Biography of a humpbacked thief

But the famous thief recidivist Gorbaty really was, however, he trained much later. Not in Moscow, but in Leningrad, he became the prototype of Yuri Mikheev. The real name Yuri Alekseev was from the noble family, and were accepted by the Soviet regime, but then his father was shot. Left without work and material resources, his mother, in order to somehow survive, married a priest.

Not only for the arrangement of the family, but hoping for a new husband that he would put his son on the right path. This did not help, and one fine day he stole an expensive collar from his neighbor with his friends. Given the age and corpus delicti, the children were released by advising parents to apply strict measures. But they didn’t let Yura released it, they remembered his father and sent him to the colony for young criminals.

The boy from the intelligent family did not become a laughing stock for criminals, adopted and got used to the zone, gaining authority. And so his future criminal life in camps went, in his 62 years he spent 30 years in prison. But this is not a complete list of its thefts, it did not come across so often. Yura was a wonderful actor in his life, he had an elegant trick, he reincarnated into the unfortunate hunchback.

When the police arrived at the crime scene, they simply ignored a miserable cripple. He was never accused of theft, he became famous for this. Therefore, he was awarded the nickname Gorbaty. With her, Alekseev was crowned in the zone with authoritative thieves. The hero in the cinema real Gorbatat had to become twice. Alekseev was known in the special circles of Leningrad, as a kidnapper of antique products, icons, paintings, church objects and ancient rarities.

He stole to order for collectors and always worked alone. Misha collaborated with the Jews, who were brought to his other fellow tribesmen who emigrated to Israel. This gang robbed these citizens just before the departure, when they sold cars, cottages, things and of course works of art. True, instead of a hunchback, he was invented by a more authoritative nickname Baron.

Only he died not in the investigative insulator, but in the colony, as in the cinema from oncology in the year. Another story from the film where the baron had, a woman. He lived according to thieves' laws and naturally did not marry, but loved one woman, who, in principle, died because of him. His fatal mistake was in the abduction of the stolen picture of Rembrandt, which turned tragically for the participants in this story.

In fact, Yuri had a woman with whom he was not married, but lived in a civil marriage. After liberation, he always returned to her, they had a son. As you know, he often helped the family in everything. And in life, Alekseev was not poor, the fact, being seriously ill, his roommate brought him to prison expensive medicines, which was not possible to get freely. Also when he died, his body was given to her, and she buried him in the theological cemetery in St.

Petersburg. So the famous authority Yuri Alekseev died as an ordinary person, not forgotten by his family. Rumor had it for a long time that a humpbacked dispatch cache with jewelry, just in case of life. So he wanted to ensure a comfortable existence, his family. True or it is gossip, but the widow and son did not need anything and lived in abundance. With whom the legend of Alekseev’s treasures was created is not known, but remained in society for a long time.

Let it remain a mystery, because legends are remembered for centuries.