Who was the real prototype of the hero of the cult film "Voroshilov shooter"

The novel "A Woman on Wednesdays", based on which the film "Voroshilov Shooter" was shot in 1999, was written by the writer Viktor Pronin. In the book and the movie, the avenger was a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, who shot the rapists of his granddaughter with a sniper rifle. However, this character has a real prototype. He was a simple Soviet guy. His name was Dmitry Danilov, and he was taking revenge for his girlfriend.

Dmitry Danilov was born in the Moscow district of Strogino and has been involved in sports since childhood. He grew up a strong guy who achieved serious success in boxing. When Danilov turned 18, he joined the army and served in the airborne troops. After completing the training course, Vladimir Danilov ended up in Afghanistan. The only thread connecting the guy with a peaceful life was the letters of his beloved Olga.

Almost under the demob, the letters stopped coming. Dmitry thought that the girl had fallen out of love with him and found another one, but the truth turned out to be scarier. When the soldier returned to Moscow, he learned from his parents that Olga had committed suicide by taking a huge dose of sleeping pills. Before the collapse, the country was overwhelmed by a wave of crime. Bandit groups were formed, which began to divide spheres of influence in Soviet cities.

Late in the evening, Olga was returning home and was attacked by a group of hooligans. The inhumans dragged the girl into the basement, robbed her, beat her and raped her. The police were in no hurry to investigate the crime. Olga could not stand the shame and killed herself.

Dmitry Danilov was heartbroken and his friends decided to distract him and brought him a video recorder. The guy did not leave the house for days and watched Western action movies. He was especially impressed by the film "Death Wish" with Charles Bronson in the title role. According to the plot, the hero took revenge on the murderers of his wife and daughter. Dmitry, realizing that he has enough strength and anger, also decided to get even not specifically with Olga's abusers, but with criminals in general.

There was no money for weapons, and he made a six-pointed baton with metal spikes on his own. In the evenings, Dmitry went out on the street and specially wandered through criminal areas. The first" victim " of Danilov was a group of hooligans who attacked a woman. With a blow of a shestoper, he blew off the face of an eighteen-year-old robber Yuri Kapitonov. Subsequently, the avenger beat two criminals to death.

In the second half of 1988, news began to come to the police from hospitals in Moscow that from time to time people with characteristic injuries were coming to them. Rumors began to appear that some "scumbag" with a baton goes one-on-one against a dozen bandits.

One evening, Danilov got into a fight with three hooligans who were beating a man returning from work. When two robbers had already had their heads pierced, the police arrived at the scene of the fight. Dmitry tried to escape, but he was arrested. During the investigation, the guy told his story and confessed to all the crimes.

Relatives of the murdered and maimed criminals demanded the death penalty for Danilov, but the court's verdict turned out to be relatively lenient. The People's avenger and veteran of Afghanistan received 15 years and fully served his sentence. After being released, Dmitry Danilov went to a monastery and became a monk.