The mysterious admirer first did not appear at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe
For the first time in six decades on the birthday of Edgar Allan Poe's mysterious fan has not visited the grave of the writer in Baltimore, reports agency Associated Press. Since 1949, a man in a black hat with a hidden face always came to the gravestone and left there for a bottle of cognac and three roses. Crush had become an object of pilgrimage for lovers of art by various parts of the country.
"I am confused, bewildered, - complained to the curator of the house-museum by Jeff Jerome (Jeff Jerome). - I do not know what is happening. A mysterious visitor has consistently appeared on the night of January 19, but this time at half past five in the morning, Jerome, with his friends who watched the tomb of the church, the churchyard is buried the writer was forced to go out and announce to other observers that the tradition is broken.
The identity of the mysterious admirer - it called the "Drinker for by" (Poe Toaster) - is still unknown, but assumed that it is not one person. In 1993, the grave was left a note saying that soon "the torch will pass to another, and after six years in the same way it was announced that the first fan died and was replaced by" heir ". In 2007, the 92-year-old resident of the United States Sam Porpora (Sam Porpora) announced that the crush was he and his friends, but Porpora believe not all.
Edgar Allan Poe, came to being 201 years ago, died in 1849 under mysterious circumstances. He was buried near the Westminster church without the proper honors, and only in October 2009, the second is an omission was made good: October 11 in Baltimore held an imitation of pompous funeral of the writer.
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Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, in a family of actors. Early lost his parents and was adopted by a wealthy merchant John Allan. Initially educated in England, in 1826, he entered the University of Virginia in the aristocratic Sharlottensville, where his neurotic heredity manifested in carousing and card game.
In 1830 entered the Military Academy at West Point, but soon resigned, which led to a break with the foster father. The young man was left without a livelihood, at which time he became a professional writer and journalist, and then leads a very hard life, tragically ended in death in a hospital bed. Writer, died Oct. 7, 1849 in Baltimore, according to doctors - from rabies, perhaps he was bitten by a sick cat - known that was not indifferent to these animals.