Eugenia Davitashvili
Illustration — Djuna Eugenia Yuvashevna Davitashvili, known as Djuna or Dzhuna (Georgian: ევგენია ჯუნა დავითაშვილი; Russian: Евге́ния Юва́шевна Давиташви́ли; née Sardis; c. 1935 07 22 (or) 2015 06 08), was a Russian faith healer, writer, painter and public figure of Iranian Assyrian descent who positioned herself as a healer, claiming the power to cure cancer, knit broken bodies, and prolong life beyond 100 years. She took her Georgian surname from her former husband.
Also recorded as Juna Davitashvili · Eugenia Yuvashevna Davitashvili
Eugenia Davitashvili

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- Full name
- Евгения Ювашевна Сардис.
- Born
- 1949. · Urmiya.
- Nationality
- Soviet Union and Russia.
- Occupation
- massage therapist, astrologer, parapsychologist, poet, writer, healer and artist.
- Fields
- alternative medicine, faith healing and traditional medicine.
- Honours
- Order of Friendship of Peoples.
- Languages
- Russian.
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Illustration — Djuna Eugenia Yuvashevna Davitashvili, known as Djuna or Dzhuna (Georgian: ევგენია ჯუნა დავითაშვილი; Russian: Евге́ния Юва́шевна Давиташви́ли; née Sardis; c. 1935 07 22 (or) 2015 06 08), was a Russian faith healer, writer, painter and public figure of Iranian Assyrian descent who positioned herself as a healer, claiming the power to cure cancer, knit broken bodies, and prolong life beyond 100 years. She took her Georgian surname from her former husband.
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Eugenia Davitashvili (1949–2015) was an artist, astrologer and faith healer, among other activities, of Russian and Soviet nationality. The artist was born Евгения Ювашевна Сардис in Urmiya and died in Moscow. Activity centred on alternative medicine, faith healing and traditional medicine.
Languages used include Russian. Honours include Order of Friendship of Peoples.
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Biography
Biography
Eugenia Yuvashevna Davitashvili was born on or around 22 July 1935 or in 1949, in the village of Urmia in the Krasnodar Krai of Russia, back then in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union. Her father was an Iranian-born Assyrian immigrant and farmer named Yuvas Sardis (or Sariskov), and her mother was a Kuban Cossack woman named Anna (or Natasha) Grigoryevna. Eugenia was raised in poverty. According to one unconfirmed version of the story about the early mysterious and disputed life of Eugenia Davitashvili, during the Great Patriotic War, when the German Army advanced throughout Russia and invaded the Caucasus in the summer of 1942, Eugenia's village was bombed by the German Luftwaffe before it fell under German occupation for several months, and Eugenia herself claimed that she and other children from her village would often "dig in the field" for frozen potatoes and ears of maize when "food was very scarce" in the region and the people suffered from malnutrition, but then again, Eugenia also claimed to be born in 1949, four years after World War II had ended. Her date of birth and early life is unknown and surrounded by unconfirmed and possibly even false rumors. When she was still a young child, Eugenia's mother had died, and Eugenia was then adopted and raised by an adoptive family who had connections to the KGB officers. As an adult, Eugenia went to the Rostov College of Film and Television in Rostov-on-Don where she studied for two years, and then either dropped out and went to Moscow, or she graduated and was sent to Tbilisi in the Georgian SSR (today in Georgia), where she soon met her future husband, Iraklievich Davitashvili. Eugenia and Iraklievich Davitashvili had only one child: a son named Vakhtang "Vakho" Davitashvili, who died in 2001. It was in Tbilisi that Eugenia Davitashvili got a healing and psychic reputation. Eugenia claimed to be able to heal people, cure cancer, prolong life in humans above 100 years, and predict future events. For her psychic and healing powers, Eugenia became popular among astrologers, painters, writers, and poets. Eugenia herself wrote poetry and short stories occasionally and also was an astrologer.
Politics
Politics
In 1995, she participated in the Russian legislative election as the head of the Juna Davitashvili Bloc. Her 0.47% of votes were not enough to give her any seat in the State Duma.
Experiments
Experiments
In 1983 and 1984, physicist and psi researcher, Russell Targ, his daughter Elisabeth Targ, and Keith Harary visited the Soviet Union as guests of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. In Moscow they were able to discuss remote viewing research with Russian scientists, visit psychics, including Davitashvili, and allegedly even carry out with her some remote viewing experiments between Moscow and San Francisco.
Death
Death
Davitashvili died in Moscow on 8 June 2015, two days after she fell into a coma, according to her close friend and actor Stanislav Sadalsky. She was buried next to her son.
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
Eugenia Davitashvili was recorded at birth as Евгения Ювашевна Сардис. The authorities additionally record the headings Juna Davitashvili and Eugenia Yuvashevna Davitashvili. Her recorded language was Russian. She married Igor Matvienko.
Career and activity
Career and activity
Eugenia Davitashvili worked in alternative medicine, faith healing and traditional medicine. She was employed by V.A. Kotelnikov Institute of Radio-engineering and Electronics.
Identity
Identity
Eugenia Davitashvili is recorded as massage therapist, astrologer, parapsychologist, poet and writer.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1949
Eugenia Davitashvili born at Urmiya.
2015
Eugenia Davitashvili died at Moscow.
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Urmiya.
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- 1.Tetrault-Farber, Gabrielle. Famed Russian Faith Healer Dzhuna Davitashvili Dies in Moscow. The Moscow Times. 8 June 2015.
- 2.Soviet 'Rasputin' Dies at 65 in Moscow.
- 3.Я из глубокой провинции, из станицы "Ассирийка на Кубани" Part II: Furure Sears and Prophets – Dzhuna "Целительница Брежнева" Джуна Давиташвили [Brezhnev's Healer: Dzhuna Davitashvili]
- 4.Even Russia turns up a faith healer. The Milwaukee Journal. 24 April 1982.
- 5.Anderson, Ian. Strange case of the psychic 'spy'. New Scientist. 1431. 3–4. 22 November 1984.
- 6.Targ, Russell. The Mind Race: Understanding and Using Psychic Abilities. Villard Books. 1984. 9780394533568.
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