Immersion in Marax

Do you know what Marax is? Surely you know . For a whole week, a police report on the rampage of Poltergeist in the Siberian village remains a hit of the Russian -speaking Internet. What is not surprising.

Previously, only crazy and REN TV channel told us about drums. Everything changed on February 13, 2018 (this day should go down in the history of the Russian police) when Major Artamonov wrote a report from Kolpashevo, in which he recorded the fact of meeting his subordinates with supernatural phenomena with a dry official language:

“During the police officers at the indicated address in the bedroom, the closet fell ... After the book, books fell out of the hinged shelf, a stick flew out of the room in which no one was. The indicated events were found.”

As soon as the document got on the Internet, skeptics screamed: fake! Numerous commentators maliciously unsubscribed about poorly educated police officers with eight classes of secondary schools who have never read the Books of Home Focuses. Nevertheless, everyone with pleasure makes reposts of this report, spreading the news of the surrender of common sense before the temptation of obscurantism. Tens of thousands of reposts in a few days. Marax can rightfully be called the virus of the week.

Have you been to Marax? Of course not. She is far in Siberia, on the edge of the world, among the taiga. As in the Soviet song, "only by plane can you fly." Now, however, it is no longer possible: small aircraft died, the airport in the district center Kolpashevo is closed. We have to go by car, from Tomsk it is 300 kilometers to the north, then an ice crossing through the Ob.

- Have you come to visit our ghost? - the waitress smiles in a cafe at the sight of tourists.

- To Marax? -The first thing the taxi driver-bomb asks.

The word “Marax” now sounds on the streets of Kolpashevo with the same frequency as the curse “Massaraksh” in the novel “Inhabited Island”. In the Strugatsky, it meant “the world inside out”. That's how you feel like that, in an inverted world, when you approach the Zhukovs' houses, who on Sunday, February 11, called the police to save them from Poltergeist.

The door is opened by the owner of the house, Alexander Ivanovich, a seventy -year -old pensioner, a former sailor of the river fleet. Over the past three days, he gave several interviews to journalists of local and federal television channels. It seems he likes to communicate with the press.

“Yes,” says Alexander. - Everything was so, as it is written in the report. Here is a closet that fell to the floor. Here is a stick that flew through the air.

Foreign evidence behaves quietly, as it should be ordinary objects of the physical world. Supernatural activity is shown only by the hostess of the house, Natalya Vikentievna. She really does not like that Alexander Ivanovich again gives an interview. She simultaneously prepares dinner, feeds cats (there are six of them in the house, not counting the kittens) and tries to stop her husband:

- Be quiet! Do not tell anything. What is it! Now I will call the police.

Despite the cries of the wife, Alexander still manages to tell about the main culprit of the commotion, whose name is Igor Yakovlev. This is the adoptive son of the Zhukovs, he is fourteen years old. According to Alexander Ivanovich, something strange is constantly happening to the boy, like the hero of the French film “Unlucky”, Igor all the time falls into the incidents.

“Recently he was beaten at school,” says Alexander. - In the physical education lesson, the basketball ball accidentally hit the girl on the head, and then flew right into the hands of Igor. Classmates thought that he deliberately threw the ball, and beat him after lessons.

- Shut up! - shouts from the kitchen Natalya. - That's enough! We have to go.

- Where are you going?

- To the guardianship, then for Igor. We will hide him from everyone, ”she answers, and immediately, regretting what she said, again begins to threaten the police.

As Shrek said, "here you are not officially happy." Of course, this is stress - overnight to become the object of attention of reporters, ufologists and all sorts of madmen.

In a village school where Igor is studying, teachers are also nervous at the sight of strangers. The school principal at first even refuses to name his name.

“But this can be found through the Internet.”

- So find out!

Then everyone calms down a little, they say that Igor is studying normally, neither good nor bad. But its appearance attracts attention, because in the eighth grade the boy is convinced of the year -long school uniforms, from which he has already grown. The class teacher Igor believes that the foster parents are too saving on his clothes:

- But they receive money from the state! - says Olga Vasilievna. - Do you know that the Zhukovs raised five adopted children? It is like a business - to take children, to receive subsidies.

If the information is drained, then someone needs it. The goal is understandable: even deeper to immerse us all in Marax

Judging by the conversations at school and on the street, many here are Zhukov, to put it mildly, without sympathy. According to Svetlana, who works in a village store, Igor regularly asks her sweets for her debt, and instead of money offers to remove snow from the roof. At the same time, everyone notes that the boy has a singing talent, not so long ago his voice was appreciated by the organizers of the television contest “You are super!”, Which invited Igor to shoot in Moscow. But the foster parents did not let go, they said - there is no money.

It seems that the villagers envy Zhukov, their inexhaustible vital energy. Alexander and Natalya adopted Igor at the age of age, when both were over fifty.

None of the inhabitants of the village believes in the poltergeist.

- They themselves arranged it!

- For what?

- So figure out, why did they need it? The police should know.

In the Kolpashevsky District Department of Internal Affairs, journalists are found inhospitably. It is worth getting a phone as the attendant shouts due to glass: shooting is prohibited, audio recording is prohibited! Photos of employees are posted at the information stand. A police major appears from behind the lattice door, extremely similar to the author of the famous report.

- Excuse me, are you Major Artamonov?

- No! - the major answers, hastily running out into the street.

- Mr. sergeant, was it Major Artamonov?

“I don't know,” says the duty officer.

He does not sit here to issue information to reporters.

- Can I meet the boss?

- On a business trip.

- Who instead of him?

- Acting.

Temporarily acting head of the police department, Lieutenant Colonel Alimpiev on the internal phone, refuses a personal meeting for a long time:

-You will be happy to answer all questions in the press center of the regional Internal Affairs Directorate in Tomsk.

- Yes, but we are in the same building. This is some kind of absurdity to go to Tomsk, if you can talk with an eyewitness to the incident here and now! (As stated in the Artamonov report, “to the specified address ... the exit ... the acting head of the department.”)

In the end, the lieutenant colonel still appears on the stage, but the absurdity does not become less from this. Mr. Alimpiev answers questions with the Olympic calm:

-Everything will be explained to you in the press center of the regional Internal Affairs Directorate.

- On that Sunday evening, the police came to the Zhukov house three times, first patrolmen, then investigators, and then the authorities, that is, you. This indicates the unusual incident. Is there a video of what happened in the house?

-In the press center of the regional Department of Internal Affairs, you will be happy to answer you.

- Have you personally been in the Zhukov’s house? Just tell me, yes or not?

- You can get answers to all questions in Tomsk.

- The report says that after the police could not find a rational explanation for what was happening, representatives of the church arrived at the house. The priest called the police or the owners?

- They will answer all questions with pleasure in Tomsk.

Whatever foreign agents and enemies of Orthodoxy say, but in the church discipline is not as strict as in the police. Priest Alexei Postnikov, personally expelling the evil spirits from the Zhukovs' house, did not refuse the meeting. Although he warned that the head of the diocese “did not bless” him to give an interview under the recording. We are talking in the Resurrection Church of the Togur, where Fr. Alexey serves as an abbot.

- Tell us what you personally saw that evening?

- Lingerie scattered throughout the bathroom. I consecrated each room in the house, so I can testify that at first it was neatly folded in a pile, and then it was on the floor. Although no one went into the bathroom.

- What else?

- When I finished the ceremony and was about to leave, I saw books from the shelf in Igor’s room, one after another. These were thick volumes of the children's encyclopedia. Igor stood in the middle of the room and did not touch anything. Then a bookcase began to collapse on him, the boy grabbed his hands and put it in place.

- Could it be a focus?

- I do not think, judging by the reaction of the owners of the house. They looked scared.

- They say that a few days later you baptized Igor?

- Yes. He was baptized on this environment, on the festival of a meeting, in our temple. The police brought him, and three policemen stood at the door while the ceremony was performed.

- Why was the presence of the police required?

- Don't know. Probably, he is protected from outsiders.

The police are modestly silent about their role in history, promoted throughout the country after the leakage of the report of Major Artamonov. The regional Internal Affairs Directorate in Tomsk has not yet officially confirmed and did not refute the authenticity of the document walking on social networks. This adds intrigues and forces the conclusions, especially after publication on the website of the Kolpashevsky diocese of a press release, which significantly states that “what happened to them (the Zhukov family. - SR) has not accidentally become the property of the general public, since in our world nothing accidentally and without the knowledge of the Creator.”

If the information is drained, then someone needs it. The goal is understandable: even deeper to immerse us all in Marax.

Andrey Filimonov - Tomsk writer and journalist

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