Wolf Messing

Soviet pop artist (mentalist), who performed with psychological experiments "on reading the minds" of spectators, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1971). Wolf Messing was born into a Jewish family in the city of Gora Kalwaria, located 25 km southeast of Warsaw, in the territory of the Russian Empire. In his youth he participated in the numbers of illusionists in Polish traveling circuses. Then he mastered "variety telepathy" (the so-called "contacts through the arm").

From 1961 to 1974, Ivanovskaya was Messing's assistant.

The first Yak-7 fighter built in Novosibirsk was purchased by Wolf Messing in 1944 specifically for senior lieutenant Konstantin Kovalev after he read the order to award the ace pilot the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. The inscription was made on the fuselage of the aircraft: "A gift from the Soviet patriot Messing to the Hero of the Soviet Union, the Baltic pilot Kovalev. " On this fighter Konstantin Kovalev shot down 4 enemy aircraft. Kovalev and Messing became friends and visited each other after the war.

The second fighter was also acquired in 1944 and served in the Warsaw Air Regiment.

In the years 1943-1944, Messing lived in Novosibirsk. Before his illness and death, the assistant in Wolf Messing's rooms was his wife, Aida Mikhailovna Messing-Rapoport.

In 1939, after the outbreak of World War II, he fled to the Soviet Union, where he began to speak with "reading minds," first as part of propaganda teams, then with individual concerts from the State Concert. He acted as an illusionist in the Soviet circus. All relatives, including father and brothers, died in Majdanek and in the Warsaw ghetto. During World War II, two fighter jets were built at the expense of the artist Messing.