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!” - you could see her in any crowd!" In 1996, the final national competition"Miss Russia" was broadcast on the "Russia" channel in live December 14. For the first time it took place outside the capital - in Veliky Novgorod. Of the 40 participants - winners of regional rounds, 16-year-old Sasha Petrova from the city of Cheboksary was recognized as the best. In 1997, she took part in numerous television shows, show programs, presentations, and worked seriously as a fashion model. Over the course of the year, Sasha visited many countries around the world and took part in three international competitions. She added a gold medal at the World Arts Championship in the “model” category to the title of “Miss Russia” and received an offer to work in Hollywood, but these offers had to be rejected since Sasha was not yet 18 years old. 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 an international modeling agency Ford Model, but on the condition that she 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.
Alexandra Petrova was born on September 18, 1980 in the city of Cheboksary. She grew up in a simple family and many city residents are still proud of their fellow countrywoman, characterizing her only with positive side. Shurochka (as her relatives called her) was an ordinary girl, but with very outstanding external characteristics. Mom recalled that because of her bright appearance, Sasha often had to deal with envy. Classmates were openly jealous, and some teachers disliked her.
Sasha Petrova dreamed of a career as a doctor; she studied quite well at school. On the advice of her relatives, she studied at the Miss Volga modeling school in Cheboksary. The girl was noticed back then and they predicted a great future for her in a modeling career. At the age of 15, Alexandra won the Miss Cheboksary contest and then Miss Chuvashia.
Sasha Petrova was remembered by everyone not only for her bright appearance, but also for her modesty and integrity. Her mother told how, at one of the city competitions, girls were asked to walk along the catwalk in fur coats worn over their underwear. At some point they were supposed to open their fur coats, but Sasha did not do this. She paraded dressed and no longer hoped to win. It was very surprising that Petrova won that competition.
In 1996, Alexandra took part in the Miss Russia competition. It took place in Veliky Novgorod and was broadcast on federal channels. Out of 40 beauties, Sasha Petrova was recognized as the best. This victory brought her worldwide fame and glory. Foreign agency owners and directors admired the girl’s beauty. In 1996, she was invited to Hollywood, but Alexandra refused, since at that time she was only 16 years old and she did not want to leave her native country.
Model career
After winning the Miss Russia competition, Alexandra Petrova actively worked as a fashion model and appeared on the catwalk. She visited many countries of the world. In 1997, Sasha took part in several international competitions. She won the final of the World Arts Championship in the “model” category.
The Russian beauty took part in competitions:
- "Miss Model International" (1997);
- "Person of the Year" (1997, Chuvashia);
- "Miss Universe" (1999).
She failed to win the title of the most beautiful girl in the universe, but she won a landslide victory in other competitions. Sasha wanted to build a career in Moscow, she worked a lot, but she was disappointed with how the modeling business works in Russia. At that time there were few good offers. The girls were promised small money for filming, which was difficult to live on.
Alexandra Petrova began to think about moving abroad, but her age did not allow her to do this, since many approvals had to be made. When Sasha turned 18, one of the foreign agencies invited the girl to their place. At that time she had luxurious long hair. But the agency's management needed a slightly different type. They put forward a condition for Petrova. She had to lose weight, cut her hair and learn English language. Alexandra's relatives recall that Alexandra always loved to eat and did not want to torture herself with various diets. For this reason, she reacted rather coolly to the proposal.
In Moscow, Alexandra Petrova was unlucky in her personal life. She complained that all the men paid attention to her status. They were interested in Petrova as the winner of a prestigious competition, and not as a person. Failures on some fronts forced Sasha to return to his hometown. She wanted to open her own business and was thinking about moving abroad. Sasha entered college as a faculty member foreign languages, cut off her long hair. But all the plans were not destined to come true. In September 2000, Alexandra was shot dead. She did not live only 2 days before her twentieth birthday.
Personal life and fatal love
Alexandra did not start a serious relationship with young people until she met Konstantin Chuvilin. This man had his own business in Cheboksary. Opinions about him are contradictory. Some people who knew him closely characterize Konstantin as a talented businessman, a fair person, while others pointed out that Chuvilin belonged to the criminal world and spoke about his cruel character.
Relations with Konstantin developed rapidly. Alexandra’s mother and sister claim that she was truly in love with him. Detractors said that Sasha needed money, but those closest to him had a different opinion on this matter. Petrova simply wanted personal happiness. She is a little tired of fame and the need to earn money on her own. She wanted to be needed by someone and feel support and support in the face of such a serious person. The young people lived together for several months and wanted to get married.
The director of the modeling agency recalled that shortly before her death, she and Alexandra discussed the possibility of opening her own business and there were several options
- modeling agency;
- shop-atelier;
- fashion boutique.
Konstantin promised to help her in these endeavors. But on the fateful day of September 16, 2000, Deputy general director of the central market of Cheboksary, Radik Akhmetov, authority Konstantin Chuvilin and Alexandra Petrova entered the entrance of the house, where the killer was already waiting for them. Chuvilin was killed first, and Sasha and Radik tried to escape, but the bandit’s bullet still overtook them. The crime has still not been solved, but it is obvious to everyone that Sasha became an accidental victim.
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 loudest story on our topic is grisly murder 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 new queen beauty.
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.
Incredibly sad turns in the lives of the girls who won the title of the most beautiful women. Next, we want to tell you moments from the lives of 12 beauty queens who left this world too early.
Alexandra Petrova (1980-2000).
Russian model, winner of the Miss Russia 1996 contest and other beauty contests.
In 1997, she took part in numerous television shows, show programs, presentations, and worked seriously as a fashion model. Over the course of a year, Alexandra visited many countries around the world and took part in three international competitions.
She also received a gold medal at the World Arts Championship in the “model” category and a job offer in Hollywood. In July 1997, Alexandra was recognized as the best at the international modeling competition "Miss Model International", in which representatives of 53 countries took part.
The girl did not accept any of the invitations and lived in her native Chuvashia.
On September 16, 2000, Alexandra was killed in Cheboksary with one shot in the head, two days short of her 20th birthday and not having time to accept a prestigious offer from the international modeling agency Ford Model.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic, the girl became a victim of a showdown between local crime bosses, one of whom was her boyfriend, over spheres of influence. The girl was wounded by a ricochet, but died on the way to the hospital.
Monica Speer (1984-2014).
The girl was crowned as the most beautiful woman in Venezuela in 2004, and the following year she represented the country at the Miss Universe beauty pageant.
By that time, the model was divorced, but maintained a close relationship with Thomas Berry, a 39-year-old British man, the father of her 5-year-old daughter. The couple moved to the United States, but regularly came to Venezuela for holidays and vacations.
That's where they went to new year holidays in 2014. Immediately two tires of their car burst, the family called the police and began to wait for help.
An expensive car on the side of the road attracted the attention of local robbers, who got to the scene faster than the police and shot Monica and Thomas.
Their daughter miraculously survived. The police arrested the killers, but this was little consolation. The President of Venezuela then called this tragedy “the loss of the decade” and personally supervised the progress of the investigation.
Agnieszka Kotlarska (1972-1996).
In 1990, the girl was recognized as the most beautiful girl Poland, and it was then that a secret admirer and stalker named Jerzy appeared in her life.
He sent threats to the model mixed with declarations of love, but never made direct contact, so the girl did not pay attention to the stalker.
Agnieszka won the title of Miss International 1991 and got married. Later in court, Jerzy said that by doing so, “she ruined his life” and he had to take revenge.
In 1996, Agnieszka and her husband left the house and headed to their car. Jerzy jumped out of ambush with a huge knife and rushed at Agnieszka’s husband, Yaroslav.
He wounded the man in the leg. Agnieszka rushed to help her husband, but the killer, enraged by the failure, turned all his anger on her and stabbed her in the chest four times. The police arrested the 36-year-old programmer on the same day, and he was sentenced to 14 years for murder.
Maria José Alvarado (1995-2014).
19-year-old Miss Honduras 2014 celebrated the birthday of her sister Sofia's boyfriend, after which neither of them returned home
Plutarco Ruiz, whose birthday they were celebrating, reported the loss. Increased interest young man During the search, the police were alerted and Ruiz was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping.
Unexpectedly, the young man confessed to the double murder. The girls' bodies were found buried on the river bank. Ruiz quarreled with Sofia because she was flirting with his friend and, losing his temper, shot her.
Maria witnessed a terrible crime and tried to run away, but the killer caught up with her and shot her on the spot.
While the criminal was burying the bodies of the victims, Maria was supposed to fly to London to participate in the Miss World competition. Honduras refused to replace Maria and skipped the competition out of respect for the girl's memory.
Svetlana Kotova (1977-1997).
The fashion model and beauty queen “Miss World”-96 was a friend of Alexander Solonik, a criminal who had the fame of “killer No. 1” in Russia.
On New Year's holidays, the girl received an offer from her partner to visit his villa in Greece. A day before her death, she called her mother and said that she had found herself in real heaven.
The next day, armed men burst into the villa. On February 2, 1997, the body of a strangled bandit was discovered. The killer's model's body was dismembered. The suitcase with Sveta’s remains was found only three months later in the forest.
Later it will become known that the Orekhovskaya criminal group settled scores with Solonik.
Eva Ekvall (1983-2011).
In 2000, Eva received the title of Miss Venezuela and competed in the Miss Universe pageant the following year. Later she worked as a TV presenter and wrote books.
In February 2010, Eva was diagnosed with advanced stage breast cancer and underwent an 8-month course of treatment.
Ekvall bravely fought the disease and encouraged other women to take care of their health.
The treatment did not help Eva, and after a year and 10 months of fighting the disease, on December 17, 2011, the 28-year-old model died in Houston (Texas, USA).
Laina Keza (1983-2013).
The 29-year-old Miss Africa title was stabbed to death in August 2013.
The culprit of the tragedy was 38-year-old club promoter David Kikawa, the father of a 3-year-old daughter of a model and her partner.
A few days before the murder, Laina, who was tired of scandals based on jealousy, finally broke up with David. Then the couple's neighbors confirmed that David was constantly causing scenes, insults and screams were heard from the house.
Early in the morning, it was the neighbors who called the police, reporting that something terrible had happened in the house, since the loud screams suddenly stopped and they suspected something terrible.
The squad arrived and found David with a knife in his hand at the threshold of the bathroom. Laina's body was lying in the bathtub.
Melody Gershbach (1985-2010)
A year after winning the Miss International 2009 title, the Filipino model tragically died in a traffic accident.
On August 21, 2010, a passenger bus crashed into the girl’s minivan at full speed.
The bus driver surrendered to local police, claiming that vehicle got out of control due to a technical fault.
Genesis Carmona (1991-2014). "Miss Tourism 2013" from Venezuela became a victim of murder.
Genesis, who was outraged by the current situation in the country, took part in a street rally for the resignation of Nicolas Maduro and his government.
A sudden shot hit her in the head.
The girl was quickly taken to the hospital, the city was engulfed in riots, which killed several more people.
It is still not known for certain who exactly shot the beauty queen: the authorities insist that the shot was fired by the opposition, and the latter blame the police.
Michaela McAreavey (1983-2011).
In January 2011, the Irish beauty queen married John McAreavey and went with him on a honeymoon to Mauritius.
The couple enjoyed their honeymoon. On the fateful day, the newlyweds were having dinner at the restaurant of the Legends Hotel, where they were staying, when in the middle of the evening Michaela needed something in her room.
When she got up, she found two hotel employees in the room, who allegedly entered the room for the purpose of robbery.
Frightened, they dragged Michaela into the bathroom and strangled her, as the investigation suggests. However, it was not possible to collect enough evidence, and the jury acquitted both suspects.
Leslie Mazzara (1978-2004).
In 2004, Miss South Carolina and her friends Adriana and Lauren celebrated Halloween, went to bed quite late and slept soundly.
Lauren woke up, realized there was a burglar in the house, slipped out the back door and called the police. The patrol arrived and found Leslie and Adriana dead in the house.
The investigation stalled as DNA samples taken from 218 suspects failed to identify the perpetrator, and even a $100,000 reward yielded no results.
Once again looking through photographs from the crime scene, Lauren noticed a cigarette butt from a rather rare cigarette brand. These were the cigarettes that Adriana’s friend’s fiance smoked.
Eric Kopple was arrested, DNA testing confirmed the samples were a match, but despite the obviousness of the evidence, he continued to insist that he was so drunk that night that he didn’t remember anything at all. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, but why he killed two girls remains unknown.
The list of the most beautiful and nationally famous girls of the 1990s is impossible to imagine without Alexandra Petrova- “Miss Russia” in 1996, who absurdly died at the age of 19 from an assassin’s bullet. Even if her tragic story had not attracted the attention of Moscow journalists or become the subject of numerous TV documentaries, many people would still remember this beauty. Alexandra's beauty was entirely natural: she did not need to apply eyeliner, wear bright lipstick, hair extensions, whiten her teeth, or cleanse her skin at spas in order to attract the admiration of others. Everything included in the definition of beautiful appearance was generously given to her by nature.
International modeling career at Alexandra It never developed, and it didn’t work out with getting a higher education. Before finishing her second year, she withdrew her documents from the university. They said that this was due to the girl’s personal life. She had a boyfriend back in school; she mentioned him in her interviews after the All-Russian competition. Although she did not provide details. As often happens with beauty queens from the provinces, sudden popularity and a long absence from home put an end to the relationship with the guy. She did not like hasty romances; the material well-being of a candidate for a boyfriend did not play a primary role for her. In Moscow for a year and a half Shura I never met a new love. Moscow men seemed to her two-minded and too rational, at least she came across only such ones. In Cheboksary Shura fought off annoying fans, once she was even advised to contact the police. It became calm only with the appearance of a 35-year-old man in her life Konstantin Chuvilina, to whom no one dared to cross the road. Chuvilin was known as a “legalized crime boss” and had a business in the city’s trading markets. He had been brought to the police for hooliganism and fights, but he had no criminal record or prison sentences. Signs of attention Shure he had done so before; a year later she agreed to live with him in a “civil marriage,” and a wedding was planned in 2000. The inhabitants of Cheboksary were surprised by the incomprehensible choice of the beauty queen. Chuvilin was unattractive in appearance, did not have “palaces” and other attributes of luxury, not to mention a trail of notoriety. Those who knew well Petrov, claimed that she would not get involved with a rude and uncouth man. "Cool" and insensitive Chuvilin was not for everyone. He treated the girl very carefully and kindly, helped her mother and sister in material and everyday matters. U Shura and her friends Maryany, who headed the modeling department of the Fashion House, had plans to open her own agency in Cheboksary, and Chuvilin agreed to give money for the project. Occasionally Marina Kruglova called from Moscow and invited the former miss to the capital for certain events as a titled beauty or model. In January 2000 Shura attended the Miss Russia-99 competition, went on stage to put the Miss National Costume ribbon on one of the participants. She could not work as a fashion model due to her excess weight, but she looked good at jewelry shows. One of these events was supposed to take place in Moscow on September 18, 2000, but Shura declined the invitation. This day was her 20th birthday, which she wanted to celebrate at home with friends and relatives. By a tragic coincidence, on September 16, her life was cut short by a shot in the head on the landing near her fiancé’s apartment. Hired by competitors Chuvilina the killer came to “kill” him and his business partner, and Shura turned out to be an unwanted witness. The ruthless murder of the former All-Russian beauty queen became the topic of news on central television channels, including the Vremya program.
The beauty’s premature death was, as they said, “written in her destiny.” Her mother and grandmother claimed that they knew how to read fate in the palm of their hand and determined "a blow to the head" when a girl turns 20 years. Fashion designer Tatiana Sharonova said in one of the TV programs that Shura knew about her future fate, once as a child I overheard a conversation between my relatives. And therefore, she didn’t make plans, participated in long-term projects without much desire, and didn’t “stress” to achieve her life goals. Lived for one day. To the funeral Chuvilina and his bride a great crowd gathered together. T.Sharonova This is how I remembered that day: “Here she was lying. They painted her eyes and lips. It felt like she had just gone to bed. It was impossible to look at it, everyone was crying terribly.” Then eyewitnesses from among relatives and friends Shura recalled the mystical signals that accompanied those events and were reminiscent of scenes from horror films. Shortly before the murder, cockroaches infested the apartment and literally poured out of the wall in a stream. After the funeral, every single cockroach suddenly disappeared. And at night after the tragedy, in the same one-room apartment on Afanasyev, heavy, echoing blows were heard, as if they were hitting the wall with a sledgehammer. We also remembered b similar murder in Greece three years earlier models "Red Stars" Svetlana Kotova, which Russian and foreign media for some reason they attributed the title “Miss Russia-96”. On Shura Then this news made a depressing impression.Without exception, all people who knew “Miss Russia-96” spoke of her as a completely peace-loving, unforgiving person. And a very modest girl who did not want to flaunt her beauty, even being shy about it. She often gave gifts to relatives and friends: a good watch, expensive cologne, stylish shoes. She usually dressed in jeans and sneakers, and occasionally in a business suit. She appeared many times at official events in the same dresses. For her complete lack of material claims, even the organizers of “Miss Russia” fell in love with her, who were tough, unsentimental people, who were immersed in financial matters. There was one not very beautiful moment described in a newspaper interview with my mother Alexandra, when these organizers did not give her daughter the cash prize and the crown of the winner of Miss Model International 97. But Shura showed generosity and did not seek justice, although it was a serious sum of $5,000. Marina Kruglova: “Sasha was very kind, very unenvious, very open. Absolutely unpretentious. When we went shopping with her to buy clothes, she kept saying: oh well, no need, I have everything. She never asked for anything.” In interviews and memoirs of people who communicated with the All-Russian Miss for Life, no one called her by her full name Alexandra: Shurka(mother Tatiana), Sashka, Shurka (Marina Kruglova), Sasha, Shura, Shurochka(friends and colleagues), Shuronka(grandmother Galina). A group dedicated to her on VKontakte, with admin Ksenia Petrova(younger sister), is called "Shurochka Petrova". Perhaps, in these variations of the name, people involuntarily showed the nuances of their attitude towards the Cheboksary beauty: some loved her simply for her beauty, simplicity and spiritual kindness, while others valued her for some of their own reasons, mostly on a practical level.
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