Why does Shura Petrova have such a fatal fate? The tragic fates of dead beauty queens (51 photos). Personal life and fatal love

As a rule, various kinds of “misses” of something became girlfriends of criminal authorities, and simply criminals of those years. Simply put, long-legged beauties hungry for money. We won’t say for sure – maybe there was a place for sincere love there. For the most part, their lives ended as quickly and tragically as those of the bandits themselves. And sometimes at the same time as them.

Corpse in a suitcase

Perhaps the most notorious story on our topic is the terrible murder of a killer Alexandra Solonika and his mistresses Svetlana Kotova.

Sasha Solonik, aka Macedonian (he received this nickname thanks to his ability to shoot in Macedonian style - with two hands), belonged to the Kurgan organized crime group. In 1987, he was sentenced to eight years in a maximum security colony for rape. Then he ran away.

In 1990, the killer carried out his first murder order - he shot the head of the Ishim group - Nikolai Prichinich.

Solonik was detained on October 6, 1994 at the Petrovsko-Razumovsky market in the capital. At the police station, while trying to escape, Solonik wounded three police officers and was wounded in the kidney. From the hospital, Makedonsky was taken for investigation to Matrosskaya Tishina. But eight months after his arrest, Solonik escaped from the pre-trial detention center. By the way, in the entire history of the famous prison, he became the only person who succeeded.

Under a new name, Solonik settled in Greece, where his people from the Kurgan organized crime group were already located. In Langonisi, near Athens, the bandits rented three luxurious mansions.

Macedonsky, according to his neighbors, was greedy for women and brought a new lady into the house every week. But the longest was Solonik’s affair with a fashion model. Sveta Kotova. And for her it was also fatal.

The girl worked with the famous Moscow agency Red Stars and participated in the finals of the Miss Russia-96 contest. On January 25, 1997, Kotova performed at the international exhibition Consumexpo. After which Svetlana asked her superiors for leave and left for Athens.

As it turned out later, she went to Solonik, who had previously invited the model to Greece more than once. They say that Alexander even came secretly to Moscow under the guise of a Greek showman Vladimir Kesov to convince Sveta to leave with him.

From Athens, Svetlana was going to go to a beauty contest in Italy. The girl talked about this on the phone to her mother. Kotova called home every day until January 30. After this date the model disappeared.

On February 2, 1997, in the Varibobi forest, near Athens, operatives discovered Solonik’s body. He was strangled with a nylon cord. There were no documents with the killer.

The search for Kotova continued for another three months. The police established that Svetlana did not cross the borders of Greece - she was eliminated as a witness to the murder of her boyfriend.

In May, residents of the resort town of Saronida came across a suitcase lying under an olive tree. Inside, in plastic bags, lay the dismembered body of a woman. The identity of 21-year-old Kotova was established because the decomposition process had not yet fully begun.

There are many versions of who committed both murders. From the involvement of the Italian mafia to the fact that Solonik is even alive. However, the investigation agreed that Makedonsky and Kotova were killed by members of the Orekhovskaya organized crime group.

Mother predicted her daughter's death

On the evening of September 16, 2000, a resident of one of the Cheboksary Stalin apartments heard a strange noise in the entrance. She opened the door, but they immediately put the barrel of a gun to her forehead and pushed her back into the apartment. When everything was quiet on the staircase, the husband of the frightened woman decided to go out.

Two men and a beautiful girl lay in pools of blood. 20 year old Alexandra Petrova she was still breathing, but the doctors could not save her. Sasha died on the way to the hospital. In two days she had a noisy holiday planned - her birthday.

At the age of 16, Sasha Petrova went from Cheboksary to Novgorod to conquer the Miss Russia competition, which “left” the capital for the first time. A childhood dream came true - in 1996, Alexandra became the new beauty queen.

The work began to boil, offers from various agencies began to pour in. They even invited me to act in Hollywood, but my mother opposed it. Sasha completed two courses at the Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​and abandoned the institute. Her common-law husband is Konstantin Chuvilin- I wanted to see the girl next to me, and not behind books.

Kostya was not an ordinary guy. And 18-year-old Sasha liked “bad boys,” especially with “grandmothers,” because in her childhood and youth she lived modestly. Chuvilin was listed as unemployed, but in fact he was a member of the Chapaevskaya organized crime group - the most influential in Cheboksary. This easily explained the availability of money for a luxurious European-quality renovation in an apartment on Kirova Street and a Lada of the latest brand.

Kostya’s close friend and “colleague” was the director of the central market - Radik Akhmetov. It was because of the market that the conflict arose among Anatoly Doronitsyn, who previously owned a retail business, and the local mayor's office. According to investigators, Doronitsin hired a killer to eliminate Akhmetov, who framed him.

The killer caught up with Radik in the company of Petrova and Chuvilin. At the entrance of an elite house, a mercenary shot all three at point-blank range with a machine gun. The criminal could not be found, which is not surprising for that time.

This is what someone writes about Petrova on one forum Katya Katya: “She really stood out. So modest, tall, all in black. Then I got confused with this common-law husband. I started hanging around restaurants and abandoned my studies. But in furs. The whole city saw her off, everyone loved her.”

The worst thing is that Sasha’s mother predicted a tragic fate for her daughter and was terribly afraid for her life.

I knew this would happen. I read by hand: in Shura’s palm, the line of fate intersected with the line of mind by the age of twenty, and at the intersection there was a dot. A blow to the head at twenty years old. True, I didn’t tell her anything. There is also a sign: if you see a cockroach, it’s not good. And then they simply began to fall from the wall, and no matter how much they were killed, they continued to fall... It’s unnatural the way they fell. And after what happened, everything, not a single cockroach,” Tatyana Nikolaevna recalled with horror.

Innocent victim of war

In the dashing 90s, the city of Tolyatti was compared to the American Chicago. This happened because for ten years there was a bloody criminal war in pursuit of control over AvtoVAZ. According to some estimates, more than 400 people were killed in Togliatti during that period.

The start of the war was facilitated by a conflict between the largest Volgovskaya organized crime group and a gang Vladimir Agiya And Alexander Voronetsky. By the way, during perestroika, Volgovskaya was one of the first to start selling stolen spare parts from AvtoVAZ.

In the 2000s, Togliatti was mired in the third “great racketeer war.” At the head of the Volgovskaya organized crime group was Dmitry Ruzlyaev. Another leader of the group was considered the cruel, frostbitten bandit Sovok - Evgeniy Sovkov. By that time he was wanted and lived in Moscow on a “left” passport in the name Pavel Lizunov together with a 28-year-old bride from Tolyatti - Lyudmila Matytsina.

Sovkov often visited the Krasnopresnensky baths - a favorite place of authoritative criminals. On December 26, 2000, Sovok went to the “arrow” to these very baths, taking Lyudmila with him. The meeting took place in Stolyarny Lane. Let's jump ahead and say that a few steps from this place in the 94th killer Lesha Soldier the authority was shot Otari Kvantrishvili.

...The conversation between Sovk and a certain man in black did not last long. When Evgeniy turned around and walked back to the car, shots rang out. Matytsina jumped out of the car in horror and immediately received a bullet in the forehead.

The killer turned out to be Sovka's longtime enemy - Andrey Milovanov, aka Green.

Sovkov, seriously wounded, managed to get to the driver's seat, but four hours later he died in the hospital. Before leaving, the killer fired a control shot at Lyudmila in the head.

Green was generally famous for the fact that he could absolutely calmly kill a woman in the most brutal way. He also shot the widow of the general director of the Tolyatti fish plant Oksana Labintseva.

Alexandra Petrova’s mother talked about beauty pageants: “At one of the local Miss Podium competitions, they showed fur coats worn directly on swimsuits. I sat in the hall and watched: all the girls were passing by, throwing their fur coats open, showing off their bodies. And Sasha walked through - all wrapped up, she didn’t even open her fur coat. I thought: “Well, that’s it, Shurka, you and I have nothing to do here.” And suddenly they announce: “Miss Podium” is Alexandra Petrova!” - she was visible in any crowd!" In 1996, the final of the national competition "Miss Russia" was broadcast live on the Rossiya channel on December 14. For the first time it was held outside the capital - in Veliky Novgorod. Of the 40 participants - winners of regional rounds, the best 16-year-old Sasha Petrova from the city of Cheboksary was recognized. In 1997, she took part in numerous television shows, show programs, presentations, and worked seriously as a photo model. During the year, Sasha visited many countries around the world, took part in three international competitions. K She added to the title of “Miss Russia” a gold medal from the World Championship of Arts in the “model” category, received an offer to work in Hollywood, but these offers had to be rejected, since Sasha was not yet 18. In July 1997, Alexandra Petrova was recognized as the best at the international modeling competition "Miss Model International", in which representatives of 53 countries took part. At the end of 1997, the "Person of the Year" competition was held in Chuvashia, Alexandra's homeland. Alexandra Petrova won here too. In 1999 she participated in the Miss Universe competition. Alexandra Petrova received a serious offer from the international modeling agency Ford Model, but on the condition that she would lose weight, learn English and get a short haircut. However, unfortunately, she did not have time to accept this offer. On September 16, 2000, at the entrance of Alexandra, she was killed with one shot in the head, one day short of her 20th birthday. Two businessmen were shot along with her, next to the apartment of one of whom she was located.

And here is another dead queen. Today marks exactly ten days since “Miss Russia” Sasha Petrova was shot in Cheboksary. And exactly a week since her funeral took place. They say the city has never seen anything like this. Thousands of people saw her off on her last journey.
She was only two days short of reaching twenty. Her mother Tatyana Nikolaevna was away. But I was going to come for my twentieth birthday. But I had to go to a funeral.
When in 1996, a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl from Cheboksary, Sasha Petrova, was recognized as the “best” in all of Russia, Tatyana Nikolaevna said: “And everyone in our family is like that. A lot of blood is mixed, there’s even gypsy blood.” Both her grandmother and stepfather doted on her. In 1997, she was chosen as “person of the year” in Chuvashia...
On that fateful evening, around eight o’clock, Sasha was returning home with her friend Konstantin Chuvilin, as well as his friend, deputy director of the Central market, Radik Akhmetov.
They were climbing to the third floor when a man with a gun suddenly appeared on the way. The killer methodically fired several bullets into each of them. Eight for three. Everyone also received a control shot. Chuvilin died on the spot, Sasha in the ambulance, Akhmetov in intensive care.
Then everyone discussed why the neighbors did not hear the shots. Firstly, because the gun had a silencer, and secondly, the tenant opposite that evening was noisily “washing” another purchase. Only the neighbor's dog, the boxer Raja, reacted to the suspicious fuss on the stairs. When her owner opened the door, the first thing she saw was the barrel of a gun pointed straight at her face. But the killer did not shoot at the dumbfounded woman, but rushed out. And she saw a terrible picture: three bloody bodies were lying on the landing. The girl was in death throes.
When the neighbor came to her senses, she remembered what the killer looked like: 175 centimeters tall, round face, wide eyes, protruding, wearing a short dark jacket. The grannies at the entrance later remembered that the day before a suspicious green car had been parked at the entrance for a long time. They don't know the brands.
Immediately after the murder, the investigation considered it necessary to develop as many as ten versions. True, one dominated: another criminal showdown took place. After all, both of A. Petrova’s companions are well-known people among local authorities, both are involved in dubious business. And in the Central market the struggle for spheres of influence never stopped. Petrova, most likely, turned out to be an accidental witness to a contract killing and paid for it with her life.
Meanwhile, Sasha Petrova, after receiving the title “Miss Russia-96”, was the idol of many girls. An ordinary schoolgirl from a simple family, Cinderella, received a real glass slipper. Specialists from the Cheboksary Model House pinned a lot of hopes on her: she looked very impressive in national costumes.
Shura moved to Moscow. I settled in a hostel, although it was quite comfortable. Catwalks, commercials, parties... Who doesn't get dizzy? Victory in another competition, everyone's attention again.
But as happens with athletes and movie stars, suddenly something “stuck” and minor life problems appeared. And then, back in 1998, her manager, Bulgarian Vasil Papazov, died under mysterious circumstances. Things didn't go well with the preparations for the Miss Eurasia and Miss Universe contests...
Her fellow countrymen began to see her more and more often in her hometown. And a year and a half ago she returned to Cheboksary for good. I entered the linguistic department of a pedagogical university and moved further and further away from the modeling business. I even gained weight. But her charming smile still shone from the billboards in the city.
When she had a life partner - 37-year-old successful, as it seemed to her, businessman Konstantin Chuvilin, she hardly clearly imagined his “activities”. I could only guess. But, of course, no one expected such a tragic outcome.
As the Cheboksary City Department of Internal Affairs told us, impressive forces were involved in solving this crime. They will look for the killer of “Miss Russia” no matter what: the police also loved Shurochka...

18-year-old Eleanor, 19-year-old Sasha, 22-year-old Sveta. The life of these girls-models was just beginning, but their own beauty played a cruel joke on them.

In the nineties, getting into the modeling business automatically promised a connection with some “new Russian”. Those who wanted to avoid dangerous affairs were sometimes severely punished: what authority likes to be refused? But even for girls who were ready to take risks in search of a better life, their fate was sometimes very tragic. AiF.ru tells the stories of models who were killed by bandits.

Alexandra Petrova - “Miss Russia 1996”

Sasha Petrova was born in Cheboksary into the most ordinary family and until the age of 17 she had never even flown on an airplane. Of the cities by this age, she managed to see only Moscow and Veliky Novgorod. The local fashion house sent the girl to the capital to participate in a hairdressing competition, and in Novgorod she defended the honor of Chuvashia at Miss Russia 1996 and even won there.

Shy Shura, who was teased by her classmates for being too tall, got into the modeling business by accident: she came with a friend to a casting and unexpectedly stayed. In a fifteen-year-old girl with long, almost knee-length hair and a face without an ounce of makeup, the selection committee saw great potential. The bets on Petrova really paid off: having won Miss Russia, she confidently conquered one competition after another, gradually becoming a desirable object not only for foreign modeling agencies, but also for the “new Russians.” In the nineties, people in crimson jackets specifically looked for titled beauties as companions; all kinds of “misses” emphasized their success and omnipotence. Entrepreneur Konstantin Chuvilin was no exception. True, Sasha became for him not just an attribute of a good life, but true love. He was very kind to the girl and supported her entire family. Petrova did not think about where the man got so much money, although the whole city knew that Chuvilin “protected” many enterprises in Cheboksary. The young people were preparing for the wedding, but did not become spouses. On September 16, 2000, Alexandra, Konstantin and his friend Radik Akhmetov were killed by competitors. It all happened in the entrance of the house where the couple lived, at the moment when Sasha tried to open the apartment door. Shura was shot in the head, just two days shy of her twentieth birthday; she was buried on her birthday.

Svetlana Kotova - finalist of the Miss Russia 1996 contest

In the nineties, many models made money not only on the catwalks, but also in nightclubs. In one of these establishments, Svetlana Kotova met Alexander Solonik. In appearance, he was an ordinary young man, but behind his ordinary appearance was hidden a professional killer who specialized in eliminating crime bosses. He has about 20 kills to his name. In 1994, operatives were able to detain a criminal at the Petrovsko-Razumovsky market. In the police room, Solonik took out an air pistol and, having shot three representatives of the law point-blank, tried to escape, but did not have time. The killer was put in Matrosskaya Tishina, from which he managed to escape. Of course, such a complex operation could not take place without external support. According to one version, Alexander was helped by a warden, specially introduced by a criminal group into the ranks of employees of the correctional institution, according to another, by a bribed guard. After escaping, Solonik hid abroad for several years, and in 1997 he settled in Greece in a luxurious villa, taking a new name: Vladimir Kesov. The fugitive was then accompanied by 22-year-old model Svetlana Kotova. And while Russia was unsuccessfully trying to get a killer in another country, the leader of the Orekhovskaya organized crime group, Sergei Butorin, did it with the help of three of his “fighters”: Alexei Gusev, Alexander Sharapov and Alexander Pustovalov. The trio settled not far from the killer, and Pustovalov once invited the couple to visit. Neither Solonik himself nor his companion saw anything suspicious in the offer to meet. But when they came to the Orekhovskys, they killed both of them. During interrogation, Pustovalov insisted that Svetlana was given a chance to escape, hinting that she should leave. The girl actually went to the toilet for a while, but returned just at the moment when Solonik was being strangled, and thereby signed her own death warrant. Her dismembered body was found in May 1997 under an olive tree near Athens in a buried suitcase.

Eleonora Kondratyuk - “Miss Charm 1998”

In November 1998, Eleanor Kondratyuk decided to try her hand at the Miss Sochi competition. She didn’t expect to win and even took handkerchiefs with her to wipe away the tears that inevitably happen at such a young age due to minor failures. But they were of no use to her. Kondratyuk received the audience award and the title “Miss Charm”. When it came to voting in the hall, the girl received such a standing ovation that she did not leave her competitors a single chance to take an honorable third place.

Six months after the competition, the well-known authority in criminal circles, Ruben Grigoryan, nicknamed Cyclops, suddenly became interested in the young beauty. It all started harmlessly. The man tried to persuade the model into a relationship, but she was unapproachable. Having suffered another fiasco, Ruben decided to change tactics: almost with tears in his eyes, he began to say that if Eleanor refused him, he would commit suicide. When this technique did not work, the obsessive gentleman turned to threats, assuring that soon the girl would cry tears of blood and crawl to him on her knees. Of course, Kondratyuk was worried about her safety, but she didn’t want to dedicate either her friends or her parents to this story, especially since one fine day Ruben disappeared from sight. Later it turns out that he really went to another city in order to provide himself with an alibi. The people he hired constantly watched the girl, waiting for the right moment to take revenge on behalf of the rejected admirer. On September 2, 1999, as the model was walking down the street, they grabbed her by the hair and doused her face with highly concentrated sulfuric acid mixed with oil. This composition was made specifically so that Eleanor would not be able to wash it off with ordinary water and would probably remain disfigured. Kondratyuk received a fourth degree burn, almost incompatible with life. In addition, several drops of the deadly solution got into the girl’s mouth, which caused a burn to the trachea, esophagus and stomach, making it impossible to eat normally. It took her 19 years of rehabilitation and 200 surgeries to survive. At the same time, the organizer of the crime, Ruben Grigoryan, received only 11 years in prison, and his two accomplices received even less: 6 and 7 years. In 2017, Kondratyuk wrote the book “Eleanor. I chose life,” in which I honestly told about everything that happened to her.

Sasha Petrova was still a 16-year-old girl when in 1996 she was recognized as the most beautiful girl in Russia. However, she was not able to fully enjoy the glory of “first miss”. 4 years after the competition, Sasha was killed. Not the least role in this tragedy was played by the acquaintance of the spectacular model with one of the crime bosses.

16 year old queen

Alexandra Petrova was a native of Cheboksary. She was born into an ordinary family in 1980. Residents of Chuvashia were very proud and are still proud that it was their fellow countrywoman, without plastic surgery, silicone and tons of cosmetics, who took first place in the Miss Russia competition in 1996. Then Sasha (or simply Shurochka, as everyone called her) was only 16 years old. The competition that year was organized not in the capital, as usual, but in Veliky Novgorod. 40 girls competed for the title. The jury's choice deservedly fell on the beautiful Shura.

Frankly speaking, Sasha Petrova did not dream of the beauty queen crown, she wanted to become a doctor. But victories in such competitions often open many doors for young beauties. This happened in the life of Miss 1996. Petrova was invited to Hollywood. But the girl was forced to refuse, because at that time she was still underage.

Bright prospects

Meanwhile, Shura continued to win the most prestigious competitions. The very next year, 1997, she became Miss Model International. Then her rivals were representatives of more than 50 countries around the world. But Petrova turned out to be the best of them. In addition, in the same year she deservedly received the title “Person of the Year” in her native Chuvashia. After 2 years, Alexandra already represented Russia at the Miss Universe competition in Trinidad and Tobago.

Then she had already turned 18, and one of the foreign modeling agencies invited Sasha to join them. At that time she had luxurious and very long hair. Agency employees put forward several conditions: cut your hair, lose a little weight and master English. Probably, Petrova was still going to accept this offer, since she really shortened her curls to her shoulders and submitted documents to the institute for the Faculty of Foreign Languages. But things didn’t go any further: in 2000, beauty queen Alexandra Petrova was killed.

Accidental death

The tragedy happened after the Chuvash crime boss Konstantin Chuvilin appeared in Alexandra’s life. They say that he was very kind to his Shura and all members of her family. Those close to Petrova spoke of the girl herself as a very kind, naive and selfless person, who probably wasn’t very difficult to fall in love with with the help of a banal kind word. And who knows: maybe love is actually evil, and we don’t choose who will become our chosen one?

Be that as it may, on September 16, 2000, Shura Petrova was killed. But the killer’s target was not the Chuvash beauty, but her lover Konstantin Chuvilin and his friend Radiy Akhmetov, who was the director of the market. So “Miss Russia 1996” turned out to be another accidental victim of criminal squabbles and the division of spheres of influence between criminal groups.