On the evening of July 27, 2012, a Russian employee of Harvard University, Ignatius Leshchiner, went missing. Before that, he took his wife and two children to a dacha near Sergiev Posad. The young scientist never made it back to the capital: his car was found abandoned at 55 km of the Yaroslavl highway. To date, a man has been found, but the question remains open: how a scientist from Harvard got lost in the forests near Moscow.
The parties directly or indirectly involved in this case have several versions. For example, the wife of Ignatius Leshchiner, who filed a complaint with law enforcement agencies a day after her husband's disappearance, published a blog post. In it, she stated that several cars were following her husband and literally "hung on the tail" all the way to the dacha. It was this state of affairs that forced the man to leave the car, leaving a foreign car on the highway. Fearing for his life, Ignatius did not manage to take neither documents nor money from the car.
The 28-year-old scientist who showed up himself is confused about events and dates, he is extremely reluctant to answer questions from the organs. When they found him, Ignatius Leshchiner was in a semi-sane condition. When asked how he got lost in the forests near Moscow, he replied that all five days he was hiding from the policemen who were chasing him with dogs and flashlights. In their defense, law enforcement officials say that they found out about the disappearance of a person only a day after his disappearance.
The doctors who examined the found scientist from Harvard, who got lost in the forests near Moscow, have their own version. According to them, Ignatius Leschiner has signs of persecution mania, as well as hallucinations. Today, unfortunately, doctors cannot say for sure what caused such deviations. Until now, it is not possible to interrogate the scientist. There are many mysteries and confusion about dates in his answers. Only one thing is known for sure: all five days Ignatius Leshchiner ate grass and sorrel, which greatly undermined his health and, possibly, affected his psyche.
Ignatius Leshchiner was found in the village of Golygino, in the Sergiev Posad region. During this time, a criminal case has already been initiated against him. The Main Investigation Directorate for the Moscow Region immediately published the official version of what happened: the scientist simply got lost in the forest. This information was provided by Irina Gumennaya, a representative of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation of the Moscow Region. No official explanation is given as to why the Harvard scientist left the car on the track and went into the woods at night.
