Wolf Messing

Wolf Grigoryevich Messing was a self-proclaimed psychic, telepath and stage hypnotist.

Early life

Messing was born to a Jewish family in the village of Góra Kalwaria, 25 km southeast of Warsaw. He claimed that his psychic abilities developed in his early life.

Career

By the time he was a teenager, he was performing for the public as a psychic entertainer.
In the interview with P. Oreshkin, Messing said:

Death

Messing died in a hospital, on 8 November 1974, two months after his 75th birthday. He had successfully undergone surgery on the Femoral and External Iliac arteries, but afterward, for some unknown reason, developed kidney failure and pulmonary edema. He was buried at the Vostryakovskoje Jewish cemetery in Moscow.
His life story is depicted in the Russian television miniseries Wolf Messing: Who Saw through Time.

Appearances in fiction

Wolf Messing is a major character in Steve Englehart's series of Max August novels, beginning with The Point Man in 1980, and continuing through The Long Man and The Plain Man.
In the hit video strategy game, Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2 as well as its expansion, Yuri's Revenge, the main character of Yuri was heavily influenced in the likeness of Wolf Messing.