Alexander Comin Biography

The diaries of Laura Palna. Since then, as some cave hunter began to talk about the invincible saber-toot Tiger in the nearest forest, about evil spirit high in the mountains or the cruelty of a neighboring tribe. And yet, over time, the storytellers realized that any story became truly terrible if it actually happened. Well, the horrors committed by human hands were and remain the most real horrors.

Now this genre is called "Troops". It is believed that stories about real crimes have turned from an oral genre into a written in England of the 16th -XVII centuries, when recently invented printing machines allowed to publish anything, but first of all that is well bought. At that time, the public execution on the main city square was still the excellent entertainment of the weekend - and there it was easy to find out what kind of villainy a person loses his head for.

The attractiveness of all the bloody and disgusting quickly adopted various enterprises. And soon all kinds of brochures, pamphlets, and even whole ballads about all abominations began to appear in the hands of competent British: about thefts and robberies, murders and rape, conspiracies and betrayals. Sometimes the description was given by the detached author, and sometimes on behalf of the villain himself in a kind of old form of the psychological “I-suggestion”.

And such works as hot pies were scattered. Full -fledged copyright retelling of real crimes appeared much later - in the first half of the 19th century. It was then that the Scottish lawyer and criminologist William Rafhad wrote and published many essays, articles, and even a couple of books. He studied a lot of cases of varying degrees of confusion and inhumanity, so he had something to share with the public.

But in his writings, the main attention was not focused on the investigation of crimes with inevitable punishment. Much more Rafhad was interested in the behavior of the villain, his genuine motives, traits of character, and sometimes even the thoughts of the sentenced and personal revelations. So, we can say, since then, a lover of such a genre seeks to understand what has been driving a killer.

True, the genre of the ribe was not yet-it was only formed. And in the second half of the 20th century, the American publicist and writer Truman Capote released his new work called In Cold Blood “Cold -blooded murder”. The book talked about a monstrous crime in the village of Kolkomb, Kansas. Having found nothing valuable, the robbers took the anger on the owners: they brutally dealt with the father of the family Herbert Clautter, his wife Bonnie and two children, Nancy and Kenion.

They searched the killers for a month and a half, then they nevertheless detained, betrayed a fair trial and sentenced to death. It would seem a banal plot for an ordinary criminal novel. With one reservation - all these events actually occurred, and all of America knew about them in practice. So the book gained incredible popularity in a short time. Truman Capote himself became an icon of the “new journalism” style, and the “cold -blooded murder” gave a full -fledged start to the genre of “Real Crime” - or True Crime.

Since then, Trueram has turned into a separate universe with new formats and sucks-and captured not only the literature mainly non-fiction, although there are also enough art books, but also films. Hundreds of documentaries and series have been shot about maniacs - the majority, however, abroad. However, we also had our cult-sided-co-shame shows: for example, David Hamburg and the investigation led by Leonid Kanevsky’s television program.

In the XXI century, the genre of real crimes moved to podcasts. True, also in the West there is generally more like an audiocontent in the West, in Russia this niche was almost empty. In the year, the general producer of the Podkast Studio "Termen" Kristina Kryzhanovskaya decided to fill it out-to make a high-quality project about crime.

For the role of the presenters, she called us - the authors of this book. Meet: - Masha is a burb. Shortly before starting work on the new project, she received the Redkanglegia Award for the investigation report on a nuclear burial ground in the center of Moscow; - And Mitya Lebedev. Radio -journalist, however, did not work on classic radio. But by that time, I participated in the creation of two documentary podcasts-the “pilots” about women-auditors during the Great Patriotic War and “Nord-Ost” about the Dubrovka terrorist attack.

We were far from crime and were never interested in serial killers. To be honest, talking about such things was scary to us. But curiosity and craving for experiments prevailed, and the “Diaries of Laura Palna” appeared - a podcast, in which we take turns telling each other about Mitya’s most terrible maniacs about foreign, Masha about Soviet and Russian. Laura Palna's diaries each release of Laura Palna's Diaries combines the chatter traditional for podcasts with a full narrative.It seems like we simply poison the stories in the kitchen, but at the same time we rely on documentary evidence: psychological portraits of killers, fragments of forensic examinations, memories of investigators and eyewitnesses.

We also try to immerse the listener into a historical and household context - including using sound design and atmospheric sketches. All this helps to get deeper into the maniac’s biography, to understand what surrounded him and understand the motives and causes of crimes. An important component of the “Diaries of Laura Palna” is humor for which, by the way, we are often criticized.

We do not apply for serious investigative journalism and therefore can afford to joke - where it is appropriate. The irony gives a distance, it is easier to talk about the terrible one - without the mogy voices and wringing hands. Thus, we leave the listener the space for maneuver, for reflection and rethinking the information received. Humor helps to live horror, remaining safe, draw conclusions in relation to your life and ultimately cease to be afraid at all.

Despite this, for a long time we could not understand why our podcast became so popular by the time of the release of this book, he scored more than 8 million listening! We re-read a bunch of studies about the phenomenon of the attractiveness of Troops: that terrible stories provoke adrenaline production and this is addictive that people like to play detectives and assert themselves to feel smarter than the investigation, kinder maniac, that with the help of such stories they subscribe their own forbidden fantasies, work out aggression and all that spirit.

But the main mystery was a powerful therapeutic effect of our stories. We are often written that podcast distracts, relaxes and generally helps not to go crazy in difficult times. It sounds like an absurdity - to save your psyche with content about murder, violence, dismemberment and other horror. As a result, we came to the conclusion that the preparation of the dark side of a person is especially soothing in our colloquial-irony style.

There is so much violence and cruelty in the world, it is difficult and almost impossible to reconcile with this, but you can understand the reasons at least try. We, sorry for the pathos, guides in the world of darkness. And we study it, including in order to remember the existence of light. Together with us, our listeners and loyal fans do this - or, as they call themselves, Lorapalners.

For the entire time of the existence of the podcast, we not only wrote hundreds of scripts and looked at dozens of documentary, but also acquired many thousands of cozy community. We hope that you, readers of this book, also join him. Be careful and be happy! Thinking over the structure of the season, we discussed for a long time who will become the first to not only scare, but also attract, and keep the listener.

And in this truly wild story, a huge number of different details were connected, which we all met in criminal novels, films and series in one way or another. With only an amendment: this happened in reality, with real people, and broke more than one human life. And the first thing that attracts attention is the era. The years of the death of the old world, the decline of the Soviet system and, most importantly, the years of the extinction of ideology, restructuring in the minds.

And the screening of eras gave rise to incredible people, great charismatics, ideologists, visionaries and, of course, madmen and not always one could easily and unconditionally separate from others. So, at the turn of the two worlds - a retreating dream of communism and the feisting sweetness of capitalism - one of the most terrible maniacs of post -Soviet Russia begins to act.

Moreover, he did not enter into criminal history thanks to the number of victims or a special handwriting, although this could not be taken away. The forensics and profilers are interested in and ordinary inhabitants scare calmness and complete confidence that all his actions are due to the highest goal, a great mission that justifies any atrocity. And this was more than enough in the history of Alexander Komin.

The maniac has been boring a criminal plan for more than 20 years. After waiting for the most suitable conditions, he dug up a bunker, in which he kept the people captured for slavery for several years. Komin used the prisoners of the bunker both as ordinary labor they sewed clothes and underwear for sale, and to satisfy their own base needs. True, the third goal was a much greater, large -scale and inhuman, subordinate to the completely crazy idea to build an underground socialist utopia named after Alexander Komina.

Hardly all this was reflected by the most one newspaper nickname of a maniac - a slave owner. The dream of the bunker Alexander Komin was born in the year in the small city of the Vyatskiye glades of the Kirov region. Until recently, the city was just a working village, and only in the war years slightly grew - when a machine -building plant from Zagorsk near Moscow, which is now called Sergiev Posad, was transferred to those lands.From a year and throughout the Great Patriotic War, the enterprise regularly supplied the legendary PPSh-Shpagin machine guns.

Otherwise, the Vyatka meadow was not much different from hundreds of other Soviet city cities. Little is known about the early life of Komina. He grew up in a family of ordinary workers, graduated from 8 classes, was no different from classmates and, up to 18 years old, led the completely predictable life of the Soviet teenager from the hinterland. Outwardly, he was a subtle person of short stature with 35 legs.

Just his physique, he was blamed for the fact that he did not achieve much success in the opposite sex, which will eventually affect the nature of his crimes. Growing up without hooliganism and petty crime, which invariably flourish where young people are not busy. It was according to the article “Hooliganism” that he first came to jail: he got involved in a street fight, in which at least two were injured.

In the podcast, we have repeatedly discussed how exactly the zone affects a person. And in the case of a command, the prison really changed his life. Firstly, under the colony where he was sent, a sewing factory worked, and young Sasha literally found his calling in a cut and sewing. And so much so that shortly after the imprisonment he will go to study and receive the education of a fashion designer.

It would seem, what is not the beneficial influence of a correctional institution? But there was another factor in his prison everyday life: a prisoner with a touching nickname Bigl. At one time, he was imprisoned for organizing an underground workshop, where fake icons stamped. And this Bigl enthusiastically told the commander that he attracted the homeless to work.

There were almost no people without a specific place of residence, according to Soviet propaganda, but contrary to these statements, the tramps existed. And, remaining the most unprotected part of Soviet society, they often became victims of such dealers as Bigl. Apparently, even then the stories about the underground artel, which does not require large costs of labor, sunk the commander in the soul.

Meanwhile, in the year, our character leaves prison and enters the technical school. But, unfortunately, finding a job in the specialty of an engineer of the engineer is even more so in the Vyatka Polyans.