Between the bright Soviet past, and it was so for ordinary people, and the almost bright present there is a troubled time, which was affectionately called the "dashing nineties." Fortunately, everything bad from memory is quickly erased. But there are bright, in some places comic, and in some places symbolic moments. No one will argue that thieves in law are just from the nineties. Yes, they appeared much earlier, moreover, those who were “crowned” under the Soviet Union acquired a special status.
How Sasha Sever gained popular popularity
Thief in law - a person who lives in a criminal environment, is its integral part, adheres to the unspoken thieves code and makes him honor others. Often, he has a huge influence on criminals in a certain area and resolves all conflicts between them. Once in the MLS, such thieves automatically become “watching” zones. A real thief in law must have a lot of walkers, not have a family and children. This is due to a lifestyle in which personal affection becomes an inadmissible luxury. Anonymity is the key to the success of such a criminal.
Soviet ideologists, who preached the image of a socialist society without disgusting crime, probably take their heads to watch how thieves' romance became popular among the people. The performers of the chanson partially idealized the criminals: Butyrka, Mikhail Krug, Sasha Bryansky. You can list for a long time. "Thieves" stage has no less number of singers and singers than pop. But most of the songs are faceless, abstract, about the thieves' share, about the mothers of criminals and so on. That is, there was no specifics, named names, until the legendary Mikhail Krug wrote his hit “Vladimir Central”. The question immediately arises: "And where is the specifics?" Take just one line ...
Vladimir Central, the north wind ...
Knowing the history of how Mikhail visited Sasha Severny in this famous prison, and then wrote the song almost immediately, it is easy to replace the last two words with the name and surname of the authority. The fact is that both of these people come from Tver. It is hard to imagine that they might be unfamiliar. Tver is not such a big city, so that two luminaries, each in his own business, miss each other. But nobody ever heard the name of a thief in a song written in 1996. It seems that the thief Alexander Severov personally asked his friend when he came to him after his imprisonment. Be that as it may, the song has become almost the main hit of the domestic thieves, making famous not only its author and artist, but also the inspirer.
A thief should sit in jail
This axiom is not only the key phrase of the famous movie detective Zheglov, but also an indispensable condition for real thieves in law. Moreover, they crown it precisely in the zone, and not in the wild. Alexander Severov - a thief in law - generally served 20 years. Among the rumors about this man are listed as if he had been crowned twice - first Caucasians, and then Slavs. True or false, it is not known for certain, but the fact that Alexander Severov was crowned during the Union is clear. It turns out that it can be attributed to the thieves of the old school.
A little biography
Alexander Severov - a native of the Kazakh SSR, was born in 1951. The first time he was crowned in the early nineties and received the title of beholder in Tver. In the wild, with such a title, it was not possible to walk for a long time, because not far off was a prison in the Vladimir Central. According to unverified information, the colony leadership made attempts either to break Severov himself or to undermine his authority among the prisoners. To get his way, the prisoner was put in a very cold punishment cell, where he was pushing up to keep warm. The authenticity of this story is still in question. Maybe it’s really better to perceive it as a beautiful legend about the inflexibility of the thieves’s spirit ...
What is definitely not a legend is the case in the colony “White Swan”, where there is a great feat of the little man Vladimir Vasilenko. In order to prevent prisoners from freezing in the cells just because they did not turn on the heating, and there was already -20 ° frost on the street, he arbitrarily captured the Solikamsk Thermal Power Plant with a detachment of machine gunners. Just at that time, Sasha Severny was serving another term in the colony. They say that he complained that he was tired of pushing up in the cell to keep warm. True, this was said in the context of the threat to the one who made the prisoners freeze.
The wrong side of the thief in law
Idealizing such personalities as Sasha Sever is not worth it at all. Cruel, without the moral principles that thieves morality replaces. So, in 2011, Alexander Severov, whose biography is well known in law enforcement, was detained with drugs, he prepared them "for personal use." The train of articles behind his shoulders is impressive, the list includes a "hooligan." Some of the victims were injured while protecting their property from a thief. This is not romance, especially not thieves. This is a harsh and cruel life in which the thief in law Sasha Sever imperceptibly, like a spider, affects criminals in Moscow and the region and not only.