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Mysterious deaths of foreign idols in the former USSR countries – from the Indian Prime Minister in Tashkent to the lead singer of Boney M. in St. Petersburg and a visiting football player in Sochi
Boney M. vocalist Bobby Farrell is said to have a quasi-Russian style. It is possible that this outfit was fatal for the star. Photo: neural network shedevrum.ai
Boney M. vocalist Bobby Farrell is said to have a quasi-Russian style. It is possible that this outfit was fatal for the star. Photo: neural network shedevrum.ai
In some cases, stories of such deaths are shrouded in rumor or mystery, but in other cases details are few and far between.
Today we will talk about six famous foreigners who suddenly died or died in St. Petersburg, Tashkent, Sochi and the village of Ilsky in the Krasnodar region.
The Korean film director, who won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for the thriller Pieta, passed away in Riga in December 2020. Kim Ki-duk is just 9 days away from his 60th birthday.
In Latvia, he planned to apply for a residence permit in the Russian Federation and shoot a new film. The fact is that the celebrity is accused of sexual harassment at home. One of the actresses anonymously complained that during the filming of "Mobius" she was forced to act in explicit scenes.
The West Indian heartthrob, backing vocalist for Boney M., stopped in St. Petersburg on the second day of December 2010. The 61-year-old pop star was invited here for a corporate event.
In 1978, Bobby's huge popularity was brought by the hit "Rasputin" (in the Soviet Union it was called "The Wizard"). At the concert, he portrayed a bearded old wizard who lived at the royal court. It is interesting to note that Farrell and Rasputin died on the same day, December 30, in the same city. Moreover... Bobby died in the Ambassador Hotel, located between the Yusupov Garden and the Yusupov Palace, where Russians committed suicide. The proclaimed prophet died.
In January 1966, an unprecedented event occurred in the Soviet Union. By a strange coincidence, Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri died in Tashkent. The ardent fighter against colonialism had flown there for talks with his Pakistani counterparts. A fragile ceasefire had just been signed between the two countries.
Shastri was reported to have died of a heart attack, but there were also rumours that he had been poisoned. The Prime Minister fell ill immediately after dinner, and his body immediately turned blue, as if he had been in a state of severe intoxication.
The founder of the German literary movement "Sturm und Drang", a childhood friend and comrade of the great Goethe, he was buried in the Smolensk Lutheran Cemetery in St. Petersburg in 1831.
Von Klingern served in the Russian army from 1780. In Moldova, he wrote the novel The Story of the Golden Chicken on the eve of the war with Turkey. Interestingly, this bright and atheistic pamphlet is somehow connected with Pushkin's The Golden Cockerel.
Soviet footballer, defender Lazar Burd played for the Moldovan national team at the beginning of his career. In the mid-70s, he headed Nistru (now the Moldovan football club Zimbru), bringing players to the top league.
In 1974, he moved to Israel. He lived in Germany for some time, but spent the last years of his life in Sochi. He died in July 2020, and Lazar was buried in the central Baranovsky cemetery of the Olympic capital.
Residents of the Kuban village of Ilsky in the Seversky district will never know what outstanding people are buried in the local cemetery in the mass graves of Soviet soldiers.
In May 1943, Sergeant Shokov Mursalov, “Cyril and Methodius rolled into one” for the residents of Talysh, Azerbaijan, died here.
Mursalov was a teacher, translator, public figure and a prominent figure in the revival of the Talysh people and culture. He was the first to prepare books in the Talysh language for schools in the Lenkoran Autonomous Region, which was abolished in 1938.