Sonka Golden Hand: queen of thieves

• Sonka Golden Hand: queen of thieves

In the second half of the XIX century it appeared in St. Petersburg real thieves queen, which could stop neither strong constipation or gentlemen detective investigators. But who really was Sheyndlya Sur Leybova Solomoniak, who became famous as the best fraud in the world - Sonka the Golden Pen?

Introduction to Russia

The Russian adventure beauty Sophia began to fail. Wedge at the station the police took her to a stranger suitcase, but she manages to convince the police officer, that picked up by mistake. Realizing that in small towns catch nothing, Sonya decided to go to the conquest of St. Petersburg, the capital of reputed underworld throughout Eastern Europe.

Guten Morgen

In St. Petersburg, Sonya has developed a corporate identity thefts from hotel rooms. Trick "Guten Morgen" (good morning) cranked a thief in the best hotels of the city: by the victim, it is at dawn seeped into the room while all that is valuable and quickly ran away. Sometimes the guest woke up, but Sonya simply pretended that the wrong number - always worked.

Marriage and tour

Fairly become familiar in St. Petersburg, the queen of thieves went to a tiny Dinaburg, which jumped out to marry an elderly Jew Solomon Shkolnik. Hubby cleaned at the beginning of a honeymoon, Sonya arranged her world tour on cities of enlightened Europe.

Aristocrat in the law

Traveling in Europe brought Sophia very good money. Bored there the society beauty returned to Moscow, where he joined the representatives of the highest criminal caste, the club "Red Diamonds". In St. Petersburg, the girl has created his own gang, which operated in conjunction with the famous raider Levitt Sandanovichem.

Popularity worth it

Until the 1880 Sonya never came across police. Moreover, the famous thief learned even the people on the streets and on several occasions the girl managed to escape into the crowd from the constable. But how much rope does not curl, the end is still the same: great thief was put on trial and sent to Smolensk cell. Here beauty managed ohmurit one of the guards and ran away with him.

Farewell Tour

After escaping from the Russian justice, Sonya rushed again to conquer European cities. Austria-Hungary, Germany, Poland - everything went well at first, but age has imposed limitations on the ability of the poor thief. Upon his return to his native Moscow Sonya caught the scam with diamonds and went into exile on Sakhalin penal servitude. Here, most likely, and ended his days a great swindler.

The memory of the Queen of

But there are other versions. Some historians believe that Sonya had fled from prison and lived out their peaceful lower middle class woman already in revolutionary Moscow. On Vagankovsky cemetery, where according to legend, buried great fraud worth remarkable monument. It was built on the money of criminal authorities from around the world and to this day, here come a string of gloomy people wanting to pay tribute to the queen of the thieves' world.