Anatoly Kashpirovsky: a life that he considered unfulfilled
The main psychic of the USSR and Russia died at the age of 87
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- Anatoly Kashpirovsky died at the age of 87 from cardiac arrest.
- In an interview in 2019, he admitted that he considered his life to be unfulfilled due to the small number of television programs in 1989 and his move to the United States.
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Anatoly Kashpirovsky was one of the most recognizable people of the late USSR thanks to his television shows in 1989.
The main psychic of the USSR and Russia, Anatoly Kashpirovsky, believed that his life was a failure. Most of all, he regretted leaving television and moving to the United States. Kashpirovsky spoke about this in a long interview with Lenta.ru in 2019.
Anatoly Kashpirovsky passed away on the morning of October 3. The immediate cause of the healer’s death is said to be cardiac arrest due to “a whole bunch of diseases,” including diabetes. Kashpirovsky was 87 years old.
And just five years ago, in an interview with Lenta.ru, the psychic stated that he felt good, had no complaints about his health and regularly exercises. At the same time, to the question of correspondent Igor Dmitrov, “Can you say that life is a success?” Kashpirovsky replied:
“I’m at the foot of what I could have done, but I missed it,” Kashpirovsky reasoned then. — First, why did I make only six passes in 1989, when I should have had at least ten, or even 30-40? This is the first serious mistake that completely destroyed my life. I could do things differently."
Six episodes of the program “Health Sessions of Psychotherapist Anatoly Kashpirovsky” were broadcast on Central Television in 1989. The audience of individual programs could reach 180-300 million people, which made Kashpirovsky one of the most recognizable people of the late USSR. In a long interview with Lenta.ru, he lamented:
Kashpirovsky also believed that he “under no circumstances should have traveled to the USA,” even as a tourist. He moved to the US in the 1990s and lived there for about ten years. “The country is good, but not for me. “I’m the banana that doesn’t grow at the North Pole,” Kashpirovsky admitted.
“He spoke about his mistakes calmly and without embarrassment, as if he was ready to go back in time and fix everything - as if he were half his age,” notes correspondent Igor Dmitrov, who interviewed Kashpirovsky in 2019. “I was impressed that Kashpirovsky, at the age of 80, was not yet tired of life, not fed up with it. Although he believed, despite all his energy and popularity, that his life was not a success.”
Open Questions
- What diseases led to cardiac arrest?
