There are many examples of how women becameoutstanding criminals. Using the nature of the spell, showing remarkable resourcefulness and composure, the fair sex often flaunt men who consider themselves to be experienced and "beaten life."
One such adventurer was Shayndl-SuraLeibovna Solomonak, she is Sofia Bluewstein, she is Sonya Gold Pen. The biography of this "thief on trust" has become a legend, despite its low reliability and weak documentary exposure.
Year of birth - 1846th, place - Povonzki market town,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 Sonya Zolotaya started on the criminal pathA pen? The biography began uncommonly: an early marriage, the main purpose of which was to leave the disgusted and impoverished parental home. Pan 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 that time the thief's experience of a young scam was already four years.
Many Sonya charmed for the next six years Sonya Gold Pen. 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 Sofia Blyuvshteyn is not at allwas considered 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, lips are thin, brown eyes. According to the police protocols, this was Sonya's Golden Pen.
Biography, photos and protocols of interrogations in partpreserved 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 extraordinary nature of the talented thief 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 receivedThe Golden Pen. Her biography does not contain data about graduation, not that of universities, but of ordinary elementary school. But the fact remains - free possession of 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.
How many thieves do not steal, prisons 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 is known, two (both daughters), did not go on the maternal footsteps. They lived fairly and calmly 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 glance ...
