up in a neighbor's house. Returning after the war, the widowed father remarried.
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The turning point in Vanga’s biography was the story of a tornado in 1923, which picked up and carried away a twelve-year-old girl 2 kilometers from home (this statement is not confirmed by meteorological or any other records of that time). A few hours later she was found covered with earth. Vanga's eyes were seriously injured. Vanga was sent to the city to see a doctor. The doctor refused to perform the operation because he was under the impression that a rich man did not give enough money for the operation of a poor relative. This happened because Vanga was brought to the doctor not by his father, but by a neighbor who was traveling to those parts and took little Vanga with him. Vanga’s father did not go himself in order to save on the trip, not spend money, and give all the funds collected to the doctor. The doctor did not perform an operation, but took some measures to improve the health of the eyes and gave strict recommendations - healthy eating And healthy image life in general. Vanga's family was poor, nothing to talk about good nutrition there was no question. As a result, Vanga went blind.
In 1925 she was sent to the Home for the Blind in Zemun, Serbia, where she spent three years. After the death of her stepmother, she returned to her father's house in Strumica.
In 1939, Vanga fell ill with pleurisy. For about eight months I was on the verge of life and death. According to doctors, she should have died soon, but she survived and recovered quickly.
Attracted significant amount followers during the Second World War, hoping to learn from her the location or burial places of missing relatives. On April 8, 1942, the Tsar of Bulgaria Boris III visited her.
In May 1942, Vanga married Dimitar Gushterov from the village of Kryndzhilitsa, Petricheskaya region. Her dowry for the wedding was a samovar and a scarf she knitted. Shortly before the wedding, she moved with her groom to Petrich, where she subsequently became widely known. Dimitar spent some time in the army, became an alcoholic and died in 1962.
She died in 1996 from cancer of the right breast, not allowing herself to have surgery. After his death, Vanga's fame did not decrease. Vanga was called Nostradamus in a skirt. According to followers, Vanga had the ability to determine people's diseases with great accuracy and predict them future fate. She often referred her to healers or doctors who could help these people, and often she did not know these healers and spoke about them like this: such and such a person lives in such and such a city.
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Biography
Vanga was born on January 31, 1911 in Strumica in the territory of the modern Republic of Macedonia in the family of farmers Pande and Paraskeva Surchev. The name was given according to the Bulgarian folk custom: going out into the street and asking the first person you meet. But the grandmother did not like the name Andromache and after interviewing the second person she met, they named the girl Vangelia, which is translated from Greek (Greek. Ευαγγελία ) means "good news". WITH early years She was distinguished by her hard work, which she retained throughout her life. With the outbreak of the First World War, Vanga Pande's father was mobilized into the Bulgarian army. His mother died when Vanga was three years old. The girl grew up in a neighbor's house. Returning after the war, the widowed father remarried.
In 1923, due to financial difficulties (Vanga’s father lost land plot) the family moved to the village of Novo Selo in Macedonia, where her father was from. There, at the age of 12, Vanga, when returning home with her cousins, lost her sight due to a hurricane, during which the whirlwind threw her hundreds of meters. She was found only in the evening, covered with branches and with her eyes filled with sand. Her family was unable to provide treatment, and as a result, Vanga went blind. In 1925, she was sent to the Home for the Blind in Zemun, Serbia, where she spent three years learning to cook, knit, and read Braille. Here Vanga met a blind young man from a wealthy family and was going to marry him, but due to severe life circumstances in the family (the stepmother died during the fourth birth) she returned to her father’s house in Strumica to help take care of younger brothers-Vasila and Tom and sister - Lyubka.
Public attention Vanga was first attracted to her during the Second World War, when a rumor spread in the neighborhoods closest to her village that she was endowed with supernatural abilities and clairvoyance and could determine the location of people lost in the war, whether they were alive, or the places of their death and burial. This was facilitated by the fact that on the eve of 1939, Vanga caught a severe cold, when she stood barefoot on the cement floor for several days waiting for benefits for the poor to be issued and, being in an exhausted state, was unexpectedly able to recover from a severe form of pleurisy. In 1941, Vanga was visited for the second time by a certain “mysterious horseman”, after which she began to exhibit supernatural abilities. One of Vanga’s first titled visitors was the Tsar of Bulgaria Boris III, who visited her on April 8, 1942.
In May 1942, Vanga met Dimitar Gushterov, who served in the army, from the village of Kryndzhilitsa in the Petrich region, whom she married and together they moved to Petrich. Gushterov suffered from alcoholism and died in 1962 from cirrhosis of the liver.
Vanga died on August 11, 1996 in Sofia at the Lozinets clinic from cancer of the right breast, refusing treatment and surgery. She transferred all her property to the ownership of the state.
Activities and views
According to followers [ ], Vanga had the ability to determine people's diseases with great accuracy and predict their future fate. She often referred her to healers or doctors who could help these people, and often she did not know these healers and spoke about them like this: such and such a person lives in such and such a city.
According to Vanga herself, she owes her abilities to certain invisible creatures, the origin of which she was not able to explain. Vanga's niece, Krasimira Stoyanova, said that Vanga spoke with the souls of the dead or, in cases where the dead could not give an answer, with a certain inhuman voice. After each such session, Vanga said that “ I feel bad, and then I feel broken all day" And " I lose a lot of energy, I feel bad, I stay depressed for a long time»
Vanga was supported by the Minister of Culture of the People's Republic of Bulgaria and a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian communist party Lyudmila Zhivkova - daughter Secretary General Central Committee of the BCP, Chairman State Council People's Republic Bulgaria by Todora Zhivkova. In 1967, she was registered as a civil servant. From that moment on, she began to receive an official salary - 200 leva per month, and a visit to her cost 10 leva for citizens of socialist states, and 50 dollars for citizens of “Western” states. Until this moment, Vanga received people for free, accepting only various gifts.
In 1981, Vanga reported that the Earth " was under very bad stars, but next year it will be inhabited by new “spirits”. They will bring goodness and hope» .
In 1994, at the expense of Vanga, according to the design of the Bulgarian architect Svetlin Rusev, the chapel of St. Paraskeva was built in the village of Rupite. Due to the non-canonical nature of both the architecture of the building and the wall images, the chapel was not consecrated by the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, so the building is simply referred to as “temple”, without specifying its affiliation. According to the rector of the church of St. Archangel Michael in Varna, Bulgaria, “she actually built a temple at her own expense, which was painted by one of the famous Bulgarian artists. But he obviously tried his hand at church painting for the first time, which resulted in something terrible, in the literal sense of the word.”
Shortly before her death, Vanga reported that the Earth was being visited by alien ships from a planet that sounded like “Vamfim,” “ third from planet Earth", and another civilization is preparing a big event; the meeting with this civilization will occur in 200 years.
Criticism
Vanga is a well-promoted government business, thanks to which the provincial region turned into a place of pilgrimage for crowds from all over the world. Do you know who prayed to Vanga the most? Taxi drivers, waiters in cafes, hotel staff - people who, thanks to the “clairvoyant”, had an excellent, stable income. They all willingly collected preliminary information for Vanga: where the person came from, why, what he hoped for. And Vanga then shared this information with clients as if she had seen it herself. They helped with dossiers on clients and intelligence services, under whose cover the state brand operated. The same Bekhtereva who went to Vanga said that it was possible to get an appointment only with permission from the special services.
Suddenly she interrupted and in a changed - low, hoarse - voice said with effort: “Someone came here. Let him throw THIS on the floor immediately!” "What is this"?" - the stunned people around asked Vanga. And then she broke into a frantic cry: “THIS! He holds THIS in his hands! THIS is stopping me from speaking! Because of THIS I can't see anything! I don’t want THIS in my house!” - the old woman screamed, kicking her feet and swaying.
Unfulfilled predictions and fraud in the name of Vanga. Myths associated with her name
Vanga's name is often mentioned in the pages of the yellow press. Vanga is credited with various predictions, which often contradict each other. There are undocumented opinions that Vanga predicted the death of Stalin, the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the victory of Boris Yeltsin in the presidential elections of 1996, the terrorist attacks of September 11, as well as Topalov’s victory at the World Chess Championship. At the beginning of 1993, Vanga seemed to say that the USSR would be revived in the first quarter of the 21st century and Bulgaria would be part of it. And in Russia many new people will be born who will be able to change the world. In 1994, Vanga predicted: “ IN beginning of XXI century, humanity will be free from cancer. The day will come when cancer will be shackled in “iron chains”" She explained these words in such a way that “ medicine against cancer must contain a lot of iron" She also believed that they would invent a cure for old age. It will be made from the hormones of a horse, a dog and a turtle: “ The horse is strong, the dog is hardy, and the turtle lives long" Before her death, Vanga said: “ The time of miracles and the time of great discoveries in the field of intangibles will come. There will also be great archaeological discoveries that will radically change our understanding of the world since ancient times. It's predetermined". For example, after the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Komsomolskaya Pravda reported on the upcoming nuclear disaster, which Vanga allegedly predicted: “ As a result of radioactive fallout, there will be no animals or vegetation left in the Northern Hemisphere", and after 2.5 years she reluctantly admitted this prophecy had not come true.
At the same time, people who knew Vanga personally say that she did not make predictions about the death of the Kursk submarine, as well as other events, and most of all these messages are myths and untruths. There are numerous cases where what was attributed to Vanga did not actually come true. For example, it was predicted that in the final of the 1994 World Cup they would fight two teams starting with the letter “B”“, however, of all the countries whose names begin with the letter “B”, only Brazil reached the final, while Bulgaria lost in the semi-finals to Italy and remained fourth. Vanga allegedly predicted that World War III would begin in November 2010 and end in October 2014. According to the testimony of Vanga's close friends, she never predicted the outbreak of World War III and the subsequent end of the world.
Unfulfilled predictions Vanga (from L. Orlova’s book “Vanga. A Look at Russia”):
- 2010 The beginning of the World War. The war will begin in November 2010 and end in October 2014. It will start as usual, then first nuclear and then chemical weapons will be used.
- 2011. As a result of radioactive fallout, there will be no animals or vegetation left in the Northern Hemisphere. Then the Muslims will begin chemical warfare against the surviving Europeans.
- year 2014. Most people will suffer from ulcers, skin cancer and other skin diseases (a consequence of chemical warfare).
- 2016 Europe is almost deserted.
Anatoly Stroev, who was Komsomolskaya Pravda’s own correspondent in Bulgaria from 1985-1989, believes that in the USSR about Vanga “ journalists invented sensations for the sake of circulation" He talked about several cases when Vanga made big mistakes. The first was his arrival together with a journalist who was heading to Vanga for help, and she stated that she would never get married and would not have children, although after returning to Moscow she got married within a year and gave birth to a daughter. In the second case, in the late 1980s, several children disappeared in Volgograd at the same time, and two correspondents from a popular magazine went to Vanga, who allegedly told them that the children were alive and would soon be found, but they were never found. The third case was the story in 1991, when during the war in Croatia Soviet journalists Viktor Nogin and Gennady Kurinnoy disappeared and Vanga stated that both were alive, although it later turned out that they were shot on charges of spying for Croatia. Stroev also refutes famous myth about the “alarm clock for Gagarin”, which is cited in her book “The Truth about Vanga” by the niece of the clairvoyant Krasimir Stoyanov, when the actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov allegedly came to Vanga, and the latter told him “ Why didn't you fulfill your desire? best friend Yuri Gagarin? Before his last flight, he came to your house and said: “I don’t have time, so buy an alarm clock and keep it on yours.” desk. Let this alarm clock remind you of me"". After this, Tikhonov allegedly became ill. Subsequently, Tikhonov allegedly said that after the death of Gagarin, he, having a hard time experiencing the death of his friend, forgot to buy an alarm clock. Stroev notes that in 1990, at the premiere of the film “The Enraged Bus,” he met Tikhonov in the cinema hall and said: “ Vyacheslav Vasilyevich, comment on the story with Vanga!" Tikhonov, in turn, said: “ Can I say it in one word? Lies! I beg you, write: nothing like this happened. I didn’t promise Gagarin any alarm clock! Yes, we didn’t even know each other. I only saw him from a distance at official events, nothing more» .
In addition, Stroev notes that the prediction attributed to Vanga about the sinking of the Russian submarine “Kursk” is a pseudo-prophecy that was even during her lifetime long before the sinking of the “Kursk” “ refuted from her words by journalist Ventsislav Zashev» .
“You will be fine at work,” Vanga said something like this, “but personal relationships will not be entirely successful. Unfortunately, serious problems With reproductive organs will not allow you to create a full-fledged family.” A friend of mine later told me how hard it took him to stop laughing...
The relationship between the intelligence services of Bulgaria and the USSR
Retired KGB Lieutenant Colonel Yevgeny Sergienko noted that “ she was often wrong, but it was not customary to disclose it", because to Vanga " guided people of the highest flight", and therefore she was for the security officers " way of obtaining information" Sergienko expressed the opinion that “ it cannot be said that Vanga worked for the KGB, but her assistants collaborated with us", because with their help " our agents received necessary information " And there are special services for this “ contributed in every possible way to the formation of legends about miraculous healers on a mass scale" Sergienko stated that he knows " Bulgarian journalist, whom the special services targeted to promote Vanga’s popularity", and he started a legend about the healer, which the Bulgarian secret services further helped develop, because " it was beneficial to both them and the KGB» .
Memory
In 2011, on the occasion of the centenary of Vanga’s birth, a statue of her weighing 400 kilograms was installed in Rupite.
In 2014, Bulgaria solemnly celebrated the 20th anniversary of the opening of the temple.
Feature films and documentaries about Wang
- “Vanga: Prediction” - documentary film by V. Vikulin (2006)
- “Russian sensations: Vanga - a prophecy for Russia” - documentary, filmed by NTV (2007)
- “Secrets of the century: Vanga. The visible and invisible world" - documentary film by E. Kruglikova (2011)
- “Vanga” - a documentary film made by NTV for the program “Confrontation” (2011)
- “Vanga is back! The Secret Archive of the Soothsayer" - NTV documentary (2011) - This film introduced Vanga's possible heir: a girl from France named Kaede.
- “Frank confession: Vanga” - documentary film made by NTV (2011)
- “The Second Coming of Vanga” - documentary film made by NTV (2011)
- “Vanga. The world visible and invisible" - documentary film shot by Ostankino (2011)
- “The whole truth about Vanga” - documentary film made by REN TV (2011)
- “Russian Sensations: Confession of Vanga” - documentary film made by NTV (2011)
- “Vangelia” is a fictional biographical series produced in Ukraine, Russia, Bulgaria, Belarus (2013).
- “The world will split in two. Vanga's warnings. Secret signs" [TV-3 01/28/09] (Vera Kilchevskaya)
- “What Vanga was silent about” (Andrey Rosenblat)
- "Confrontation. Great Vanga" Broadcast from 03/26/2011 (Alexander Novikov, Alexander Arkhipov)
- “The Vanga Phenomenon” (films first and second)
- “The Real Vanga” (12 episodes)
- “Know the future. Life after Vanga" (20 episodes) (2014-2015), Mainstream production
- “New Russian sensations: Vanga. Prophecies 2017" - documentary film,
Vanga’s “sighted” childhood
Vanga ( full name Vangelia Pandeva Surcheva (Gushterova in marriage), who is credited with the gift of prophecy and extraordinary abilities as a healer, was born in poor family Bulgarian peasant. When the girl was only 4 years old, Vanga’s mother died. While the father was at the fronts of the First World War, the child grew up with a neighbor. Returning from the war, Vanga's father married for the second time. As if anticipating her fate, from an early age the girl loved to play doctor and... blind. Her greatest entertainment was to be blindfolded and find previously hidden things.Tragedy or gift?
In 1923, father and stepmother, together with Vanga, moved to Macedonia. That same year, Vanga lost her sight: a whirlwind threw her several hundred meters. The twelve-year-old girl was found only in the evening. The child's eyes were filled with sand. The family did not have the opportunity to treat the child and Vanga became blind.From 1925 to 1928, Vanga was in the House of the Blind in Zemun, Serbia. When her stepmother died, the girl returned to Strumitsa.
In 1941, Vanga showed the gift of foresight. She began to “decipher” dreams and predict the fate of her fellow villagers. They say that before the outbreak of World War II, who appeared to her ancient warrior predicted: “Soon the world will turn upside down and many people will die... you will stand and predict the dead and the living.” A rumor spread through the surrounding villages that the girl was accurately indicating the location of people missing in the war, determining whether they were alive, or naming the place of their death and burial.
The rumor spread throughout Bulgaria. On April 8, 1942, Boris III himself, the Tsar of Bulgaria, came to Vanga. Vanga was “helped” by pieces of sugar to look into the future. Vanga demanded that visitors keep them under their pillow all night. Meticulous statisticians have calculated that the clairvoyant had about a million visitors who brought her 2 tons of refined sugar!
Vanga's predictions that came true
It is believed that Vanga predicted the following events."Velvet" revolution in Czechoslovakia and soviet tanks on the streets of Prague. The next loud prediction is the death of Indira Gandhi. Allegedly in 1969, the prophetess said: “The orange and yellow dress will destroy her!” Indeed, on the day of the assassination attempt in October 1984, Gandhi did not wear a bulletproof vest under her dress. In 1980, Vanga predicted that in the early 80s of the 20th century, “important leaders will leave their posts... expect changes, big changes.” On November 10, 1982, USSR Secretary General Leonid Brezhnev died, and subsequent General Secretaries Chernenko and Andropov each lived for about a year. Then changes began - perestroika. Vanga is also credited with predicting the death of the Kursk submarine. In 1980, she stated that: “Kursk will go under water, and the whole world will mourn it.” The tragedy, which resulted in the death of the entire crew (118 people), occurred in August 2000.
Vanga's predictions (2016-2020)
And in 1989, Vanga predicted the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001: “The American brothers will fall, pecked to death by iron birds.”
Vanga allegedly predicted that the 44th president of the United States would be a “black man” and this would be the last president of the country. True, we will find out whether this will happen or not in 2016.
Vanga's unfulfilled predictions
Many people who personally knew Vanga claim that she never made any predictions at all. Maybe in this way they are trying to justify the old woman’s unfulfilled predictions? And such “prophecies” are not so few. Vanga believed that at the beginning of the 21st century people would stop sowing and harvesting. They will eat products of genetic engineering. Fortunately, humanity still feeds on the fruits of the earth.The Third “planned” by Vanga for 2008 did not take place World War and the subsequent end of the world.
Wang and the CIA
It is reliably known that Vanga’s grandmother did not allow audio recordings of her predictions. Therefore, many believe that everything she said cannot be documented. All the “prophecies” of the great clairvoyant are nothing more than a successful “invention” of the Bulgarian special services.What Vanga was silent about. Documentary
Vanga was supposedly in the service of the state and received a salary of 200 leva. With the help of the seer, the ministers of the Bulgarian government were manipulated. Vanga advised many of them to resign so as not to have health problems.
A rumor was spread that Vanga sees all NATO military maps and thanks to her, the NATO intelligence network in Bulgaria was destroyed.
In response to this “Red Menace,” the CIA created a special psionic group, which included psychics, to “drown out” the energy of the blind grandmother. The attempt failed. Then the CIA director was asked to develop an operation to kidnap Vanga. Considering the idea to be nonsense, the CereUshnoe management did not give the idea any further progress.
The CIA's fight against a blind Bulgarian old woman cost American taxpayers $2 million.
One way or another, the psi group was disbanded only after Vanga’s death.
Vanga's personal life
In 1942, several soldiers of the Bulgarian army came to Vanga: they wanted to know their future. Among them was Dmitry Gusherov. He did not dare to enter the house. Suddenly the woman herself came out of the house and called him by name and said that he wanted to find out the names of his brother’s killers. She promised to name names with one condition - Dmitry will not take revenge on them. Amazed by what he heard, the young man left, but then visited Vanga several times and eventually wooed her. 
In April, the young people got married and moved to live in Petrich, where Gusherov was from. Living together lasted forty years, until Dmitry's death.
Posthumous fame
Vanga is very popular in Bulgaria and other countries former USSR. In the USA, Wang is almost unknown; in Europe, her prophecies are treated with great skepticism.In her homeland, Vanga is, first of all, considered a healer who could find an individual approach to each patient. Some common healing advice Vangas can be successfully used by all people.
- You should not take too many medications.
- In warmer months, you should go barefoot.
- Go to bed at 10 pm and get up at 5-6 am.
- Drink tea infused with forest fruits and plants as often as possible.
- Once a week, eat sprouted wheat and drink it with clean water.
Vanga
famous Bulgarian clairvoyant
She was born so weak that her parents did not give her a name for two months - they thought that the girl would not survive. But she not only survived - she went through many trials and became one of the most famous personalities XX century. The seer Vanga is an undoubted landmark of Bulgaria. Difficult fate, unusual abilities, worldwide popularity, crowds of visitors have created a lot of legends around it, and now it is difficult to understand where is truth and where is fiction.
Vangelia Dimitrova(married to Gushterova), whom the whole world knew under the name Vanga, was born on January 31, 1911 in Strumica, in what is now the Republic of Macedonia. With the outbreak of World War I, Vanga's father was mobilized into the Bulgarian army. His mother died when Vanga was four years old. The girl grew up in a neighbor's house. Returning after the war, the widowed father remarried. One day, when 12-year-old Vanga was walking into the field, she stood up terrible storm, the wind picked it up and carried it to the side. When the girl was found, she was terribly scared, and her eyes were filled with sand. My vision began to disappear, treatment did not help, and my parents did not have money for the operation. Four years after this incident, her vision completely disappeared, and she was sent to a home for the blind, where she remained for three years. Her unusual abilities began to appear gradually, and intensified during the Second World War. With absolute accuracy, Vanga told the peasants where to find the lost cattle, and they found it in the indicated place. The fame of Vanga's clairvoyance quickly spread throughout the surrounding area, and crowds of people began to flock to her courtyard. She soon became famous as a good healer of various diseases. She treated mainly medicinal herbs. They began to turn to her for advice in a variety of situations. She helped everyone. This is how the legend of Vanga was born. Bulgarian scientist Georgiy Lozanov observed Vanga for more than 25 years and noted over seven thousand predictions that came true. He came to the conclusion that the percentage of coincidences is much higher than chance and reaches about 80%. They say that among the “hits” is the story of predicting Hitler’s defeat. She said to his face, “Leave Russia alone!” You will lose!”, and to confirm the power of her predictions, she sent his guards to a house on another street where a mare was giving birth and described in detail what the foal would look like. Everything coincided exactly, and the Fuhrer left Vanga in a rage.
Six months before Stalin's death, she predicted his death, for which she went to prison, but was released after the forecast was accurately fulfilled. She predicted the assassination attempt on John Kennedy in 1963, and in 1968 the events in Czechoslovakia, the assassination of Robert Kennedy and Nixon's victory in the US elections. Over the 55 years of its activity, Vanga has visited more than a million people. With money from these visits she built the Church of St. Paraskeva. But her relationship with the church was strained. Representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church They believe that she was a pagan, because recognized reincarnation. Nevertheless, Vanga observed all church fasts and holidays, and was very religious. Her abilities were recognized by the Bulgarian government, and from 1967 Vanga was registered as a civil servant. Vanga died on August 11, 1996, but her prophecies still haunt interpreters.
Vanga (Vangelia Pandeva Gushterova, née Dimitrova) (January 31 or October 3, 1911 – August 11, 1996) was a blind Bulgarian woman. She was born in the Ottoman Empire into the family of a poor Bulgarian peasant. She lived most of her life in the village of Petrich, at the junction of three borders (Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia). For the last 20 years she has been receiving visitors in the village of Rupite. In just 55 years, Vanga received more than a million people from different countries. Even major politicians came to visit the blind and illiterate grandmother. Vanga is a popular brand in Bulgaria; it brought the country $100 million.
Vanga was born at midnight on January 31, 1911 in Strumica, in what is now the Republic of Macedonia. However, she barely showed signs of life and only on February 26 she took a deep breath and cried loudly; this day is considered her second birthday. The name “Vangelia” translated from Greek (Greek Ευαγγελία) means “good news.” With the outbreak of the First World War, Vanga's father, Pande, was mobilized into the Bulgarian army. His mother died when Vanga was four years old. The girl grew up in a neighbor's house. Returning after the war, the widowed father remarried.
The turning point in Vanga’s biography was the story of a tornado in 1923, which picked up and carried away a twelve-year-old girl 2 kilometers from home (this statement is not confirmed by meteorological or any other records of that time). A few hours later she was found covered with earth. Vanga's eyes were seriously injured. Vanga was sent to the city to see a doctor. The doctor refused to perform the operation because he was under the impression that a rich man did not give enough money for the operation of a poor relative. This happened because Vanga was brought to the doctor not by his father, but by a neighbor who was traveling to those parts and took little Vanga with him. Vanga’s father did not go himself in order to save on the trip, not spend money, and give all the funds collected to the doctor. The doctor did not perform an operation, but took some measures to improve the health of the eyes and gave strict recommendations - a healthy diet and a healthy lifestyle in general. Vanga's family was poor, there was no talk of any good food. As a result, Vanga went blind.
In 1925 she was sent to the Home for the Blind in Zemun, Serbia, where she spent three years. After the death of her stepmother, she returned to her father's house in Strumica.
In 1939, Vanga fell ill with pleurisy. For about eight months I was on the verge of life and death. According to doctors, she should have died soon, but she survived and recovered quickly.
She attracted a significant number of followers during the Second World War, who hoped to learn from her the locations or burial places of missing relatives. On April 8, 1942, the Tsar of Bulgaria Boris III visited her.
In May 1942, Vanga married Dimitar Gushterov from the village of Kryndzhilitsa, Petricheskaya region. Her dowry for the wedding was a samovar and a scarf she knitted. Shortly before the wedding, she moved with her groom to Petrich, where she subsequently became widely known. Dimitar spent some time in the army, became an alcoholic and died in 1962.
She died in 1996 from cancer of the right breast, not allowing herself to have surgery. After his death, Vanga's fame did not decrease. Vanga was called Nostradamus in a skirt. According to followers, Vanga had the ability to determine people’s diseases with great accuracy and predict their future fate. She often referred her to healers or doctors who could help these people, and often she did not know these healers and spoke about them like this: such and such a person lives in such and such a city.
Her abilities were recognized by the Bulgarian government. In 1967, Vanga was registered as a civil servant. From that moment on, she began to receive an official salary - 200 levs per month, and a visit to her cost 100 levs for citizens of socialist countries, 50 dollars for citizens of “Western” countries. Until this moment, Vanga received people for free, accepting only various gifts.
On October 31, 1990, the Presidium of the Association of Psychics of the USSR awarded Vanga the title “Honorary Psychic of the USSR.”
By decision of the Vanga Foundation, the clairvoyant was buried next to the chapel of St. Paraskeva, built with her funds.
Vanga began predicting at the age of 16, but began to do it professionally at the age of 30. Mathematician Mikhail Kholmogorov calculated that over the 55 years of its activity, Vanga has had more than a million visitors. She predicted the fates of all the people who visited her, but she did not tell many people about their fate if it concerned death.
Vanga's niece, Krasimira Stoyanova, says that Vanga spoke with the souls of the dead or, in cases where the dead could not give an answer, with a certain inhuman voice. Shortly before her death, Vanga reported that the Earth was being visited by alien ships from a planet sounding like “Vamfim,” “the third in a row from the planet Earth,” and another civilization was preparing a big event; the meeting with this civilization will take place in 200 years.
Vanga herself also met alien guests in 1995 in Bulgaria. She described them as beautiful, slender, spoke to them, and then they disappeared. According to Vanga, since the aliens came specifically to her, it is unlikely that anyone saw them, except, perhaps, Vitka Petrovskaya, the prophetess’s assistant.
Vanga's prophecies about the near future are more optimistic than gloomy. At the beginning of 1993, Vanga announced that the USSR would be revived in the first quarter of the 21st century and Bulgaria would be part of it. And in Russia many new people will be born who will be able to change the world. In 1994, Vanga predicted: “At the beginning of the 21st century, humanity will get rid of cancer. The day will come when cancer will be shackled in “iron chains.” She explained these words in such a way that “a medicine against cancer must contain a lot of iron.” She also believed that they would invent a cure for old age. They would make it from the hormones of a horse, a dog and a turtle: “The horse is strong, the dog is hardy, and the turtle lives long.” And before her death, Vanga said: “The time of miracles and the time of great discoveries in the field of the intangible will come. There will also be great archaeological discoveries that will radically change our understanding of the world since ancient times. It is so predetermined.”
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