A Russian dominatrix who tried to kill her American doppelganger with a piece of poisoned cheesecake to steal her identity got into the art while in prison while continuing to profess her innocence.
Viktoria Nasyrova, 45, was wanted for murder in Russia when she fled to America in 2014 and started a new life offering “quality massages”.
But she was sentenced to 21 years in prison in April for attempting to murder eyelash stylist Olga Tsvyk with phenazepam at her home in New York’s Queens borough and for fleeing with the passport, money cash and the victim’s work permit card.
Nasyrova was arrested when the daughter of her first victim hired a private detective to find her and discovered she had also drugged and robbed a string of New Yorkers she had met on dating sites.
“I didn’t do anything,” Nasyrova told the New York Post from Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. “They turned the trial into a Broadway show.”
Viktoria Nasyrova said ‘everyone knows who I am here’ as she spoke from prison about her conviction for the attempted murder of her former friend Olga Tsvyk.
Olga Tsvyk (above) met Nasyrova six months before her poisoning in 2016
Nazyrova has been charged with the murder of Alla Alekseenko, 54, in 2014, and Alekseenko’s daughter, Nadeza Ford, has hired a private detective to find her.
Nasyrova was called an “extremely dangerous woman” by the judge who sent her to a New York prison after hearing about her crime spree that lasted nearly a decade.
The inmate admitted her reputation preceded her when she arrived at her new home “tied up like Hannibal Lecter”, following a fight with a transport guard.
“Everyone knows who I am here,” she told the New York Post.
“There are a few Russian-speaking detainees and before I arrived they were asking them questions about me: ‘Do you know she comes here? It’s a legend “.
“I don’t want to give the impression that I’m better than the others, even if in a way I am,” she said of her fellow inmates.
“But to find a person of your intellectual level, it’s hard to find people here that I can really communicate with.
“I want to talk about art, culture, travel, books.”
Nasyrova now earns hundreds of dollars a month spending time with her new artistic hobby.
“I make all kinds of things for inmates: cards, posters, t-shirts,” she said.
Nasyrova ate two slices of cheesecake herself before passing a poisoned third slice to her friend.
The powerful Russian tranquilizer phenazepam that was used to poison Tsvyk
Tsyvk (left) is believed to be a lookalike of Nazyrova (right), the glamorous Russian dominatrix who has been linked to a crime spree dating back to 2014.
“I once made birthday decorations for an inmate’s daughter. She liked minions, so I made big cardboard cutouts, painted them like the minions.
“Then I put on 3D glasses, stood them up, then made t-shirts for all the kids with the Minions characters and their names on each t-shirt,
“This is just the beginning.”
But not all the inmates appreciated his arrival.
“One time I got into a fight and I was so angry that I kept beating her and she was covered in blood,” she said.
“Then I realized that if I don’t stop, I’m going to seriously mutilate her. So I stopped.
Nasyrova (left) appears in court after poisoning Tsyk (right) in the hope of stealing her identity
Nasyrova has ties to crimes that date back more than a decade.
She allegedly had sex with a local policeman to flee Russia after the remains of her neighbor Alla Alekseenko, 54, were found burned and buried three kilometers from her home in Krasnodar.
Traffic cameras showed the victim’s body in the front seat of her car as Nasyrova drove her to the burial site after murdering her for her money.
Interpol put Nasyrova on its most wanted list, but she made it to New York where she was imprisoned after trying to steal the identity of her new friend and make a suspected murder a suicide. .
Tsyvk, an eyelash stylist, met Nasyrova six months before her poisoning in 2016, the victim told the court. Nasyrova, the former dominatrix, learned how to get a work permit card from her new friend.
On the day Tsyvk was attacked in 2016, Nasyrova had arrived at her home in Forest Hills, Queens, in desperate need of her services. In exchange, Nasyrova insisted that she bring the stylist cheesecake she had bought from a local bakery.
After arriving home, Nasyrova ate two slices of cheesecake and offered Tsvyk a third, which prosecutors said had been mixed with the Russian tranquilizer Phenazepan.
Tsvyk told the court she started feeling sick about 20 minutes after eating the cake and started vomiting as she lay in bed. Tsvk was found by her sister, Iryna Kozachenko, who called the police.
The victim told the judge and jurors that she lived in fear for months after surviving the attack, especially since it took her months to capture the former dominatrix.
The body of Alla Alekseenko, 54, was found months later, badly burned and reduced to a skull and a few bones identifiable only through dental records.
While Nasyrova was on the run, Alekseenko’s daughter, horrified, learned that the sought-after Russian beauty lived a few miles away from her in Brooklyn.
Alekseenko’s body had been found months after his murder, badly burned and reduced to a skull and a few bones identifiable only through dental records.
Investigators found $17,000 in cash and jewelry missing from the home.
Alekseenko’s daughter then hired a private detective in New York to investigate Nasyrova and bring her to justice. The detective managed to track down Nasyrova and arrest her.
At the time, Nasyrova was also wanted by New York police on suspicion of drugging and robbing at least three men she had met through a New York dating site.
Victim Ruben Borukhov, 54, testified in court that he was drugged by the scammer during a date with her. He woke up to find charges of up to $2,600 on his credit card and his watch missing.
On the day she was attacked in August 2016, Nasyrova had arrived at her home in Forest Hills, Queens in desperate need of her services. In exchange, Nasyrova insisted that she bring the stylist cheesecake she had bought from a local bakery. Nasyrova laced the cheesecake she gave to Tsyvk
Nasyrova still harbors a grudge against the trial, even years after the attempted murder.
“The trial was based on the fact that I tried to kill this woman because we look alike and I want to impersonate her,” the convict said this week.
“But she’s not an American citizen, she doesn’t have a green card, she has no rights…what’s the point of me trying to kill this woman?”
“I’m not a gangster, I’m not a criminal, I’m an ordinary human being.”
But she insisted she does not “tolerate any disrespect” in prison.
“When people call me Russia or anything other than my name, I don’t answer,” she added.
“I tell them, ‘You can call me Viktoria or the inmate Nasyrova, not Russia, or Whitey, or anything other than my name. “
“You don’t have to like me, but you have to respect me.”
Nasyrova said ‘fuck you’ to Queen’s Supreme Court Justice Kenneth Holder as he sentencing her
She said the food in her new home was “garbage”, but she’s happy to have lost 20 pounds. She also refused to attend anger management classes.
“That’s bullshit,” she said.
“I have anger issues, but that’s not the kind of anger issues that these classes can help me with.”
She compared herself to the character of Matt Damon in The Martian”, a film which she said had “inspired” her.
“Can you imagine a person in such a situation? To find yourself alone on a foreign planet, and not only to survive, but also to return home? she asked.
“For me, it’s the same situation: not only surviving in prison, but also gaining my freedom.”
But Tsvyk told the Post she was afraid Nasyrova might win her freedom and come back to finish her off.
“He’s a very dangerous, scary person,” Tsvyk said.
“She is a manipulator and a liar. I thank God that she can no longer do what she does to people, even though who knows what she does in prison. She is capable of anything.
“I hope they won’t let her out sooner, lest she come after me.”
