Sisters Krivoshlyapova Masha and Dasha: biography, photo

Sisters Krivoshlyapovy, Dasha and Masha, - Siamese twins. Their fate has become a winning topic for many dissertations, and they themselves are a welcome experimental material for prominent figures in Russian medicine. True, it was until the moment when the girls aroused interest.

These are two people in one body, which society called nothing but a mistake of nature, and the professors were considered a scientific experiment.

Sisters Krivoshlyapovy: biography of painful life

Their birth became sensational for the whole world. The girls lost their parents immediately, before even opening their eyes. January 4, 1950 Krivoshlyapova Katerina - their mother, was heavily relieved of the burden. The midwife, who took birth by cesarean section, stating that they were twins, immediately fainted. Doctors, thinking through the correct tactics of behavior, told the woman in childbirth that the children were born dead and immediately concocted a false death certificate. My mother could not believe in the death of the newborn, because she could clearly hear their crying. Trying to get the truth, she asked her from the staff. One compassionate nurse-apprentice took pity and led to the ward where the girls were. After seeing Katerina Krivoshlyapova spent two years in one of the Moscow psychiatric clinics. Never again did she remember her firstborns, "burying" them in that 16th maternity home.

The truth about the children was also known by their father - Mikhail Krivoshlyapov, who was at the time of birth next to his wife. He agreed to recognize the alleged death of girls, asking the doctors to do everything possible to ensure that the children survived. He left his name to them, the man asked only to change his patronymic. And this is not surprising, because Michael worked as a personal driver of Beria. So Krivoshlyapova Maria and Darya Mikhailovna became Ivanovna. Father every month transferred a decent amount of money to the treatment of his children. He died of brain cancer in 1980.

At the beginning of a difficult journey

From the maternity hospital, the girls were transferred to the Institute of Pediatrics of the Academy of Medical Sciences, where they lived for 7 years. All these years over the babies were conducted weekly experiments aimed at explaining the natural anomaly. At the age of three they were put on ice for a long time, after which one of the babies became ill with pneumonia. They were hung with sensors, forced to swallow a probe, drove crowds of students to demonstrate the "mistakes of nature". In 1958, American scientists tried to buy such an "interesting material", promising to the babies a secure life, work and education, but they were categorically refused. Until the end of this time, and every other day of his agonizing life, the sisters remembered with fear and pain.

Experiences over people and their lives continue

By the age of seven Krivoshlyapova Masha and Dasha could not walk anymore, they also sat with difficulty. They were transferred to the Central Research Institute of Prosthetics and Prosthesis, where for two years they had been taught to move on crutches and to live some time without them. Here the sisters were also taught to read and write. By nature, the twins had three legs. Left Machine, right - Dashina, and the third, perpendicular to the back and representing two fused legs with 9 fingers, was common. She served the girls to keep her balance, but it was for the time being. Doctors, considering it superfluous, performed a surgical operation, removing the third limb. After that, the Krivoshlyapovs' sisters stopped walking at all and moved with crutches or a stroller.

To the doctors, whom they hated with all the fibers of the soul, during the life of the sister they addressed only in the most extreme cases.

Profnernopriodny? Overboard!

In the scientific institute, the sisters stayed for 15 years. Nobody thought that they would live to that age. The experiments were all completed, scientific works were written, interest in the "natural anomaly" gradually faded. Due to the lack of proficiency, the state decided to send them to the Novocherkassk boarding school for children with musculoskeletal problems, where the Siamese twins of Sister Krivoshlyapov stayed for 4 years. This was the most terrible test for them. The guys disliked them, mocked them. Girls constantly suffered humiliation and ridicule, as a result of which they began to stutter a lot. For a bottle of vodka, boarding boys showed a curiosity to local residents.

Thoughts about not living

Krivoshlyapova Masha and Dasha all my life thought about death. Several times they tried to cease to exist in this world, they wanted to throw themselves out of the window of the 11-storey building, repeatedly poisoned themselves with pills, cut veins, constantly asking for death from God.

In 1970, they moved to Moscow, where they could not solve the housing problem for a long time: society did not want to take on this burden. The Krivoshlyapovs' sisters were identified in the nursing home No. 6, which became their last shelter. They had a separate room there, serving as a living room, a dining room and a bedroom at the same time. On the wall hung a huge portrait of Igor Talkov and the icon of the Mother of God. Every week, attendants brought to look at the "mistake of nature" of their friends.

Meeting with mother

Many years later, at the age of 35, the Krivoshlyapova sisters sought the mother's address through the passport office and visited her. A woman met them with a stern look and reproach: "Where have you been all this time?", Not realizing that if her children were like everyone else, they would have found their mother before. Besides Masha and Dasha, Katerina Krivoshlyapova had two sons who did not recognize their kinship with their sisters. After many years after that meeting, unrecognized daughters cursed their family. Finding the book of incantations, at night in pitch darkness for several hours they read a prayer. The next day the neighbor saw a homemade wadded doll, all with needles. Mother after a meeting with her first-borns began to get very sick and did not live long.

Alcohol - an essential attribute of the life of sisters

It was after a difficult meeting with the mother of Sister Krivoshlyapov (photo presented below, made in the last years of their life) began to drink, daily and without a break.

Although they tried alcohol much earlier, at 14 years old. The attempts to get rid of the strongest dependence were unsuccessful. The sisters were coded, but after a while they had to decode, because they could not help but drink while living in such an ugly body. To drunkenness they became addicted to hopelessness, to understanding their own defectiveness and dissimilarity in others. Perhaps, the factor of heredity played: the alcoholic grandfather, the father and one of brothers abused. Dasha drank most of all, but since the body was common, both got drunk. But Masha smoked, two packs of strong "Belomor" could be used per day.

In the absence of a personal sister, a large number of sexual partners were living. Dasha always dreamed of children, about her husband. But the desire to find their own family was held back by their lack of independence, in which the sisters could not fully serve even themselves. Earlier, in the boarding school, they earned a little, doing sewing of cowards, night shirts. It is this kind of work that the sisters performed diligently, endowing them with a sense of their own relevance. In the nursing home, they were completely isolated from society, and the main entertainment was the TV.

One or two?

The consciousness of many people who have seen these girls perceives them as one person, although in reality they are two completely different personalities. Everyone had a passport and a medical book. They easily read each other's thoughts, even saw the same dreams, could jump up from the nightmare in the middle of the night. However, with complete external similarity, the Krivoshlyapov sisters were completely different. Dasha was soft and kind, Masha - stubborn and harsh. If Masha had only "deuces" and "threes" during her studies, then Dasha was given science easily, and grades were much higher. The same with verses: one of them taught with responsibility, the second - no.

The cause of the death of the Krivoshlyapov sisters

Thanks to the strength of character, Siamese twins survived to 54 years. The cause of death is an acute coronary infarction of one of the twins. Masha died first. Dasha lived after that for 17 hours, she was killed by corpse poison, which reached the blood system . The diagnosis was predictable, because because of the binges of binges, both were severely affected by the liver. Also, the body was found to have pulmonary edema and the heart was badly affected. Many years ago, doctors thought about operating the sisters and dividing them. But with a common circulatory system, this was not possible.

Sisters Krivoshlyapovs, whose funeral took place at the Nikolo-Arkhangelsk cemetery, ended their painful life path, which brought them a lot of pain, both physical and mental. This is the sad story of Siamese twins, long-livers.