Sonya Gold Pen: biography, full of adventures

There are many examples of how women have become outstanding criminals. Using data by the nature of the spell, showing remarkable resourcefulness and composure, the fair sex often flaunts men who consider themselves to be experienced and "beaten life".

One such adventuress was Sheindl-Sura Leibovna Solomonak, she is Sofia Bluewstein, she is also Sonya the Golden Hand. The biography of this "thief on trust" has become a legend, despite its low reliability and weak documentary exposure.

The year of birth is 1846, the place is Povonzki, located on the territory of the present Polish Republic. The family is poor, but with long-standing criminal traditions. In other words, her father, who was called Stendel, was a hairdresser, while he was actively working on the sale of stolen goods.

When did the Sonya Gold Pen on the criminal path? The biography began uncommonly: an early marriage, the main purpose of which was to leave the disgusted and impoverished parental home. Ban Rosenband, a grocery trader, who had a dubious fortune to become the father of the first daughter of Sura, also fell prey to this charming adventurer. She stole from him 500 rubles, and then ran away, taking the child. By the time the thieving experience of a young scam was already four years.

Many of the men were fascinated by the Sonya Golden Hand for the next six years. Her biography is rich in romantic stories.

The name of Blyuvshteyn went to Sophia from the trainer, who became her husband, the story is silent as to how much. It is known only that it is not the second.

It is interesting that Sofya Blyuvshteyn was not considered to be the standard of female beauty. Height - 153 cm, a person in freckles, hair light brown (according to other sources, black or red, but it does not matter, because they were able to paint them even then). The face has no pronounced Semitic features, the nose is wide, the lips are thin, the brown eyes. According to the police protocols, this was Sonya's Golden Pen.

The biography, photographs and protocols of interrogation were partially preserved in the archives of the tsarist gendarmerie directorates. Obviously, the secret of her success was not in a bright appearance, but in an extraordinary way of thinking and the ability to locate her future victim. An image of a soulless and unscrupulous seducer is begging, but in this also the originality of the talented thief's nature was manifested. She gave no regrets to the kidnapped if she found out that the victim was a needy person.

It is not known what kind of education Sonya Gold Hand received. Her biography does not contain data on graduation, not that of universities, but of ordinary elementary school. But the fact remains - fluency in at least five foreign languages and a general level of intelligence, as well as knowledge of manners allowed her to easily impersonate an aristocrat in any of the countries she visited.

No matter how many thieves steal, the prison will not pass. This truth is confirmed by an outstanding criminal (this was Sonya's Golden Hand) biography. Her children, and there were, as far as we know, two (both daughters), did not go on maternal steps. They lived honestly and quietly in Moscow, and the swindler herself after three attempts to escape from the Sakhalin exile died in the prison infirmary. She was 45. It was 1891 year.

A.P. Chekhov, visiting Sakhalin, expressed a desire to meet with Sophia. He succeeded, and he was disappointed. The writer saw an elderly woman with a mouse scintillating look ...